The Italian Army in Russia (ARMIR) was a field army of the Royal Italian Army in World War II, which was deployed to the Soviet Union in July 1942. Upon arrival on the Eastern Front the army consisted of the following units:

Italian Army in Russia 8th Army Headquarters

8th Army — Generale d'Armata Italo Gariboldi Headquarters — Chief of Staff: Generale di Divisione Bruno Malaguti 175th Motorized Carabinieri Section 373rd Mounted Carabinieri Section 236th Mixed Carabinieri Section 237th Mixed Carabinieri Section 238th Mixed Carabinieri Section 239th Mixed Carabinieri Section 243rd Mixed Carabinieri Section 244th Mixed Carabinieri Section 245th Mixed Carabinieri Section 283rd Mixed Carabinieri Section Mounted Grouping — Generale di Brigata Guglielmo Barbò Regiment "Savoia Cavalleria" Command and Command Squadron I Squadrons Group 2× Fusilier squadrons II Squadrons Group 2× Fusilier squadrons 5th Machine Gunners Squadron Regiment "Lancieri di Novara" Command and Command Squadron I Squadrons Group 2× Dragoon squadrons II Squadrons Group 2× Lancer squadrons 5th Machine Gunners Squadron 8th Army Chemical Grouping I Motorized Chemical Battalion IV Motorized Chemical Battalion Croatian Legion Command Fusiliers Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies 1× Machine Gunners Company Mortar Company (81mm mod. 35 mortars) Support Weapons Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) Skiers Battalion "Monte Cervino" Command Platoon 3× Skiers companies 2× Machine gunner platoons CIX Auto-transported Machine Gunners Battalion

8th Army Artillery

Commander of the Artillery — Generale di Divisione Mario Balotta 3rd Horse Artillery Regiment Command and Command Unit I Group 2× Batteries — 4× horse-drawn 75/27 mod. 12 guns per battery II Group 2× Batteries — 4× horse-drawn 75/27 mod. 12 guns per battery III Group 2× Batteries — 4× horse-drawn 75/27 mod. 12 guns per battery Regimental Ammunition and Supply Unit 9th Army Artillery Grouping XXIV Group 3× Batteries — 4× 15 cm sFH 18 (149/28) heavy field howitzers per battery XXXI Group 3× Batteries — 4× 149/40 mod. 35 heavy guns per battery XXXII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 149/40 mod. 35 heavy guns per battery XXXIV Group 3× Batteries — 4× 149/40 mod. 35 heavy guns per battery L Group 3× Batteries — 4× 15 cm sFH 18 (149/28) heavy field howitzers per battery LXXIII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 210/22 mod. 35 heavy howitzers per battery 201st Motorized Artillery Regiment Command and Command Unit I Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/32 mod. 37 field guns per battery II Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/32 mod. 37 field guns per battery III Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/32 mod. 37 field guns per battery 4th Anti-aircraft Artillery Grouping IV Group 2× Batteries — 4× 75/46 C.A. mod. 34 anti-aircraft guns per battery XIX Group 2× Batteries — 4× 75/46 C.A. mod. 34 anti-aircraft guns per battery XXXVI Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/46 C.A. mod. 34 anti-aircraft guns per battery XXXVII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/46 C.A. mod. 34 anti-aircraft guns per battery XXXVIII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/46 C.A. mod. 34 anti-aircraft guns per battery 14th Artillery Specialists Unit 31st Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 40th Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 42nd Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 65th Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 86th Searchlight Section

8th Army Engineers

Commander of Engineers — Generale di Divisione Arnaldo Forgiero 5th Signals Grouping I Telegraph Operators Battalion 4× Telegraph operator companies V Mixed Battalion Mixed Connections Company Mixed Specialists Company 156th Radio Operators Company I Pontieri Battalion II Pontieri Battalion IX Pontieri Battalion IX Ferrovieri Battalion X Ferrovieri Battalion XVIII Workers Battalion 4× Worker companies XXVI Engineer Battalion XXXIV Pontieri Battalion XL Workers Battalion 3× Worker companies 6th Firefighting Company 8th Water Company 9th Water Company 101st Ferrymen Company 8th Mobile Dovecote

Royal Italian Air Force

Commander of the Air Force — Generale di Brigata Aerea Enrico Pezzi (until 29 December 1942), Generale di Brigata Aerea] Ugo Rampelli (until 12 January 1943) LXXI Observation Group for the Army 38th Squadron 116th Squadron LXXI Fighter Group (Macchi C.202 Folgore fighters) 356th Squadron 361st Squadron 382nd Squadron 386th Squadron

156th Infantry Division "Vicenza" The 156th Infantry Division "Vicenza" was tasked with rear area security.

156th Infantry Division "Vicenza" — Generale di Divisione Enrico Broglia (until 7 December 1942), Generale di Brigata Etelvoldo Pascolini Headquarters 136th Mixed Carabinieri Section 137th Mixed Carabinieri Section 156th Field Post Office 277th Infantry Regiment "Vicenza" Command and Command Company I Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 and 81mm mod. 35 mortars) II Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 and 81mm mod. 35 mortars) III Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 and 81mm mod. 35 mortars) Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) Mortar Company (81mm mod. 35 mortars) 278th Infantry Regiment "Vicenza" Command and Command Company I Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 and 81mm mod. 35 mortars) II Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 and 81mm mod. 35 mortars) III Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 and 81mm mod. 35 mortars) Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) Mortar Company (81mm mod. 35 mortars) CLVI Machine Gunners Battalion CLVI Mixed Engineer Battalion 156th Engineer Company 256th Telegraph and Radio Operators Company XXVI Carabinieri Battalion (attached) 2× Carabinieri companies 256th Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) 156th Medical Section 161st Field Hospital 162nd Field Hospital 156th Supply Section 256th Bakers Section 1121st Mixed Auto Section I Armored Car Platoon/ Regiment "Nizza Cavalleria" (attached)

II Army Corps

II Army Corps — Generale di Corpo d'Armata Giovanni Zanghieri II Army Corps Headquarters — Chief of Staff: Colonel Ugo Almici 183rd Mixed Carabinieri Section 204th Mixed Carabinieri Section 362nd Mounted Carabinieri Section 2nd Photographic Section 9th Tele-photographic Section 9th Topographic Section 20th Field Post Office 2nd Auto Squad for Army Corps Command II Army Corps Infantry II Army Corps Machine Gunners Battalion II Infantry Sappers Battalion CII Auto-transported Machine Gunners Battalion XXXII Truck-transported Anti-tank Battalion/ Granatieri di Sardegna 3× Anti-tank companies — 8× 47/32 anti-tank guns per company II Army Corps Artillery 2nd Army Corps Artillery Grouping III Group 3× Batteries — 4× 105/28 cannons per battery XXIII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 105/28 cannons per battery CIII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 149/13 heavy howitzers per battery CXXIII Group 3× Batteries — 4× 149/13 heavy howitzers per battery 2nd Army Corps Specialists Unit 52nd Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 54th Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns II Army Corps Engineers XV Engineer Battalion 1st Engineer Company 2nd Engineer Company 104th Engineer Company 82nd Telegraph Operators Company 84th Telegraph Operators Company 101st Radio Operators Company 6th Mobile Dovecote 2nd Signals Materiel Repair Workshop XXXV Army Corps Chemical Troops 2nd Chemical Company 4th Flamethrower Company 5th Flamethrower Company XXXV Army Corps Services 2nd Heavy Auto Unit 2nd Ambulance Section 12th Ambulance Section 249th Heavy Section 948th Heavy Section Mixed Section Mixed Section 45th Heavy Mobile Workshop 4th Materiel Recovery Company 70th Quartermaster Section 82nd Medical Section 14th Field Hospital 15th Field Hospital 120th Field Hospital 203rd Field Hospital 213th Field Hospital 243rd Field Hospital 27th Radiological Ambulatory 42nd Radiological Ambulatory 2nd Dental Ambulatory 11th Disinfection Section

2nd Infantry Division "Sforzesca"

2nd Infantry Division "Sforzesca" — Generale di Divisione Carlo Pellegrini Headquarters 4th Mixed Carabinieri Section 5th Motorized Carabinieri Section 69th Field Post Office 2nd Auto Squad for Infantry Division Command 53rd Infantry Regiment "Sforzesca" Command and Command Company Mortar Company (81mm mod. 35 mortars) Support Weapons Battery — 4× 65/17 mod. 13 mountain guns I Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) II Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) III Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) 54th Infantry Regiment "Sforzesca" Command and Command Company Mortar Company (81mm mod. 35 mortars) Support Weapons Battery — 4× 65/17 mod. 13 mountain guns I Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) II Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) III Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) 17th Artillery Regiment "Sforzesca" Command and Command Unit I Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/18 mod. 35 howitzers per battery II Group 3× Batteries — 4× 75/18 mod. 35 howitzers per battery I Group 3× Batteries — 4× 105/28 cannons per battery Group Ammunition and Supply Unit Regimental Ammunition and Supply Unit 53rd Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 302nd Anti-aircraft Battery — 8× 20/65 mod. 35 anti-aircraft guns 70th Anti-tank Battery — 6× Pak 97/38 anti-tank guns II Mortar Battalion (81mm mod. 35 mortars) 2nd Anti-tank Company — 8× 47/32 anti-tank guns 121st Anti-tank Company — 8× 47/32 anti-tank guns 2nd Telegraph and Radio Operators Company 16th Engineer Company 8th Searchlight Section 2nd Autocarrette Section 124th Heavy (Transport) Section 192nd Heavy (Transport) Section 11th Mobile Auto Workshop - Type 37 6th Medical Section 5th Field Hospital 6th Field Hospital 7th Field Hospital 805th Field Hospital 27th Surgical Squad 1st Supply Section

3rd Infantry Division "Ravenna"

3rd Infantry Division "Ravenna" — Generale di Divisione Eduardo Nebbia (until 3 October 1942), Generale di Divisione Francesco Dupont (from 3 October 1942) Headquarters 7th Mixed Carabinieri Section 8th Motorized Carabinieri Section 53rd Field Post Office 3rd Auto Squad for Infantry Division Command 37th Infantry Regiment "Ravenna" Command and Command Company Mortar Company (81mm mod. 35 mortars) Support Weapons Battery — 4× 65/17 mod. 13 mountain guns I Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) II Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) III Battalion Command and Command Company 3× Fusilier companies Support Weapons Company (Breda M37 machine guns, 45mm mod. 35 mortars) 38th Infantry Regiment "Ravenna" Command and Command Company