(SANITIZED) 67TH SEPARATE TANK TRAINING BATTALION

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• Publication Date: March 26, 1957
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COUNTRY:
SUBJECT:.
I. Military
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USSR/Hungary
eparate Tank Training Battalion.
the 67th.
ba The battalion was subordinate to the 2nd Guards Mechanized
Division,
co The actual battalion. strength consisted of., about 70. officers9
about 80 enlisted ;':men;in,the permanent' battalion :eadre9_.;and.
400tD .600 :t.rainees Prior to the Hungarian revolt in late October 1956
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there were, about 700. trainees e At. the. start of the revolt... 500." of
these were assigned to various divisional regiments and ~the.remaining
200 trainees-were assigned to man the.approx-imately_50?tracked''
vehicles When the battalion reassembled on 15 December 19569
an unknown number of new trainees., who were re" from the
divfision were or Anized into four ?com Aniese
d. . ?nee 10 December 19569 the 67th Separate.Tank-Training Battalion was
located at Szabadszallas (N, 46-539:.E 19-13)o It had previously been
at Mor (N 47-289 E 18-13),. prior to' June or July .19559 it had. been
at Jaszbereny (N 47-30.$ E.1.19-.56).
_e0 The training area of the battalion was at Veszprem.(N.-47-069 E.17-53)0
f , .For the battalion' s::. present location.. see paragraph, I od o. above....
h. The battalion commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel Kalinin (fnu),
Armored Branch, He replaced Lieutenant;Colonel-Milchevskiy (fnu),
in;, late 1956 0
io The major items of equipment held by the battalion were.
(1)
rounded turret. Some of both typesof these tanks were
About 30 T-54 tanks of two types, one of which had a 1owPr.,
equ;.ppe h stabilizers,
(2)- About 12 to 15 T-34/75 (sic) and T-34/85 tanks.
(3) Three or ;four .JS-2 and JS-3 tanks,
(4) Four 122-millimeter self-propelled guns.'.'
(5) ! Five or six amphibious tanks These;,;tanksi9,, ,which. had
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Lfour-man ,crews,, were armed with a 75-millimeter gyp,, and were
to be 15 to 20 tons in weight o These tanks,,
which had 'a maximum- surface speed of 50 ,to 0 kilometers per
hour, were po __d in the water by a turbine whieILaad no
seek. The water entered through side intakes and was expelled
from the~rear through exhaust portsin some unknown manner,
(6) Fifteen truaks,p.consisting of 11 cargo trucks . and. four mobile
- repair-shops,=all.of:which were mounted on conventional GAZ
and ZIS chassis o
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(7) ..Recovery vehicle.'' The battalion had only'dne'turret-
less T-34 which had been turned in as unserviceable.
(8) Rad.iose The.T-34 and JS tanks',iwere equipped with RS-9
radios, and the T-54 tanks were, equipped with 10-RT radios.
(9) The battalion had.,two or three night vision devices
(p Tibor nochno o . ?:videni a) which were used only for train-
ing an were not.mounted on tanks.
(10) Small arms ine;uded AK (avtomat kolashnikova) submachine
guns, half. of which had woo enstocks whi a the other half
had metal-folding,stockso .
the tank training course would be reduced to six
months.
k. Units subordinate to the 67th Separate Tank Training Battalion were:
(1) First Training Company, which trained tank commanders.
(2) Second and 3rd Training Companies,which trained mechanic-
driverso
(3) Fourth Training Company, which trained gunners.
(4) Fifth Training Company, which trained loaders and radio
operators.
(5) Headquarters Platoon,
(6) Artillery Repair Shop.
(7) Tank Repair Shop,
2. Other units
(a),' Fourth Guards Mechanized Regiment.
The regiment was subordinate to the 2nd Guards
Mechanized Division
subordinate o were:
.(1)..First and 2nd Motor Infantry-Battalions.
(2) An unidentified. tank battalion
(3) Headquarters Platoon
(4) Motor Vehicle Transport Company;
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(5) Tank Support Company (Tankovaya rota obespecheniya)
(6) Artillery Repair Shop
(7)
Six separate platoons, which were the Chemical, Signal,
The 4th Guards Mechanized Regiment was-::located at Szekesfehervar
(N 47-129'E 18-26
e training area o the regimen was a
Veszpremo The regiment was presently located at Szekesfehervar
commanding officer o the regiment was Colonel Petenko:(fnu)
Infantry. The major items of equipment held were.
(1)
An unknown number of tanks.
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T-54 tanks
T- tanks and unidentified self-
guns in e tank battalion.
(2) Two and three-axle unidentified armored. personnel carriers,
equipped with radios.
(3)
Unidentified stationary radio transmitter which communicated
with 2nd Division Headquarters.
(4) in the.regimental area in 1956, before the 25X1'
Hungarian revolt, a self driven; un with an estimated er
of 75 millimeters.
The 4th Guards Mechanized Regiment participated in September 1956
in maneuvers which lasted one week at Veszprem together with the
2nd Division and the Separate
2nd Division was subordinated
b0. Second Guards Mechanized Division,
the 2nd Guards
mecnanize .vision was subordinate to an un dentif led separate
corps headquarters which, since the withdrawal of Sov=At fnrraa
from Austria,, had been located in Budapest.
the division was previously subordinate
The
ol'--Forces, located in Baden, Austria.
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subordinate
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Fourth Guards Mechanized Regiment and two unidentified
artillery regiments, one of which was a howitzer and the
other.an.artillery regiment. All of these regiments were
located in different compounds in or near Szekesfehervar,
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(2) Eighty-seventh Mechanized Regiment whose location was
unknown,
(3) Thirty-eighth Mechanized Regiment, whose location was
unknown
(4) Sixty-seventh Separate Tank.Training Battalion, located at
Szabadszallaso
(5) An unidentified engineer battalion, whose location was
unknown,
(6) An unidentified separate signal,-company,, whose location
was unknown.
(7) An unidentified separate reconnaissance company, whose
location was unknown.
,(8) An unidentified rocket launcher, unit,
The headquarters of the division was located at Kecskemet (N 46-543
E 19-41) prior to the Hungarian revolt.
the division head-.
quarters a move to u apesrne training area of the division
was at Veszorem The division was presently located in Budanest8
Lieutenant General,Filipov fnu 9 who was. later, rem
ace wa command'n officer. rior to late summer 1956;
ma or ems o equ pmen
an unidentified unit?in Mor which was equipped With
there had been
about.-25 M?13 132-millimeter rocket'launchers. This unit was dir-
ectly subordinate to the.2nd Division,.and move to Jaszbereny in
June or. July 1955. The 2nd Division participated in maneuvers with
corps headquarter^s:- at ,Veszprem in--September 1956 o TJ er
sentatives of?the Hun arian Arm resent,,'as observers.
co Train Escort Company
The company was sub'?
or na t e a ireciy to teen. ra roup or forces located" in '..Baden,
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ten officers, an 150 to '160, enlisted men ? Th m` n ?s casern loca-
tion was near Bruck (N 47?30, E 15 15) 25X1
::1 Tha- nra ant loo of the company was near.Bz?uc
company commanding ider7.~_~ inr n fnu) . Ti~~.qntry. waig .. a 25X1
lenlisted men of this unit
were engaged. in escorting and guardin 'sealed train shipments from the
USSR into..Austria and Hungary.
the trains i no carry.personne o
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d, Basic Training center.
17th Mechanized Division Headquarters
9?18-02), Hungary.
:an. unidentified unit of flame-throwing tanks arrived in Hungary during
the Hungarian revolt. ..An unidentified flame-throwing device was
mounted on T-5k',tanksin the place of the co-axial machine gunso.F
two unidentified Soviet Armies, one from the Ukrainian
SSR ? an e . er fro elorussian SSR arr ved -inHun. dorm
the ungarian revolt in November 1956.
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Ithe age class of,the 67th Separate Tank-,Training
Battalion consisted of those who were born in 1933, made up'of five
to ten enlisted men; 1934, made up of about 70 enlisted men; 1935,
made up f about 50 enlisted men;,'and those-who, were born in.1936,-
made.u 9 about 600 trainees Those born in 1933 and- -1934 were to be
demobilized in; October 1956 o About 20 of these two groups had been
discharged on 21 October 19560 The other 60
awai n discharge wh n the Hungarian revolt
Biysk. (N 52-35, E 85-14).. Altayskiy,Kraye 'RSFSR,
other.trainees from-another unidentified, training center.in
.The 'center, was located n. rnaul in a., compound together w
other units o ' After one. and one-half months of training, all
.traineesf were sworn in,:together with 1,000 25X1
s engi or. - e .center o e a ou , r e s , The center.
included one infantry, one artiller !, one tank, and one uniden.ti-
fied training company. the infantry training 25X1
company commanding off icer was- Captain Serebrov (Thu).,, 25X1
no demobilization too ace, end ere was
,n demo_ .i 1.ization would be renewed
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For information on vehicular movements see . paragraph. l2,
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8. Inc
reases in critical equipment
was replenished from supplies trucked in from unidentified divisional
warehouses,. Battalion T-51s normally i carried 15 to 20, shells,
consisted ofo
each battalion trace vehicle was issue a basic load which
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plus- an- unknown quantity of machine gun ammunition,
b,: Trainees of the 67th Separate Tank Training Battalion, who already
had gas masks in their possession, took the. gas; masks with them..
The permanent party were not issued gas masks.
ca The.67th Separate Tank Training Battalion had. six or.seven 1,,000-
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gas "storage tanks..' and one ZIS-5 tank truck.
120-. Recent Unit Activity:
ao The 67th Separate Tank Training Battalion was in garrison at, Mor
when the Hungarian revolt broke out.. Of; the.battalione.s 700 trainees,
500 were. assigned to various regiments of the 2nd Guards Mechanized
Division and the remaining 200. were formed into tank crews which manned..
the approximately 50 tanks belonging to the battalion. About 20:,percent
of the battalibn
son while most6f.the battalion
moved into Budapest to guard the Parliament
Building and the Ministry of Defense during the height of the revolt.
The chief of staff of the battalion, a major, `also remained . in .Moro
On 10 December 1956, the rear-guard party moved to Szabadszallas,
where they. were Joined on 15 December by the remainder'of-the battalion.;.
no fighting during the revolt
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there were good relations between the
e Soviet troops prior to the outbreak of
the revolt'. lan uage was an effective,,
barrier to even better relatio,nso only one Soviet
enlisted man killed during the figh ng an one officer who lost
a leg during the fighting. The unit''was in constant alert status
at Mor during the revolt4 The
men slept fully clothed and took off'only their boots,, The
garrison guard at, Mor? was increased 'from one to ten; four
T-34 tanks., which were not battle-ready but could patrol, were
also added.,, However, there were no incidents with the Hungarian
people and, in December 19569 all excess small arams, ammunition
taken by the, Soviet soldiers was turned in.
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Miscellaneous,Military Information
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a
Hungarian radio broadcast
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Nagy,, 'in which. Nagy threatened. to call fo ` military
help un, the Soviet " : m 16f t! Hun ar
g Y. evea?a ours,
.later,,, Moscow Radio report this speech,,
o a speech,, subsequently translated into,.Russian,, by Imre.
After some JS tanks had been stolen by.Hungarian rebels, an
order was. issued by a higher headquarters element for all
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all, JS;. tanks:.
a Soviet" Tm54`
fired on a JS tank, killing a Soviet colonel who was the
commanding officer of ."a Soviet. -.regimen
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the. commanding
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executed five enlisted men of his division' ivisiori by shooting
faor al'leged looting.
la report on an Hungarian radio station that 85
Soviet tanks fled across the-Hungarian border into Austria,
Soviet refugees were mentioned several times in the report.
evacuated;. and., would entrain at 'Komar?om (N 47?45,, E _187o6)
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ea dependents of the 67th.Separate Tank Training
Battalion eaving_the garrison on 5 November 1956 with all
personal belongings in "five `US-151 trucks.
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this was not.a self-propelled
gun namo o naya uatanovka) but
pus a
a self-driven gun aam dvizhus
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