Soviet Airborne (VDV) WW2 Organization
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According to the above source, in early 1941, the early VDV Brigades were being formed into Airborne corps by the new Directorate for Airborne Forces (U-VDV), and they would have been organized as such:
III Airborne Corps (Kiev Military District)
3
x Airborne Brigades
IV Airborne Corps (Belorussian Military District)
3
x Airborne Brigades
V Airborne Corps (Leningrad Military District)
3
x Airborne Brigades
By the outbreak of Operation BARBAROSSA in June 1941, only a single brigade in each corps had been fully equipped.