207th Corps Artillery Regiment 368th Corps Artillery Regiment 457th Corps Artillery Regiment 458th Corps Artillery Regiment 507th Corps Artillery Regiment 543rd Corps Artillery Regiment 646th Corps Artillery Regiment 305th Cannon Artillery Regiment (RGK) 355th Cannon Artillery Regiment (RGK) 4th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 168th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 324th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 330th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGk) 526th High Power Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 331st Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 376th Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 529th Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 538th Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 589th Howitzer Regiment (RGK) 34th Independent Special Artillery Division 245th Independent Special Artillery Division 315th Independent Special Artillery Division 316th Independent Special Artillery Division 263rd Independent Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division Front PVO 3rd Air Defense Division 4th Air Defense Division 11th Air Defense Brigade Air Defense Brigade Regions: Stanislavov Rovno Zhitomir Tarnopol Vinnitsa Front Tank/Mechanized Troops 19th Mechanized Corps: 40th Tank Division 43rd Tank Division 213th Mechanized Division 21st Motorcycle Regiment 24th Mechanized Corps: 45th Tank Division 49th Tank Division 216th Mechanized Division 17th Motorcycle Regiment 1st Independent Armoured Car Division Front Air Forces 44th Fighter Aviation Division 64th Fighter Aviation Division 19th Bomber Aviation Division 62nd Bomber Aviation Division 14th Mixed Aviation Division 15th Mixed Aviation Division 16th Mixed Aviation Division 17th Mixed Aviation Division 63rd Mixed Aviation Division 36th Fighter Aviation Division (PVO) 315th Air Reconnaissance Regiment 316th Air Reconnaissance Regiment Front Engineer Troops 45th Engineer Regiment 1st Pontoon Bridge Regiment Commanders Colonel General Mikhail P. Kirponos (June 1941 – September 1941: killed in action) Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko (September 1941 – December 1941; April–July 1942) Lieutenant General Fyodor Kostenko (December 1941 – April 1942) Lieutenant General Nikolai F. Vatutin [promoted to Colonel General in December 1942] (October 1942 – March 1943) Colonel General Rodion Ia. Malinovsky (March 1943 – October 1943) References and notes Further reading Boevoi Sostav Sovietskoi Armii Czast I 1941 goda juni–dekabr 1941 Moskva 1966 (Combat composition of the Soviet Army) Solonin, Mark, 22 June 1941 Bocka i obruci czili Kogda naczalas Vielikaja Oteczestvennaja vojna 2004 Erickson, John, The Road to Stalingrad, Cassell Military Paperback, 2003 Fugate, Bryan & Dvoriecki, Lev, Thunder on the Dnepr Presidio Press Southwestern Front