In what battle did Yegor Solyankin lead the 2nd Tank Division that was a large tank battle in 1941?
Battle of Raseiniai
Yegor Solyankin
Yegor Nikolaevich Solyankin (Russian: Егор Николаевич Солянкин ; 1901– 26 June 1941) was a Red Army major general.
 Solyankin led the 2nd Tank Division during the Battle of Raseiniai, a Soviet counterattack after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
 He was killed in action during the defeat of his division.
Battle of Raseiniai
The Battle of Raseiniai (23–27 June 1941) was a large tank battle that took place in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
 The battle was fought between the elements of the German 4th Panzer Group (General Erich Hoepner) and the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps (Major General Alexey Kurkin) with the 12th Mechanised Corps (Major General Nikolai Shestapolov), in Lithuania, 75 km north-west of Kaunas.
 The commander of the Soviet Northwestern Front, Colonel General Fyodor Kuznetsov, tried to contain and destroy the German troops that had crossed the Neman River (Nemunas) but was unable to prevent them from advancing.
 The result of the battle was the destruction of most of the Soviet armoured forces of the Northwestern Front, which cleared the way for the Germans to attack towards the crossings of the Daugava River (Western Dvina).
 The fighting around Raseiniai was one of the main battles of the initial phase of Operation Barbarossa, referred to in Soviet historiography as the Border Defensive Battles (22–27 June 1941) and formed part of the larger Soviet Baltic Strategic Defensive Operation.
37th Guards Rifle Division
The division was formed on 2 August 1942 from the 1st Airborne Corps in Lyubertsy, near Moscow.
 Its most famous action was the defense of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory during the Battle of Stalingrad.
 The division was highly decorated, receiving two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov 1st class, the Order of Kutuzov 1st class and the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky.
 It became the 27th Guards Mechanised Division in December 1945 and on 20 April 1957 the 39th Guards Tank Division at Polotsk (Borovukha), Vitebsk Oblast, Belarussian Military District.
 On 1 January 1965 it became the 37th Guards Tank Division, staying within 7th Tank Army for the duration.
 In 1992 it became part of the Belarus Ground Forces.
 The tank division was converted to the 37th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade, which was disbanded in fall 2011.
 The division's lineage currently exists as the 37th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base of the North Western Operational Command at Polotsk. 4th Armored Brigade (People's Republic of China)
The 4th Tank Division () was formed on April 1, 1969 from 237th Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment from 32nd Army Division, 252nd Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment from 46th Army Division,253rd Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment from 47th Army Division and 397th Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment from 192nd Army Division. Battle of Radzymin (1944)
The Battle of Radzymin was one of a series of engagements between the Red Army's 1st Byelorussian Front and the German Army's XXXIXth Panzer Corps that occurred as part of the Lublin-Brest Offensive between 1 and 10 August 1944 at the conclusion of the Belorussian strategic offensive operation near the town of Radzymin in the vicinity of Warsaw, part of which entailed a large tank battle at Wołomin.
 It was the largest tank battle on the territories of Poland during World War II . 16th Tank Division (Soviet Union)
The 16th Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Union's Red Army and later the Soviet Army, formed twice.
 The division was first formed during the summer of 1940 at Kotovsk, Ukraine with the 2nd Mechanized Corps.
 After the German invasion of the Soviet Union began in June 1941, the division was sent into the fighting along with its corps.
 The division was destroyed along with its corps during the Battle of Uman.
 The division was reformed in 1955 from the 111th Tank Division in the Soviet Far East, and was disbanded two years later. 12th Armored Brigade (People's Republic of China)
The 12th Tank Division () was formed on October 12, 1969 from 12th Independent Tank Regiment, 264th Tank Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment of Academy of Armored Troops and 2nd Tank School Training Regiment.
 After its formation the division was soon moved to Jiuquan and Jiayuguan City in Gansu province. Battle of Norfolk
The Battle of Norfolk was a tank battle fought on February 27, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, between armored forces of the United States and United Kingdom, and those of the Ba'athist Iraqi Republican Guard.
 The primary participants were the U.S. 2nd Armored Division (Forward),1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), and the Iraqi 18th Mechanized and 9th Armoured Brigades of the Republican Guard Tawakalna Mechanized Infantry Division along with elements from eleven other Iraqi divisions.
 The 2nd Armored Division(Fwd) was assigned to the American 1st Infantry Division as its 3rd maneuver brigade due to the fact that one of its brigades was not deployed.
 The British 1st Armoured division was responsible for protecting the right flank of VII Corps.
 Its main adversary being the Iraqi 52nd Armored Division and multiple infantry divisions.
 It was the final battle of the war before the unilateral ceasefire took effect.
 Two more battles occurred at Objective Dorset and near the oil field at Rumaila after the ceasefire.
 The Battle of Norfolk has been recognized by some sources as the second largest tank battle in American history and the largest tank battle of the 1st Gulf War.
 No fewer than 12 divisions participated in the Battle of Norfolk along with multiple brigades and elements of a regiment.
 American and British forces destroyed approximately 750 Iraqi tanks and hundreds of other types of combat vehicles.
 This goes without even taking into consideration the destruction of two additional Republican Guard divisions at Objective Dorset by the 3rd Armored Division on 28 February 1991.
 During this action the 3rd Armored Division destroyed 250 enemy vehicles and captured 2,500 Iraqi soldiers.
 Over a decade passed after the conflict before quality references became available on most of the battles that took place during the 1st Gulf War.
 Many of the land battles during Operation Desert Storm were larger than the majority of the battles that took place in southern and western Europe during World War Two, at least as far as the quantity of equipment involved. 111th Tank Division (Soviet Union)
The 111th Tank Division was a Tank division of the Soviet Union's Red Army and after 1946, the Soviet Army.
 The division was formed in the summer of 1941 in the Soviet Far East from the tank regiment of a motorized division that had been reorganized into a motor rifle division, and had thus lost its tank regiment.
 The division never fought in combat and was in reserve during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
 Postwar, the division continued its garrison duty in the Far East.
 The 111th was renumbered as the 16th Tank Division (Second Formation) in 1955. 14th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)
The corps was formed in March 1941 at Kobryn under the command of Major General Stepan Oborin as part of the 4th Army in the Western Special Military District.
 Colonel Ivan Tutarinov was its chief of staff.
 The corps' 22nd Tank Division was formed from the 29th Tank Brigade in the southern military camp on the outskirts of Brest.
 The 30th Tank Division was formed from the 32nd Tank Brigade in Pruzhany, later moving to Slobodka.
 The howitzer artillery regiments of the divisions were formed from howitzer artillery battalions of the 4th Army's rifle divisions.
 The 205th Motorized Division was formed and stationed in Bereza Kartuska and the surrounding villages.
 It was formed from the 3rd Motorized Machine Gun Artillery Brigade in the 42nd Rifle Division's barracks, after the 42nd had moved to Brest.
 The 205th Division had a low level of combat readiness.
 From mid-June the corps began creating a field command post in the area of Tevli.
 The corps was equipped with 534 tanks, most of which were the obsolete T-26.
 The corps had half of its authorized 1,031 tanks.