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| Battle of Grodno | |||||||
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| Part of the Soviet Invasion of Poland in the European theatre of World War II | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Soviet Union |
 Poland | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ivan Boldin Mikhail Petrov[1] |
Wacław Przeździecki Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński  Edmund Heldut-Tarnasiewicz | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| 15th Tank Corps | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown number of tanks and infantry |
2,000–2,500 (September 20) 3,500–4,000 (September 21) 2 AA guns | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Soviet counts: 800 KIA, MIA and wounded |
Soviet counts: 644 KIA 1,543 captured | ||||||
The Battle of Grodno took place between 20 September and 22 September 1939, during the Soviet invasion of Poland.[2]: 82 It was fought between improvised Polish units under Gen. Wacław Przeździecki and Soviet Red Army troops of Komkor Ivan Boldin's Dzerzhinsky Cavalry Mechanized Group, at the time in a non-aggression agreement with Nazi Germany under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.
- ^ Magnuski, Janusz, and Maksim V. Kolomiec. Czerwony Blitzkrieg: Wrzesień 1939: Sowieckie Wojska Pancerne W Polsce. Warszawa: Pelta, 1994. Print.
- ^ Zaloga, S.J., 2002, Poland 1939, Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., ISBN 9781841764085