Appendix F: Soviet naval infantry units at Sevastopol, 1941

Unit

Commander

Origin

7th Naval Infantry Brigade (four battalions)

Colonel Evgeny I. Zhidilov

Formed in Sevastopol, August 17, 1941

8th Naval Infantry Brigade

Colonel Vladimir L. Vilshansky

Formed from reservists September 13, 1941. Arrived from Novorossiysk October 30, 1941

Sevastopol 1st Naval Infantry Regiment

Colonel Pavel P. Gorpishchenko

Formed from ships’ crews and naval students in Sevastopol, October 1941

2nd Naval Infantry Regiment

Major Nikolai I. Taran (captured July 4, 1942)

Formed in Sevastopol from Coastal Artillery Guard Battalion, NKVD detachment, and base personnel from Nikolayev and Ochakov

3rd Naval Infantry Regiment (3 Battalions)

Kapitan Kuzma M. Koryen’

Formed in Sevastopol from ships’ crews and reservists, September 3, 1941

2nd Perekop Naval Infantry Regiment

Major Ivan I. Kulagin

Formed November 12, 1941, from one battalion of 7 NIB plus other base personnel

15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Naval Infantry Battalions

N. A. Stalberg G. I. Lvovsky Unchur Hovrich Chernousov

Formed from ships’ crews and base personnel in Sevastopol, October 29, 1941. Personnel transferred to other units in late November 1941

79th Naval Infantry Brigade (three battalions)

Colonel Aleksei S. Potapov

Arrived in Sevastopol December 21, 1941

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