• Source: Odessa Offensive Soviet order of battle

The following Soviet units fought in the Odessa Offensive between 26 March and 30 April 1944.
For the offensive, the 3rd Ukrainian Front included 57 rifle and three cavalry divisions, a tank corps and a mechanized corps. According to a postwar history, these totaled 470,000 men, 12,678 guns and mortars, 435 tanks and self-propelled guns. The front was supported by the 17th Air Army with 436 combat aircraft. The 3rd Ukrainian Front's report on the operation, drawn up in August 1944, provides figures for the operational strength of the front on 28 March: 243,074 men, 42,512 submachine guns, 4,824 machine guns, and 344 tanks and self-propelled guns (only counting those in the 23rd Tank Corps and Cavalry-Mechanized Group), 2,112 mortars, 1,616 field guns, and 781 anti-aircraft guns.




Abbreviations used






= Military rank

=
LTG = Lieutenant general (General-leytenant)
LTGAv = Lieutenant General of Aviation
LTGTF = Lieutenant General of Tank Forces
MG = Major general (General-mayor)
MGAv = Major General of Aviation
MGTF = Major General of Tank Forces
COL = Colonel (Polkovnik)
LTC = Lieutenant Colonel (Podpolkovnik)
MAJ = Major (Mayor)




= Other

=
k = Killed
w = Wounded




Command


The Soviet forces involved in the offensive were part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, commanded by Army General Rodion Malinovsky. Lieutenant General Fyodor Korzhenevich served as front chief of staff and Lieutenant General Aleksey Zheltov as front commissar.




Ground forces






= 57th Army

=
Lieutenant General Nikolay Gagen




= 37th Army

=
Lieutenant General Mikhail Sharokhin




= 46th Army

=
Lieutenant General Vasily Glagolev
The 31st Guards Rifle Corps was in the army's second echelon at the beginning of the offensive, engaging in battle from 6 April to 24 April.




= 8th Guards Army

=
Colonel General Vasily Chuikov




= 6th Army

=
Lieutenant General Ivan Shlyomin




= 5th Shock Army

=
Colonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev




= Cavalry-Mechanized Group

=
Lieutenant General Issa Pliyev




= Front reserves

=



Corps




Smaller units





Air forces






= 17th Air Army

=
Colonel General of Aviation Vladimir Sudets




References






= Citations

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= Bibliography

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Glantz, David M. (2007). Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700614653.
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Morozov, M. E.; Yeliseyev, V. T.; Kulagin, K. L.; Lipatov, S. A.; Petrov, B. N.; Chernyayev, A. A.; Shabayev, A. A. (2010). Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945 гг. Кампании и стратегические операции в цифрах [The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945: Campaigns and strategic operations in figures] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Main Archival Directorate of the City of Moscow. ISBN 978-5-8129-0099-1.
Tsapayev, D.A.; et al. (2014a). Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 3. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 978-5-9950-0382-3.
Tsapayev, D.A.; et al. (2015). Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 4. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 978-5-9950-0602-2.
Tsapayev, D. A.; et al. (2017). Великая Отечественная: Комбриги. Военный биографический словарь [Brigade Commanders of the Great Patriotic War: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Nizhny Novgorod: Kirillitsa. ISBN 978-5-905603-67-9.
Tsapayev, D. A.; et al. (2018). Великая Отечественная: Комбриги. Военный биографический словарь [Brigade commanders of the Great Patriotic: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Moscow: Mnogo knig. ISBN 978-5-521-15100-4.
Tsapayev, D.A., ed. (2019). Великая Отечественная: Комбриги. Военный биографический словарь [Brigade commanders of the Great Patriotic: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 3. Moscow: Ripol Klassik. ISBN 978-5-386-13527-0.
Military documents

Bakin, Pavel; Shcherbakov, Fyodor (1944). "Отчет о боевых действиях 151 отп 9 гв. кд" [Report on the combat operations of the 151st Separate Tank Regiment, 9th Guards Cavalry Division]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, fond 3544, opus 0000001, file 0006)
Dolgy, Lieutenant Colonel; Yazyev, Major (1944a). "Журнал боевых действий УК БТ и МВ 3 УкрФ" [Combat Journal of the Armored and Mechanized Forces of the 3rd Ukrainian Front]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (TsAMO, fond 243, opus 0002928, file 0061)
Markov, Colonel (1944). "Описание боевых действий 31 гв. ск за апрель 1944 г." [Account of the combat operations of the 31st Guards Rifle Corps for April 1944]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (TsAMO, fond 401, opus 9511, file 453)
Pichugin, Major General; Valyushkin, Colonel (1944). "Журнал боевых действий 4 гв. каз. кк за период с 20 марта по 20 апреля 1944 года" [Combat journal of the 4th Guards Cossack Cavalry Corps from 20 March to 20 April 1944]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (TsAMO, fond 3470, opus 1, file 323)
Shtanko, Filipp; Gribov, Colonel (1944). "Доклад о боевых действиях 56 мсбр 23 тк" [Report on the combat operations of the 56th Motor Rifle Brigade, 23rd Tank Corps]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, fond 3387, opus 0000001, file 0025)
Tarasov, Aleksandr; Bukharov, Major (1944). "Одесско-Днестровская операция" [Odessa-Dniester operation]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, fond 243, opus 2900, file 729)

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