1st Separate Women's Volunteer Rifle Brigade
The 1st Separate Women's Volunteer Rifle Brigade was a stand-alone unit of the Soviet military formed in 1942 by a State Defense Committee order (GFCS-2470SS). It began in the Red Army, but in 1943 it was transferred to the NKVD after the arrest of its deputy commander, Major Vera Krylova. The brigade was disbanded in 1944.
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