Researching Red Army/Navy Units

[Kim]

I want to get the big picture about one of my groups. With the “big picture” I mostly mean unit history. So this is my starting point:

I have the recipients “voenny bilet” from 1946. According to this he was a sr. sergeant when he finished the war in the combat engineer troops. It also says that he served between July 25 and May 9 (!) 1945 in the 170th independent combat engineer battalion (ru. Inzjenerno-sapernuy batalon).

My problem is where to go from here? Was the 170th a part of the STAVKA reserve? Are engineer units covered in the Sharp books? Any pointers would help.

Another fact is that in September 1944 the 170th was part of 14th ind. eng. Brigade, 65th army, 1st Belo Russian front But what about the rest of the war?

I also found some interesting stuff in the Voeyenno-Istoricheskit Zhurnal no.1 1985, an article about engineering support in Vistula-Oder campaign. Translated at this page:
http://stinet.dtic.mil/str/index.html

/Kim