The 293rd cannon artillery regiment of the reserve of the High Command (military unit No. 2371) [1] is a military unit of the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War .
293rd Gun Artillery Regiment | |
Troops: | land |
Type of army: | artillery |
Disbanding (transformation): | December 24, 1941 |
Fighting way | |
1941: Belarus , Smolensk region |
History
Formed on the basis of the directive of the NKO USSR Org / 1/106611 of November 4, 1940, according to state No. 8/2 of 1530 people in the Western Special Military District . In the army during the Second World War from June 22 to December 24, 1941.
Before the war, it was stationed in Podsvillya and in the town of Luzhki, 20 kilometers from Podsvillya ( Glubokoe district, Vitebsk region ). In early May 1941, he was sent to the proving ground and on June 22, 1941, he was in the village of Dretun (now the Malositnyansky village council of the Polotsk region ), where he was subjected to an airstrike. June 23, 1941 from the camp moved to Vitebsk. [2] On June 30, 1941, the 293rd cannon artillery regiment and the 35th howitzer artillery regiment of the 17th rifle division were subordinated to the command of the 22nd army [3] . However, the regiment did not have contact with the higher command, in the first days of July 1941 the regiment went into the zone of the 153rd rifle division , the division commander subjugated the regiment and the guns took up defense on the outskirts of Vitebsk .
Forty-eight guns were taken to the shooting range with a part. And only three shells for each howitzer. Shoot out and wanted to move into the location of the part, but where there: the news came that there is already a fascist with might and main boss. And we have - not a single shell! Here we are with our guns and stomped east. Hooked them to the tractor and ... retreated, it means. We were on our way east, and the German was ours: around his tanks were looming. It is necessary: we could not make a single shot at them, without projectiles, which of us are warriors. So we got to the Dnieper. We crossed over to our shore, the guns spread out, and there was nothing to shoot. The regiment commander Nikitin was cursing, but he held on to the soldiers: and he knew more of ours.
- http://klub-mastera.narod.ru/index/0-42 Ivan Andreevich Tashilkin
On July 5, 1941, he joined the battles on the Beshenkovichi - Vitebsk highway. On July 9, 1941, the division along with the regiment were bypassed from the north-west, and the regiment, having withdrawn from the position, relocated in the area south-east of Vitebsk. On July 11, 1941, the regiment fired a column of enemy motorized infantry with a fire attack. On July 13, 1941, the regiment, united with the main forces of the 153rd rifle division, took new positions along the eastern bank of the Luchesy and fired at the Orsha - Vitebsk road. By that time, the regiment was in a new environment and was fighting, being in the ring. July 16, 1941 it was decided to break through the environment. But before leaving the encirclement, on the night of July 18, 1941, 12 guns of the regiment, secretly redeployed, made a raid on the enemy’s airfield, causing great damage to it. Of the 12 guns that participated in the raid, after the attack of the aircraft raised in the morning, only five survived. The group lost contact with its own, the next day struck the enemy’s tank column, and lost the guns, later joined the partisans. The remnants of the regiment, not participating in the raid, left the encirclement as part of the 153rd Infantry Division and by the end of July 1941 emerged in the Smolensk region.
Apparently he retained some part of the guns (or was understaffed after leaving the encirclement) and took positions at Vyazma . The latest information about the regiment is dated October 14, 1941, when the regiment, along with the 214th rifle division and the 101st motorized rifle division , which was already in the Vyazemsky encirclement, was ordered to cover the withdrawal of the 19th army in the Isakovo area. The regiment should be considered dead in the Vyazma region.
Officially disbanded and expelled from the army lists on December 24, 1941.
Submission
date | Front District | Army | Housing | Division | Notes |
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06/22/1941 | Western front | - | - | - | - |
07/01/1941 | Western front | - | - | - | - |
07/10/1941 | Western front | - | - | - | - |
08/01/1941 | Western front | 20th Army | - | - | - |
09/01/1941 | Western front | - | - | - | - |
10/01/1941 | - | - | - | - | does not appear in the Combat Command SA |
11/01/1941 | - | - | - | - | does not appear in the Combat Command SA |
12/01/1941 | - | - | - | - | does not appear in the Combat Command SA |
Commanders
- E. I. Nikitin, major
Literature
- N.I. Moskvin. Roads of martial brotherhood. Minsk: Belarus, 1986. - 320 p.
Links
Notes
- The deployment of parts of the Western Special Military District on 05/30/1941
- ↑ N.I. Moskvin “By the roads of military brotherhood”, Minsk, 1986.
- ↑ Russian archive of the Great Patriotic War volume 23 (12-1) - Books. The Second World War