This is the order of battle for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. It was fought between the German-led Axis Forces and the Soviet Forces. The operation started on June 22, 1941, and ended on December 5, 1941, after Operation Typhoon.
Axis
Army Group North (Generalfeldmarschall () Wilhelm von Leeb, Chief of Staff () – Generalleutnant () Kurt Brennecke)
16th Army (Generaloberst () Ernst Busch) II Corps (General der Infanterie () Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt) 12th Infantry Division () ( Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach) 32nd ( Wilhelm Bohnstedt) 121st ( Otto Lancelle) X Corps (General der Artillerie () Christian Hansen) 30th ( Kurt von Tippelskirch) 126th ( Paul Laux) XXVIII Corps ( Mauritz von Wiktorin) 122nd ( Siegfried Macholz) 123rd ( Walter Lichel)
18th Army ( Georg von Küchler, – Generalmajor ) XXVI Corps ( Albert Wodrig) 61st ( Siegfried Haenicke) 217th ( Richard Baltzer) 291st ( Kurt Herzog) XXXVIII Corps ( Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis) 58th ( Karl von Graffen) 254th ( Walter Behschnitt) I Corps ( Kuno-Hans von Both) 1st ( Philipp Kleffel) 11th ( Herbert von Böckmann) 21st ( Otto Sponheimer)
Panzergruppe 4 ( Erich Hoepner, – Colonel ) XXXXI Corps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppe Georg Hans Reinhardt) 1st Panzer Division ( Friedrich Kirchner) 6th Panzer Division ( Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma) 269th ( Ernst von Leyser) 36th (mot.) ( Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher) LVI Corps (mot.) ( Erich von Manstein) 8th Panzer Division ( Erich Brandenberger) 3rd (mot.) ( Curt Jahn) 290th ( Theodor Freiherr von Wrede) SS-Totenkopf Division (SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke)
Army Group assets and reservesGlantz 2002, p. 531 XXIII Corps (Army Group Reserve) ( Albrecht Schubert) 251st ( ) 206th ( Hugo Höfl) L Corps (OKH Reserve behind AG North) ( Georg Lindemann) 86th ( Joachim Witthöft) SS Police Division (SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Mülverstedt) Army Group rear lines 207th ( ) 281st ( Friedrich Bayer) 285th (
Army Group Centre (Commanded by Fedor von Bock, – Generalmajor () Hans von Greiffenberg)
4th Army ( Günther von Kluge) VII Corps ( Wilhelm Fahrmbacher) 7th ( Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz) 23rd ( Heinz Hellmich) 258th ( Waldemar Henrici) 268th ( Erich Straube) IX Corps ( Hermann Geyer) 137th ( Friedrich Bergmann) 263rd ( Ernst Haeckel) 292nd ( Martin Dehmel) XIII Corps ( Hans Felber) 17th ( Herbert Loch) 78th ( Curt Gallenkamp) XXXXIII Corps ( Gotthard Heinrici) 131st ( Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf) 134th ( ) 252nd ( )
9th Army ( Adolf Strauß) V Corps ( Richard Ruoff) 5th ( Karl Allmendinger) 35th ( Walther Fischer von Weikersthal) VI Corps (General der Pioniere Otto-Wilhelm Förster) 6th ( Helge Auleb) 26th ( Walter Weiß) VIII Corps ( Walter Heitz) 8th ( Gustav Höhne) 28th ( Johann Sinnhuber) 161st ( Hermann Wilck) XX Corps ( Friedrich Materna) 162nd ( Hermann Franke) 256th ( Gerhard Kauffmann)
Panzergruppe 2 ( Heinz Guderian) XII Corps ( Walther Schroth) 31st ( Kurt Kalmukoff) 34th ( Hans Behlendorff) 45th ( Fritz Schlieper) XXIV Corps (mot.) ( Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg) 3rd Panzer ( Walter Model) 4th Panzer ( Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp) 10th (mot.) ( Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper) 1st Cavalry ( Kurt Feldt) 255th ( Wilhelm Wetzel) 267th ( Robert Martinek) XXXXVI Corps (mot.) ( Heinrich von Vietinghoff) 10th Panzer ( Ferdinand Schaal) SS-Reich - SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser Großdeutschland ( ) XXXXVII Corps (mot.) ( Joachim Lemelsen) 17th Panzer ( Hans-Jürgen von Arnim) 18th Panzer ( Walther Nehring) 29th (mot.) ( Walter von Boltenstern) 167th ( Hans Schönhärl)
Panzergruppe 3 ( Hermann Hoth) XXXIX Corps (mot.) ( Rudolf Schmidt) 7th Panzer ( Hans Freiherr von Funck) 20th Panzer ( Horst Stumpff) 14th (mot.) ( Friedrich Fürst) 20th (mot.) ( Hans Zorn) LVII Corps (mot.) ( Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen) 12th Panzer ( Josef Harpe) 19th Panzer ( Otto von Knobelsdorff) 18th (mot.) ( Friedrich Herrlein)
Army Group South (Commanded by Gerd von Rundstedt, – Georg von Sodenstern)
German 6th Army ( Walther von Reichenau) XVII Corps ( Werner Kienitz) 56th ( Karl von Oven) 62nd ( Walter Keiner) XXIX Corps ( Hans von Obstfelder) 44th ( Friedrich Siebert) 111th ( Otto Stapf) 299th ( Willi Moser) XXXXIV Corps ( Friedrich Koch) 9th ( Siegmund Freiherr von Schleinitz) 297th ( Max Pfeffer) LV Corps ( Erwin Vierow) 75th ( Ernst Hammer) 57th ( Oskar Blümm) 168th ( Hans Mundt) 298th ( Walther Graeßner)
Panzergruppe 1 ( Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist) III Corps (mot.) (General der Kavallerie () Eberhard von Mackensen) 13th Panzer ( Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen) 14th Panzer ( Friedrich Kühn) 25th (mot.) ( Erich-Heinrich Clößner) XIV Corps (mot.) ( Gustav Anton von Wietersheim) 9th Panzer ( Alfred Ritter von Hubicki) SS- (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich) SS-Wiking (SS-Brigadeführer Felix Steiner) XXXXVIII Corps (mot.) ( Werner Kempf) 11th Panzer ( Ludwig Crüwell) 16th Panzer ( Hans-Valentin Hube) 16th (mot.) ( Sigfrid Henrici)
German 17th Army ( Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel) IV Corps ( Viktor von Schwedler) 24th ( Hans von Tettau) 71st ( Alexander von Hartmann) 262nd ( ) 295th ( Herbert Geitner) 296th ( Wilhelm Stemmermann) XXXXIX Mountain Corps ( Ludwig Kübler) 68th ( Georg Braun) 257th ( Karl Sachs) 1st Mountain Division ( Hubert Lanz) LII Corps ( Kurt von Briesen) 101st Light ( Erich Marcks) 97th Light ( Maximilian Fretter-Pico) 100th Light ( Werner Sanne) Hungarian Gyorshadtest (General Béla Miklós) Hungarian 1st Motorized Brigade ( Jenő Major) Hungarian 2nd Motorized Brigade ( János Vörös) Hungarian 1st Cavalry Brigade ( ) Slovak Expeditionary Army Group (General Ferdinand Čatloš) Slovak Mobile Brigade ( ) Slovak 1st ( Antonin Pulanich) Slovak 2nd ( )
Romanian Army Group Antonescu (General Ion Antonescu)
Romanian Third Army ( Petre Dumitrescu) Romanian 4th Army Corps ( Constantin Sănătescu) ( ) 7th ( ) Cavalry Corps ( Ioan Mihail Racoviță) 5th Cavalry Brigade (Col. ) 8th Cavalry Brigade (Col. ) Mountain Corps ( Gheorghe Avramescu) 1st Mountain Brigade ( Mihail Lascăr) 2nd Mountain Brigade ( Ioan Dumitrache) 4th Mountain Brigade ( Gheorghe Manoliu)
German 11th Army ( Eugen Ritter von Schobert) XI Corps ( Joachim von Kortzfleisch) 76th ( Maximilian de Angelis) 239th ( Ferdinand Neuling) Romanian 1st Armored ( Ioan Sion) Romanian 6th Cavalry Brigade ( ) XXX Corps ( Hans von Salmuth) 198th ( Otto Röttig) Romanian ( ) Romanian 13th ( ) Romanian 14th ( ) LIV Corps ( Erick-Oskar Hansen) 50th ( Karl-Adolf Hollidt) 170th ( ) Romanian 5th ( Petre Vlădescu) Italian Expeditionary Corps (Lt. Gen.Giovanni Messe) 9th "Pasubio" (General Vittorio Giovanelli) 52nd "Torino" (General Luigi Manzi) 3rd Cavalry "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" (General Mario Marazzani) 22nd ( Hans Graf von Sponeck)
Romanian Fourth Army (Lt. Gen. Nicolae Ciupercă) Romanian 3rd Army Corps ( Vasile Atanasiu) Guards Division ( ) 15th ( ) 35th Reserve Division ( ) Romanian 5th Army Corps (Lt. Gen. ) Border Division ( ) 21st ( ) Romanian 11th Army Corps ( I. Aurelian) two fortress brigades Other assets Romanian 2nd Army Corps ( Nicolae Macici) 9th ( Hugo Schwab) 10th ( Ion Glogojanu) 11th ( David Popescu) 7th Cavalry Brigade (Col. )
Soviet
Stavka The "Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya) was formed on 23 June, largely from the existing People's Commissariat for Defence.
Commander in Chief: Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (until July 19), then Josef Stalin Deputy Commander-in-Chief: Army General Georgy Zhukov (from August 8) Chief of the General Staff: Army General Georgy Zhukov (until July 21), then Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov
16th Army Lieutenant General 32nd Rifle Corps - Major General Trofim Kolomiets 46th Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Filatov 152nd Rifle Division - Colonel Pyotr Chernyshov 5th Mechanized Corps - Major General Ilya Alekseyenko 13th Tank Division - Colonel Fyodor Grachev 17th Tank Division - Colonel Ivan Korchagin 109th Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Nikolai Krasnoretsky
19th Army Lieutenant General Ivan Konev 38th Rifle Division - Colonel Maxim Kirillov 25th Rifle Corps - Major General Sergey Chestohvalov 127th Rifle Division - Major General 134th Rifle Division - Major General 162nd Rifle Division - Colonel Nikolai Kolkunov 34th Rifle Corps - Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky 129th Rifle Division - Major General 158th Rifle Division - Colonel V.I. Novozhilov 171st Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Budyho
20th Army Lieutenant General Fyodor Remezov 18th Rifle Division - Colonel Karp Sviridov 61st Rifle Corps - Major General Fyodor Bakunin 110th Rifle Division - Colonel Vasily Khlebtsov 144th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Pronin 172nd Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov 69th Rifle Corps - Major General Yevdokim Mogilovchik 73rd Rifle Division - Colonel Alexander Akimov 229th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlov 233rd Rifle Division - Colonel Grigory Kotov 7th Mechanized Corps - Major General Vasily Ivanovich Vinogradov 14th Tank Division - Colonel Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilyev 1st Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Kreizer
21st Army Lieutenant General Vasily Gerasimenko 63rd Rifle Corps - Lieutenant General Leonid Petrovsky 53rd Rifle Division - Colonel Ivan Bartenev 148th Rifle Division - Colonel Filipp Cherokmanov 167th Rifle Division - Major General Vasily Rakovsky 66th Rifle Corps - Major General Fyodor Sudakov 61st Rifle Division - Major General Nikolay Prishchepa 117th Rifle Division - Colonel Spiridon Chernyugov 154th Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Fokanov 25th Mechanized Corps - Major General Semyon Krivoshein 50th Tank Division - Colonel Boris Bakharov 55th Tank Division - Colonel Vasily Badanov 219th Motor Rifle Division - Major General Pavel Korzun
22nd Army Lieutenant General Filipp Yershakov 51st Rifle Corps 98th Rifle Division 112th Rifle Division 153rd Rifle Division 62nd Rifle Corps 170th Rifle Division 174th Rifle Division 186th Rifle Division
24th Army 52nd Rifle Corps 91st Rifle Division 119th Rifle Division 166th Rifle Division 53rd Rifle Corps 107th Rifle Division 133rd Rifle Division (Major General Vasily Shvetsov) 178th Rifle Division
Northern Front Source:
General Colonel Markian Popov
The front was the Leningrad Military District until 24 June.
7th Army (Separate) Lieutenant General Filip Danilovich Gorelenko 54th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. I.V. Panin 71st Rifle Division - Col. V.N. Fedorov 168th Rifle Division - Col. A.L. Bondarev 237th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. D.F. Popov 55th Mixed Aviation Division - Colonel Alexander Bogradetsky
14th Army Lieutenant General Valerian A. Frolov 14th Rifle Division - Col. A.A. Zhurba 52nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. N.N. Nikishin 1st Tank Division - Major General Viktor Ilyich Baranov 42nd Rifle Corps - Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin 104th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.I. Morozov 122nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.S. Shevchenko 1st Mixed Aviation Division
23rd Army Lieutenant General P.S. Pshennikov 19th Rifle Corps - Major General M.N. Gerasimov 142nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.P. Mikul’skii 115th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.F. Kon’kov 50th Rifle Corps - Major General V.I. S'cherbakov 43rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Vladimir Kirpichnikov 70th Rifle Division - Major General Andrey Fedyunin 123rd Rifle Division - Col. Ye.Ye. Tsukanov 10th Mechanized Corps - Major General I. G. Lazarev 21st Tank Division - Col. L.V. Bunin 24th Tank Division - Col. M.I. Chesnokov 198th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Vladimir Kryukov 5th Mixed Aviation Division 41st Bomber Aviation Division
Front Assets 177th Rifle Division - Col. A.F. Mashoshin 191st Rifle Division - Col. Dmitry Lukyanov 1st Mechanized Corps - Major General M. L. Cherniavsky 3rd Tank Division - Col. K.Yu. Andreev 163rd Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. N.M. Kuznetsov Frontal aviation 2nd Mixed Aviation Division 39th Fighter Aviation Division 3rd PVO Fighter Aviation Division