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Soviet Forces on the Eastern Front

The original is from Central State Archives of the Red Army (TsGAKA)and can be found at the Electronic Library of Historical Documents in the three volumes on documents from the civil war period.

Eastern Front 1 June 1919

  Bayonets Sabres MGs Guns    
4th Army
Aleksandrov-Gay Brigade 2 570 14
22nd Rifle Division 5 020 56 35
Brigade of the 33rd Rifle Division 1 370 24
Saratov Brigade 960
Kirghiz 552
1st Cavalry Division 1 109
Total for 4th Army 9 920 1 661 94 35
 
1st Army
Orenburg Group 8 350 85 4
20th Rifle Division 6 890 709 170 19
24th Rifle Division 5 750 171 28
5th Cavalry Division 1 869 28
Total for 1st Army 20 990 2 578 454 51
 
Turkestan Army
2nd Rifle Division (2nd Brigade) 8 120 107 108 8
25th Rifle Division 8 900 882 185
31st Rifle Division 11 410 454 115 31
Total for Turkestan Army 28 430 1 443 408 39
 
5th Army
26th Rifle Division 5 440 97 85 26
2nd Brigade, 5th Rifle Division 1 620 65 10 8
27th Rifle Division 3 480 134 115 15
2nd Brigade, 35th Rifle Division 3 630 133 42 4
Chistopol Group 4 540 84
Total for 5th Army 18 710 429 336 53
 
2nd Army
28th Rifle Division 5 084 550 240 34
7th Rifle Division 1 680 22 6
21st Rifle Division 3 170 536 87 11
5th Rifle Division 3 630 205 32 15
Total for 2nd Army 13 564 1 291 381 66
 
3rd Army
30th Rifle Division 11 700 1 327 217 48
Panyuoshkin Detachment 2 640 58 8
29th Rifle Division 6 230 1 620 239 67
Special Brigade 4 050 197 62
Northern Expeditionary Detachment 2 230 30
Army Reserve (279th Rifle Regiment) 750 638 19
Total for 3rd Army 27 600 3 682 625 123
 
Total Eastern Front 119 214 11 084 2 224 367
Total at Fronts 307 170 34 248 8 783 1 747

Note: the cavalry total for the 3rd Army is 100 too low for the figures shown, and the Eastern Front total for MGs is 74 too low for the figures shown.

The document also had estimates for the Whites at the time: opposing the Soviet Eastern Front were a total of 100 200 bayonets, 30 200 sabres, 1 046 MGs and 280 guns. The cavalry was overwhelmingly Urals and Orenburg Cossacks.

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