ORBAT - Soviet Unit Titles and Abbreviations

I got interested in Soviet Military Unit titles and abbreviations when reading the 16 Air Army Web site and whilst extending my research into the evolution of the organisation and structure of Soviet helicopter units.  There are a couple of good aviation sites which have taken Soviet Unit Titles and provided a mapping between the Cyrillic Title & abbreviation to its transliterated latin equivalents and  the translation of the title.  The Dutch Aviation Societies Scramble web site has a particularly useful table which does this for aviation units of all Soviet armed forces.

Whilst there are Sites for Soviet Army unit titles and abbreviations in Russian I have yet to find anything as useful as Scramble the one I have found has a number of problems:

• The focus is WW2 units and terms 
• The titles and abbreviations are only in Russian and the translation engines gives some interesting outputs.

The table below is my starter for 10 which I am pretty sure is neither comprehensive or absolutely correct, but its a reasonable start. It covers Tank, Motor Rifle, Engineer, Artillery, Reconnaissance, Anti Aircraft and Anti Tank Units. I'll probably add aviation when I have managed to work out what's relevant.

	Abbr	Abbr	Cyrilic	Transliteration	Translation
	Tank Units
	?	?	танковая	tankovaya	Tank
	ta	ТА	танковая армия	tankovaja armija	Tank Army
	td	тд	танковая дивизия	tankovaja divizija	Tank Division
	tp	тп	танковый полк	tankovyj polk	Tank Regiment
	tb	тб	танковый батальон	tankovyj batal'on	Tank Battalion
	tr	тр	танковая рота	tankovaja rota	Tank Company
	tk	тк	танковый корпус	tankovyj korpus	Tank Corps
	tbr	тбр	танковая бригада	tankovaja brigada	Tank Brigade
	Motor Rifle Units
	?	?	мотострелковая	motostrelkovaja	Motor Rifle
	?	?	?	Obchevoyskovaya Armiya	Combined Arms Army
	msd	мсд	мотострелковая дивизия	motostrelkovaja divizija	Motor Rifle Division
	msp	мсп	мотострелковый полк	motostrelkovyj polk	Motor Rifle Regiment
	msb	мсб	мотострелковый батальон	motostrelkovyj batal'on	Motor Rifle Battalion
	msr	мср	мотострелковая рота	motostrelkovaja rota	Motor Rifle Company
	msk	мск	мотострелковый корпус	motostrelkovyj korpus	Motor Rifle Corps
	msbr	мсбр	мотострелковая бригада	motostrelkovaja brigada	Motor Rifle Brigade
	Air Assault Units
	DShV	дшв	десантно-штурмовые войска	desantno-shturmovye vojska	Air Assault Troops
	odshbr	одшбр	отдельную десантно-штурмовые бригада	otdel'nuju desantno-shturmovye brigada	Independent Air Assault Brigade
	odshp	одшп	отдельную десантно-штурмовые полк	otdel'nuju desantno-shturmovye polk	Independent Air Assault Regiment
	odshb	одшб	отдельную десантно-штурмовые батальон	otdel'nuju desantno-shturmovye batal'on	Independent Air Assault Battalion
	Other Units
	rb	рб	разведывательный батальон	razvedyvatel'nyj batal'on	reconnaissance battalion
	rr	рр	разведывательная рота	razvedyvatel'naja rota	reconnaissance company
	ptb	птб	противотанковая батальон	protivotankovaja batal'on	anti tank battalion
	ptba	птба́	противотанковая батареи	protivotankovaja batarei	anti tank battery
	zrb	зрб	зенитный ра́кетный полк	zenitnyj raketnyj polk	anti aircraft missile regiment
	zrba	зрба́	зенитный ра́кетный батареи	zenitnyj raketnyj batarei	anti aircraft missile battery
	ar	а́п	а́ртиллерия полк	artillerija polk	Artilery Regiment
	ab	а́б	артилерийский батальон	artilerijskij batal'on	Artilery Battalion
	aba	а́ба́	артилерийски батареи	artilerijski batarei	Artilery Battery
	sapp	сапп	саперный полк	sapernyj polk	Engineer Regiment
	sapb	сапб	саперный батальон	sapernyj batal'on	Engineer Battalion
	sapr	сапр	саперная рота	sapernaja rota	Engineer Company
	Unit Titles
	gv	гв.	гвардейский	gvardejskij	guards
	o	о	Отдельна́я	Otdel'naja	Independent

Whilst I have included the battery concept within artillery I have yet to find strong evidence that this is not just a western construct, the other component I am not clear on is the appropriate ending of the Arm of Service title that should precede the different unit size types, I have followed the patterns found on the WW2 listings.

Other than including Soviet style names and abbreviations in your blog and scenarios  you can also use the Cyrilic words in search terms, this provides access to Russian published sources and theres a lot of good information about the cold war and a lot of images of Soviet equipment that can be accessed in this way.

Updates

• 18/12/12 to include DShV, Air Assault Units, these titles were assembled to equate to the abbreviations, the word endings of the arm of service title may be incorrect for the unit type .

References:

rkka, Russian World War 2 Military Abbreviations, and documents
Transliteration Tool - great for working out the abbreviations
Scramble Dutch Aviation Society Russian Aviation Abreviations, Cold War and Current