Battle of Grodno (1939)

Battle of Grodno
	Part of the Soviet Invasion of Poland in the European theatre of World War II
	; Overhead view of Grodno, 1935
Date	20 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.^[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