13th Light Tank Brigade
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The 13th Light Tank Brigade was an armored brigade of the Red Army that fought in the Winter War. It was formed as the 31st Uritsky Mechanized Brigade in 1932 at Stary Petergof near Leningrad, assigne
A T-26 of the type operated by the brigade
A wrecked BT tank, 1940
Alexey Skulachenko
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Alexey Yerofeyevich Skulachenko was a Red Army kombrig executed during the Great Purge.
13th Light Tank Brigade
…May and September 1932 as part of the 11th Mechanized Corps in the Leningrad Military District at Stary Petergof near Leningrad. It was commanded by Alexey Skulachenko from its formation until early 1935. One of the two original mechanized corps of the Red Army, the 11th was formed as a result of a massive expansion…
Brigadier General Oleksiy Skulachenko. Kharkiv, 1935.