The Persian Corridor is the name for a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II. The Lend-Lease program was a program of the United States during World War II that allowed the United States to provide the Allied Powers with war material without becoming directly involved in the war. ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II, also, The...

Map of Iran & Borders with former Soviet Republics of Armenia, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan

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Background

Note: The nation of Iran has been referred to as "Persia" in the West since the time of the Persian Wars. The earliest Iranian peoples known to recorded history are the Parsua mentioned in an Akkadian text. For hundreds of years, Persia was the proper English term for Iran, and the name stuck in the minds of many foreigners long after Reza Pahlavi asked, in 1935, that his country be referred to by its native name. English-language official documents from the Persian Corridor period continue to make the word "Persia" completely interchangeable with name of the nation-state of "Iran." Additionally, some of the corridor routes passed through the abode of Iranian-language minorities in Turkic areas, who might be described by the wholly acceptable adjective form Persian. Thus, many British and American veterans of the corridor are likely to speak of their time in "Persia" rather than "Iran". See Iran/Persia naming controversy for more details on this topic. The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. The term can also refer to the continual warfare of the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire against the Parthians and... Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians. ... This article deals with the linguistic family of the Iranian languages, a sub-branch of the Indo-European languages. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ... There has been much debate as to what to call Iran in common usage of the English language. ...

Overthrow of the Shah

See main article Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia

Shah Reza Pahlavi

Following Germany's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union became allies. Both turned their attention to Iran. Britain and the USSR saw the newly opened Trans-Iranian Railway as an attractive route to transport supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet region. Britain and the USSR used concessions extracted in previous interventions to pressure Iran (and, in Britain's case, Iraq) into allowing the use of their territory for military and logistical purposes. Increased tensions with Britain especially led to pro-German rallies in Tehran. In August 1941, because Reza Shah refused to expel German nationals and come down clearly on their side, Britain and the USSR invaded Iran, arrested the monarch and sent him into exile to South Africa, taking control of Iran's communications and coveted railroad. The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was the invasion of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Countenance, from August 25 to September 17 of 1941. ... Image File history File links Reza. ... Image File history File links Reza. ... Reza Shah Pahlavi Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی) (b. ... The Trans-Iranian Railway was a major railway building project started in the 1930s and finished in 1939, under the direction of the Persian monarch, Reza Shah, to construct a basic network of railways joining the capital Tehran to the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea. ... Reza Shah Pahlavi Reza Shah Pahlavi (Persian: رضا پهلوی) (b. ...

In 1942 the United States, by now an ally of Britain and the USSR in the war, sent a military force to Iran to help maintain and operate sections of the railroad. The British and Soviet authorities allowed Reza Shah's system of government to collapse and limited the constitutional government interfaces. They permitted Reza Shah's son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to succeed to the throne. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. ...

The new Shah soon signed an agreement pledging full non-military logistical cooperation with the British and Soviets, in exchange for full recognition of his country's independence and a promise to withdraw within six months of the war's conclusion. In September 1943, the Shah went further and declared war on Germany, and signed the Declaration by the United Nations entitling his country to a spot in the original United Nations. Two months later, he played host to the Tehran Conference. 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Declaration by United Nations was a World War II document agreed to on January 1, 1942 by 26 governments, several of them governments-in-exile. ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... From left to right, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill The Tehran Conference was the meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill between November 28 and December 1, 1943 that took place in Tehran, Iran. ...

The presence of so many foreign troops accelerated social change and roused nationalist sentiment in the country. In 1946, Hossein Gol-e-Golab published the nationalist song Ey Iran; it was reportedly inspired by an incident during the war in which Golab witnessed an American GI beating up a native Iranian greengrocer in a marketplace dispute. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Hossein Gol-e-Golab (Persian حسین کولی کولاب also given as Hosayn Golgolab, 1896-) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthem Ey Iran. ... Ey Iran (Persian: ای ایران) (O! Iran) is a famous Persian anthem. ... A greengrocer in central Milan with a sign in Milanese, the local dialect, claiming to be the oldest greengrocer of Milan (lortolán püŝee vêcc de Milan) A greengrocer is a retail trader in fruit and vegetables; that is, in green groceries. ...

Anders' army

Meanwhile Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, under pressure from the British and the Polish Government-in-Exile, began releasing some surviving Polish prisoners of war captured in 1939 and Polish citizens subsequently deported by the occupying Soviets to Soviet republics, with the aim of forming a Polish army to fight on the Allied side. General Władysław Anders was released from Lubianka Prison and began assembling his troops; however, continued friction with the Soviets and their refusal to adequately supply the Polish troops with equipment and food, as well as the Soviets' insistence on dispersing the not yet combat-ready Polish units along the front, led to the eventual evacuation of Anders' troops, along with a sizable contingent of Polish civilians, to Iran. The Polish 2nd Corps went on to serve in other theaters of war, but some civilians settled permanently in Iran. Some Polish refugees who continue living in Iran today were featured in the 2002 independent film, A Forgotten Odyssey. (help· info) is the form usually used in English for the Russian name of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), born with the Georgian name Ioseb Jugashvili (Georgian: ოისებ ჯუღაშილი, Russian: Иосиф Джугашвили); (18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878[1] – 5 March 1953). ... The Government of the Polish Republic in exile maintained a continuous existence in exile from the time of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the Communist rule in Poland in 1990. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Władysław Anders Lt. ... The Lubyanka (Russian: Лубянка) was one of the most infamous NKVD prisons in the Soviet Union. ... Polish II Corps Insignia. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

Supply efforts

The Allies delivered all manner of materiel to the Soviets, from Studebaker US6 trucks to B-24 bombers. Most supplies in the corridor arrived by ship at Gulf ports and were carried north by rail or in truck convoys. Some goods were reloaded onto ships to cross the Caspian Sea, others continued in trucks. The Studebaker US6 is a class of trucks manufactured by Studebaker during World War II, produced in the United States from 1941-1945 and in the Soviet Union beginning in 1942. ... Royal Canadian Air Force B-24 Liberator The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was produced in greater numbers than any other American combat aircraft, and was used by most of the Allied air forces in World War II. Designed as a heavy bomber, it served with distinction not only in that... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). ...

United States forces in the corridor originally under the Iran-Iraq Service Command, later renamed the Persian Gulf Service Command (PGSC); this was the successor to the original United States Military Iranian Mission, which had been put in place to deliver Lend-Lease supplies before the United States had entered the conflict. The mission was originally commanded by Col. Don G. Shingler, who was replaced late in 1942 by Brig. Gen. Donald H. Connolly. Both Iran-Iraq Service Command and PGSC were subordinate to U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME). US Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME) was a unified United States Army command during World War II established in August, 1942 by order of General George Marshall to oversee the Egypt-Libya Campaign. ...

Statistics

The Allied supply efforts were enormous. The Americans alone delivered 175.5 million long tons (178.3 million metric tonnes) to the Soviets during the war, via numerous routes, including the ports of Murmansk and Vladivostok. The Persian Corridor was the route for 4,159,117 long tons (4,225,858 metric tonnes) of these; however, this was not the only American contribution, not to mention those of all the other allies like Britain, British India, South Africa, Bahrain and numerous other independent nations and colonies and protectorates of Allied nations. All told, about 7,900,000 long tons (8,000,000 metric tonnes) of shipborne cargo from Allied sources were unloaded in the Corridor, most of it bound for Russia, but some of it for British forces under Middle East Command or for the Iranian economy, which was sustaining the influx of tens of thousands of foreign troops and Polish refugees and the development of new transportation and logistics facilities. The figure does not include transfers of aircraft nor cargo delivered by air, which amounted to several millions of tons more^{[citation needed]}. A long ton is the name used in the US for the unit called the ton in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements, as used (alongside the metric system) in the United Kingdom and to some extent in other Commonwealth countries. ... A tonne (symbol t), sometimes referred to as a metric tonne, is a measurement of weight. ... Murmansk, Archangelsk, Dikson, Tiksi, on the Arctic Ocean Murmansk coin Murmansk (Му́рманск) is a city in the extreme northwest of Russia (north of the Arctic circle) with a seaport on the Kola Gulf, 20 miles from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia... Vladivostok Train Station. ... British India (otherwise known as The British Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, were under the colonial authority of the British Empire (Undivided India). ... During World War II The British Middle East Command was based in Cairo with responsibility for the Middle East theatre which included North Africa, East Africa, Persia, the Middle East, and the British forces in the Balkans and Greece. ...

Supply routes

Supplies came from as far away as India and were unloaded in Persian Gulf ports in Iran and Iraq. Map of the Persian Gulf. ...

Iranian women watch an Allied supply convoy halted somewhere on the Corridor

The main ports in the Corridor for supplies inbound to Iran were: in Iran, Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ...

• Bushehr
• Bandar Shahpur (now Bandar Imam Khomeini); and

in Iraq, Bushehr or Bushire (بوشهر), pop. ... Bandar Imam Khomeini (Persian بندرامام خمینی) is a port city on the Persian Gulf in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran. ...

• Basra
• Umm Qasr.

The main overland routes were from the ports to Tehran, and then Location of Basra Basra (also spelled BaÅŸrah or Basara; historically sometimes written Busra, Busrah, and the early form Bassorah; Arabic: , Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of c. ... Cranes at Umm Qasr await cargo. ... Map of Iran and surrounding lands, showing location of Tehran The towering Alborz mountains rising above modern Elahiyeh district and its green neighborhoods. ...

• Tehran — Askhabad or
• Tehran — Baku

or, alternatively, Ashgabat Ashgabat Ashgabat Ashgabat (Turkmenian language Aşgabat; also Ashkabat, Ashkhabad, Ashgabad, in Persian عشق آباد [eshq-âbâd], in Russian Ашхаба́д [Ashkhabád]) is the capital city of Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic. ... Satellite view of Baku The Baku harbour on the south of Absheron peninsula The Maiden Tower in old town Baku Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı), sometimes known as Baky or Baki, is the capital of Azerbaijan. ...

• Basra — Kazvin or
• Dzhulfa — Beslan.

The main port for outbound supplies (via the Caspian Sea) was Nowshahr. Ships ferried supplies from this port to Baku or Makhchkaly. Location of Basra Basra (also spelled Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes written Busra, Busrah, and the early form Bassorah; Arabic: , Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of c. ... Qazvin is an ancient city containing fine examples of Iranian architecture from various ages. ... Jolfa is a small town located in the province of East Azarbaijan in Iran and is home to approximately 56,000 people living on 35 kilometers of urban and rural areas. ... Map of North Ossetia Beslan (Russian: Бесла́н, Ossetian; Беслӕн) is a town located in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania of Russia and is the administrative center of the Pravoberezhny District. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). ... ...

Other Locations

Important smaller ports and transit points on the routes included:

in Azerbaijan

• Lenkoran;

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in Armenia

• Yerevan;

Yerevan (Armenian: ÔµÖ€Õ¥Ö‚Õ¡Õ¶ or ÔµÖ€Ö‡Õ¡Õ¶; sometimes written as Erevan; former names include Erivan and Erebuni) (population: 1,088,300 (2004 estimate) [1]) is one of the provinces in Armenia and the largest city and capital of Armenia. ...

in Georgia

• Tblisi;

View of Tiflis from the Grounds of Saint David Church, ca. ...

in North Ossetia-Alania

• Beslan;

Map of North Ossetia Beslan (Russian: Бесла́н, Ossetian; Беслӕн) is a town located in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania of Russia and is the administrative center of the Pravoberezhny District. ...

in Iran

An Allied supply train enroute bearing supplies for the Red Army

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• Bandar Anzali
• Bandar Abbas
• Chabahar
• Nowshahr
• Bandar-e Shah (now Bandar Torkoman)

Cities Bandar-e Anzali (in Persian: بندر انزلی), known as Bandar-e Pahlavi (بندر پهلوی) before the Iranian Revolution, is a harbour town on the Caspian Sea, in the Iranian province of Gilan, close to Rasht. ... Categories: Iran geography stubs | Cities in Iran | Coastal cities ... Chabahar (in Persian چابهار) is an Iranian city and free port on the coast of the Sea of Oman. ... ... Bandar Torkaman or Bandar-e Torkoman (Persian بندری تورخومان, formerly Bandar Shah) is a port in Iran on the Caspian Sea. ...

Andimeshk is a city in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran. ... Ganj nameh, Darius the Great inscriptions (5th century BC) This page is about the city of Hamedan. ... Part of Shah Abbas large urban project in his new capital, the Chahār Bāgh Four Gardens, is a four-kilometer avenue in the city of Isfahan. ... Karaj city viewed from the Azimiye mountain. ... Khorramabad (or Khorram Abad) is the capital of Lorestan, a province in western Iran. ... Tabatabaei House, early 1800s, Kashan. ... Malayer (ملاير) is a city in the Hamadan province of Iran. ... Imam Reza Shrine Tomb of Nader Shah Afshar, a popular tourist attraction in Mashad. ... -1... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Shirāz is Irans city of poets, as some of Persian poetrys giants are buried here. ... Tabriz City Hall, built in 1895, by Arfaol molk, with the aid of German engineers. ... Qom is famous for the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, first built in the late 8th century. ... Zanjan is the capital of Zanjan province in northwestern Iran. ... Zahedan (Persian: زاهدان) is an Iranian city and the center of the province of Sistan and Baluchistan. ...

in Turkmenistan

Ports

• Turkmenbashi (Krasnovodsk)

Cities Türkmenbaşy is a city in Turkmenistan, part of the Balkan Province, on the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea. ...

• Ashgabat
• Kizyl Arvat
• Kizyl Atrek.

Ashgabat Ashgabat Ashgabat Ashgabat (Turkmenian language Aşgabat; also Ashkabat, Ashkhabad, Ashgabad, in Persian عشق آباد [eshq-âbâd], in Russian Ашхаба́д [Ashkhabád]) is the capital city of Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic. ...

Personnel

Cargo principally handled by special British and American transportation units from the nations' respective combat service support branches, such as the Royal Army Service Corps and the Quartermaster Corps. Many Allied civilian workers like stevedores and railroad engineers were also employed on the corridor. Many skilled engineers, accountants and other professionals who volunteered or were drafted into the armed services were made warrant officers who helped oversee the complex supply operations. The Royal Logistic Corps is a British Army corps that provides the logistical support for the Army. ... The Quartermaster Corps is a combat service support branch of the United States Army. ... A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ... A stevedore is a person who works at loading or unloading a ship. ... A railroad engineer or train driver is a person who operates a railroad locomotive. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the process of maintaining, auditing, and processing financial information for business purposes. ... A warrant officer (WO) or a chief warrant officer (CWO) is a member of a military organization, with a rank subordinate to other commissioned officers and senior to noncommissioned officers. ...

In addition to providing logistical support to the Iranians, the Allies offered other services as well. The Americans in particular, viewed as more neutral since they had no colonial past in the country as did the British and Russians, contributed special expertise to the young shah's government. Col. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr, who at the outbreak of the war was serving as superintendent of the New Jersey State Police was in August, 1942 put in charge of training the Imperial Iranian Gendarmerie, eventually earning a promotion to general. His son, Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr would make his own mark on the Middle East almost fifty years later. General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. ... The New Jersey State Police is the state police force for the state of New Jersey. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... This article is about the year. ... Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

See also

• History of Iran
• Middle East Campaign
• Military history of the Soviet Union
• Polish contribution to World War II

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Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II, also, The...

External links

• The Persian Corridor and Aid To Russia from the United States Army Center of Military History
• Trucks Lend Leased to Russia amateur history page with detailed maps and statistics
• The North-South Iranian Corridor today
• Parstimes.com - Persian Gulf Command Photodiary of an officer who served at Bandar Shapur in the Persian Corridor
• A Forgotten Odyssey website