| ID | 135927 |
| Title Proper | Derailing Barbarossa |
| Other Title Information | 900th rifle regiment’s first combat engagements |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Goldovt-Ryzhenkov, David ; Timchenko, Konstantin |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article is the second installment of a three-part study into combat at the tactical level in the battle of Smolensk in 1941. The preceding article published in Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Volume 26, Issue 4) documented the formation, movement, and initial assignments given to 900th Rifle Regiment before it engaged the enemy. This article picks up with the regiment’s first engagement on 25 July 1941 against the elements of the German 3rd Panzer Group and takes us through 5 August 1941, when the regiment was engaged with elements of the German 9th Army and applied new tactics of night combat. Chronologically this article corresponds to events described in Barbarossa Derailed, Chapter 5: The First Soviet Counteroffensive, and the Struggle for the Smolensk Pocket 24–31 July 1941, and Chapter 7: Armeegruppe Guderian’s Destruction of Group Kachalov and the Reduction of the Smolensk Pocket, 31 July–6 August 1941.1 |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol.27, No.4; Oct-Dec.2014: p.639-652 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Slavic Military Studies Vol: 27 No 4 |
| Standard Number | Germany |