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 |