The 143rd tank brigade is a tank formation of the Red Army of the USSR Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War .
 143rd tank brigade (1st and 2nd formation) | |
| Troops: | land |
| Type of army: | armored β armored and mechanized |
| Successor: | 66th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade |
| Battle way | |
Rzhev-Vyazemsky strategic offensive operation
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In the army in periods:
- from September to October 1941;
- from March 23 to September 21, 1942;
- from October 14, 1942 to February 16, 1945.
Content
History
A separate tank brigade was formed on the basis of the 41st Panzer Division in mid-September 1941.
143 OTB participated in the defensive battle near Moscow. She was surrounded in the Vyazemsky cauldron (October 2-14, 1941) and disbanded in December 1941 after the breakthrough.
Re-formed on the basis of the remnants of the brigade and the remains of the 142nd tank brigade and is included in the 3rd mechanized corps .
Participated in the Rzhev-Vyazem offensive operation of 1942 , held the defense north of the Dukhovschina , participated in the Rzhev-Vyazem offensive operation of 1943 , the Belarusian strategic operation , the Nevelsk-Gorodok offensive operation, liberated Polotsk , Mitava .
On March 1, 1945, it was transformed into the 66th Guards Heavy Self-propelled Artillery Brigade , with the assignment of the honorary title "Guards" and the preservation of the honorary name "Nevelskaya".
Full name
Full real name , at the time of the reorganization into 66th Guards Tsabr - the 143rd Nevelskaya Tank Brigade .
As part of
- Reserve Front - in September 1941.
- Western Front - in October 1941.
- Kalinin Front , 30th Army - on 04/01/1942.
- Moscow Military District - on 01/10/1942.
- Kalinin Front, 43rd Army - 01/01/1943.
- Kalinin Front, 39th Army - on 01/01/1943.
- Kalinin Front, 4th Shock Army - on 01/01/1943.
- Kalinin Front, - on 01/10/1943.
- 1st Baltic Front , 43rd Army - on 01/01/1944.
- 1st Baltic Front, 11th Guards Army - on 01/01/1944.
- 1st Baltic Front, 6th Guards Army - 07/01/1944.
Composition
1st formation
- Office brigade
- Company management
- Reconnaissance company
- 143rd tank regiment
- Motorized Rifle Battalion
- Anti-tank division
- Anti-aircraft division
- Motor transport company
- Repair company
- Sanitary platoon
2nd formation
- Office brigade
- Company management
- Reconnaissance platoon
- Communication platoon
- Sapper platoon
- Commandant platoon
- 65th tank battalion
- 259th tank battalion
- Motorized Rifle Machine Gun Battalion
- Anti-tank artillery battery
- Anti-aircraft battery
- Technical Support Company
- Health Platoon
From 05/18/1944
- Office brigade
- Company management
- 1st Tank Battalion (formerly 65th)
- 2nd Tank Battalion (former 259th)
- 3rd tank battalion
- Motorized battalion of machine gunners
- Anti-aircraft machine gun company
- Technical Support Company
- Medsanvzvod
Commander
1st formation
- Sumonov Nikolay Ivanovich, Colonel , from 09/10/1941 to 10/20/1941
2nd formation
- Nikolay Andreyevich Ukolov, Colonel, from March 23, 1942 to July 4, 1942
- Prikhodko Vasily Ilyich, major , from 05/05/1942 to 08/30/1942
- Podkovsky Alexei Semyonovich, lieutenant colonel from 10/03/1942 colonel
- Paramonov Mikhail Pavlovich, Colonel, from 09/09/1944 - 03/01/1945
Rewards
- 10/07/1943 - the honorary name "Nevelskaya" was awarded
Brigade Warriors
- Kraev, Vladimir Pavlovich (1921 - 1944), senior lieutenant . Hero of the Soviet Union . The title was awarded on 06/04/1944 (posthumous).
- Kulikov, Victor Georgievich (1921 - 2013) - Marshal of the Soviet Union , Hero of the Soviet Union. From February 1943 to May 1945 he was deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the 143rd tank brigade.