Odessa Offensive Soviet order of battle

The following Soviet units fought in the Odessa Offensive between 26 March and 30 April 1944.

For the offensive, the 3rd Ukrainian Front included 57 rifle and three cavalry divisions, a tank corps and a mechanized corps. According to a postwar history, these totaled 470,000 men, 12,678 guns and mortars, 435 tanks and self-propelled guns. The front was supported by the 17th Air Army with 436 combat aircraft. The 3rd Ukrainian Front's report on the operation, drawn up in August 1944, provides figures for the operational strength of the front on 28 March: 243,074 men, 42,512 submachine guns, 4,824 machine guns, and 344 tanks and self-propelled guns (only counting those in the 23rd Tank Corps and Cavalry-Mechanized Group), 2,112 mortars, 1,616 field guns, and 781 anti-aircraft guns.

Military rank

 * LTG = Lieutenant general (General-leytenant)
 * LTGAv = Lieutenant General of Aviation
 * LTGTF = Lieutenant General of Tank Forces
 * MG = Major general (General-mayor)
 * MGAv = Major General of Aviation
 * MGTF = Major General of Tank Forces
 * COL = Colonel (Polkovnik)
 * LTC = Lieutenant Colonel (Podpolkovnik)
 * MAJ = Major (Mayor)

Other

 * k = Killed
 * w = Wounded

Command
The Soviet forces involved in the offensive were part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, commanded by Army General Rodion Malinovsky. Lieutenant General Fyodor Korzhenevich served as front chief of staff and Lieutenant General Aleksey Zheltov as front commissar.

57th Army
Lieutenant General Nikolay Gagen

37th Army
Lieutenant General Mikhail Sharokhin

46th Army
Lieutenant General Vasily Glagolev

The 31st Guards Rifle Corps was in the army's second echelon at the beginning of the offensive, engaging in battle from 6 April to 24 April.

8th Guards Army
Colonel General Vasily Chuikov

6th Army
Lieutenant General Ivan Shlyomin

5th Shock Army
Colonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev

Cavalry-Mechanized Group
Lieutenant General Issa Pliyev

17th Air Army
Colonel General of Aviation Vladimir Sudets