School-Retirement Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Committee of the Liberation of the Nations of Russia

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Training and backup brigade of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Nations of Russia - Collaborative Tactical Association of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Nations of Russia at the end of World War II.

In November 1944, a training and reserve brigade of the Armed Forces of the KONR was formed in Münsingen. It has reached the number of about 7 thousand. soldiers. Colonel Samuil T. Kojd was headed by Colonel Nikolai I. Sadownikov. Colonel Trofimov and Col. Skugarewski also served with senior officers. The task of the brigade was to train volunteers from prisoner-of-war camps, and then to supplement the personal status of regular military units of the KONR Armed Forces. It consisted of: a staff, a platoon of field police, a regiment (three battalions, a 75mm artillery battery, an armored company, a cavalry platoon), an artillery squadron, a motorized battalion, a panzerfist battalion, a cavalry squadron, a communications division, He was killed (along with several officers and soldiers in April 1945 during the US air raid), an artillery-technical battalion, a NCO school, and a battalion of refugees. The brigade's soldiers were poorly armed, as the Germans provided only minimal weapons and equipment. There were also great difficulties with the uniform.

During the march to the west, the brigade retained high morale and combat discipline, which was greeted by praise from the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces KONR and at the same time commander of the 2nd Infantry Division General Fyodor I. Truchin. At the end of the war, brigade soldiers - like other "own" units - were released to the Soviets. Bibliography Joachim Hoffman, Russian allies Hitler - Vlasov and his army, Warsaw 2008.

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