The 116th Separate Tank Alexandria Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Tank Brigade was formed in April 1942 in the Penza Region . The brigade arrived in front of each other. It was unloaded on the 20th of June 1942 in the vicinity of Kastornoye station and to the south. On June 28, the enemy launched an offensive from the Shchigry region. A few days after arriving at the front, the brigade had to engage in battle with German tank units in the Gorshechny area. The situation was extremely difficult. The battles did not subside day or night. The Nazis , despite the losses, sought to Voronezh .
 116th separate tank red banner Order of the Suvorov Brigade ( 116th brd ) | |
| Rewards: |   |
| Honorary Names: | "Alexandria" |
| Troops: | land |
| Type of army: | armored forces |
| Formation: | April 1942 |
| Battle way | |
| The Great Patriotic War | |
In such conditions, waging restraining battles that sometimes occurred suddenly, in the most unexpected places, the 116th tank brigade by July 4, 1942 was in the area of Nizhnedevitsk , Vyaznovatovka. The task of the brigade was to prevent the breakthrough of tanks and motorized infantry of the enemy on good roads going from Nizhnedevitsk to Orekhovo and to Verkhnyaya Turovo. These roads were overloaded with retreating rifle units of the Red Army , which suffered heavy losses. The evacuation of wounded rear units and the transportation of ammunition and fuel took place along these roads. In this area, anti-aircraft batteries of the brigade fired at enemy tanks all day on the 4th and part of the day on July 5th. The fire platoon of the anti-tank battery was especially distinguished under the command of Junior Lieutenant Nikolai Petrovich Zagorsky. At the place of his death in with. Vyaznovatovka erected a monument designed by sculptor A. S. Meshcheryakov. Posthumously N.P. Zagorsky was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.
Content
Composition of the brigade
- Office brigade
- Company management
- 323rd tank battalion (in the reports the number of the battalion is called "1st battalion")
- 324th tank battalion (in the reports the battalion number is called "2nd battalion")
- motorized rifle-machine gun battalion (com. :)
- anti-tank fighter battery (room: captain Avramenko Nikolay Efremovich)
- anti-aircraft battery
- technical support company
- health platoon
Brigade Command
Brigade commanders:
- Colonel Trubitsky Vasily Fedorovich born in 1901 (killed on 06/29/1942 - HBS)
- lieutenant colonel, from 02.16.1943 Colonel Novak, Anatoly Yulievich (from 01.04.1942 to 11.15.1943)
- Colonel Yurevich Evgeny Antonovich [from 16/16/1943 until the end of the war]
The chiefs of staff of the brigade:
- Major CARAVAN Alexander Filippovich [as of June 1942]
- Major ZhUKOV Nikolay Alexandrovich [as of January 1943] [1]
Military commissar of the brigade, from 09.10.1942 - deputy brigade commander for political affairs:
- Senior battalion commissioner, from 11.23.1942 - Lieutenant Colonel Krivitsky Herz Iosifovich [from 05.03.1942 to 06.19.1943]
Deputy combat brigade commander:
Deputy brigade commander for technical matters:
The head of the political department (since June 1943 he is also the deputy commander for political affairs):
- battalion commissar, from 06.11.1942 - major, 04.23.1943 - lieutenant colonel Sviridov Joseph Timofeevich [from 19.03.1942 to 01.29.1944]
- Lieutenant Colonel Golosov Ivan Kuzmich [from 29/29/1944 to 02/21/1944]
- Lieutenant Colonel Sviridov Joseph Timofeevich [from 02.21.1944 to 08.17.1944]
Head of the SMERSH department of the brigade:
- Captain SMERSH Kolesnikov Pavel Pavlovich (1915-2003)
Named tanks of the brigade
Tanks received during the formation of the brigade (1942): KV-1:
- "Alexander Nevsky" (KV-1)
- com tank: lieutenant Nikolai Bobrovitsky
- Bagration (KV-1)
- com Tank: Lieutenant Maravin
- Valery Chkalov (KV-1)
- com tank: platoon commander - senior lieutenant Nikolai Fedorovich Lukin
- Ermak (KV-1)
- com tank: junior lieutenant Nikolai Alekseevich Bystrov.
- tower commander: foreman Anatoly Bondarev
- "For the Motherland" (KV-1)
- com tank: lieutenant Danilevsky
- Pugachev (KV-1)
- com tank: lieutenant Alexander Nikolaevich Romashov
- Furmanov
- room: company commander senior lieutenant Nikolai Protsenko
- Chapaev (KV-1)
- com tank: ml. Lieutenant Zhuravlev Dmitry Kalinovich alive. ( Front-line order No: 102 / n dated: November 6, 1942 of the Voronezh Front. Archive: TsAMO, fund: 33, inventory: 682525, storage unit: 263. L. 282.)
- Art. the mechanic driver of the tank Novikov Nikolai Fedorovich is alive ( Front-line order No: 84 / n dated: 12.29.1942 of the Voronezh front. Archive: TsAMO fund: 33, inventory: 682525, storage units: 138, l. 297.) Error in footnotes ? : Invalid call: key not specified
- Schors (KV-1)
- com tank: junior lieutenant A. Sundukevich,
- driver: sergeant M. Zaikin
- gunner-gunner: senior sergeant George Sorokin
T-34-76:
- "Parkhomenko" (T-34-76)
- com tank: foreman Perevorochaev
- Kotovsky (T-34-76)
- com tank: platoon commander Lieutenant M. Dedovik
- Shchors (T-34-76)
- com tank: lieutenant Levchenko
Notes
Literature
- Shimansky V.P. Callsigns of our hearts. - M .: Military Publishing. - 1980.