Vitebsk air defense brigade area

Formed in the spring of 1941, it was deployed in the Vitebsk - Orsha - Mogilyov region , defending communications (including bridges across the Dnieper River ) and important enterprises from air attacks.

As part of the army during the Great Patriotic War from June 22, 1941 to October 20, 1941.

From the first day of the war, it reflects enemy air raids, then retreats into the interior of the country. So, in the autumn of 1941, the 324th separate anti-aircraft artillery division was on the defensive of the headquarters of the Western Front in Perkhushkovo , while it consisted of three medium-caliber batteries, two small-caliber batteries, an anti-aircraft machine gun company and a searchlight company. ^[1] It is possible that the remnants of the brigade area at the end of the summer of 1941 were reduced to this division.

October 20, 1941 disbanded.

• Management (Vitebsk)
• 737th anti-aircraft artillery regiment (Vitebsk)
• 741st Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment (Smolensk)
• 35th separate anti-aircraft artillery division (Orsha)
• 324th separate anti-aircraft artillery division (Polotsk)
• 106th anti-aircraft machine-gun company ( Mogilev )
• 8th separate battalion VNOS (Vitebsk)
• 32nd separate air defense squadron (Krupki, Minsk region)

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• Major P. G. Slepchenko (until the end of July 1941)

• Directories on Soldier.ru
• List No. 11 of the formations, units and subunits of the air defense forces of the country, which were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War