1st Mountain Brigade

The formation of the brigade began in May 1941 in Leningrad , in the barracks in building No. 65 on Karl Marx Avenue (from 04.10.1991 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue ). The brigade was intended for the 14th Army and operations in the mountainous regions of the Kola Peninsula . It was staffed, including by Leningrad climbers .

More than 100 residents of the city of Taldom and Taldomsky district were called up to this unit from June 22 to June 28, 1941. More than 90% went missing in August 1941.

In the army from July 7, 1941 to March 15, 1942.

On July 4, 1941, the brigade was loaded into the echelons, but sent to Novgorod , then further to the Shimsk area. On July 6, 1941, she was in the village of Terebutitsy on the banks of Sheloni and Mshaga (river) (about 30 kilometers from Shimsk) in the second echelon. She had a 4-battalion composition.

Participated in a counterattack near Soltsy stepping on a city from the east. Reached the captured Soltsov, but was deployed and again headed to Shimsk.

On August 10, 1941, the German offensive resumed. “The enemy delivered the main blow on the right flank in the Kostkovo, Veshka, Mshaga Voskresenskaya section. The GSBR stubbornly resisted the enemy. By the end of the day, the enemy managed to break through the front by force to the infantry regiment with tanks (to the company) ... 3 rifle battalion The GSBR from the Kostkovo region (lawsuit) Mshaga Vosresenskaya retreated to the Medved - Shimsk highway line. Parts 11 and 21 of infantry divisions were operating in front of the front ... Throughout the day ... enemy aircraft conducted a bombardment and stormed 48 army troops all the way from the front to paradise to Vydogosh. Not only combat units but also headquarters, rear areas were bombarded. With the beginning of the bombing, the wire connection was broken .... "

August 11, 1941 "... fought from up to two infantry regiments with tanks, by the end of the day she was thrown back into the forest that north of Stary Shimsk, where, after putting in order, it occupied the Baraki line (8 km north of Golino), Malinovka , front to the west "(Journal of military operations of the NWF from 03.08-31.08 1941 p. 17)

On August 12, 1941, she was thrown from her positions to the northeast, having lost contact with the enemy, occupied Baraki (7 km east of Sharok) and saddled the Novgorod highway. The enemy stopped their movement on the Sharok and Galino lines. (Journal of military operations of the NWF from 03.08-31.08 1941 p. 22), then began to move towards Novgorod through the St. Yuryev Monastery , after which she took up positions at the village of Khutyn in the Leningrad Sloboda area , intercepting the highway and the road to Kolmovo , on the right flank of the Novgorod Army Task Force .

In August 1941, he was fighting near Novgorod , the brigade's defense was broken, and the brigade was forced to retreat towards Lyuban, on August 16, 1941, it was carrying out a heavy battle near the village of Shapki.

On August 25, 1941, the 12th Panzer Division knocked out a brigade from Luban , and on August 31, 1941, from Mgi with the forces of the 20th Motorized Division . On the same day, the brigade takes part in a counterattack at Mgu along with the 1st division of the NKVD troops , fights for the city until September 7, 1941 and was forced to retreat further to the region of Pogost , Voronovo . Near Voronovo, the brigade fights until March 1942. Warriors of the brigade joked that it’s time to rename the brigade from “mountain” to “marsh”.

On March 15, 1942, it was reorganized into the 1st cadet rifle brigade , however, they continued to call the brigade for a long time, including in mountain memoirs and documents.

1st Mountain Brigade

• Gribov, Ivan Vladimirovich , Colonel
•   Ugryumov, Nikolai Stepanovich , Colonel

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