Battle of Grodno (1939)

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Battle of Grodno
Part of the Soviet Invasion of Poland in the European theatre of World War II

Overhead view of Grodno, 1935
Date20 September 1939 – 22 September 1939
(2 days)
Location
Grodno, Białystok Voivodeship, Poland
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union  Poland
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Boldin
Mikhail Petrov		 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

Soviet counts:
57 KIA
159 WIA
23 AFVs

Polish 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. 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.

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