In the mid-1930s, these ideas found their reflection in the so-called deep operation and deep combat theories. Tanks became a part of the mechanised corps at this point.ĭuring this time, and based on the experience of the Civil War with its sweeping movements of horse-mobile formations, Soviet military theorists such as Vladimir Triandafillov born in Pontus of Greek parents and Konstantin Kalinovsky elaborated the principles of combat use of armored units, which envisioned a large-scale use of tanks in different situations in cooperation with various army units. In 1929, it established the Central Directorate for Mechanisation and Motorisation of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. In 1928, it began the production of the MS-1 tanks ( Malyy Soprovozhdeniya 1, 'Small Convoy 1'). In December 1920, the Red Army received its first light tanks, assembled at the Sormovo Factory. In January 1918, the Russian Red Army established the Soviet of Armored Units ( Sovet bronevykh chastey, or Tsentrobron’), later renamed to Central Armored Directorate and then once again to Chief Armored Directorate ( Glavnoye bronevoye upravleniye). The country did not have its own tanks during the Civil War of 1918–1920. They consisted of the autonomous armored units ( avtobroneotryady) made of armored vehicles and armored trains.
In Soviet Russia, the term armored forces (thus called Bronevyye sily) preceded the mechanised corps. Pre-war development of Soviet mechanised forces 5 Composition of a mechanised corps (1944).4 Composition of a mechanised corps (1941).1 Pre-war development of Soviet mechanised forces.
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