1st Light Tank Brigade

the Soviet brigade other brigades 1st Tank Brigade (disambiguation) The 1st Light Tank Brigade (ru 1-я лёгкая танковая бригада (1 лтбр)) was an armored brigade of the Red Army that fought in the Winter War. The brigade was formed as the 19th Mechanized Brigade in 1934 and was one of the units combined to form the 1st Tank Division in 1940. History The 19th Mechanized Brigade was formed in May 1934 in Detskoye Selo, part of the 7th Mechanized Corps of the Leningrad Military District. The brigade was relocated to Pushkin by 1938. The brigade was reorganized as the 1st Light Tank Brigade in 1938. The brigade took part in the Winter War as part of the 10th Tank Corps, which it rejoined on 13 October 1939. After the disbandment of the corps headquarters the brigade was assigned to the 7th Army as a separate tank brigade. By the beginning of the Winter War, the brigade fielded 178 tanks and 23 armored cars. After the end of the Winter War, the brigade returned to Pushkin.Drig 2006 Its headquarters and three tank battalions were used to form the 1st Red Banner Tank Division of the 1st Mechanized Corps, a process completed by the end of July 1940.Drig 2006 The division was formed in camps near Strugi Krasnye, and the 1st Tank Battalion of the brigade was one of the units that formed the division's 1st Tank Regiment. The 4th and 8th Tank Battalions of the brigade were among the units forming the division's 2nd Tank Regiment. The 19th Tank Battalion was one of the tank units used to form the 5th Tank Regiment of the 1st Mechanized Corps' 3rd Tank Division.Drig 2005 81–82 References Citations Bibliography Drig Yevgeny Механизированные корпуса РККА в бою. История автобронетанковых войск Красной Армии в 1940–1941 годах Transkniga 2005 5-170-24760-5 Moscow ru Red Army Mechanized Corps in battle: The history of the Red Army armored forces 1940–1941 http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/before_41/pages/19_mbr_01_tbr.htm 19 механизированная бригада - 1 легкотанковая бригада Drig Yevgeny 15 April 2006 mechcorps.rkka.ru ru 19th Mechanized Brigade - 1st Light Tank Brigade dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121019145328/http://mechcorps.rkka.ru:80/files/before_41/pages/19_mbr_01_tbr.htm 19 October 2012 19 October 2012 http://mechcorps.ru/files/before_41/pages/07_mk_10_tk.htm 7 механизированный корпус с 1938 г. – 10 танковый корпус Drig Yevgeny 12 October 2013 mechcorps.ru ru 7th Mechanized Corps, from 1938 10th Tank Corps dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140407182302/http://mechcorps.ru/files/before_41/pages/07_mk_10_tk.htm 7 April 2014 14 June 2017 Dunn Walter S. Hitler's Nemesis: The Red Army, 1930-1945 Praeger 1994 0-275-94894-3 Westport, Connecticut Grigoryan Ararat Политические репрессии командно-начальствующего состава 1937-1938. Ленинградский военный округ Milbakh Vladimir Chernavsky Alexander St. Petersburg University Press 2013 978-5-288-05282-8 St. Petersburg ru Political Repression of Command Personnel, 1937–1938: Leningrad Military District Irincheev Bair Танки в Зимней войне Taktikal Press 2013 978-5-906074-08-9 Moscow ru Tanks in the Winter War Kolomiets Maxim 1996 Легкий танк БТ-7 Light Tank BT-7 Бронеколлекция [Armor Collection] ru Moscow Modelist-konstruktor 5 (8) Baryatinsky Mikhail Kolomiets Maxim Moshchansky Ilya 1998 Танки Испанской республики Tanks of the Spanish Republic http://tankfront.ru/neutral/espana/in-action/resp.html Tankomaster ru Moscow Tekhnika – molodezhi 2-3 2–9 Kolomiets Maxim 2001 Танки в зимней войне 1939-1940 Tanks in the Winter War, 1939–1940 Фронтовая иллюстрация [Front illustrated] ru Moscow Strategia KM 3 Meltyukhov Mikhail Прибалтийский плацдарм (1939-1940 гг.). Возвращение Советского Союза на берега Балтийского моря Algoritm 2014 978-5-4438-0602-0 Moscow ru Baltic Bridgehead (1939–1940): The Return of the Soviet Union to the Shores of the Baltic Sea Pavlov M. V. Танки БТ Zheltov I. G. Pavlov I. V. Eksprint 2001 5-94038-019-0 Moscow ru BT Tanks Zaloga Steven J. BT Fast Tank: The Red Army's Cavalry Tank 1931–45 Osprey 2016 978-1-4728-1065-6 New Vanguard 237 Oxford Category:Tank brigades of the Soviet Union Category:Military units and formations established in 1934 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1940 Category:Military units and formations of the Soviet Union in the Winter War