Organization of a Russian Rifle Regiment

August 1941

Regimental Staff
Staff: (14/4/10/3/1)1
Staff Platoon: (1/0/0/3/9)
Mounted Reconnaissance Platoon: (1/1/0/3/13)
Foot Reconnaissance Platoon: (1/1/0/5/43)
Anti-aircraft HMG Platoon (1/0/0/6/9)
3 12.7mm AA HMGs
Pioneer Platoon: (1/0/0/5/33)
Chemical Warfare: (1/0/0/4/25)
Ampule Thrower: (1/0/0/8/14)
6 ampule throwers
Band Platoon: (0/0/1/1/11)
Equipment:
4 SMGs, 3 light trucks, 8 bicycles, 2 field kitchens, 9 wagons
3 Rifle Battalions:
Staff (4/1/0/0/0)
Signals Platoon (1/0/0/4/12)
1 Radio, 1 cart, 1 bicycle
3 Rifle Companies (18/3/0/117/432)
27 SMGs, 33 sniper rifles, 3wagon
1 MG Company (5/1/0/19/51)
6 wagons
1 AT Rifle Company (4/1/0/19/24)
16 ATrifles
1 82mm Mortar Company (6/1/0/29/60)
12 wagons
Medical Platoon (0/0/1/1/5)
1 cart
Administration Platoon (1/0/0/3/19)
10 wagons

Records of Headquarters, German Army High Command, national Archives Microcopy No.
T-78, Roll 486 , American Historical Association Committee for the Study of War
Documents, Washington, DC., 1960
Copyright GFN 1992.

1
Numbers are officers, political officers, officials, NCOs and soldiers.