22nd Fortified Region (Soviet Union)

The 22nd Fortified Region or (22-y Ukreplennyy Region) was a small division sized unit of the Red Army attached to the Leningrad Military District.

Background
The 22nd Fortified Regiment, officially known, as the 22nd (Karelyskiy) Fortified Region was one of the 88 fortified regions. The 22nd was tasked with defending the bunkers and machine-gun posts along Karelia on the old European Soviet-Finnish border. The region was planned to form six more Seperate Mixed Machine-Gun and Artillery Battalions but because of the war it was cancelled.

Organization
In June 1941 just before Operation Barbarossa the region consisted of the following units:
 * Region Headquarters under Major General Mikhail Andrianovich Popov
 * 147th Signal Battalion
 * x196 Bunkers
 * 39th Seperate Mixed Machine-Gun and Artillery Battalion
 * 40th Seperate Mixed Machine-Gun and Artillery Battalion
 * 154th Seperate Mixed Machine-Gun and Artillery Battalion
 * 125th Engineer Battalion
 * 228th Truck Transportation Company