Some Typical Coding on Soviet Military Maps and Battle Schemes

Take into consideration, that not all symbols can be represented in this table. Also some variations
of symbols can be met in different sources.

1. Group infantry trench 16. Battery of German rocket 31. Bruno spiral (rem. AMVAS:
2. Group infantry trench with launchers sort of wire barrage)
machine-gun position
3. Individual trenches 17. Anti-tank gun 32. Timber obstruction with pas-
4. Blindage or earth-house 18. Separate gun sage
(“zemlyanka”) 19. Artillery battery 33. Escarpment
5. Blindage or earth-house 20. 75mm artillery battery 34. Tank ditch
(“zemlyanka”) under construction 21. 105mm artillery battery 35. Antitank obstacles maiden
6. Observation post 22. 150mm artillery battery from rails and beams in three
7. Anti-tank rifle trench 23. Artillery position rows.
8. Machine-gun position 24. Antiaircraft machine-gun 36. Antitank minefield
9. Weapon emplacement in a 25. Unoccupied antiaircraft bat- 37. Antipersonnel minefield
house tery position 38. Unidentified objects
10. Timber-earth pillbox 26. Operable antiaircraft battery 39. Destroyed objects
11. Buried tank 27. Ammo depot 40. Located by photo recon ser-
12. Mortar trench 28. Food depot vice data
13. Mortar battery 29. Wire entanglement in two 41. Located by SND (rem. AM-
14. 81mm mortar battery rows VAS some special artillery recon
15. 120mm mortar battery 30. Knife-rests service) recon service data
42. Located by acoustic recon
service data
43. Area occupied by troops
44. Area admittedly occupied by
troops
45. Bounds of aerial photo on
Dec. 15’44
Source:
“Sbornik materialov po izucheniyu opyta vojny” in 26 volumes, Moscow, Voyennoye Izdatelstvo NKO SSSR, 1942-
1946

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