List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957
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The list of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957 details development and composition of infantry forces in the Soviet Union from the 1917 Revolution to the reorganisation of the Soviet Army in the aftermath of the Stalinist era.
Mechanised Divisions were formed during 1945–46, and then all remaining Rifle Divisions were converted to Motor Rifle Divisions in 1957.
, but were renamed in the spirit of the Revolutionary times, often with names including words such as "Proletariat", "workers and peasants", or other titles that differentiated them from the past. They employed some of the 48,000 former Tsarist officers and 214,000 Tsarist NCOs along with over 10,000 administrative personnel. Initially the new Bolshevik rifle divisions were composed of rifle brigades, and included:
The division was to have an establishment of 26,972, with 14,220 combat troops, and depended on 10,048 horses to manoeuvre.
Due to difficulties with recruiting volunteers into the armed forces early in the Russian Civil War, conscription was introduced on the 29 May 1918, and all infantry divisions were renamed into rifle divisions on 11 October 1918.
The first six of the 11 formed divisions were those formed in the Petrograd, Moscow, Orel, Yaroslav, Privolzhsk and Ural okrug
s. However, the divisions were initially only numbered, eventually 1st through to 47th by 1919. Five of these divisions were also named.
The Russian Civil War divisions were allocated to the various Fronts, including:
The establishment and organisation of the divisions (N 220/34) had changed by the end of 1918 to increase the number of regiments in brigades to three, while eliminating the artillery brigade headquarters, leaving the nine artillery divizions (battalions) and one horse artillery
battery to be allocated to rifle brigades. An armoured auto detachment (otryad) was also instituted.
By 1921 the establishment of the rifle division had changed substantially in accordance with TO&E N 1400/246 for peace-time, with two brigades and only 15,876 personnel, and the reduction of artillery to two battalions and one battery, and the cavalry from four to three squadron regiment.
From 10 June 1922 the organisation of rifle divisions war changed from brigade to regiment structure, with three regiments in each. The establishment of divisions stationed in the border areas was reduced to 8,705 personnel, and those in the interior regions to 6,725, including the reduction to a single cavalry squadron. The number of divisions was increased to 49.
The territorial principle of manning the Red Army was introduced in the mid 1920s. In each region able-bodied men were called up for a limited period of active duty in territorial unit, which comprised about half the Army's strength, each year, for five years. The first call-up period was for three months, with one month a year thereafter. A regular cadre provided a stable nucleus. By 1925 this system provided 46 of the 77 infantry divisions and one of the eleven cavalry divisions. The remainder consisted of regular officers and enlisted personnel serving two-year stints.
Most of the divisions that participated in the Russian Civil War
were disbanded by 1927, however, Leon Trotsky
initiated a formation of the new armed force with a professional cadre which was supported in its evolution even after his departure from Soviet Union. The reform in the rifle forces that begun in 1924 did create some notable changes, including commencement of adding names to the regular and newly formed territorial divisions, and creation of national divisions, notably one Belarus, four Ukrainian, two Georgian, one Armenian, and one Azerbaijanian divisions. In 1928 1st and 3rd Turkestan, and in 1929 an Azerbaijanian divisions were reorganised as mountain-rifle divisions. Of the 70 rifle division, 41 were now territorial in their establishment.
During the 1930s the RKKA infantry forces were not only expanded, but also substantially reorganised, in part due to substantial input of military theorists into their doctrinal development, such as that of Mikhail Tukhachevsky
who's 1934 report to the Defence Committee included 13 types of infantry division divisions. On the 31 January 1935 the Committee decreed adoption of a single 13 thousand personnel peace-time establishment for a rifle division which included:
This structure more than double the number of combat personnel in the division from the 1929 establishment of 20.2% to 41.7%. In May 1937 the military commissars were added to the establishment of all RKKA military forces.
On 29 November 1937 four types of structures for rifle forces were established:
The territorial system was reorganised, with all remaining formations converted to 'cadre' divisions, in 1937 and 1938, with the cadre divisions retaining one territorial regiment until reorganisation that followed 1938 restructuring of all armed forces. Kamchatka and Sakhalin divisions were also added in the wake of the Soviet–Japanese Border Wars.
By 1938 there were plans to increase the number of rifle divisions in the RKKA from 98 to 173. These would include:
The wartime strength of the new rifle division that was intended to include two artillery regiments was to have 18 thousand personnel, but none had been brought up to this strength by 1941.
In the course of the war the Second World War the Soviet Union
's Red Army
raised over four hundred and fifty numbered rifle division
s (infantry
). Usually the rifle divisions were controlled by the higher head-quarters of the Rifle Corps
. But scores of these formations were reformed several times; the total number of divisional formations formed may have been as high as 2,000, according to Craig Crofoot.
On 22 June 1941 the Red Army
had 103 divisions in the western military districts, of which 70 were organised according to peace-time TO&E 04/100 with 10-thousand bayonet strength (actual number of rifles 7,818), but brought up to the 12-thousand strength (TO&E 04/400), with another six at the 11-thousand strength. Another 78 rifle divisions in the interior military districts were organised according to peace-time TO&E 04/120 6-thousand (5,864) bayonet strength (actual number of rifles 3,685).
The wartime organisation of the RKKA rifle division was 14-thousand (14,483) with 10,420 rifles, but only 20 western border divisions had been brough up to this establishment when the war begun.
Zaloga notes that the Red Army formed at least 42 'national' divisions during the Second World War, including four Azeri, five Armenian, and eight Georgian rifle divisions and a large number of cavalry divisions in Central Asia, including five Uzbek cavalry divisions.
'The 501st Rifle Division (1st formation), readiness category B organised to 1937 tables may have been disbanded at Vyazma
in 1941, and a new 501st Division (2nd formation), readiness category A organised on 1942 tables formed in Rostov thousands of km away, then renamed 200th Guards Rifle Division in 1944, and a new 501st (3rd formation), readiness category A organised to 1944 tables division formed in Minsk.'
divisions, listed in the order of creation, were hastily created in mid-1941 as the German storm bore down on Leningrad. In Russian, they were designated дивизия народного ополчения – Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division – or гвардейская дивизия народного ополчения – Guards Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division. On 23 September 1941 all the divisions of the Leningrad Narodnoe Opolcheniye Army
divisions were used to form Red Army units mostly within the Leningrad Front.
s, but on the 20 September converted into regular divisions (numbers in brackets):
These divisions were allocated to the Mozhaisk Defence Line Front (commander General P.A. Artemyev) which consisted of the 32nd Army (General N.K. Klykov) in Vyazma
, 33rd Army (Kombrig D.P. Onuprienko) in Spas-Demyansk and 34th Army (General N.I. Pronin), and also included five NKVD divisions (one each in the 32nd and 34th Armies, and three in the 33rd Army).
In October 1941 four more divisions were formed
Mechanised Divisions were formed during 1945–46, and then all remaining Rifle Divisions were converted to Motor Rifle Divisions in 1957.
Divisions of the Russian Civil War
Many infantry (pekhotniye), literally 'movement', and rifle (strelkoviye), literally 'sharpshooter', divisions were inherited by the Workers-Peasants Army from the former Imperial Russian ArmyImperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...
, but were renamed in the spirit of the Revolutionary times, often with names including words such as "Proletariat", "workers and peasants", or other titles that differentiated them from the past. They employed some of the 48,000 former Tsarist officers and 214,000 Tsarist NCOs along with over 10,000 administrative personnel. Initially the new Bolshevik rifle divisions were composed of rifle brigades, and included:
- two or three brigades of two regiments each
- an artillery brigade
- a cavalry regiment
- a communications battalion
- a reconnaissance company
- an engineer battalion
- an air (balloon) detachment (otryad)
- an aviation group (aircraft)
- rear services
The division was to have an establishment of 26,972, with 14,220 combat troops, and depended on 10,048 horses to manoeuvre.
Due to difficulties with recruiting volunteers into the armed forces early in the Russian Civil War, conscription was introduced on the 29 May 1918, and all infantry divisions were renamed into rifle divisions on 11 October 1918.
The first six of the 11 formed divisions were those formed in the Petrograd, Moscow, Orel, Yaroslav, Privolzhsk and Ural okrug
Okrug
Okrug is an administrative division of some Slavic states. The word "okrug" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "district", or "region"....
s. However, the divisions were initially only numbered, eventually 1st through to 47th by 1919. Five of these divisions were also named.
The Russian Civil War divisions were allocated to the various Fronts, including:
- Internal okrugs (reserve) - 1st to 11th divisions
- Northern Front - 18th and 19th divisions
- Eastern Front - 20th to 22nd, and 24th to 31st divisions
- Caspian-Caucasus Front - 32nd to 36th divisions
- Southern Front - 12th to 16th, 23rd, and 37th to 42nd divisions
- Western Front - 17th, 'Lithuanian', and Western Rifle DivisionWestern Rifle DivisionWestern Rifle Division was one of the Bolsheviks military formations during the Russian Civil War.It was formed in summer 1918 from the initiative of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and Polish Socialist Party-Left...
s - In Petrograd headquarters command - 1st and 2nd 'Latvian' divisions
- In reserve of the Kiev headquarters command - 'Ukrainian' division
Other Civil War rifle divisions
- 1st Don Rifle division - formed and disbanded in 1920 in the Penza-Saratov area of the Southern Front.
- 1st Communist Rifle division - formed in TsaritsynVolgogradVolgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
in 1918 and disbanded in 1919, its troops absorbed into the 4th Rifle Division as a brigade. - 1st Red-Urals Rifle Division - formed in 1919 by the Eastern Front, and reformed as the Special Brigade of the 1st Revolutionary Army of Labour.
- 1st Novgorod Infantry Division - former Novgorod Infantry Division, was formed in April and disbanded in September 1918.
- 1st Orel Infantry Division - formed in the Orel area in April 1918 and disbanded by absorption into Novouzensk and Ural Infantry Divisions during Roslavl operations.
- 1st Ryazansk Infantry Division - formed in April 1918 from an armed detachment, and transferred to the Moscow okrug commissariat, but disbanded in September 1918 by transfer of its personnel into the 2nd Infantry Division.
- 1st "Simbirsk" Rifle Division formed 1918, redesignated 24th Rifle Division24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)style="float: right; clear: right; background-color: transparent"| The 24th Samaro-Ulyanovsk Division was a rifle, then a motor-rifle division of the Red Army of the USSR...
in 1922. - 1st Petrograd Infantry Division—Formed at Petrograd, May 1918. Elements of the division were sent to the Eastern Front
- 1st Rifle Division (1918–1920) - Formed in the lakes region around Petrograd. Fought around OlonetsOlonetsOlonets is a town and the administrative center of Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on the Olonka River, to the east from Lake Ladoga. Population: -History:...
with the 6th and 7th Armies from November 1918 into 1920. Defended the AleksandrovskZaporizhiaZaporizhia or Zaporozhye [formerly Alexandrovsk ] is a city in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhia Oblast...
-MelitopolMelitopolMelitopol is a city in the Zaporizhia Oblast of the southeastern Ukraine. It is situated on the Molochna River that flows through the eastern edge of the city and into the Molochnyi Liman, which eventually joins the Sea of Azov....
railroad line on the Southern Front in August 1920. Awarded the Order of the Red BannerOrder of the Red BannerThe Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Red Banner , a military decoration, on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War...
in October 1920. Reorganized as a brigade of the 15th Inzensk Rifle Division in November 1920. - 2nd Rifle Division—Formed at Moscow, September 1918. Fought at UfaUfa-Demographics:Nationally, dominated by Russian , Bashkirs and Tatars . In addition, numerous are Ukrainians , Chuvash , Mari , Belarusians , Mordovians , Armenian , Germans , Jews , Azeris .-Government and administration:Local...
on the Eastern Front, April-July 1919. Fought against Yudenich with the 7th Army, October-December 1919. Fought in the Polish-Soviet WarPolish-Soviet WarThe Polish–Soviet War was an armed conflict between Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine and the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic—four states in post–World War I Europe...
in the Western Front, May-August 1920, and against Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz's forces in October 1920. - 5th Vitebsk Rifle Division (1918–1926) - former 2nd Penza pekhotnaya division, and 5th Saratov rifle division, first formed 1918 at KurganKurganKurgan is the Turkic term for a tumulus; mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves, originating with its use in Soviet archaeology, now widely used for tumuli in the context of Eastern European and Central Asian archaeology....
. - 6th 'Orlovski' Rifle Division (1918–1927) - former Gatchina division, and 3rd Petrograd pekhotnaya division; formed at OryolOryolOryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...
area, which was to become part of the Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
. - 16th Rifle Division - The Division was formed in May 1918 in the Tambov region from Ukrainian detachments of the Red Guards.
- 44th Rifle Division
- Trans-Dnepr Rifle Division—Formed from partisan units of the Ukrainian Front, February 1919. Fought at Mariupol, Odessa, and Sevastopol, March-April 1919. Divided into the Crimean Red Army, 6th Ukrainian Rifle Division and 7th Insurgent Rifle Division, May 1919.
- 7th Insurgent Rifle Division—Formed from the 3rd Brigade of the Trans-Dnepr Rifle Division, May 1919. Fought in the Donbass, May 1919. Left the RKKA and became the core of the RIAURevolutionary Insurrectionary Army of UkraineThe Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine , popularly called Makhnovshchina, less correctly Makhnovchina, and also known as the Black Army, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers under the command of the famous anarchist Nestor Makhno during the...
, August 1919.
The establishment and organisation of the divisions (N 220/34) had changed by the end of 1918 to increase the number of regiments in brigades to three, while eliminating the artillery brigade headquarters, leaving the nine artillery divizions (battalions) and one horse artillery
Horse artillery
Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving and fast-firing artillery which provided highly mobile fire support to European and American armies from the 17th to the early 20th century...
battery to be allocated to rifle brigades. An armoured auto detachment (otryad) was also instituted.
By 1921 the establishment of the rifle division had changed substantially in accordance with TO&E N 1400/246 for peace-time, with two brigades and only 15,876 personnel, and the reduction of artillery to two battalions and one battery, and the cavalry from four to three squadron regiment.
From 10 June 1922 the organisation of rifle divisions war changed from brigade to regiment structure, with three regiments in each. The establishment of divisions stationed in the border areas was reduced to 8,705 personnel, and those in the interior regions to 6,725, including the reduction to a single cavalry squadron. The number of divisions was increased to 49.
Divisions of the interwar years
Due to increasing economic difficulties in the post-war USSR, the armed forces were substantially reduced, and from 8 August 1923 transferred to the territorial system of organisation. All divisions were reduced to an establishment of 1,437 permanent cadre and 8,084 conscripted personnel. These new divisions were initially called militia-rifle divisions , and later were renamed territorial-militia divisions . However, despite reduction in number of service personnel, the number of territorial-militia divisions quadrupled by summer 1928.The territorial principle of manning the Red Army was introduced in the mid 1920s. In each region able-bodied men were called up for a limited period of active duty in territorial unit, which comprised about half the Army's strength, each year, for five years. The first call-up period was for three months, with one month a year thereafter. A regular cadre provided a stable nucleus. By 1925 this system provided 46 of the 77 infantry divisions and one of the eleven cavalry divisions. The remainder consisted of regular officers and enlisted personnel serving two-year stints.
Most of the divisions that participated in the Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...
were disbanded by 1927, however, Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
initiated a formation of the new armed force with a professional cadre which was supported in its evolution even after his departure from Soviet Union. The reform in the rifle forces that begun in 1924 did create some notable changes, including commencement of adding names to the regular and newly formed territorial divisions, and creation of national divisions, notably one Belarus, four Ukrainian, two Georgian, one Armenian, and one Azerbaijanian divisions. In 1928 1st and 3rd Turkestan, and in 1929 an Azerbaijanian divisions were reorganised as mountain-rifle divisions. Of the 70 rifle division, 41 were now territorial in their establishment.
During the 1930s the RKKA infantry forces were not only expanded, but also substantially reorganised, in part due to substantial input of military theorists into their doctrinal development, such as that of Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander in chief of the Red Army , and one of the most prominent victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.-Early life:...
who's 1934 report to the Defence Committee included 13 types of infantry division divisions. On the 31 January 1935 the Committee decreed adoption of a single 13 thousand personnel peace-time establishment for a rifle division which included:
- three rifle regiments
- one artillery regiment:
- one tank battalion (mixed)
- separate reconnaissance battalion (light tank company, cavalry squadron and SP artillery battery)
- communications battalion
- separate anti-aircraft machine-gun company
- sapper company
- aviation flight
- rear services
This structure more than double the number of combat personnel in the division from the 1929 establishment of 20.2% to 41.7%. In May 1937 the military commissars were added to the establishment of all RKKA military forces.
On 29 November 1937 four types of structures for rifle forces were established:
- Far Eastern District divisions - 10,000 establishment
- Cadre divisions - 7,000 (6950) establishment
- Cadre mountain divisions - 4,000 establishment
- Cadre territorial divisions - 6,000 (5,220) establishment. These lacked the communications, reconnaissance and sapper battalions.
The territorial system was reorganised, with all remaining formations converted to 'cadre' divisions, in 1937 and 1938, with the cadre divisions retaining one territorial regiment until reorganisation that followed 1938 restructuring of all armed forces. Kamchatka and Sakhalin divisions were also added in the wake of the Soviet–Japanese Border Wars.
By 1938 there were plans to increase the number of rifle divisions in the RKKA from 98 to 173. These would include:
- 17 rifle divisions with 14 thousand personnel
- 1 rifle divisions with 12 thousand personnel (TO&E 04/400)
- 33 rifle divisions with 8.9 thousand personnel (TO&E 04/100)
- 76 rifle divisions with 6 thousand personnel (TO&E 04/120)
- 33 rifle divisions with 3 thousand personnel
- 13 mountain-rifle divisions with 4 thousand personnel
The wartime strength of the new rifle division that was intended to include two artillery regiments was to have 18 thousand personnel, but none had been brought up to this strength by 1941.
Divisions of the Second World War
Two events shaped the evolution of the RKKA rifle divisions during the initial period of the Second World War: the decision in 1938 to reorganise the Army, in part due to and following the repressions of the officer corps in 1937, and the 1939 campaign in Poland, and later war against Finland.In the course of the war the Second World War the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
's Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
raised over four hundred and fifty numbered rifle division
Division (military)
A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers. In most armies, a division is composed of several regiments or brigades, and in turn several divisions typically make up a corps...
s (infantry
Infantry
Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...
). Usually the rifle divisions were controlled by the higher head-quarters of the Rifle Corps
Rifle corps (Soviet)
A rifle corps was a Soviet military organization of the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the allocation of three rifle divisions to a rifle corps was common during the latter part of World War II.Unlike army corps formed by Germany...
. But scores of these formations were reformed several times; the total number of divisional formations formed may have been as high as 2,000, according to Craig Crofoot.
On 22 June 1941 the Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
had 103 divisions in the western military districts, of which 70 were organised according to peace-time TO&E 04/100 with 10-thousand bayonet strength (actual number of rifles 7,818), but brought up to the 12-thousand strength (TO&E 04/400), with another six at the 11-thousand strength. Another 78 rifle divisions in the interior military districts were organised according to peace-time TO&E 04/120 6-thousand (5,864) bayonet strength (actual number of rifles 3,685).
The wartime organisation of the RKKA rifle division was 14-thousand (14,483) with 10,420 rifles, but only 20 western border divisions had been brough up to this establishment when the war begun.
Zaloga notes that the Red Army formed at least 42 'national' divisions during the Second World War, including four Azeri, five Armenian, and eight Georgian rifle divisions and a large number of cavalry divisions in Central Asia, including five Uzbek cavalry divisions.
Note on Designations
During the war, many divisions were formed, destroyed or otherwise disbanded, and reformed several times: A notional example, using imaginary designations, runs:'The 501st Rifle Division (1st formation), readiness category B organised to 1937 tables may have been disbanded at Vyazma
Vyazma
Vyazma is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk and Mozhaysk. Throughout its turbulent history, the city defended western approaches to the city of Moscow...
in 1941, and a new 501st Division (2nd formation), readiness category A organised on 1942 tables formed in Rostov thousands of km away, then renamed 200th Guards Rifle Division in 1944, and a new 501st (3rd formation), readiness category A organised to 1944 tables division formed in Minsk.'
Note on Sources
The main source used in the compilation of this page was Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner's The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, published by Novato: Presidio Press, in 1985. Poirer and Conner primarily used the wartime files of the German Foreign Armies East ('FHO') intelligence section, of which substantial sections are now held by the U.S. national archives. Thus this page represents primarily pre-1989, Western scholarship; however new materials available since 1989, primarily A.G. Lenski's 2000 book, have also been inserted where available.1 - 10 Divisions
- 1st Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division - two formations, 1924 or 1926 (1st formation), and formed again in August 1939 (2nd formation). Became motorized again in January 1940. Division has a complicated history from that point, first becoming the 1st Guards Moscow MRD in September 1941 (see 'Motor Rifle Divisions' below), then the 1st Guards Rifle Division in January 1943 (see 'Guards Rifle Divisions' below), then becoming the 1st Guards Moscow MRD (again) in 1957.
- 1st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)1st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The Soviet 1st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first established in 1918, and finally disbanded in the mid 1950s...
First and second formations were part of the organisation that eventually became 1st Guards Rifle Division (see immediately above.) Third and fourth formations were formed mid 1942 and January 1944 respectively. - 2nd Rifle Division (1st formation) - With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 3rd Rifle Division—with 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45.
- 4th Rifle Division4th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 4th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army active from 1921 to 1946.The Division was activated 1919 near Petrograd during the Russian Civil War, and fought on the western front of that war and in the Soviet-Polish War. Until 1923 its headquarters was at Minsk...
—with 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 5th Vitebsk Rifle Division5th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 5th Rifle Division of the Soviet Red Army was initially formed in September 1918 as the 2nd Penza Infantry Division. It was later renamed as the 5th Rifle Division , Saratov , Vitebsk , and 'in the name of the Czechoslovak Proletariat'...
(1938–1940; 1st formation) - Western Military District, Baltic Special Military District. Took part in Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland 1939 with Third Army. - 5th Vitebsk Rifle Division5th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 5th Rifle Division of the Soviet Red Army was initially formed in September 1918 as the 2nd Penza Infantry Division. It was later renamed as the 5th Rifle Division , Saratov , Vitebsk , and 'in the name of the Czechoslovak Proletariat'...
(1941–1947; 2nd formation) Fought at DemyanskDemyanskDemyansk is an urban locality and the administrative center of Demyansky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Yavon River. Population:...
. Renamed 44th Guards Rifle Division Oct 5, 1942. - 5th Rifle Division (3rd formation) - Reformed at YefremovYefremov (town)Yefremov is a town and the administrative center of Yefremovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Krasivaya Mecha River , south of Tula. Population:...
Oct 1942. Fought at OryolOryolOryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...
and in East PrussiaEast PrussiaEast Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...
. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 6th Rifle Division6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 6th Rifle Division was a Soviet military unit. They participated in several battles, most notably the Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 and Estonian War of Independence. From their inception the unit saw combat and had three periods of active service...
First formation 1938. Second formation 1939; With 28th Rifle Corps of Fourth Army, Soviet Western FrontSoviet Western FrontThe Western Front was a Front of the Red Army, one of the Red Army Fronts during the Second World War. This sense of the term is different from the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front usually operates within designated...
, from June 1941. Fought at Ochkino, near Stalingrad, at OryolOryolOryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...
and Yasy. With 1st Guards Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945. - 7th Motor Rifle Division7th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 7th Rifle Division was a infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed five separate times from 1918 to 1955. The division was first formed in September 1918 at Vladimir in the Moscow Military District....
—First formed Sept 1918 at VladimirVladimirVladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway. Population:...
in the Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
. Apparently formed five times in total, last in 1955 by renumbering 407 RD. - 8th Rifle Division8th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 8th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Soviet Union's Red Army in the Winter War, the Soviet invasion of Poland, and World War II...
- formed 1918, 1941, 1941 again (as Third Formation), 1955. - 9th Mountain Rifle Division9th Infantry Division (Soviet Union)The 9th Kursk Infantry Division was created on the 20 July 1918 as one of the first divisions of the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War. The division was stationed in the Caucasus region, later the Transcaucasian Military District and soon renamed 9th Infantry, and later 9th Rifle division...
—formed May (Bonn, 2005) or September 1918, as the Kursk Infantry Division. Became 9th Motor Rifle Division around 1957. - 10th Rifle Division10th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 10th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army.It existed by 1920, but was formally created on 20 June 1922, based on the 29th Infantry Brigade. It was then recreated at Vladimir in September 1939....
— existed 1920. Fought around Leningrad. Disbanded summer 1945.
11 - 20 Divisions
- 11th Rifle Division — Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
, ПрибОВО. Established during Civil War and fought in 1919. Used to form 11th Mechanized Corps in 1932. Recreated at Kingisepp in 1936. Fought in northern Russia and Baltic States. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 12th Amurskaya Rifle Division12th Amurskaya Rifle DivisionThe 12th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army which participated in combat operations during World War II. It was formed 5 October 1923 in Omsk . On 18 February 1924, it was given the name of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee. It was part of the Western Siberian Military...
—Siberian Military DistrictSiberian Military DistrictThe Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :...
, Soviet Far East FrontSoviet Far East FrontThe Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War....
—with 2nd Red Banner Army, Far Eastern Front 5.45; - 13th Rifle Division13th Rifle DivisionThe 13th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army from 1922 to 1945. serving in World War II. It was disbanded after being defeated in 1941 and reformed from a Leningrad people's militia division later that year....
—North Caucasus Military DistrictNorth Caucasus Military DistrictThe North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
, Western Special Military District by 1941. Fought near Leningrad. - 14th Rifle Division14th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 14th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army from 1922 to 1944.It was formed in Moscow 1 Jul 1922.During the Winter War, it covered the state border in the north and north-east coast of the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk Group....
—Formed at MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
in 1922. September 1939 was in Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
. Fought in the Winter War and later in the far north. - 15th Mechanised Division15th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 15th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army formed by renaming the Red Army's Inzensk Revolutionary Division on 30 April 1919...
- Kiev Special Military District, Odessa Military District. Established as 15th Rifle Division at Ulyanovsk in 1918. Became a motor rifle division in Sep 1939. Took part in Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Reorganized as rifle division Aug 1941. Fought at Voronezh, Kursk, Ternopol, and in Belorussia, Pomerania, and near Stettin and Rostock. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 16th Rifle Division16th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 16th Rifle Division , was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. It was wiped out at Mga in 1941...
—Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
, Baltic Military DistrictBaltic Military DistrictThe Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991....
. Established at Novgorod Oct 1939. formed again near Malechna in December 1941, and in 1955 briefly. - 17th Rifle Division —МВО, ЗапОВО. Established at Gorki around 1920. Fought in Winter War with Finland. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated from 17th Moscow People's Militia Rifle Division around Oct 1941. Fought in Belorussia, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 18th Rifle Division—established at Kazan Nov 1939. Fought in Winter War with Finland, and at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
. Became 11th Guards Rifle Division Jan 1942. Recreated at Ryazan in Apr 1942. Fought at Kletskaya and Danzig. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 19th Rifle Division—formed 1922 as a territorial formation in the Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
, also in ОрВО. Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
, Sichevka, Kharkiv, in the Ukraine, and at Bratislava. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in Czechoslovakia 5.45. - 20th Mountain Rifle Division—Transcaucasus Military District (б.3rd Caucasus) Active by 1936. Fought at Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Krimskaya, and near Berlin. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
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21 - 30 Divisions
- 21st Rifle Division—Siberian Military DistrictSiberian Military DistrictThe Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :...
, Soviet Far East FrontSoviet Far East FrontThe Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War....
. Established at Spassk before 1935. Fought on Finnish front and in Hungary. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 22nd Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military DistrictNorth Caucasus Military DistrictThe North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
, Soviet Far East FrontSoviet Far East FrontThe Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War....
—(eventually became 22nd MRD), in Far East by 1938. With the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45. - 23rd Rifle Division—established in North Caucasus Military DistrictNorth Caucasus Military DistrictThe North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
before August 1932, part of 11th Army on 22.6.41, wiped out 7.41. Recreated at Dunaburg before 12.41, fought at Stalingrad and became the 71st Guards Rifle Division 1.3.43. Created again at Vorishilov 5.43, fought at Kursk, Kiev, Zhitomir, and Riga. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 24th Rifle Division24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)style="float: right; clear: right; background-color: transparent"| The 24th Samaro-Ulyanovsk Division was a rifle, then a motor-rifle division of the Red Army of the USSR...
Formed 1922, 1942, 1945. - 25th Rifle Division— fought in Civil War; reestablished 1925, 1942, and for a third time.
- 26th Rifle Division—established at Vorishilov in 1935. Fought near Tilsit in Oct 1944. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 27th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)27th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 27th Rifle Division was a tactical unit of the Bolshevist Russia and then the USSR, active between 1918 and 1941. First formed during the Russian Civil War on November 3, 1918 as part of 5th Red Army. Commanded by Vitovt Putna, it was transferred to the 16th Red Army in May 1920, and took part...
—Created 1920 and fought in Russian Civil WarRussian Civil WarThe Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...
. Created again in Vitebsk before June 1941 with 132,239,345 Rifle Regiments. Fell in battle on Svisloch river line June 25, 1941. Was disbanded Sept 19, 1941. Recreated Aug 1941 at Arkhangelsk. (Was renamed from Rebolsky Direction Division on Sept 24, 1941) Fought near Danzig in 1945. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 28th Mountain Rifle Division—established in Caucasus in 1935. Wiped out during Battle of KievBattle of Kiev (1941)The Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. It is considered the largest encirclement of troops in history. The operation ran from 23 August – 26 September 1941 as part of Operation...
, Sep 1941. Recreated at Archangelsk. Fought at Kiev, Velikiye Luki, and Targul Frumos. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK 5.45. - 29th Rifle Division—already existed in 1920. Established before 1941 at Slonim. Wiped out near Minsk in Jul 1941. Recreated from 7th Reserve Rifle Division in Jul 1941, and again wiped out at Vyazma in Oct 1941. Again recreated at Akmolinsk in Dec 1941. Became 72nd Guards Rifle Division in Mar 1943. Again recreated in 1943 and saw action at Kirovograd. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 30th Rifle Division30th Rifle DivisionThe 30th Rifle Division was a military formation of the USSR from 1918 to c.1945.Its final full name was the 30th Rifle Irkutsk Order of Lenin, three times the Red Banner, Order of Red Banner of Labor Division of the name of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR...
—established 1918. Became 55th Guards Rifle Division in Dec 1942. Recreated at Rossosh in Apr 1943. Fought at Rostov, Kiev, Zhitomir, and in the Carpathians. With 38th Army38th Army (Soviet Union)The 38th Red Banner Army of was a field army of the Soviet Union that existed between 1941 and 1991.The army headquarters was formed in July 1941 by redesignation of the staff of 8th Mechanised Corps.On 1 May 1945, the army was part of 4th Ukrainian Front...
of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45.
31 - 40 Divisions
- 31st Rifle Division—established at Yerevan before 1941. Started war in the TCMD's 40th Rifle Corps alongside the 9th Rifle Division. Fought at Taganrog, Rostov, Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Iasi-KishinevBattle of Romania (1944)The Jassy–Kishinev Operation, named after the two major cities, Iaşi and Chişinău, in the staging area, was a Soviet offensive against Axis forces, which took place in Eastern Romania from 20–29 August 1944...
and Vistula-Oder operations. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 32nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union); with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 33rd Rifle Division—First formation 1920 or prior. Established at Chaussy Sep 1939. With 16th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941. Fought vicinity Stalingrad and Berlin. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 34th Rifle Division—established 1934 at Birobidzhan. With Far East Military District during World War II, specifically with 15th Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45. Fought in Manchurian campaign in 1945.
- 35th Rifle Division—established at Bikin in 1937. Served in Far East Military District during World War II and part of the 5th Rifle Corps there 5.45.
- 36th Motor Rifle Division—established 1934 at Birobidzhan. Fought at Khalkin Gol Aug 1938. Moved west and fought at KurskBattle of KurskThe Battle of Kursk took place when German and Soviet forces confronted each other on the Eastern Front during World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk, in the Soviet Union in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series of armored clashes, including the Battle of Prokhorovka,...
.(?) With 17th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 37th Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military DistrictNorth Caucasus Military DistrictThe North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
, ЗапВО. Established at Novocherkassk in 1919. Fought at Molodechno and Riga. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK 5.45. - 38th Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military DistrictNorth Caucasus Military DistrictThe North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
. Established at Rostov in 1920, wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Alma Ata 1.42 fought at Stalingrad and became 73rd Guards Rifle Division 3.43. Created again at Kutaisi 4.43, fought on the Dnieper River and at Targul Frumos. With 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. - 39th Rifle Division39th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 39th Pacific Ocean Red Banner Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed in 1922, which fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria against the Japanese in 1945, and became a motor rifle division in 1957. It later became a machine-gun artillery division,...
—Soviet Far East FrontSoviet Far East FrontThe Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War....
. Established 1922. Fought at Lake Khasan 8.38. With the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45. Fought in Manchurian campaign Aug 1945. - 40th Rifle Division—КОВО, Soviet Far East FrontSoviet Far East FrontThe Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War....
. 22 June 1941 with 25th Army's 39th Rifle Corps along with 32nd and 92nd Rifle Divisions. With the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45. Fought in Manchurian campaign 1945.
41 - 50 Divisions
- 41st Rifle Division— Kharkov MD, КОВО; established at Kryvyi Rih in 1940. With 6th Rifle Corps, 6th Army6th Army (Soviet Union)The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces up until 1998...
of the Soviet Southwestern FrontSoviet Southwestern FrontThe Southwestern Front was a name given to a Front by the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the Russian Civil War, and by the Red Army during the Second World War.The Southwestern Front in this article describes several...
from 22 June 1941. Wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Chapayevsk 3.42, wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated again at Verchovye from 118th Rifle Brigade 10.42, fought at Kursk and in Poland. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 42nd Rifle Division—Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
, ЗапОВО. Established at Terijok Feb 1940. Fought in Winter War with Finland. With 28th Rifle Corps of 4th Army, Soviet Western FrontSoviet Western FrontThe Western Front was a Front of the Red Army, one of the Red Army Fronts during the Second World War. This sense of the term is different from the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front usually operates within designated...
in June 1941 and defended the Brest FortressBrest FortressBrest Fortress , formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress , is a 19th century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus. It is one of the most important Soviet World War II war monuments commemorating the Soviet resistance against the German invasion on June 22, 1941...
until wiped out in July 1941. Recreated at Volsk January 1942. Fought at Smolensk, Lenino, Mogilev, Grodno, and Danzig. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 43rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)43rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 43rd Rifle Division was a formation of the Red Army, which took part in the Second World War, known to the Soviets as the "Great Patriotic War"....
– formed 1924-25, fought at Siege of LeningradSiege of LeningradThe Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last...
With Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 44th Mountain Rifle Division44th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 44th Kievskaya of the Red Banner Rifle Division of Nikolay Shchors, or 44th Kievskaya for short, was an elite military formation of the Soviet Union....
— Kiev Special Military District. Fought in Civil War and destroyed during Winter War with Finland. Reformed twice in 1940 and 1941. Reformed 1955 and converted to motor rifle division 1957. - 45th Rifle Division45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 45th Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division formed originally during the Russian Civil War that fought in World War II and then served through the Cold War in the Leningrad Military District....
. Began war in the Kiev Special Military District. With 15th Rifle Corps of 5th Army 22 June 1941. With 14th Army in northern Norway May 1945. - 46th Rifle Division—КОВО, ЗабВО. Established at Irkutsk before 1941. Wiped out at Yelnaya Jul 1941. Recreated at Ufa post-Jul 1941. Wiped out at Volkhov Pocket Jun 1942. Recreated from 1st NKVD Division at Vaskelevo. Fought at Lutsk and Danzig. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 47th Mountain Rifle Division. Established at KutaisiKutaisiKutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...
, Transcaucasian Military DistrictTranscaucasian Military DistrictThe Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR...
before 1932. Georgian SSR national formation. Gained the Order of the Red BannerOrder of the Red BannerThe Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Red Banner , a military decoration, on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War...
and the title on 'behalf of Comrade Stalin.' Fought at Poltava and wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated from 21st Rifle Brigade in 1942, fought at Nevel and became regular rifle division in 1945. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK 5.45. - 48th Rifle Division—Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
, КалВО, Baltic Military DistrictBaltic Military DistrictThe Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991....
. Established at KalininTverTver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...
in 1939. Fought near Leningrad. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK May 1945. - 49th Rifle Division—Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
, ЗапОВО. Established at Kostroma in 1918. Fought in Winter War with Finland. Mutinied Jan 8, 1940. Fought at Brest and destroyed at Minsk in 1941. Recreated Ivanovo Nov 1941. Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, Roslaval, Mogilev, and near Berlin. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 50th Rifle Division—ЗапОВО. Established at Polotsk before 1939, fought at Yelnaya, Mozhaisk, Kursk, Targul Frumos, and in the Berlin Operation. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
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51 - 60 Divisions
- 51st Rifle Division—Fought with Blyukher during the Civil War. 1st formation at Odessa in the Odessa Military DistrictOdessa Military DistrictThe Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in...
before 1941. With Ninth Army, Kiev Special Military District on the outbreak of war. Wiped out at VyazmaVyazmaVyazma is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk and Mozhaysk. Throughout its turbulent history, the city defended western approaches to the city of Moscow...
Oct 1941. 2nd formation from Eighth Moscow People's Militia Division subsequent to Oct 1941. Fought in Caucasus, Belorussia, and Kurland. With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 52nd Rifle Division —Formed June 1919 from Western Rifle DivisionWestern Rifle DivisionWestern Rifle Division was one of the Bolsheviks military formations during the Russian Civil War.It was formed in summer 1918 from the initiative of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and Polish Socialist Party-Left...
. Active in МВО, ЗапОВО, and Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
before the war. Other reports say the 52 Rifle Division was formed in 1935 in the Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
. Was in the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Winter War with Finland. Renamed 10 Guards RD December 1941. Recreated Kolomna 1.42, fought in the Ukraine and Hungary. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. - 53rd Rifle Division—formed Saratov, Volga Military District, October 1939, fought at Yelnaya, on the Dnieper River, at Uman and Targul Frumos. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 54th Mountain Rifle Division—formed in Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
. With 7th Army (Soviet Union)7th Army (Soviet Union)The Soviet Red Army's 7th Army first saw action in the 1939-40 Winter War against Finland. In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps , 50th Rifle Corps , 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade...
on 22 June 1941. Fought near Leningrad. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 55th Rifle Division—Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
, Orel MD, Western Special MD. Established at Kursk 9.38, fought at Velikiye Luki and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Kuybyshev 12.41. - 56th Rifle Division—established Pleskau before 1930. Fought vicinity Leningrad and Riga. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 57th Motor Rifle Division—УрВО, ЗабВО- active by 1924 as a territorial division in the Ural MD. Fought at Khalkhin Gol 1938. With 17th Army17th Army (Soviet Union)The 17th Army of the Red Army was a Soviet field army. It was formed from the 1st Army Group of the Transbaikal Military District on 21 July 1940 . From 1941 to 1945, the army assumed a general defensive posture, including within Mongolia...
of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. Fought with 6th Guards Tank Army6th Guards Tank ArmyThe 6th Guards Order of Red Banner Tank Army was a tank army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first formed during World War II and disbanded in Ukraine in the 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....
in Manchuria 8.45. - 58th Mountain Rifle Division—Kiev Special Military District; established at Cherkassy 1932, fought in Uman PocketBattle of UmanThe Battle of Uman was the German and allied encirclement of the 6th and 12th The Battle of Uman (15 July–8 August 1941) was the German and allied encirclement of the 6th (General Lieutenant I.N. Muzyrchenko) and 12th The Battle of Uman (15 July–8 August 1941) was the German and allied...
, at Lenino, Korsun, and in Poland. With 3rd Guards ArmySoviet Third Guards ArmyThe 3rd Guards Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, notably in 1945.It was created in December 1942, as part of the Southwestern Front , according to the order of the Supreme High Command on formation of the 3rd Guards Army...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. See also Battle of Peregonovka (1919)Battle of Peregonovka (1919)In the Battle of Peregonovka in September 1919, part of the Russian Civil War, the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine routed elements of the Volunteer Army...
and Kiev Offensive (1920). Goff, 1998, has a note saying the 431st Rifle Division, formed 11 December 1941 in the Volga MD, became the 58th Rifle Division ((First?) Formation), on 25 December 1941. - 59th Rifle Division—established at Iman before 1941. With the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45. Fought in Manchurian campaign Aug 1945.
- 60th Rifle Division—established at Ovruch before 1941. Disbanded Aug 1941. Recreated from 1st Moscow Militia Rifle Division in Aug 1941. Fought at Moscow, Kursk, and Warsaw. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945.
61 - 70 Divisions
- 61st Rifle Division—established at Balschov before 1933. Fought in southern Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, and the Berlin Operation. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 62nd Rifle Division—established Fastov in Sep 1939. With 15th Rifle Corps of 5th Army 22 June 1941. Disbanded Nov 1942. Recreated Apr 1943. Fought at Stalingrad and Kursk. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 63rd Mountain Rifle Division—established Tblisi before 1941, originally as 2nd Georgian Infantry Division. The Division was a Georgian national formation with honour titles including 'of the Order of the Red Star Frunze.' Became 52nd Guards Rifle Division in Nov 1942. Recreated at Kaluga from the 45th and 86th Rifle Brigades May 1943. Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Belorussian Operation. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 64th Rifle Division—established Smolensk before Feb 1939. Became 7th Guards Rifle Division Sep 1941. Recreated Mar 1942. Mutinied near Stalingrad Aug 1942. Fought at Minsk and Stalingrad. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 65th Rifle Division—established at Chita Feb 1941. Fought near Leningrad and in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation. Became the 102nd Guards Rifle Division in Dec 1944.
- 66th Rifle Division127th Machine Gun Artillery DivisionThe 127th Order of Kutuzov Second Degree Machine-Gun Artillery Division was a division of the Russian Ground Forces, which traced its history to the 66th Rifle Division of World War II....
—traces its origins as a division to 1932. Fought in Far East in 1945. - 67th Rifle Division—established Leningrad before 1941. Fought on Finnish front. With 14th Army in northern Norway 5.45.
- 68th Mountain Rifle Division—established Baku before 1941. With 4th Army of the Transcaucasus Front in 5.45, located in Romania in 1946.
- 69th Rifle Division—established Kuibyshev in the 1930s. Initially a motorized division, and has been listed as fighting with 28th Army28th Army (Soviet Union)The 28th Army was a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces, formed three times in 1941-42 and postwar active for many years in the Belorussian Military District.- First Formation :...
. It appears now that (citing Soviet documents) that 69th Motorized Division became 107th Tank Division on 17 July 1941. Recreated at Tashkent in Dec 1941. Fought at Kursk, Stettin, and in the Belorussian Operation. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 70th Rifle Division—established 1934 at Kuybishev; fought in the Winter War with Finland, at Leningrad and Novgorod. Renamed 45th Guards Rifle Division October 1942. Recreated at Moscow from 70th Rifle Brigade Mar 1943. Fought at Kursk and in Belorussia. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
71 - 80 Divisions
- 71st Rifle Division—established Kemerovo before Jun 1941. With 7th Army (Soviet Union)7th Army (Soviet Union)The Soviet Red Army's 7th Army first saw action in the 1939-40 Winter War against Finland. In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps , 50th Rifle Corps , 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade...
on 22 June 1941. Fought near Leningrad and Kursk, and in Vistula-Oder Operation. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. See :ru:71-я стрелковая дивизия. - 72nd Rifle Division—established Leningrad before Jun 1941. Wiped out vicinity Tiraspol Jul 1941. Recreated near Leningrad Dec 1941 from 7th Naval Infantry Brigade. In Leningrad Military DistrictLeningrad Military DistrictThe Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:...
postwar in 1945. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 73rd Rifle Division—established Omsk in Jul 1940. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Feb 1942 at Ordzhonikidze. Fought near Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Belorussian and Berlin Operations. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. See also :ru:73-я стрелковая дивизия (3-го формирования). - 74th Rifle Division—established Krasnodar before Jun 1941. Fought vicinity of Kursk, Kiev, and Poznań. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 75th Mountain Rifle Division—established Lubny May 1939. Fought in Winter War with Finland. With Fourth Army, Soviet Western FrontSoviet Western FrontThe Western Front was a Front of the Red Army, one of the Red Army Fronts during the Second World War. This sense of the term is different from the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front usually operates within designated...
, from June 1941. Wiped out vicinity Kiev Aug 1941. Recreated by Jan 1942 from 473rd Rifle Division, which became 75 RD (II Formation). With 4th Army of the Transcaucasus Front 5.45. - 76th Rifle Division76th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The Soviet 76th "K. E. Voroshilov" Division known also as the 76th Armenian Mountain Division, was a Soviet infantry fighting unit of the Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The 76th was made up primarily of Armenians from the newly established Soviet Socialist...
—formed at least twice, first time as an Armenian national formation which was converted into 51st Guards Rifle Division. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 77th 'Simferopolskaya Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division Sergo Ordzhonikidze' Mountain Rifle Division — established Baku 1930 originally as the Azerbaijan Infantry Division. Converted to rifle division June 1942. Azerbaijani national formation. Fought in Caucasus and Crimea and vicinity Riga and Memel. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 78th Rifle Division78th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 78th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed in 1932, in Novosibirsk, in the Siberian Military District. After being used to provide cadres for new divisions, in September 1939 the division was reformed for the second time...
—established Khabarovsk in 1940. Became 9th Guards Rifle Division in Nov 1941. Recreated Samarkand Mar 1942. Fought near Targul Frumos, Iasi-Kishinev, and Debrecen. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 79th Mountain Rifle Division—in Far East by 1941, with 16th Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45. Occupied Sakhalin Island Aug 1945.
- 80th Rifle Division80th Rifle DivisionThe 80th Lubanskaya Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and the German-Soviet War.-1st formation:...
Formed 1923. Second formation 1941.
81 - 90 Divisions
- 81st Rifle Division—established Lubny around 1936. As 81st Mechanised Division, part of 4th Mechanised Corps, with 6th Army6th Army (Soviet Union)The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces up until 1998...
, Southwestern Front, in June 1941. Fought at Voronezh and Kursk. See :ru:81-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го формирования). With Soviet 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. See :ru:81-я стрелковая дивизия (2-го формирования). - 82nd Rifle Division—established Perm in 1932. Sent to Far East, returned for Moscow counter-attackBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
in Dec 1941. Was a motorized division until Mar 1942. Became 3rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division in Mar 1942 which unit later became the 6th Guards Mechanized Corps (and finally 90th Guards Tank Division90th Guards Tank DivisionThe 90th Guards Tank Division was a division of the Soviet Army, and then of the Russian Ground Forces. It was first activated in 1932 as the 82nd Rifle Division. In 1939 it was renamed the 82nd Motorized Rifle Division, and the same year took part in the Battle of Khalkin Gol. It was renamed the...
many years later). Recreated Jul 1942. Fought in Poland 1945. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 83rd Mountain Rifle Division - From 01.07.35 established at Ashkabad as 83rd Turkestan mountain rifle division. Fought at Krasnodar and the Kuban. Became the 128th Guards Mountain Rifle Division in Oct 1943. Today is 128th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)128th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)The 128th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.Full name of the Brigade is 128th Separate Guards Mechanized Turkestan-Zakarpattia twice Order of Red Banner Brigade, .-History:...
. Second formation (re)-created at Loutti 1.44 as a regular rifle division. Fought in Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation and Karelia. With 14th Army in northern Norway 5.45. See :ru:83-я стрелковая дивизия. - 84th Rifle Division—established at Tula before 1928. Fought near Stalingrad, Voronezh, Kursk, Kharkiv, Iasi, Targul Frumos, and Budapest. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. See :ru:84-я стрелковая дивизия. - 85th Rifle Division85th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 85th Leningrad-Pavlovsk Red Banner Motor Rifle Division was a infantry division of the Soviet Red Army active from 1931 and converted to a motorised formation in 1957. It is now part of the Russian Ground Forces....
. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 86th Rifle Division—established at Laurovo Feb 1941. Fought near Leningrad and Tartu, and in East Prussia. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 87th Rifle Division—established at Sverdlovsk in 1937. Apparently wiped out summer 1941. Recreated Nov 1941; became 13th Guards Rifle Division (Soviet Union). Recreated at Citorol in May 1942. Fought at Stalingrad with less than 800 effectives. Fought in the Ukraine, Crimea, and in Kurland. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 88th Rifle Division—established at Archangelsk before Sep 1939. Fought in Winter War with Finland, and was in Archangelsk MD on 22 June 1941. Became 23rd Guards Rifle Division in Mar 1942. Recreated at Kisner in Apr 1942. Fought in Belorussia and East Prussia. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. See :ru:88-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го формирования). - 89th Rifle Division—established at Kursk before Jun 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Yerevan Jan 1942. Armenian national formation. Fought in Ukraine, Crimea, and Pomerania. Postwar in Georgia. Disbanded as 12th Military Base in 2008.
- 90th Rifle Division—established at Leningrad in 1936. Fought at Leningrad and in Estonia and East Prussia. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
91 - 100 Divisions
- 91st Rifle Division—established at Achinsk in Sep 1939. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Mahachkala in Apr 1942. Fought at Stalingrad and Kursk, and in the Ukraine, Crimea, and Latvia. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 92nd Rifle Division—established at Barabash before Apr 1937. 22 June 1941 with 39th Rifle Corps, 25th Army, Soviet Far East FrontSoviet Far East FrontThe Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War....
. Wiped out at VolkhovVolkhovVolkhov is an industrial town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated east of St. Petersburg, on the Volkhov River. Population: -History:...
Jun 1942. Recreated from 20th NKVD Division at TikhvinTikhvinTikhvin is a town and the administrative center of Tikhvinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Tikhvinka River in the east of the oblast, east of St. Petersburg. Tikhvin is also an industrial and cultural center of the district, as well as its transportation...
post-6.42. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 93rd Rifle Division—established Chita in 1936. Became 26th Guards Rifle Division in Apr 1942. Recreated Dzerzhinsk Jul 1942. Fought in Ukraine and Yugoslavia. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 94th Rifle Division—established Krasnoyarsk before 1941. Fought near Ternopol. With 36th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 95th Rifle Division—established Kotoviki in 1940, and was with Ninth Army in June 1941. Wiped out at Sevastopol May 1942. Recreated at Tula from units of 13th NKVD Motorized Rifle Division in Sep 1942. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 75th Guards Rifle Division March 1943. Recreated Kaluga Apr 1943. Fought near Kursk and in Belorussia. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 96th Mountain Rifle Division—established Vinnitsa 1923. Converted to rifle division Oct 1941. Became 14th Guards Rifle Division Jan 1942. Recreated Jul 1942. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 68th Guards Rifle Division Feb 1943. Recreated at Tula in Mar 1943. Fought in Belorussia, East Prussia, and near Berlin. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 97th Rifle Division—established Zhmerinka before 1940. With 6th Rifle Corps, 6th Army of the Soviet Southwestern FrontSoviet Southwestern FrontThe Southwestern Front was a name given to a Front by the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the Russian Civil War, and by the Red Army during the Second World War.The Southwestern Front in this article describes several...
from 22 June 1941. (See :ru:97-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го формирования)) Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated Divisionnaya Jan 1942. Became 83rd Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated Belev May 1943. Fought near Vitebsk, Vilnius, and in Hungary. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45. - 98th Rifle Division—established Ishevsk Feb 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Spassk Oct 1941. Fought in Stalingrad. Became 86th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated at Leningrad from 250th Rifle Brigade. Fought vicinity Leningrad. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 99th Rifle Division99th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 99th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army which fought in World War II...
—Established at Uman in 1924. Took part in Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939, during the early stages of World War II. Sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east...
with the Ukrainian Front. Recognised as one of the best divisions in the Army under Andrey VlasovAndrey VlasovAndrey Andreyevich Vlasov or Wlassow was a Russian Red Army general who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.-Early career:...
's command in 1940.(Erickson, 1962, p. 554) Started Operation Barbarossa with 8th Rifle Corps, 26th Army26th Army (Soviet Union)The 26th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, active from 1941.- Operational history :...
, Southwestern Front. Wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated Balachov Aug 1942. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 88th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated from 99th Rifle Brigade May 1943. Fought near Zhitomir and in Carpathians. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded 1945–46. See also http://samsv.narod.ru/Div/Sd/sd099/default.html See also :ru:99-я стрелковая дивизия (2-го формирования) - 100th Rifle Division—established Berdichev Nov 1923. Fought in Winter War with Finland. Became 1st Guards Rifle Division Sep 1941. Recreated Vologda Mar 1942. Fought near Stalingrad, and in the Ukraine and Belorussia. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45.
101 - 110 Divisions
- 101st Motorized Rifle Division—Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
1941. On Sakhalin Island as the 101st Rifle Division101st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 101st Rifle Division was a formation of the Soviet Red Army initially formed as a mountain rifle division on 28 August 1938 within the 2nd Separate Red Banner Army in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city....
May—Aug 1945, with the independent Sakhalin command. - 102nd Rifle Division—5450 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov Military District). Disbanded Oct 1941. Recreated Chimkent Jan 1942. Again recreated from Far East NKVD Division at Khabarovsk June 1942, and joined 70th Army. Fought at Demyansk, Kursk, and in Belorussia. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 103rd Rifle Division—fought in Winter War with Finland 1940. Converted to motorized division Mar 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Samarkand Jan 1942. Fought at Kharkiv, wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated ?; with 2nd Rifle Corps in Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
in January 1945; still part of 2RC on Aug 9, 1945 and part of 36th Army, Zabaykalskiy Front. - 104th Rifle Division—established at Kandalaksha before 12.39, fought at Petsamo and on Kandalaksha axis. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 105th Rifle Division—established at Ussuriysk before 6.41, fought at Kharkiv in 1943 and stationed in the Far East. With the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 106th Rifle Division—established at Solotonoscha before 6.41, and with 9th Rifle Corps, Odessa Military DistrictOdessa Military DistrictThe Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in...
, in Jine 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated 10.41 and destroyed at Kerch 11.41. Recreated at Krasnodar 12.41 and wiped out in the Caucasus 8.42. Created again at Chita from the Transbaikal NKVD Division 11.42, fought at Demyansk, Kursk, on the Dnieper River, and at Berlin. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 107th Rifle Division—established at Moscow before 6.41, fought at Yelnaya and became 5th Guards Rifle Division 10.41. Recreated at Tambov 3.42, fought in the Ukraine and at Krakow. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 108th Rifle Division—established at Vyazma Mar 1941. Composed of the 407th, 444th,539th rifle and 575th artillery regiments. Fought at Minsk, Smolensk, and Yartsevo in 1941. Later fought at Kursk and in Poland and Hungary. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 109th Rifle Division—established as a motorized division Jul 1940 in the Transbaikal region. Wiped out at Smolensk Aug 1941. Recreated at Samarkand in Aug 1941. Wiped out at Sevastopol May 1942. Recreated at Leningrad Aug 1942. With 8th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 110th Rifle Division110th Rifle DivisionThe 110th Rifle Division, which was formed, dissolved, and re-formed three times, was a formation of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the course of World War II.-History:The division was formed 20.09.1939 года в Sverdlovsk....
—with 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
111 - 120 Divisions
- 111th Rifle Division formed at VologdaVologdaVologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...
in 1940 and was in Archangelsk MD on 22 June 1941, fought at Ostrov and became 24th Guards Rifle Division in March 1942. Recreated at Kalinin 6.42, fought at Kursk and Iasi. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 112th Rifle Division—established at Vyazma prior to 7.41 and wiped out there 10.41. Recreated at Novosibirsk 4.42, fought at Stalingrad, Kiev, Korosten, Zhitomir, and in Poland and Germany. With 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 113th Rifle Division—established at Rylsk 8.39 and wiped out at Minsk 7.41. Recreated at Moscow from 5th Moscow People's Militia Division 7.41, fought at Moscow, Vyazma, and Rogan. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 114th Rifle Division—established in Transbaikal 6.41, fought on Svir River and in northern Finland and Norway. With 14th Army in northern Norway 5.45. Had small Norwegian attachments.
- 115th Rifle Division—established at Nalchik in 1940. Fought near Murmansk, Leningrad, and Novgorod. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 116th Rifle Division—established at Kremenchug prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Chita 12.41, fought at Stalingrad, Kharkiv, and Targul Frumos. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 117th Rifle Division—established at Kuibyshev 9.39, wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Ivanovo 1.42, fought at Kerch, the Puławy Bridgehead, Poznań, and Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 118th Rifle Division—established at Kostroma 6.41, fought at Pskov and wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated, became the 85th Guards Rifle Division 4.43. Created again at Novocherkassk 5.43 from the 52nd and 152nd Rifle Brigades, fought near Melitipol and in Poland. With 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 119th Rifle Division—established at Krasnoyarsk prior to 7.41 and became 17th Guards Rifle Division 3.42. Recreated at Moscow 3.42, fought at Stalingrad and became 54th Guards Rifle Division 12.42. Created again from 161st Rifle Brigade at Alexin 4.43, fought at Kursk. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the StavkaStavkaStavka was the term used to refer to a command element of the armed forces from the time of the Kievan Rus′, more formally during the history of Imperial Russia as administrative staff and General Headquarters during late 19th Century Imperial Russian armed forces and those of the Soviet Union...
Reserve (RVGK) 5.45. - 120th Rifle Division—established at Ashkabad prior to 8.41, became 6th Guards Rifle Division 26.9.41. Recreated at Kilogriv 8.42, fought at Stalingrad, became 69th Guards Rifle Division 2.43. Created again from 11th Rifle Brigade at Schlusselburg 4.43, fought at Narva. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45.
121 - 130 Divisions
- 121st Rifle Division—established at Bobruysk prior to 6.41, fought at Rylsk and Kiev. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 122nd Rifle Division—established at Rylsk 4.39, fought at Kandalaksha. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 123rd Rifle Division—established at Vishny Volochek in 1939. Fought in Winter War with Finland, and subsequently in northern Russia. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
5.45. - 124th Rifle Division—established at Kirovograd 9.39 and wiped out near Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Voronezh, fought at Stalingrad and became the 50th Guards Rifle Division 11.42. Created again Schlusselberg from the 56th, 102nd, and 138th Rifle Brigades 4.43, fought at Mga, Neman, and in Manchuria. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 125th Rifle Division—established at Kirov prior to 6.40, fought near Leningrad. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 126th Rifle Division—established at Moscow Dec 1940, and was with Eleventh Army in June 1941. Second division with same number established at Vorishilov Sep 1941. Original incarnation of division disbanded Dec 1941. Second incarnation of division fought at Stalingrad, Melitopol, and in the Ukraine and Crimea. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 127th Rifle Division—5600 men (начало сборов 10.06.41, Kharkov MD). Established at Kharkiv 7.40, fought at Yelna, became 2nd Guards Rifle Division 18.9.41. Recreated at Atkarsk 2.42, fought near Stalingrad, became 62nd Guards Rifle Division 1.43. Created again at Kuibyshev 5.43 from the 52nd and 98th Rifle Brigades. Fought in the Ukraine and Poland. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 128th Mountain Rifle Division—originally formed 1920s as 1st Turkestanskaya RD. Possibly with Eleventh Army in June 1941. Fought near Leningrad and at Kattowitz. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 129th Rifle Division—established at Moscow from 2nd Moscow Militia Division Jun 1941. Fought at Smolensk, Yartsevo, and Vyazma; wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Moscow Oct 1941. Fought in southern Russia, at Orel, and in Poland and the Baltic regions. With Third Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 130th Rifle Division—established at Romny 8.39 and wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Reactivated at Moscow on basis of 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division 22.1.42 and became 53rd Guards Rifle Division 12.42. Activated again from 152nd, 156th, and 159th Rifle Brigades at Matveyev Kurgan 1.43, fought at Taganrog, Brest, and Gumbinnen. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45.
131 - 140 Divisions
- 131st Rifle Division—established at Novograd Volynsky Nov 1939. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Kirov Jan 1942. With 62nd Army at Stalingrad. With 8th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 132nd Rifle Division—6000 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov MD); established at Poltava prior to 9.39, fought at Bryansk, Voronezh, on the Dnieper River, in Poland, and at Berlin. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 133rd Rifle Division—established at Biysk prior to 6.41, became 18th Guards Rifle Division 3.42. Recreated at Kostroma 6.42, fought at Smolensk, Targul Frumos, and Iasi. With 40th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 134th Rifle Division—6000 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov MD); established at Kramatorskaya 6.41 and wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Solnechnogorsk 2.42, fought near Kalinin, in the Puławy Bridgehead, and at Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 135th Rifle Division—established in Kiev Military DistrictKiev Military DistrictThe Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces...
9.39, joined 40th Army40th Army (Soviet Union)The 40th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1945 and then again from 1979 to circa 1990.It was first formed, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had commenced, from elements of the 26th and 37th Armies under the command...
when the Army was formed, but then wiped out during the Battle of KievBattle of Kiev (1941)The Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. It is considered the largest encirclement of troops in history. The operation ran from 23 August – 26 September 1941 as part of Operation...
in September 1941. Recreated at Kolomna 2.42, fought near Kalinin, Kiev, Targul Frumos, and Kattowitz. With 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 136th Rifle Division—Ist formation established at Leninakan prior to 1939. Became 15th Guards Rifle Division Feb 1942. II formation recreated from the 8th Separate Rifle Brigade (Hanko Brigade) in Karelia Mar 1942. Fought at Leningrad; became 63rd Guards Rifle Division (30th Guards Rifle Corps) on 19 January 1943. Recreated at Leninakan Feb 1943. Fought in Ukraine, at Targul Frumos and Gydnia, and in the Berlin Operation. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 137th Rifle Division—established at Gorki prior to Feb 1939. Fought on Central Front, at Kursk, and in Belorussia, the Carpathians, northern Poland, and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 138th Rifle Division—Formed 1939 at Leninkan, г. в Калининской Oblast. Fought with 7th Army7th Army (Soviet Union)The Soviet Red Army's 7th Army first saw action in the 1939-40 Winter War against Finland. In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps , 50th Rifle Corps , 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade...
during the Winter WarWinter WarThe Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...
against Finland. Wiped out at Kerch May 1942, and recreated same month. Fought at Stalingrad and became 70th Guards Rifle Division по приказу НКО СССР от 6.02.43 № 56). Raised again at Kalinin 5.43 from the 6th Naval Rifle and 109th Motor Rifle Brigade. Fought in the Carpathians. With 18th Army18th Army (Soviet Union)The 18th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was formed on 21 June 1941 on the basis of HQ Kharkov Military District and armies of the Kiev Special Military District.The Army's commander in 1941 was General-Leitenant Andrew Kirilovych Smirnov...
of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 139th Rifle Division139th Rifle DivisionThe 139th Rifle Division was a infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times during World War II, in 1939 and twice in 1941.Its First Formation was established at Kozelsk in September 1939, on the basis of a regiment of the 81st Rifle Division. It fought in the Winter War with Finland. It...
— formed three times, in 1939 and twice in 1941. - 140th Rifle Division—established at Uman Sep 1939. Wiped out at Nikolayev Aug 1941. Recreated from the 13th Moscow People's Rifle Division at Moscow Jul 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Kanasch Jan 1942. Inactivated Aug 1942. Recreated at Novorossiysk Nov 1942. Fought at Kursk, Zhitomir, Lvov, in the Carpathians, and at Prague. With 38th Army38th Army (Soviet Union)The 38th Red Banner Army of was a field army of the Soviet Union that existed between 1941 and 1991.The army headquarters was formed in July 1941 by redesignation of the staff of 8th Mechanised Corps.On 1 May 1945, the army was part of 4th Ukrainian Front...
of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45.
141 - 150 Divisions
- 141st Rifle Division—established at Slavyansk Sep 1939. Wiped out at Nikolayev Aug 1941. Recreated at Kazan Jan 1942. Fought at Kharkiv, Voronezh, Kiev, Stanislav, and in the Carpathians. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
- 142nd Rifle Division—established at Hiitola prior to Jun 1941. Fought on Finnish front and in East Prussia. With 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 143rd Rifle Division—established at Gomel prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out at Bryansk Oct 1941. Recreated at Korosten Dec 1943. Fought at Kovel, Praga, and Warsaw. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 144th Rifle Division—established at Ivanovo in the autumn of 1939. Fought at Moscow, Smolensk, in Belorussia, at Vilnius and stormed Kaunas Jul 31, 1944. Later fought in East Prussia (Königsberg) and in Manchuria. With Fifth Army of the StavkaStavkaStavka was the term used to refer to a command element of the armed forces from the time of the Kievan Rus′, more formally during the history of Imperial Russia as administrative staff and General Headquarters during late 19th Century Imperial Russian armed forces and those of the Soviet Union...
RVGK Reserve May 1945. - 145th Rifle Division—established at Belgorod prior to Jun 1941. Fought at Smolensk; wiped out at Roslavl Aug 1941. Recreated at Balachna Jan 1942. Fought at Chelm and Vitebsk, then in the Baltic lands and Poland.
- 146th Rifle Division—established at Bedichev Jul 1940. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Kazan Jan 1942. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 147th Rifle Division—established at Lubny Sep 1939. Fought at Kiev and wiped out there Aug 1941. Recreated at Kazan Apr 1942 (Goff, 1998, says reformed from 426th RD about 28 Jan 42). Fought at Stalingrad, in the Ukraine, and at Berlin. With 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 148th Rifle Division—established at Engels prior to Jul 1941. Fought at Voronezh, Kursk, Chernigov, Shepetovka, Ternopol, and Lvov. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 149th Rifle Division—established at Ostrogosh prior to Jun 1941. Fought at Smolensk and Yelnaya; wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Ryazan around 27 Jan 1942 from 427th Rifle Division. Fought at Lenino and Volyinskiy. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 150th Rifle Division—established at Vyazma Sep 1939. Wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated at Turga Aug 1942. Fought at Schneidemühl, Königsberg, and Berlin. Stormed the Reichstag building in April 1945. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945.
151 - 160 Divisions
- 151st Rifle Division—6000 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov MD); established at Udshary prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Udshary Oct 1941. Served on Turkish frontier. Fought at Zhmerinka and Stanislav, in the Carpathians and Hungary, and at Budapest. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 152nd Rifle Division—established at Chita prior to 1939. Fought at Smolensk and Yartsevo; wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated in north Urals Jan 1942 (Goff, 1998, says reformed from 430th RD about 22 January 1942). Fought in Karelia, at Dnepropetrovsk, in East Prussia, and at Berlin. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 153rd Rifle Division153rd Rifle DivisionThe 153rd Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It was formed in the Ural Military District. On 22 June 1941 when the German Operation Barbarossa began, it was serving with the 51st Rifle Corps of the 22nd Army....
—became 3rd Guards Rifle Division September 1941; Re-activated early 1942 as the 153rd Rifle Division; 31st Dec 1942 renamed 57th Guards Rifle Division; with 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. 1957 renamed 57th Guards Motorized Rifle Division; attached to the Eighth Guards Army (1945–1990's). - 154th Rifle Division—established at Ulyanovsk prior to Jun 1941. Fought in Bryansk Pocket and Kaluga. Became 47th Guards Rifle Division in Oct 1942. Recreated at Rzhev May 1943. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 155th Rifle Division—established at Opotschka in 1939. Fought in the Winter War and wiped out at Bryansk 10.41. Recreated at Moscow from 4th Moscow Home Guard Rifle Division 1.42, fought at Kalinin, Kursk, in the Carpathians, and at Budapest. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 156th Rifle Division—established at Staniza-Petrovska prior to Jun 1941. With 9th Rifle Corps of Odessa Military DistrictOdessa Military DistrictThe Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in...
in June 1941 and fought in Crimea. Disbanded Aug 1942. Recreated from 26th and 162nd Rifle Brigades at Kalinin Apr 1943. With 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 157th Rifle Division—established at Novocherkassk in 1939. Fought in the Crimea and Stalingrad, became the 76th Guards Rifle Division 3.43. Recreated from 148th Rifle Brigade at Kalinin 3.43, fought at Chernigov and Insterburg. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 158th Rifle Division—established at YeyskYeysk-External links:* *...
(Ейск) in 1940. Wiped out at Smolensk Aug 1941. Recreated at Moscow from 5th Moscow Home Guard Rifle Division Jan 1942. Fought at Kalinin and Vitebsk. With 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 159th Rifle Division—established at Belaya Tserkov 6.40, with 6th Rifle Corps, 6th Army of the Soviet Southwestern FrontSoviet Southwestern FrontThe Southwestern Front was a name given to a Front by the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the Russian Civil War, and by the Red Army during the Second World War.The Southwestern Front in this article describes several...
22.6.41. Wiped out at Kiev 9.41 and recreated in the Urals the same month. Fought at Stalingrad and became the 61st Guards Rifle Division 1.43. Created again at Rzhev from the 20th Rifle and 49th Ski Brigades 6.43, fought at Vitebsk and Insterburg. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45. See also :fr:159e division de fusiliers. - 160th Rifle Division—established at Gorki from the 6th Moscow People's Militia Rifle Division Jun 1941. Second formation with same number while first still existed, formed Nov 1941. Fought at Kharkiv and Stalingrad. Became the 89th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Created for third time at Gydnia Mar 1945. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. Disbanded in 1955 in the Trancaucasus MD by being renumbered 4th Rifle Division.
161 - 170 Divisions
- 161st Rifle Division (formed 1940, became 4th Guards Rifle Division September 18, 1941. Reformed for the second time in April (or June) 1942 from 13th Separate Rifle Brigade in Moscow MD. Fought at Kursk, in the Carpathians, and in Poland. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 162nd Rifle Division—5600 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov MD)—established at Artemovsk prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Verchniy Ufalev Jan 1942. Inactivated Jul 1942. Recreated at Tashkent from the Central Asia NKVD Division Oct 1942. Fought near Baranov, in Poland, and in the Berlin OperationBattle of BerlinThe Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II....
. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 163rd Rifle Division—established at Vishny Volochev 7.30, was motorized by 9.39, later reverted to leg infantry. Fought at Suomussalmi (wiped out), Pskov, Demyansk, Kiev, Iasi, Budapest, and Vienna. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 164th Rifle Division—established at Orsha Nov 1939. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Lenino Oct 1943; with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 165th Rifle Division—established at Ordzhonikidze prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out Dec 1941. Recreated at Kurgan Dec 1941. Fought at Gydnia in 1945. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 166th Rifle Division—established at Tomsk prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Cherbarkul Jan 1942. Fought at Kursk and in Kurland. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 167th Rifle Division—established at Tula prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Rogachev 8.41. Recreated at Ssucho Lug 2.42, fought near Bryansk, at Kursk, in the Carpathians, and in Hungary. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 168th Rifle Division—established at Sortovala prior to 12.39, fought in Winter War. With 7th Army (Soviet Union)7th Army (Soviet Union)The Soviet Red Army's 7th Army first saw action in the 1939-40 Winter War against Finland. In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps , 50th Rifle Corps , 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade...
on 22 June 1941, fought near Leningrad and Stalingrad. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK 5.45. - 169th Rifle Division—established at Vinnitsa prior to 1940. Fought at Kiev, Uman, Stalingrad, Orel, and in East Prussia. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 170th Rifle Division—established at Sterlitamak prior to Feb 1942. Disbanded same month. Recreated same month at Molotov. Fought at Demyansk, Staraya Russa, Kursk, Rechitsa, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
171 - 180 Divisions
- 171st Rifle Division—established at Kamensk Sep 1939. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Fought in battle for the Reichstag building in Berlin, Apr 1945.
- 172nd Rifle Division—established at Simferopol prior to 6.41 and wiped at Mogilev 7.41. Recreated from 3rd Crimean Rifle Division in 1941. Fought and destroyed at Sevastopol 7.42. Created again at Moscow 10.42, fought at Pavlograd, Kursk, and Kielce. With 13th Army13th Army (Soviet Union)The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. Stayed with the 13th Army postwar in the Kiev Military DistrictKiev Military DistrictThe Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces...
and became the 172nd MRD in 1965. Disbanded by becoming a weapons and equipment storage base in 1990 just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. - 173rd Rifle Division—established at Gjassin in 1940 and wiped out at Uman 8.41. Recreated at Moscow from the 21st People's Militia Rifle Division 9.41. Fought at Tula and Stalingrad, became the 77th Guards Rifle Division 1.3.43. Created again at Staritsa from the 150th Rifle Brigade. Fought at Chernigov, Lenino, and Minsk. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 174th Rifle Division—established at Kurgan 8.40 and became 20th Guards Rifle Division 17.3.42. Created again at Starobelsk from the 130th Motorized Rifle Brigade 4.42 and became 46th Guards Rifle Division 10.42. Recreated at Kaluga from the 28th Rifle Brigade 4.43, fought at Kursk, and in Belorussia and East Prussia. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 175th Rifle Division—established at Prokladny prior to 6.41, wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Tyumen 3.42, fought near Stalingrad and inactivated there 9.42. Recreated again at Sverdlovsk after 10.42, fought at Demyansk and in Belorussia. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 176th Rifle Division—established at Kryvyi Rih 4.41, with Ninth Army in June 1941. Fought at Novorossiysk and became 129th Guards Rifle Division 10.43. Created again at Maselkaya from the 65th and 80th Naval Rifle Brigades 3.44. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 177th Rifle Division—established at Leningrad prior to Jun 1941. Fought in northern areas of front. With 23rd Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 178th Rifle Division—established at Omsk prior to Jun 1941. With 23rd Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 179th Rifle Division—established at Vilnius in 1940. With 29th Rifle Corps of Eleventh Army on June 22, 1941. Fought at Kalinin, Gomel, and Vitebsk; with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 180th Rifle Division—formed 1940 in the Baltic Special MDBaltic Military DistrictThe Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991....
; became 28th Guards RD 3 May 1942, recreated at Tscherepowez 6.42, fought at Kiev, Targul Frumos, and Budapest. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
181 - 190 Divisions
- 181st Rifle Division—established at Gulbene in 1940, wiped out at Staraya Russa 9.41. Recreated at Stalingrad, wiped out at Kalach 8.42. Created again at Chelyabinsk from 10th NKVD Division 2.43, fought at Demyansk, Korosten, and in Poland and Germany. With 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 182nd Rifle Division—established at Dorpat prior to Jun 1941. Fought near Novgorod and Leningrad. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 183rd Rifle Division—established at Wenden prior to 6.41, fought at Rzhev, Kursk, Lvov, and in the Carpathians. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 184th Rifle Division184th Rifle DivisionThe 184th Red Banner Rifle Division was a Soviet Red Army division during World War II . It was with 29th Rifle Corps of Eleventh Army on June 22, 1941, as part of the Baltic Military District. Most of the soldiers rebelled and joined the cause of the Lithuanian Activist Front...
—With 29th Rifle Corps of Eleventh Army on 22.6.41. Part of Fifth Army of the StavkaStavkaStavka was the term used to refer to a command element of the armed forces from the time of the Kievan Rus′, more formally during the history of Imperial Russia as administrative staff and General Headquarters during late 19th Century Imperial Russian armed forces and those of the Soviet Union...
RVGK Reserve 5.45. - 185th Rifle Division—established at Belgorod 9.39, fought at Ryabinki 12.41 and in Belorussia in 1944. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 186th Rifle Division—established at Ufa in 1928. Fought at Leningrad, in Karelia, at Gomel, and in Belorussia and Poland. (The 1st Polar Rifle Division (2 Rifle Regiments+Artillery Regiment) was formed on Sep. 12'41. One regiment was called Communist and another was formed from amnestied prisoners who had been convicted for a small stretches. In October 1941 the 290th Rifle Regiment formed from man-of-war's men was joint to it. In Sept. 19'41 renamed into 186th Rifle Division. In June 26'43 again renamed into 205th Rifle Division (2nd formation)). 186 RD was with 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 187th Rifle Division—6000 чел. (начало сборов 10.06.41, Kharkov MD); established Chernigov prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated, with the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 188th Rifle Division—established at Kazan prior to 6.41, with 29th Rifle Corps of Eleventh Army on 22.6.41. Fought in central Russia and the Ukraine. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45. Gained honor titles of Nizhnedneprovskaya (?- Нижнеднепровская) Red BannerRed BannerRed Banner was a symbol of the USSR associated with the Soviet state flag.Military units, institutions and organizations awarded with the Order of the Red Banner are referred to with the honorific title "of the Red Banner" Red Banner was a symbol of the USSR associated with the Soviet state...
and eventually became the 46th Rocket Division of the Strategic Rocket ForcesStrategic Rocket ForcesThe Strategic Missile Troops or Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or RVSN RF , transliteration: Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, literally Missile Troops of Strategic Designation of the Russian Federation) are a military branch of the Russian...
, which finally disbanded in UkraineUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
in the 1990s. - 189th Rifle Division—established at Leningrad prior to Jun 1941. Fought at Tartu and in Kurland. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 190th Rifle Division—established at Cherkassy prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Rzhev 10.41. With the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
191 - 200 Divisions
- 191st Rifle Division—established at Leningrad prior to Jun 1941. Fought at Kingisepp, Oranienbaum, Tikhvin, Narva, and Tartu. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 192nd Rifle Division—established at Rostov prior to 11.40, with cadre from the 80th Rifle Division, and wiped out at Konotop September 1941. Recreated 6.42 and inactivated 8.42. Created again at Ssyteschevka 5.43, fought in Belorussia. With 39th Army39th Army (Soviet Union)The 39th Army was a Field Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army formed on 15 November 1941 in the Arkhangelsk Military District, in accordance with a directive issued by the Stavka on 2 November 1941...
of the RVGK 5.45. - 193rd Rifle Division193rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 193rd Tank Division was originally a Red Army infantry division that was reorganised after World War II as a mechanised and finally a tank division of the Soviet Army.- 1st Formation :...
—established at Korosten May 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Sorotschinik May 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, and in Belorussia and Poland. With 105th Rifle CorpsRifle corps (Soviet)A rifle corps was a Soviet military organization of the mid-twentieth century. Rifle corps were made up of a varying number of rifle divisions, although the allocation of three rifle divisions to a rifle corps was common during the latter part of World War II.Unlike army corps formed by Germany...
, 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 194th Mountain Rifle Division—established at Tashkent prior to Aug 1941. Fought at Yelnaya, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and in Belorussia, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 195th Rifle Division—established at Ovruch prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated in the Urals 3.42 from 423rd RD, fought at Stalingrad and in the Ukraine. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 196th Rifle Division—established at Dnepropetrovsk Jul 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Kisner Jan 1942. Fought at Stalingrad with 62nd Army. Fought in East Prussia and Kurland. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 197th Rifle Division—established at Kiev 4.41 and wiped out at Uman 8.41. Recreated at Krasnodar 3.42, fought at Stalingrad and became the 59th Guards Rifle Division 1.43. Again created at Kubyshev 2.43, fought at Bryansk and in Poland. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 198th Rifle Division—established as a motorized division at Leningrad Jun 1941. Inactivated Dec 1941 and recreated at Rybinsk post-1941. With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 199th Rifle Division—established at Novosibirsk May 1941. Fought at Lake Ilmen and Kharkiv. Inactivated Sep 1942. Recreated at Kalinin from the 126th and 128th Rifle Brigades Feb 1943. Fought at Smolensk and in East Prussia. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 200th Rifle Division—established at Belokorovichi prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Busulusk Feb 1942 from 425th Rifle Division. Fought in Belorussia, at Gydnia, and at Berlin. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
201 - 210 Divisions
- 201st Rifle Division—established Aug 1941 at Gorki. Became 43rd Guards Rifle Division Oct 1942. Recreated from 27th Rifle Brigade at Schlusselburg Nov 1943; with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 202nd Rifle Division—established at Leningrad as motor rifle division by 1941. Reverted to leg infantry, fought at Sol'tsa, Kiev, and Korsun. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 203rd Rifle Division—established at Vorishilovsk 2.41, fought at Stalingrad, Zaporozhye, and Budapest. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Eventually became the 203rd MRD in 1965 after a short period as the 102nd MRD and spent the Cold War serving in the Turkestan and Central Asian Military Districts.
- 204th Rifle Division—established at Volkhovsk as motorized division in Apr 1941, and with 11th Mechanised Corps, Third Army in Jun 1941. Wiped out at Yelna Aug 1941. Recreated at Blagoveshensk Nov 1941. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 78th Guards Rifle Division. Recreated from 37th Rifle Brigade at Nelidovo Jul 1943. Fought at Kursk, in Belorussion Operation and in Kurland. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 205th Rifle Division—established at Khabarovsk prior to Jun 1941. Apparently destroyed or disbanded. Recreated at Murmansk Oct 1941. Wiped out at Stalingrad Oct 1942. Recreated from 1st Polar Rifle Division and 186th Rifle Division Oct 1942. Fought at Danzig. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 206th Rifle Division—established at Pavlograd prior to Jun 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Buguruslan Jan 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, Korsun, and Targul Frumos. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 207th Rifle Division—established at Ivanovo Aug 1942. Fought and destroyed at Stalingrad, Aug—Oct 1942. Recreated at Yelnaya from 40th Rifle Brigade in the rear areas of the Soviet Western Front in June 1943. Fought in the Baltic countries and at Berlin. Consisting of 594th, 597th and 598th Rifle Regiments, cleared Kroll Opera House April 30, 1945 while fighting with 3rd Shock Army3rd Shock Army (Soviet Union)The 3rd Shock Army was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The 'Shock' armies were created with the specific structure to engage and destroy significant enemy forces, and were reinforced with more armoured and artillery assets than other combined arms armies...
of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
. From circa 1946 to 1965 numbered the 32nd Division; regained its original number as 207th Motor Rifle Division 1965. Served with Group of Soviet Forces in GermanyGroup of Soviet Forces in GermanyThe Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany....
until the fall of the Soviet Union (with 2nd Guards Tank Army for a long period). - 208th Rifle Division208th Rifle DivisionThe 208th Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division in the Red Army during World War II. It began Operation Barbarossa as the 208th Mechanized Division under Colonel V.I. Nichiporovich, with the 128th Tank Regiment and 752nd and 760th Motorized Rifle Regiments. The Division was part of the 13th...
—with 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 209th Rifle Division—established at Ivye 4.41 as a motor rifle division. Wiped out at Minsk 7.41 and inactivated 9.41. Recreated 1944(?), part of 17th Army (Soviet Union)17th Army (Soviet Union)The 17th Army of the Red Army was a Soviet field army. It was formed from the 1st Army Group of the Transbaikal Military District on 21 July 1940 . From 1941 to 1945, the army assumed a general defensive posture, including within Mongolia...
during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, and with 36th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 210th Rifle Division—established March 1941 as a motorised division, fought at Rzhev 8.41. Reorganised as 4th Cavalry Division 1941. Reformed, With 36th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45.
211 - 220 Divisions
- 211th Rifle Division—established at Zagorsk prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Novossil 1.42 (Goff, 1998, says reformed from 429th RD about 16 Dec 1941), fought at Voronezh, Kursk, and Chenigov. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 212th Rifle Division—established at Cherkassy 6.41, fought at Moscow, Kharkov, and Stalingrad. Inactivated at Stalingrad 11.42. Recreated at Ssuschinitschi from the 4th and 125th Rifle Brigades 6.43, fought at Kursk. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 213th Rifle Division—established at Vinnitsa 3.41 and wiped out at Uman 8.41. Recreated at Katta Kurgan 1.42, fought at Kursk, Targul Frumos, and in the Vistula-Oder Operation. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 214th Rifle Division—6,000 establishment (commenced mobilisation at LuhanskLuhanskLuhansk also known as Lugansk is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Luhansk Oblast . The city itself is also designated as its own separate municipality within the oblast...
on the 10 June 1941, Kharkov MD); established at Vorishilovgrad 4.41 and wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Ufa 1.42, fought at Stalingrad, Voronezh, Kremenchug, Kirovograd, and the Puławy Bridgehead. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 215th Rifle Division—established at Rovno 4.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Nelidovo 4.42, fought on the Terek River, and at Smolensk and Vilnius. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45. Moved to the Far East and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Eventually became 124th MRD in 1965 and, later, the 199th MRD in 1989.
- 216th Rifle Division216th Rifle DivisionThe 216th Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was descended from the 216th Rifle Division, a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army. It was established at Staro Konstantinov in May 1941...
—established at Staro Konstantinov in May 1941. Fought at Kharkiv and in Karelia, Crimea, and Kurland. With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. 216 RD in Fourth Army (Soviet Union) until 1955, brief period as 104 Mech Div, 216 MRD 1965, disbanded 1985. - 217th Rifle Division—established at Voronezh Jun 1941. Fought at Yelnaya and wiped out in Bryansk Pocket. Recreated Pavlograd Oct 1941. Fought at Kaluga, near Kursk, and in Belorussia, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 218th Rifle Division—established at Gusyatin prior to 6.41, inactivated 7.42. Recreated at Kiev 11.43, fought at Zhitomir. With 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 219th Rifle Division—established as motor rifle division at Kharkiv 4.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated as rifle division at Kirssanov 5.42, fought near Stalingrad. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK 5.45. - 220th Rifle Division—established at Vyazma in 1941, fought at Yelnaya, Vyazma, Rzhev, Grodno, and Minsk. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45.
221 - 230 Divisions
- 221st Rifle Division—established at Krasnoufinsk 3.42, fought at Stalingrad and inactivated 11.42. Recreated 6.43 from the 79th Rifle Brigade. Fought in East Prussia. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 222nd Rifle Division—established at Starodub Apr 1941. Fought at Yelnaya, Moscow, Mozhaisk, Smolensk, Lenino, Kalinin, and Mogilev. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 223rd 'Belgrade Red Banner Azerbaijan' Rifle Division— Azeri national formation. Established at Kuba 9.41, fought at Terek River, and in the Caucasus and the Ukraine, and later in Yugoslavia. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945. See also http://www.vojska.net/eng/world-war-2/soviet-union/division/rifle/233/.
- 224th Rifle Division—established at Suchum around Dec 1941. Wiped out at Kerch May 1942. Recreated at Onenga Jun 1942. With 23rd Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 225th Rifle Division—established at Yerevan 10.41, fought at Novgorod and Kattowitz. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 226th Rifle Division—established at Orochevo 6.41, fought at Kharkiv, inactivated 7.42. Recreated at Bugurusslan 9.42 and became 95th Guards Rifle Division 4.5.43. Created again at Lgov 7.43, fought at Kiev and Debica. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 227th Rifle Division—5900 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov MD); established at Sslavyansk 4.41, wiped out at Kharkiv 5.42. Recreated from 19th Rifle and 84th Naval Rifle Brigades summer 1942, fought at Kursk and in the Crimea. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. From autumn 1945 it was deployed in Krasnoyarsk. In May, 1946 it was disbanded by being reformed as 49th Separate Rifle Brigade.
- 228th Rifle Division—established at Zhitomir prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Kansk 11.41, fought at Stalingrad and in the Ukraine. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 229th Rifle Division—established at Noginsk 5.41, fought at Stalingrad and wiped out at Kalatsch 8.42. Recreated at Volokolamsk 12.42, fought at Opole. With 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 230th Rifle Division—established at Dnepropetrovsk Jul 1941. Fought in Uman Pocket Aug 1941. Inactivated Aug 1942. Recreated from 229th Rifle Brigade Jun 1943. Fought at Stalino and Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945.
231 - 240 Divisions
- 231st Rifle Division—established Kungur 1941, near Stalingrad 8.42 and inactivated 11.42. Recreated; with the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 232nd Rifle Division—6000 чел. (начало сборов 1.06.41, Kharkov MD). Established at Chernigov prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Biysk 1.42, fought at Voronezh, Kiev, and Iasi. With 40th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 233rd Rifle Division—established at Zvenigorod 5.41 and wiped out at Smolensk 9.41. Recreated at Naro Fominsk 8.42, fought at Stalingrad, Kremenchug, Iasi, and in Hungary. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 234th Rifle Division—established at Kostroma from Yaroslavl Home Guard Division 6.41, fought on central part of front and in Warsaw. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 235th Rifle Division—established at Nikopol May 1941. Wiped out vicinity Luga Sep 1941. Recreated at Novosibirsk Mar 1942. Fought on central part of front, and at Vitebsk and Königsberg. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 236th Rifle Division—established at Kazakh 2.41, fought in the Crimea, the Caucasus, at Tuapse and in the Kuban, and at Belgrade. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 237th Rifle Division—Established at Petrazadovsk 4.41, with Seventh Army (Soviet Union) on 22.6.41. Fought near Leningrad and destroyed there 9.41. Recreated at Stalinsk 2.42, fought on the Dnieper River, and in the Carpathians. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 238th Rifle Division—established in Kazakhstan (Turkestan Military DistrictTurkestan Military DistrictThe Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was...
) in early June 1941. Formed from Poles and people of Polish ancestry. Fought near Moscow and became 30th Guards Rifle Division May 1942. Recreated Arzamas Jun 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, Karachev, and in Belorussia, Poland, and East Prussia. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 239th Rifle Division—established at Tambov prior to 8.41, fought at the Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
and in the Carpathians. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 240th Rifle Division—established at Kupyansk prior to 6.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Kupyansk 10.41, fought at Kursk, Kiev, Targul Frumos, and in the Carpathians. With 40th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
241 - 250 Divisions
- 241st Rifle Division—established at Vishniy Volocheck 10.41, fought at Kursk, Vinnitsa, and in the Carpathians. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 242nd Mountain Rifle Division—established at Moscow 7.41 and inactivated 10.41. Recreated at Grozny 3.42, fought at Mount ElbrusMount ElbrusMount Elbrus is an inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Mt. Elbrus's peak is the highest in the Caucasus, in Russia...
, in the Kuban and Taman Peninsula, at Kerch and Sevastopol. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 243rd Rifle Division—established at Yaroslavl 7.41, fought at Smolensk, Zaporozhye, and in the Ukraine. With 1st Guards Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 244th Rifle Division—established at Dimitrov 7.41 and wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated and merged with 469th Rifle Division at Stalingrad, fought at Zaporozhye. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 245th Rifle Division—established at Vishniy Volocheck 7.41, fought at Kattowitz. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 246th Rifle Division—established at Rybinsk 7.41, fought at Kursk, in the Crimea, and at Krakow. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 247th Rifle Division—established at Murom 7.41, fought at Kursk, the Puławy Bridgehead, and Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 248th Rifle Division—established at Vyazma Jul 1941; wiped out there Oct 1941. Recreated at Astrakhan May 1942. Fought near Kharkiv May 1942 and wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated at Astrakhan Jul 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, in the Ukraine and Pomerania, and at Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 249th Rifle Division—established in Urals prior to 1941. Fought at Demyansk and Kalinin. Became 16th Guards Rifle Division Feb 1942. Recreated at ChebarkulChebarkulChebarkul is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Chebarkul Lake west of Chelyabinsk. Population: Founded in 1736 as a fortress on the border between Russian and Bashkir lands, it later grew into a large Cossack stanitsa...
, March 1942, as an Estonian national formation. With 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. Became 122nd Guards Rifle Division June 1945. - 250th Rifle Division—established at Vladimir Jul 1941. Fought at Smolensk (1941), Kursk, Gomel, and in Belorussia. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945.
251 - 260 Divisions
- 251st Rifle Division—established at Kolomna Jul 1941. Fought at Smolensk, Moscow, Iasi, Targul Frumos, and in the Belorussian Operation and Kurland. With Soviet Second Guards ArmySoviet Second Guards ArmyThe 2nd Guards Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army that fought in World War II, notably at Stalingrad.2nd Guards Army was formed according to the order of the Staff of the Supreme High Command from October, 23rd, 1942 on the basis of the 1st Reserve Army. Formation and training was...
of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 252nd Rifle Division—established at Serpukhov 7.41 and wiped out at Belyi 5.42. Recreated at Molotov 8.42, fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, Iasi, and Pressburg. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 253rd Rifle Division—established at Volochansk 7.41, fought at Rostov and Kharkiv before being wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated at Chapyevsk 9.42, fought on the Dnieper River and Kalinkovichi. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 254th Rifle Division—established at Tula 7.41, fought at Staraya Russa, Demyansk, Kursk, Korsun, Iasi, and Czestochowa. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 255th Rifle Division—established at Pavlograd 8.41, fought in Uman Pocket, inactivated 7.42. Recreated ?, with 15th Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45.
- 256th Rifle Division—established ?, fought at Smolensk, Moscow, and Kursk. With 22nd Army22nd Army (Soviet Union)The 22nd Army was a field army of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Moscow Military District. It was active from 1941 to 2010. The order for the formation's dissolution was signed by the Minister of Defence on 1 July 2009....
of the RVGK 5.45. - 257th Rifle Division—established at Tula Jul 1941. Fought at Kerch and Velikiye Luki. Became 91st Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated at Krimskaya from 9th Rifle, 60th Rifle, and 62nd Naval Rifle Brigades Jun 1943. With 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 258th Rifle Division—established at Orel 7.41, fought at Bryansk, Roslavl, and Tula. Became the 12th Guards Rifle Division 1.42. Recreated; with the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 259th Rifle Division—established at Serpukhov 7.41, fought at Leningrad and in the Ukraine. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 260th Rifle Division—established at Kalinin 7.41, fought at Bryansk and destroyed there 10.41. Recreated at Volokolamsk after 10.41. Fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, and in Belorussia and Poland. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945.
261 - 270 Divisions
- 261st Rifle Division—established at Berdyansk 7.41, inactivated 10.42, subsequently recreated and with 45th Army of the Transcaucasus Front 5.45. After the war became 127th MRD and then, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian 102nd Military Base in independent Armenia.
- 262nd Rifle Division—established at Vladimir 7.41, fought at Demidov, Tilsit, and in Manchuria. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 263rd Rifle Division—established at Vologda Nov 1941. Fought near Leningrad and in the Ukraine and Crimea. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 264th Rifle Division—established at Poltava 7.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated Svyatogorsk 5.42, became the 48th Guards Rifle Division 10.42. Recreated; with the 35th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 265th Rifle Division—established at Leningrad, likely in 1941. Fought at Vyborg and Tortolovo. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 266th Rifle Division—established at Kaluga as a motor rifle division Jul 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Stalingrad Jan 1942. Fought at Kharkiv May 1942. Merged with 417th Rifle Division May 1942. Recreated at Kuibyshev Aug 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, in the Ukraine, in the Lvov-Sandomir and Iasi-Kishinev operationsBattle of Romania (1944)The Jassy–Kishinev Operation, named after the two major cities, Iaşi and Chişinău, in the staging area, was a Soviet offensive against Axis forces, which took place in Eastern Romania from 20–29 August 1944...
, and at Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 267th Rifle Division—established at Stary Oskol in Aug 1941. Wiped out at Volchov Jun 1942. Recreated at Serpukhov Sep 1942. Fought in the Ukraine, Crimea, and vicinity Riga. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. Disbanded while stationed at TulaTula, RussiaTula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...
and PlavskPlavskPlavsk is a town and the administrative center of Plavsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Plava River. Population:...
in the Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
in February-April 1946, as part of 1st Guards Rifle Corps, the divisional headquarters staff joining the arriving 75th Guards Rifle Division. - 268th Rifle Division—established at Mozyr 7.41, fought at Leningrad and Mga. With 22nd Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 269th Rifle Division—established at Kolomna Jul 1941. Fought at Moscow, Orel, Gomel, Rogachev, Białystok, and Ostrołenka. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 270th Rifle Division270th Rifle DivisionThe 270th Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division formed twice during World War II, in 1941 and 1942. After World War II it became a motor rifle division and became part of the Russian Ground Forces after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991....
—established at Melitopol Jul 1941. Wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated Voronezh Oct 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, Kharkiv, and Kursk; with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. Eventually became 270th Motor Rifle Division and today serves with the Russian Ground ForcesRussian Ground ForcesThe Russian Ground Forces are the land forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed from parts of the collapsing Soviet Army in 1992. The formation of these forces posed economic challenges after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and required reforms to professionalize the force...
in the Far East.
271 - 280 Divisions
- 271st Rifle Division—established at Orel 7.41, fought at Moscow, Makhachkala, Kursk, in the Carpathians, and at Budapest. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 272nd Rifle Division—established at Tikhvin Jul 1941. Fought on Svir River and near Danzig. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 273rd Rifle Division—established at Dnepropetrovsk 8.41 and wiped out there 9.41. Recreated at Podolsk 7.42, fought at Stalingrad and in Belorussia. With 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 274th Rifle Division—established at Zaporozhye 8.41, fought at the Puławy Bridgehead and Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 275th Rifle Division—established at Novo-Moskovsk 8.41, fought at Digora, inactivated 12.42. Recreated in Far East 8.44, with 2nd Rifle Corps of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 276th Rifle Division—established at Simferopol 3.41 and wiped out at Kerch 5.42. Recreated at Kutaisi 10.42, as Georgian national formation. Fought on the Terek River and in the Carpathians, and gained titles 'Temiryukskaya Red Banner.' With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 277th Rifle Division—established at Dimitriyev 8.41 and wiped out at Korep 9.41. Recreated at Frolov 1.42, fought at Stalingrad, Rosslavl, and Vilnius. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 278th Rifle Division—established at Livny 8.41 and wiped out at Bryansk 10.41. Recreated near Stalingrad 1.42, fought at Stalingrad and became the 60th Guards Rifle Division 1.43. Recreated ?, with 36th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 279th Rifle Division—established at Dzerzhinsk Jul 1941. Wiped out at Bryansk Oct 1941. Recreated at Balachina Aug 1942. Fought at Zaporozhye, in the Ukraine, Crimea, and Kurland. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 280th Rifle Division—established at Tula 7.41, wiped out at Bryansk 10.41, recreated at Voronezh 1.43, fought at Kursk and Korosten. With 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45.
281 - 290 Divisions
- 281st Rifle Division—established in Leningrad MD Jul 1941. Fought at Kingisepp, Volkhov, and Danzig. With 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 282nd Rifle Division—established at Moscow 7.41, wiped out at Bryansk 10.41. Recreated at Omsk 2.42, fought in Poland. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 283rd Rifle Division—established at Schtschigry Sep 1941. Fought at Gomel, Białystok, and in East Prussia. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 284th Rifle Division—established at Romny 7.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Tomsk 3.42, fought at Stalingrad and became the 79th Guards Rifle Division 3.43. Recreated ?, with 17th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 285th Rifle Division—established at Kostroma 7.41, fought at Volkhov and Kattowitz. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 286th Rifle Division—established at Cherepovets 7.41, fought near Leningrad and Kattowitz. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 287th Rifle Division—established at Yelez 7.41, wiped out at Bryansk 10.41. Recreated at Lipetsk 12.41, fought at Orel, Gomel, Zhitomir, Przemysyl, in Silesia and the Berlin and Prague Operations. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 288th Rifle Division—established at Yaroslavl Jul 1941. Fought at Tikhvin, Tartu, and in Kurland. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 289th Rifle Division—established at Lubny 7.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated 10.41 and served near Leningrad. With 4th Rifle Corps of the Belarussian Military District in 5.45.
- 290th Rifle Division—established at Kaljasin Aug 1941. Fought at Bryansk, Moscow, Lenino, and Mogilev. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945.
291 - 300 Divisions
- 291st Rifle Division—established at Rybinsk 8.41, fought near Leningrad and in Poland. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 292nd Rifle Division—established Kransogvardeysk 7.41, fought at Volkhov and Stalingrad. Probably inactivated 11.42, recreated ?, and with 2nd Rifle Corps of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 293rd Rifle Division—established at Sumy 7.41, joined 40th Army40th Army (Soviet Union)The 40th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1945 and then again from 1979 to circa 1990.It was first formed, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had commenced, from elements of the 26th and 37th Armies under the command...
on its creation in late 1941, then fought at Kharkiv, Tula, and Stalingrad; became 66th Guards Rifle Division66th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 66th Guards Rifle Division was a formation of the Red Army and later of Ukrainian Ground Forces.After October 1999, full name of the Division became 66th Guards Mechanized Bukovyna, Poltava Red Banner Division of the 38th Army Corps of the Western Operational Command of the Armed Forces of...
1.43. Recreated ?, with Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 294th Rifle Division—established at Lipetsk Sep 1941. Fought at Tikhvin, Korsun, and Targul Frumos. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. Redesignated 24th Rifle Division (3rd formation) on July, 10th, 1945. - 295th Rifle Division—established at Chuguyev Sep 1941. Fought at Kiev, in Caucasus Mountains, at Kherson, Nikolayev, and Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 296th Rifle Division—existed by 8.41, inactivated near Stalingrad 8.42, recreated ? and with 12th Rifle Corps of the Transcaucasus Front 5.45. Georgian national formation.
- 297th Rifle Division—established at Lubny 7.41, fought at Khorol, Kirovograd, Iasi, and Budapest. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 298th Rifle Division—established in Moscow Military District 8.41 and wiped out at Bryansk 10.41. Recreated at Barnaul 1.42, fought at Stalingrad and became the 80th Guards Rifle Division 3.43. Recreated 7.43, with 36th Army of the Transbaikal FrontTransbaikal FrontThe Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
5.45. - 299th Rifle Division—established at Belgorod 7.41 and wiped out at Bryansk 10.41. Recreated at Kovrov in 1942, fought at Stalingrad, Kharkiv, and Iasi. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 300th Rifle Division—likely established in Kharkov Military District Jul 1941. Fought at Lake Ilmen, Kharkiv, and Stalingrad. Became 86th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated at ? in ?. With the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
301 - 310 Divisions
- 301st Rifle Division—established at Poltava Aug 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated at Krasnoyarsk Mar 1942. Fought at Stalino, the Seelow Heights, and in Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 302nd Mountain Rifle Division—established at Krasnodar 7.41, fought at Feodosiya, Stalingrad, Ternopol, and Debica. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 303rd Rifle Division—established at Voronezh 7.41 and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Typki 3.42, fought at Voronezh, Kursk, and Iasi. With 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 304th Rifle Division—established at Solotnoscha 8.41, fought at Kharkiv and Stalingrad, became 67th Guards Rifle Division 1.43. Recreated from 43rd and 256th Rifle Brigades 6.43, fought at Temruk, Zhitomir, and in the Carpathians. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 305th Rifle Division—established at Dmitrov 7.41 and wiped out at Volkhov 6.42. Recreated at Voronezh 10.42, fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Carpathians. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 306th Rifle Division—established at Yuriev Sep 1941; with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 307th Rifle Division—established at Ivanovo Jul 1941. Fought at Voronezh, Kursk, and in Poland. With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 308th Rifle Division—established at Omsk in May 1942 from the teaching staff of the "Omsk rifle school in the name of Frunze". Fought at Barrikady Factory in Stalingrad. Became the 120th Guards Rifle Division120th Guards Mechanised BrigadeThe 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade is a mechanised infantry brigade of the Belarusian Ground Forces. It is the heir to the traditions of the Red Army 120th Guards Rifle Division which became the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division around 1957....
in Sep 1943. Recreated as a Latvian national formation as 308th Latvian Rifle Red Banner Division. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 309th Rifle Division—established at Kursk 7.41, wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Abakan in January 1942, then fought at Kharkiv, Kursk, the Kaniv Bridgehead, Stanislav, and in Poland and Germany. With 6th Army6th Army (Soviet Union)The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces up until 1998...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 310th Rifle Division—established at Akmolinsk Jul 1941. Fought at Tikhvin, Volkhov, and Danzig. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
311 - 320 Divisions
- 311th Rifle Division—established at Kisov (Kirov oblast) 7.41, fought at Smolensk, Mga, and Volkhov. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 312th Rifle Division—established at Aktubinsk 7.41, wiped out at Maloyaroslavl 11.41. Recreated at Slavgorod 1.42, fought at Smolensk, the Puławy Bridgehead, Poznań, and Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 313th Rifle Division—established in Turkestan Jun 1941. Fought at Leningrad and Danzig. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 314th Rifle Division—established at Petropavlovsk 7.41, fought on Finnish front. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 315th Rifle Division—established at Barnaul 7.42, fought at Stalingrad, Melitopol, and in the Crimea. With Independent Coastal Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 316th Rifle Division—established at Alma Ata Jul 1941. Became 8th Guards Rifle Division on November 18, 1941, following the actions of the panfilovtsy8th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 8th Guards Panfilov Division originally the 316th Rifle Division, is a motorized infantry division of the Military of Kyrgyzstan,...
along the Volokolamsk Highway. Recreated at Vjasniki Jul 1942. Fought near Stalingrad; disbanded Nov 1942. Recreated at Krasnodar from 57th and 131st Rifle Brigades Sep 1943. Fought at Temruk. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 317th Rifle Division—established at Baku 8.41 and wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated at Makhachkala 8.42, fought at Stalingrad, Kerch, and Uzhgorod. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 318th Mountain Rifle Division—established at Rostov from the 78th Rifle Brigade 6.42, fought at Tuapse, Krasnodar, Kerch, and in the Carpathians. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 319th Rifle Division—established at Makhachkala 8.42. Fought in Caucasus. Disbanded 2.43. Recreated 32nd and 33rd Rifle Brigades at Cholm 10.43. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
5.45. - 320th Rifle Division—established at Crimea 9.41, fought in the Crimea and wiped out at Kerch 5.42. Recreated at Leninakan 9.42, fought at Stalingrad, in the Caucasus, and at Jenakijevo. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45.
321 - 330 Divisions
- 321st Rifle Division—established at Voronezh Sep 1941. Wiped out at Kerch Nov 1941. Recreated at Borzya Apr 1942. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 82nd Guards Rifle Division Mar 1943. Recreated from 137th Rifle Brigade Apr 1944. Fought at Danzig. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 322nd Rifle Division—established at Gorki in July 1941, fought at the Battle of Moscow, Sukinichi, Voronezh, Kursk, Kiev, Zhitomir, and in southern Poland and Germany. Liberated Auschwitz on 27.1.45. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 323rd Rifle Division—established at Tambov Aug 1941. Fought at Mikhalov and Bryansk. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 324th Rifle Division324th Rifle DivisionThe 324th Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. On 6.04.1945 it was part of the 69th Rifle Corps of the 50th Army....
—with 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 325th Rifle Division—established at Morschansk Oct 1941. Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
. Became 90th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated at Luknja from the 23rd and 54th Rifle Brigades, May 1943. Fought at Kursk. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 326th Rifle Division—established at Saransk Aug 1941. Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
and Danzig. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 327th Rifle Division—established at Voronezh Nov 1941. Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
in Dec 1941. Became 64th Guards Rifle Division Jan 1943. Subsequently recreated; with 8th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 328th Rifle Division—established at Yaroslavl 9.41, fought at Moscow 12.41. Became 31st Guards Rifle Division 3.42; recreated Besslan 7.42. Fought near Tuapse and Krimskaya, in Belorussia and Poland, and at Berlin. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 329th Rifle Division—established at Voronezh 9.41, fought at Mozhaisk 1.42. Apparently wiped out or inactivated, recreated at Lutsk 4.44. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 330th Rifle Division—established Tula 8.41, fought at Moscow, Kursk, and Danzig. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
5.45.
331 - 340 Divisions
- 331st Rifle Division—established at Tambov 10.41, fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
, Bryansk, Smolensk, in East Prussia and the Prague Operation. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 332nd Rifle Division—established at Nanovo Aug 1941. Fought in Lvov-Sandomir Operation and in Kurland. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 333rd Rifle Division—established at Kamychin 8.41, fought at Stalingrad and Zaporozhye. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 334th Rifle Division—established at Kazan Oct 1941. Fought near Orel, Kursk, Vitebsk, and in Kurland. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 335th Rifle Division—established at Stalingrad 9.41, fought near Stalingrad, inactivated 8.42. Recreated; with the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 336th Rifle Division—established at Gorki 11.41, fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
, Mozhaisk, Zhitomir, Ternopol, and Kattowitz. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 337th Rifle Division—established at Astrakhan 9.41, fought in the Caucasus and Kuban, and at Korsun, Debrecen, and Budapest. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 338th Rifle Division—established at Penza 11.41, fought at Vyazma, Lenino, and in Belorussia. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 339th Rifle Division—established at Rostov Aug 1941. Fought at Taganrov, Rostov, Kerch, and Sevastopol. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 340th Rifle Division—established at Balaschov 9.41, fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
, Kharkiv, Korsun, and in the Carpathians. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45.
341 - 350 Divisions
- 341st Rifle Division—established at Stalingrad 12.41, wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated ?, with Belarussian Military District 5.45.
- 342nd Rifle Division—established at Saratov 11.41, fought near Orel and Bolkhov, became 121st Guards Rifle Division 9.43. Recreated ?, with 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45. Eventually became 33rd Motor Rifle Division33rd Motor Rifle DivisionOriginally formed as a fortified region, the 33rd Motor-Rifle Order of the Red Banner Division was a rifle division of the Soviet Union's Red Army...
. - 343rd Rifle Division97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine....
—established Aug-Sept 1941, in Stavropol, fought at Kharkiv and Stalingrad; became 97th Guards Rifle Division97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine....
May 1942. For combat history see, for example: “ World War II ". Soviet Encyclopaedia, 1985, p. 573 or I.A. Samchuk “Guards from Poltava " (Military Publishing, 1965). Recreated at Mogilev Feb 1944. With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 344th Rifle Division—established Oct 1941, vicinity Moscow, became (or remnants contributed to the formation of the) 58th Guards Rifle Division in Dec 1942. Later recreated and saw action at MemelBattle of MemelThe Battle of Memel or the Siege of Memel took place when the Soviets launched their Memel Offensive Operation in late 1944. The offensive led to a three-month siege against German forces in a small bridgehead in the town and its port....
in 1945. With 1st Shock Army1st Shock ArmyThe 1st Shock Army was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.The 1st Shock Army was created in late 1941 and fought in the northern areas of Russia and the Baltic States until the defeat of Germany in 1945...
of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. - 345th Rifle Division—established Sep 1941 at Makhachkala in the Caucasus. Destroyed near Sevastopol in July 1942. Recreated ?, with 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45.
- 346th Rifle Division—established Aug 1941 at Volsk. Fought at Stalingrad and in the Crimea. With 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
in May 1945. - 347th Rifle Division—established Sep 1941 at Krasnodar. Fought at Melitopol and in the Crimea. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 348th Rifle Division—established Oct 1941 at Kubyshev. Fought at Klin, Kursk, and Białystok. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 349th Rifle Division—established Sep 1941 at Astrakhan. Inactivated Oct 1942. Recreated ?, with 45th Army of the Transcaucasus Front 5.45. Georgian national formation.
- 350th Rifle Division—established at Atkarsk 8.41, fought at Orel, near Stalingrad, at Kharkiv, Zhitomir, the Baranov Bridgehead, and Berlin. With 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45.
351 - 360 Divisions
- 351st Rifle Division—established at Stalingrad 9.41 and wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated at Ordzhonikidze 8.42, fought at Krasny Oktybar and in the Ukraine. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 352nd Rifle Division—established at Bugulma 8.41, fought at Moscow, Rzhev, and Grodno. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 353rd Rifle Division—established at Krasnodar 9.41, fought at Rostov, Tuapse, in the Kuban, at Krasnodar and Budapest. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 354th Rifle Division—established at Kuibyshev Oct 1941. Fought near Moscow, at Kursk, in Belorussia and Poland. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 355th Rifle Division—established Kirov 9.41, wiped out at Rzhev 7.42. Recreated in (Kirov oblast), fought in Finland 1944, with 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45.
- 356th Rifle Division—established at Kuibyshev 11.41, fought at Orel, Kursk, in Belorussia, and at Riga and Berlin. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 357th Rifle Division—established at Sarapul Oct 1941. Fought at Rzhev and Velikiye Luki; with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 358th Rifle Division—established at Bugurusslan 8.41, fought near Orel and in Finland. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 359th Rifle Division—established at Krasnodar 10.41, fought at Rzhev, Kalinin, Korsun, and in the Carpathians. With 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 360th Rifle Division—established at Chkalov Sep 1941. Fought at Nevel and in Belorussia and Kurland; with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
361 - 370 Divisions
- 361st Rifle Division—established at Ufa 10.41, fought at Torzhok, became the 21st Guards Rifle Division 3.42. Recreated ?, with 15th Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45, was in Manchuria 8.45.
- 362nd Rifle Division—established at Archangelsk Sep 1941. Fought at Moscow and Rzhev. Became 22nd Guards Rifle Division Mar 1942. Recreated ?; with 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 363rd Rifle Division—established at Sverdlovsk 9.41. Fought at Moscow and Rzhev, became the 22nd Guards Rifle Division 3.42. Recreated; with the 35th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 364th Rifle Division—established at Omsk Sep 1941. Fought vicinity Leningrad and at the Puławy Bridgehead. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 365th Rifle Division—established at Sverdlovsk 10.41, fought at Moscow and wiped out at Rzhev 2.42. Recreated; with the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 366th Rifle Division—established at Tomsk 9.41, fought in far north, became the 19th Guards Rifle Division 17.3.42. Recreated, with the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 367th Rifle Division—established at Shandansk 8.41, fought in northern Finland and Norway. With 14th Army in northern Norway 5.45.
- 368th Rifle Division—established in Siberia 9.41, served on Finnish front and in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation; with the Belarussian Military District 5.45.
- 369th Rifle Division—established at Kurgan Sep 1941. Fought at Kursk, in Belorussian Operation, and at Danzig. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 370th Rifle Division—established at Tomsk 9.41, fought at Demyansk, Staraya Russa, the Puławy Bridgehead, and Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45.
371 - 380 Divisions
- 371st Rifle Division—established at Sverdlovsk 10.41, fought at Klin, Kursk, and Vilnius. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 372nd Rifle Division—established at Barnaul Sep 1941. Fought at Leningrad, Vyborg, and Danzig. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. Became 68th MRD and today is a division of the Military of KazakhstanMilitary of KazakhstanThe Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan...
. - 373rd Rifle Division—established at Cherbarkul 8.41, fought at Torzhok and Targul Frumos. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 374th Rifle Division—established at Bologovo Aug 1941; with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. Disbanded summer 1946 in the Turkestan Military DistrictTurkestan Military DistrictThe Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was...
. - 375th Rifle Division—established at Kamyshlov 8.41, fought at Rzhev, Kursk, Korsun, and Pressburg. With 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 376th Rifle Division—established at Novosibirsk Aug 1941. Fought near Leningrad, Kursk, and Riga; with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 377th Rifle Division—established at Cherbarkul in Sep 1941. Fought in Novgorod Luga Operation and in Kurland. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 378th Rifle Division—established at Achinsk 9.41, fought in far north. Disbanded 3.3.45.
- 379th Rifle Division—established in Ural Military District 8.41, fought at Rzhev, Klin, and Riga. At Riga 10.44. Disbanded 30.12.44.
- 380th Rifle Division—established at Slavgorod Sep 1941. Fought at Orel and Gydnia. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945.
381 - 390 Divisions
- 381st Rifle Division—established at Zlatoust Aug 1941. Fought at Rzhev, Velikiye Luki, and Danzig. With 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 382nd Rifle Division—established at Kansk Oct 1941. Fought in Finland Aug 1944. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
May 1945. - 383rd Rifle Division383rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 383rd 'Miners' Rifle Division was a formation of the Red Army, created during the Second World War. The division was officially created on 18 August 1941. It was given the name Shakhterskaya , as it was originally comprised completely of miners from the Donets Basin, Ukrainian SSR...
—established at Stalino Sep 1941. Fought at Tuapse, Nikolayev, Krimskaya, Taman, Kerch, and in East Prussia. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 384th Rifle Division—established at Omsk 8.41, fought near Archangelsk and in the Caucasus. Inactivated 12.42; recreated; with the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 385th Rifle Division—established at Frunze Sep 1941. Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
, Kursk, and in Poland. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 386th Rifle Division—established at Tiflis 9.41, wiped out at Sevastopol 5.42. Recreated; with the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 387th Rifle Division—established at Akmolinsk 11.41, fought at Stalingrad, and in the Ukraine and the Crimea. With 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 388th Rifle Division—established at Kutaisi 11.41, fought and destroyed at Sevastopol 5.42. Recreated ?, with 15th Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45, and fought in the Manchurian Campaign in 1945.
- 389th Rifle Division—established at Tashkent 8.41, fought in the Kuban, at Berdichev, on the Vistula, and in Czechoslovakia. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 390th Rifle Division—established at ?, wiped out at Kerch 5.42. Recreated at Stalingrad 9.42, with 5th Rifle Corps of the Far Eastern Front 5.45.
391 - 400 Divisions
- 391st Rifle Division—established at Alma Ata 9.41, fought at Riga in 1944. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 392nd Rifle Division—established at Gori 8.41 as Georgian national formation, fought on the Terek River. With the Transcaucasus Front 5.45.
- 393rd Rifle Division—established at Svyatogorsk 9.41, wiped out at Izyum 5.42. Recreated; with the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45.
- 394th Rifle Division—established at Tiflis 8.41, fought in the Caucasus, the Ukraine, and in Romania. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 395th Rifle Division—6,000 troops establishment at LuhanskLuhanskLuhansk also known as Lugansk is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Luhansk Oblast . The city itself is also designated as its own separate municipality within the oblast...
, completed its formation at Vorishilovgrad during September 1941, fought at Tuapse, in the Kuban, at Taman, Stanislav and in the Berlin Operation. With 13th Army13th Army (Soviet Union)The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 396th Rifle Division—established at Kussary 9.41, wiped out at Kerch 5.42. Recreated ?, with 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45.
- 397th Rifle Division—established at Atkarsk 1.42, fought at Kursk, Pinsk, and in Pomerania. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 398th Rifle Division—established at Kirovobad 9.41, wiped out at Kerch 5.42.
- 399th Rifle Division—established at Chita Mar 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, the Battle of KurskBattle of KurskThe Battle of Kursk took place when German and Soviet forces confronted each other on the Eastern Front during World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk, in the Soviet Union in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series of armored clashes, including the Battle of Prokhorovka,...
(with 42nd Rifle Corps of 48th Army), Berlin, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 400th Rifle Division—established at Yevlak 10.41, fought near Stalingrad.
401 - 420 Divisions
- 401st Rifle Division – formed on 28 November 1941. First commander Colonel Alexander I. Romanenko. On 5 January 1942 renamed 135th Rifle Division. At this time it was at 70% of personnel, 48% artillery and mortars and 36% motor-transport in establishment. The artillery regiment only had two divizions with six 4-gun batteries. It took eight weeks to form. In some sources these divisions are called "lightened" (V.N. Shunkov, Red Army) and memoirs of a member of the 396th Rifle Regiment from archives of the 135th division museum in KolomnaKolomnaKolomna is an ancient city and the administrative center of Kolomensky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka Rivers, southeast of Moscow. The area of the city is about . The city was founded in 1177...
. - 402nd Rifle Division— Azeri national formation. Established at Agdam 9.41, fought on the Terek River and in the Caucasus. With the Transcaucasus Front 5.45.
- 404th Rifle Division—established at Sumgait 10.41 and wiped out at Kerch 5.42. Recreated in Transcaucasian MD.
- 405th Rifle Division—established in Kazhakstan; absorbed into the 120th Rifle Division 3.3.42.
- 406th Rifle Division—established at Kirovakan 9.41 as Georgian national formation, fought in the Caucasus. With 12th Rifle Corps of the Transcaucasus Front 5.45.
- 407th Rifle Division—established at AkhalkalakiAkhalkalakiAkhalkalaki is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60,975. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Volcanic Plateau. The city is located about 30 km from the border with Turkey. 90 percent of the city's population are ethnic Armenians...
in 1941. Soldat.ru forum information may however indicate that 407 RD was formed three times during WW2 never seeing frontline service. First formation was in the Volga Military District, which was renamed as the 141 Rifle Division (II Formation); re-created in the Сentral Аsian MD (at Semipalatinsk) in April 1942, but without having finished formation, it is disbanded in May 1942. Third formation was in the Transcaucasus MD in the summer of 1945 on the basis of 90th Rifle Brigade, but was then disbanded in 1946. A later formation of 407 RD was disbanded in the Transcaucasus Military District in 1955 by being renamed 7th RD (V Formation). - 408th Rifle Division—established at Yerevan in March 1942 as an Armenian national formation, fought at Tuapse. May have become 408th Rifle Brigade 12.42.
- 409th Rifle Division—established at Stepanavan in 1941. Fought at Kirovograd, Iasi, Targul Frumos, and Bratislava. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 411th Rifle Division—established at Chuguyev, 9.41 and wiped out at Izyum 5.42.
- 412th Rifle Division—established at
- 413th Rifle Division—established at Svobodny Jul 1941. Fought at Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, and in Poland. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 414th RD—first formed 15.12.41 in the Arkhangelsk region, Kotlas, it was renamed 07.01.42 as 28th Rifle Division (II Formation). Second Formation was as a Georgian national formation, established 28.02.42 in Dagestan АССР, Buinaksk (or Makhachkala 3.42) fought at Kerch, in the Caucasus, on the Terek River, and at Novorossiysk. With Separate Coastal ArmySeparate Coastal ArmyThe Separate Coastal Army was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in the World War II. It was ordered to be established on July 18, 1941 by the order of the Southern Front from the forces of 9th Army’s Coastal Group and was stood up on July 20, 1941....
of the RVGK 5.45. By the end of the war the 414th had the name 414th Anapskaya Order of Red Banner (Motor?) Georgian Rifle Division. - 415th RD—established at Vladivostok 7.41, fought at Moscow, Kursk, and in the Ukraine and Belorussia. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45; appears to have been disbanded soon after war ended. - 416th RD—First formation formed in the Volga Military District Dec. 1941 and by late January 1942 redesignated 146th RD (II Formation). Second formation ('Taganrogskaya Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division Azerbaijan') established at Sumgait Mar 1942, and was an Azeri national formation. Fought in Caucasus, at Taganrog, in the Ukraine and the Iasi-Kishinev OperationBattle of Romania (1944)The Jassy–Kishinev Operation, named after the two major cities, Iaşi and Chişinău, in the staging area, was a Soviet offensive against Axis forces, which took place in Eastern Romania from 20–29 August 1944...
, and at Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 417th Rifle Division—established at Tiflis Mar 1942. Fought in Caucasus, the Ukraine, Crimea, Riga, and Kurland. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. Became 78th Motor Rifle Division circa 1957.
421 - 440 Divisions
- 421st Rifle Division—established at Simferopol 10.41, fought at Sevastopol 12.41 and inactivated 2.42.
- 422nd Rifle Division—established December 1941 in the Volga Military District, and on 25 Dec. 1941 redesignated 397th RD (II Formation). Reestablished at Bikin 4.42, fought at Stalingrad. Became 81st Guards Rifle Division 3.43.
- 423rd Rifle Division – established in the South Urals Military District (Dec.?) 1941, and quickly redesignated 195th RD (II Formation).
- 424th Rifle Division – established in the South Urals MD 16 Dec. 1941, and by 9 Jan. 1942 became the 196th Rifle Division (II Formation).
- 425th Rifle Division – established 16 Dec. 1941 in South Urals MD, became 200th Rifle Division (II Formation) 14 Jan. 1942.
- 426th Rifle Division – formed 11 December 1941 in the Moscow Military DistrictMoscow Military DistrictThe Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
, and renumbered as 147th Rifle Division (II Formation) on 28 January 1942. - 427th Rifle Division – established 2 January 1942 in the Moscow Military District, renumbered as 149th Rifle Division 27 January 1942.
- 428th Rifle Division – formed 16 December 1941 in South Urals MD; redesignated 206th Rifle Division (II Formation) about 27 January 1942.
- 429th Rifle Division – established in South Urals MD about 12 December 1941; redesignated 211th Rifle Division (Second Formation) about four days later.
- 430th Rifle Division – established in Urals MD about 16 December 1941; redesignated 152nd RD around 22 January 1942.
- 431st Rifle Division – established 11 Dec 41 in Volga MD, became 58th RD ~ 25 Dec 41.
- 432nd Rifle Division – established 3 Jan 42 in Urals MD, became 159th RD (Second Formation) about 27 Jan 42.
- 433rd Rifle Division – established in South Urals MD 16 Dec 41, became 214th Rifle Division (Second Formation) about 25 Dec 41.
- 434th Rifle Division – established in the Urals MD 1 Dec 41, became 162nd RD (Second Formation) 22 Jan 42.
- 435th Rifle Division – established in the Urals MD 22 December 1941, became 164th Rifle Division (Second Formation) 22 January 1942.
- 436th Rifle Division – established in the Urals MD 16 DEcember 1941, became 165th Rifle Division (Second Formation) 23 January 1942.
441 - 473 Divisions
- 443rd Rifle Division—established at Tomsk 12.41, renumbered as 284th Rifle Division 3.42.
- 458th Rifle Division – was reformed as the 8th Rifle Division (IIIrd formation) on 23.4.42
- 473rd Rifle Division—established in Baku and Sumgait, December 1941, renumbered as 75th Rifle Division (Second Formation) on January, 8th 1942.
Leningrad Narodnoe Opolcheniye
Narodnoe OpolcheniyeNarodnoe Opolcheniye
Narodnoe Opolcheniye or Opolchenie was the name of irregular troops formed from the population in Russia and Soviet Union to fight alongside the regular army during several wars throughout its history....
divisions, listed in the order of creation, were hastily created in mid-1941 as the German storm bore down on Leningrad. In Russian, they were designated дивизия народного ополчения – Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division – or гвардейская дивизия народного ополчения – Guards Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division. On 23 September 1941 all the divisions of the Leningrad Narodnoe Opolcheniye Army
Leningrad Narodnoe Opolcheniye Army
The Leningrad People's Militia Army was initially an all-volunteer formation of the Soviet Union raised during the Second World War for defence of Leningrad....
divisions were used to form Red Army units mostly within the Leningrad Front.
- 1st (Kirov) Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye, named for the Kirovsky District (Кировский район) (commander Kombrig V.A. Malinnikov) By 15 August, this division had joined the retreating 70th and 237th Rifle Divisions and engaged in the fighting on approaches to Novgorod. On the 3 September its 3rd regiment was transferred to the command of the 291st Rifle Division, and replaced by the 76th Latvian Separate Rifle regiment on the 14 September.
- 2nd (Moscow) Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye named for the Moskovsky District (Московский район) (commander (to July, Colonel N.S. Ugrumov)
- 3rd (Frunze) Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye named for the Frunzensky District (Фрунзенский район) (commander (Colonel А.P. Netreba, from 16 August Z.N. Alekseyev) which from September was receiving volunteers from the Altai and Siberia.
- 1st Guards Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (18 July 1941) (commander Colonel I.M. Frolov) (deployed next to the 237th Rifle Division) formed in the Kuybishev District[2]
- 2nd Guards Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (18 July 1941) (commander Colonel Sholev, later Colonel V.A. Trubachev) formed in the Sverdlovsk District
- 4th (Dzerzhinsky) Light Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (19 July 1941) named for the Dzerzhinsky District (Дзержинский район) (commander Colonel P.I Radigin) (1st regiment detached on 22 July to the 191st Rifle Division in Narva. This was a “light” division initially formed in the Krasnogvardeysky District (lit. Red-guards district), with only 4,257 personnel, but almost entirely motorised, and admitting only volunteers with prior combat experience. The division was allowed a period of extended combat training.
- 3rd Guards Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (24 July 1941) (commander Colonel V.P. Kotelnikov) which later fought with the 402nd Red Banner rifle regiment (commander Colonel Ya.S. Yermakov) of the 168th Rifle Division (commander Colonel A.L. Bondarev) formed in the Petrograd District
- 4th Guards Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (27 July 1941) formed in the Kalinin District was never fully formed and on the 13 August transferred to Army reserve, its personnel used to complete units of other divisions. However, its three rifle regiments continued to participate in combat under command of other divisions, and the staff of the division was retained, and used to conduct induction training and formation, as well as command of replacement Opolcheniye battalions.
- 5th (Kuybishevskaya) Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (1 September 1941) (commander Colonel F.P. Utkin) formed early September 1941 from the former 4th division and on the 10 September dislocated to Pulkovo.
- 6th Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye – formed 1 September 1941
- 7th Division of Narodnoe Opolcheniye (commander Colonel I.S. Kuznetsov) raised on 17 September 1941 it was re-designated on the 30 September as the 56th Rifle Division.
Moscow Narodnoe Opolcheniye
Although 25 Narodnoe Opolcheniye divisions were intended for formation, only 16 were formed due to demand for workers in building the fortifications for the defence of Moscow. By the 7 July 1941 140,000 volunteers had been accepted into the Moscow Narodnoe Opolcheniye, and organised into 12 divisions (11,633 establishment) named according to the city rayonRayon
Rayon is a manufactured regenerated cellulose fiber. Because it is produced from naturally occurring polymers, it is neither a truly synthetic fiber nor a natural fiber; it is a semi-synthetic or artificial fiber. Rayon is known by the names viscose rayon and art silk in the textile industry...
s, but on the 20 September converted into regular divisions (numbers in brackets):
- 1st Lenin rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division (60th Rifle Division (2))
- 2nd Stalin rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division (2nd Rifle Division (2))
- 4th Kuybishev rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division (110th Rifle Division (2))
- 5th Frunze rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division (113th Rifle Division (2))
- 6th Dzerzhinsky rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye Division
- 7th Bauman rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (29th Rifle Division (2))
- 8th Krasnpreensky rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (8th Rifle Division (2))
- 9th Kirov rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (139th Rifle Division (2))
- 13th Rostock rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (140th Rifle Division (2))
- 17th Moskvorets rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (17th Rifle Division (2))
- 18th Leningrad rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (18th Rifle Division (2))
- 21st Kiev rayon Narodnoe Opolcheniye division (173rd Rifle Division (2))
These divisions were allocated to the Mozhaisk Defence Line Front (commander General P.A. Artemyev) which consisted of the 32nd Army (General N.K. Klykov) in Vyazma
Vyazma
Vyazma is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk and Mozhaysk. Throughout its turbulent history, the city defended western approaches to the city of Moscow...
, 33rd Army (Kombrig D.P. Onuprienko) in Spas-Demyansk and 34th Army (General N.I. Pronin), and also included five NKVD divisions (one each in the 32nd and 34th Armies, and three in the 33rd Army).
In October 1941 four more divisions were formed
- 1st Communist Narodnoe Opolcheniye division
- 2nd Communist Narodnoe Opolcheniye division
- 3rd Communist Narodnoe Opolcheniye division
- 4th Communist Narodnoe Opolcheniye division
Other narodnoe opolcheniye divisions
- A Rostov-on-Don Cavalry Division of narodnoe opolcheniye later became the 116th Cavalry Division (116-я кавалерийская дивизия), and later still the 12th Guards Cavalry Division. It incorporated a separate opolcheniye rife regiment raised at the same time. The division initially enlisted Don cossack population of the region.
- The Stalingrad narodnoe opolcheniye corps included a cavalry and an infantry opolcheniye divisions, and a tank brigade donated and crewed by the local factory workers.
- Although 15 thousand joined the Sevastopol opolcheniye, these were organised into a corps of four, later three brigades.
- The following regions (край) formed narodnoe opolcheniye divisions:
- Krasnodar
- Kirovsk
- Voronezh
- Yaroslav
Guards Rifle Divisions
- 1st Guards Order of Lenin Rifle Division 1st formation, created in Ukraine as 45th RD in 1923 from 44th RD in the name of Schors and 45th Red Banner Rifle Division. In 1924 renamed 100th Rifle Division. 18 September 1941 renamed 1st Guards Order of Lenin RD. On 22 October 1942 was used to form 1st Guards Mechanized Corps.
- 1st Guards Rifle Division 2nd formation on 23 January 1943 by renaming 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division. Became a Motor Rifle Division (again) in 1957.
- 2nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner, Order of Suvorov (II) named for M.I. Kalinin Division formed in 1940 in the Kharkiv region as 127th Rifle Division. Created as guard on 18 September 1941. Awarded Order of October Revolution in 1985. In the Russian Army as 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle DivisionThe 2nd Guards Motor Rifle 'Tamanskaya' Order of October Revolution, Red Banner,, Order of Suvorov Division named after M.I. Kalinin, also known as the Tamanskaya Division, Taman Division and Taman Guards The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle 'Tamanskaya' Order of October Revolution, Red Banner,, Order of...
). Fought at North Caucasus, Kuban, Crimea and Sevastopol (1942 and 1944), fighting near Riga and in East Prussia. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 3rd Guards Rifle Volnovakhskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division3rd Guards Motor Rifle DivisionThe 3rd Volnovaskyi Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Army from 1957 to around 1992. It traced its history from the highly decorated 3rd Guards Rifle Division of World War II...
Formed in Sverdlovsk oblast during 1940 as the 153rd Rifle Division153rd Rifle DivisionThe 153rd Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It was formed in the Ural Military District. On 22 June 1941 when the German Operation Barbarossa began, it was serving with the 51st Rifle Corps of the 22nd Army....
. Renamed Guards 18 September 1941. Fought at Battle of MoscowBattle of MoscowThe Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
, Stalingrad, and Kiev before fighting in Kurland. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 4th Guards Rifle Apostolov-Viena Red Banner Division Created in 1940 in the region of Mogilev as 161st Rifle Division. Renamed guards on 18 September 1941, fought at Tikhvin, Stalingrad, on the Mius River, and in Hungary. With 4th Guards Army4th Guards Army (Soviet Union)The Fourth Guards Army was an elite army headquarters of the Soviet Union during World War II and the postwar era.Formed on the basis of the 24th Army on April 16, 1943, the Fourth Guards Army fought in decisive actions such as the Battle of Kursk, the Iassy-Kishinev Offensive, the struggle for...
of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 5th Guards Rifle Division (ex 107th Rifle Division Sep 26, 1941). Fought at Kaluga, Orel, Moscow, Bryansk, Gorodok, and in Belorussia, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 6th Guards Rifle Division (ex 120th Rifle Division 26.9.41), fought at Orel, Tula, Kursk, Kiev, Rovno, and in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. With 13th Army13th Army (Soviet Union)The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 7th Guards Rifle Division (ex 64th Rifle Division Oct 1941). Fought in Belgorod-Kharkov Operation and in Kurland. With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 8th Guards Rifle Division8th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 8th Guards Panfilov Division originally the 316th Rifle Division, is a motorized infantry division of the Military of Kyrgyzstan,...
(ex 316th Rifle Division, renamed 18 Nov 1941). - 9th Guards Rifle Division (ex 78th Rifle Division Nov 18 1941). Fought at Vyazma and Krasnodar. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 10th Guards Rifle Division (ex 52nd Rifle Division 25 Dec 1941). Fought near Murmansk, in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation, in East Prussia, and at Berlin. With 19th Army19th Army (Soviet Union)The 19th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed in 1941 and active during the Second World War. It was disbanded in 1945 or 1947.-First Formation:...
of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 11th Guards Rifle Division (ex 18th Moscow People's Volunteer Division Jan 1942). Fought at Gorodok, Orsha, Kovno, in Belorussia, East Prussia and Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 12th Guards Rifle Division (ex 258th Rifle Division 1.42). Used to form 9th Guards Rifle Corps 4.42, second formation of division in 1942. Fought near Bolkov, on the Dnieper River, in Belorussia and Poland, and at Riga and Berlin. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 13th Guards Rifle Division13th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 13th Guards Rifle Division was a Soviet Union Red Army infantry division that served with distinction during the Second World War.-Formation:The unit's origin lies with the 87th Rifle Division, a pre-war division, which was established in 1929...
(ex 87th Rifle Division 19.1.42); with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 14th Guards Rifle Division (ex 96th Mountain Rifle Division 24.1.42), fought at Izyum, Stalingrad, Kharkiv, Belgorod, Kryvyi Rih, Kirovograd, the Sandomir Bridgehead, Breslau, and near Prague. with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 15th Guards Rifle Division (ex 136th Rifle Division 16.2.42), fought at Kharkiv, Stalngrad, Volchansk, Kursk, Kryvyi Rih, Odessa, and in Poland, the Berlin Operation, and near Prague. with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 16th Guards Rifle Division (ex 249th Rifle Division Feb 1942). Fought at Orel, Königsberg, and in Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 17th Guards Rifle Division (ex 119th Rifle Division 3.42). Fought near Kalinin, at Gomel and Kaunas. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 18th Guards Rifle Division (ex 133rd Rifle Division, renamed 1942)(now 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division18th Guards Motor Rifle DivisionThe 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as 133rd Rifle Division at Novosibirsk or Biysk in 1939. It was redesignated as the 18th Guards Rifle Division in March 1942 with the 51, 53, 58 Guards Rifle Regiments and 52 Guards Artillery Regiment. The division fought in the East...
). Fought near Orel, Danzig, and in Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 19th Guards Rifle Division (ex 366th Rifle Division 17.3.42). Fought at Leningrad, Smolensk, Kaunas, and Königsberg. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 20th Guards Rifle Division (ex 174th Rifle Division 17.3.42). Fought at Stalingrad, Krivoi Rog, Odessa, Budapest, and Vienna. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Became 17th Guards Tank Division17th Armored Brigade (Ukraine)The 17th Guards Armored Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Full name of the Brigade is 17th Separate Guards Kryvyi Rih orders of Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade. It was formally known as 17th Guards Tank Division....
postwar. - 21st Guards Rifle Division (ex 416 RD (November?) 1942). Fought at Velikiye Luki and Nevel. With 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 22nd Guards Rifle Division (ex 363rd Rifle Division Sep 1941). With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 23rd Guards Rifle Division (ex 88th Rifle Division Mar 1942). Fought in Karelia, and at Kiev, Ostrov, Schneidemühl, and Küstrin. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 24th Guards Rifle Division (ex 111th Rifle Division, 1942)(now 42nd Motor Rifle Division42nd Motor Rifle DivisionThe 42 Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as the 111th Rifle Division in Vologda in 1940, and became 24th Guards Rifle Division in March 1942 Based in the North Caucasus following World War II, it seems to have become 42nd Guards MRD in 1957, while at Grozny.In 1987 it became 173...
). Fought near Leningrad, and in the Ukraine, Crimea, and Kurland. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 25th Guards Rifle Division (formed from 2nd Guards Rifle Brigade 5.42). Fought at Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Targul Frumos, and Bratislava. With 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 26th Guards Rifle Division (ex 93rd Rifle Division Apr 20, 1942). Fought at Bryansk, Orel, and in Belorussia, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 27th Guards Rifle Division (ex 3rd Guards Rifle Brigade May 21, 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, in the Don Basin, at Zaporozhye, Korsun, Odessa, the Sandomir Bridgehead, Poznań, Küstrin, and Berlin. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 28th Guards Rifle Division (ex 180th Rifle Division, May 1942). Fought at Kharkiv and Iasi. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45. Served with 14th Guards Army in 1980s. Now Ukrainian 28th Mechanized Brigade28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)The 28th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 28th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade....
. - 29th Guards Rifle Division (formed from 32nd Rifle Division32nd Rifle DivisionThe 32nd Rifle Division was first raised in 1934 at Vladivostok and organized as a Siberian Rifle Division. The division initially served Far Eastern Military District as part of the 39th Rifle Corps. It took part in a number of border skirmishes on the Manchurian border near Lake Khasan...
). Fought in the Ukraine, at Riga, and in Kurland. With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. - 30th Guards Rifle Division (ex 238th Rifle Division May 1942). Fought at Kiev and Riga, and in Kurland. With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 31st Guards Rifle Division31st Guards Rifle DivisionThe 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division is a unit of the Russian Ground Forces, within the Far East Military District, formed from the Red Army 31st Guards Rifle Division, an infantry division of World War II which subsequently became a motor-rifle, and ultimately a tank division.-Overview:The...
(ex 328th Rifle Division May 24, 1942). Fought at Bryansk, Orel, Vitebsk, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 32nd Guards Rifle Division (ex 2nd Airborne Corps May 1942). Fought at Krasnodar, on the Kuban, and in Crimea prior to fighting in Kurland. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 33rd Guards Rifle Division (ex 3rd Airborne Corps Jun 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, in the Crimea, at Sevastopol, Riga, Königsberg, and in Kurland. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 34th Guards Rifle Division (formed on basis of 7th Airborne Corps 8.42), fought at Stalingrad, on the Mius River, and in Hungary. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 35th Guards Rifle Division (ex 8th Airborne Corps Aug 1942 at Chaklovsk). Fought at Stalingrad, in the Don Basin, at Pavlograd, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol, Odessa, the Magnuszew Bridgehead, Küstrin, and Berlin. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 36th Guards Rifle Division (ex 9th Airborne Corps Aug 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, Debrecen, and Vienna. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 37th Guards Rifle Division (ex 1st Airborne Corps Jul 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, wiped out during battle for Tractor Works Oct 1942. Recreated by Dec 1942; fought at Orel, in Belorussia and East Prussia, and at Berlin. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 38th Guards Rifle Division (ex 4th Airborne Corps Jul 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, Lozovaya, and Berlin. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 39th Guards Rifle Division39th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 39th Guards Rifle Division of the Workers and Peasant's Red Army was formed during the German-Soviet War as part of the 62nd Army and assigned to the defense of Stalingrad, officially arriving in the theater in August 1942...
(ex 5th Airborne Corps Aug 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, Zaporozhye, Odessa, the Magnuszew Bridgehead, Poznań, Küstrin, and Berlin. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 40th Guards Rifle Division - Formed on the basis of the 6th Airborne Corps in August 1942, fought at Stalingrad, on the Mius River, and at Odessa, Budapest, and Vienna. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Eventual honours Енакиевско- Дунайская краснознаменная, ордена Суворова. Around 1955–7 became 17th Guards Motor Rifle Division in the Carpathian Military DistrictCarpathian Military DistrictThe Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two...
. - 41st Guards Rifle Division (established on basis of 10th Airborne Corps 6.42), fought at Stalingrad, Korsun, Kishinev, and Budapest. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 42nd Guards Rifle Division (established with 1st Guards Rifle Brigade 7.42, fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, Kiev, Iasi, and Budapest. With 1st Guards Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 43rd Guards Rifle Division (ex 201st Rifle Division Oct 1942). Fought with Northwestern Front and in Kurland. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 44th Guards Rifle Division (ex 5th Rifle Division, Oct 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, Gomel, west of Warsaw, and Danzig. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 45th Guards Rifle Division (ex 70th Rifle Division). Fought near Leningrad, in Estonia and Kurland. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 46th Guards Rifle Division (ex 170th Rifle Division). Fought at Velikiye Luki, 1942. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 47th Guards Rifle Division (ex 154th Rifle Division Oct 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, Smolensk, and at the Magnuszew Bridgehead. With Eighth Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. Eventually became 47th Guards Tank Division in 1965 after a period as a mechanised division. - 48th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 264th Rifle Division 10.42), fought at Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, and Gumbinnen. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 49th Guards Rifle Division—established at Lev Tolstoi 11.42 and designated as Guards the same month. Fought at Stalingrad and Budapest. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 50th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 124th Rifle Division 11.42), fought at Stalingrad, Zaporozhye, Nikopol, Gumbinnen, Königsberg, and near Berlin and Prague. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 51st Guards Rifle Division (ex 76th Rifle Division Nov 1942). Fought at Kursk, Kharkiv, Vitebsk, and in Kurland. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. Disbanded at the end of the 1950s. - 52nd Guards Rifle Division (ex 63rd Rifle Division Nov 1942). Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, vicinity Leningrad, Riga, in central Poland, at Berlin. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 53rd Guards Rifle Division (ex 130th Rifle Division Dec 1942). Fought on Dnieper River, at Targul Frumos, and in Kurland. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 54th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 119th Rifle Division 16.12.42), fought at Stalingrad, Melitipol, Nikopol, Odessa, Gumbinnen, Königsberg, and near Berlin. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 55th Guards Rifle Division (ex 30th Rifle Division 18.12.42), fought at Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Kerch landing, Pinsk, and in East Prussia, the Berlin area, and Czechoslovakia. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 56th Guards Rifle Division (ex 74th and 91st Brigades Jan 1943). Fought at Velikiye Luki, Smolensk, Shepetovka, and in Kurland. With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 57th Guards Rifle Division (ex 153rd Rifle Division (Second formation) 31 December 1942). Fought on the Don River, in the Ukraine, on the Vistula River, and in the Berlin Operation. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 58th Guards Rifle Division (ex 1st Rifle Division1st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The Soviet 1st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first established in 1918, and finally disbanded in the mid 1950s...
, renamed 31 December 1942). First Soviet unit to encounter western Allied forces (U.S. 69th Infantry DivisionU.S. 69th Infantry DivisionThe 69th Infantry Division was a formation of the United States Army formed during World War II. It should not be confused with the much older and still existing 69th Infantry Regiment which is the famed Fighting 69th...
) in Germany (at TorgauTorgauTorgau is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district Nordsachsen.Outside Germany, the town is most well known as the place where during the Second World War, United States Army forces coming from the west met with forces of the Soviet Union...
), splitting the Third Reich in two, on April 25, 1945. (Elbe DayElbe DayElbe Day, April 25, 1945, was the date Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of the World War II in Europe. The first contact was made between patrols near Strehla, when First Lieutenant Albert Kotzebue crossed the River...
) With 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 59th Guards Rifle Division59th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 59th Guards Kramatorsk Order of Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor-Rifle Division of the Soviet Union's Red Army was initially formed near Krasnodar in March 1942 as the 197th Rifle Division . On the division's formation Colonel M. I...
(ex 197th Rifle Division 1.43). Fought at Zaporozhye, Debrecen, Budapest, and Vienna. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945; became 59th Guards Motor Rifle Division and part of 14th Guards Army14th Army involvement in TransnistriaThe involvement of the Soviet 14th Guards Army in the War of Transnistria was extensive and contributed to the outcome, which left the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic with de facto independence from the Republic of Moldova.-Background:...
after the end of World War II. - 60th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 278th Rifle Division Jan 1943). Fought at Pavlograd, Zaporozhye, in the Ukraine, and at Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 61st Guards Rifle Division (ex 159th Rifle Division 1.43). Fought at Zaporozhye, Kovel, and Berlin. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 62nd Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 127th Rifle Division 1.43), fought at Kharkiv, Iasi, Budapest, and Vienna. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 63rd Guards Rifle Division63rd Guards Rifle DivisionThe 136th Rifle Division was a Soviet division during World War II...
on 19 January 1943, the 136th RD was awarded "Guards" status and renumbered to become 63 GRD . Fought in Estonia and Kurland. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. - 64th Guards Rifle Division (ex 327th Rifle Division). Fought near Vyborg and Tallinn, and in Kurland. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 65th Guards Rifle Division (ex 75th and 78th Rifle Brigades Apr 1943). Fought at Riga and in Kurland. With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
- 66th Guards Rifle Division (ex 293rd Rifle Division 1.43), fought at Poltava, in the Carpathians, and at Budapest. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. One of its regiments was 145th Guards Rifle Regiment, which today is the Ukrainian Ground ForcesUkrainian Ground ForcesThe Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and...
' 300th Mechanized Regiment300th Mechanized Regiment (Ukraine)The 300th Guards Mechanized Regiment is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 300th Separate Guards Mechanized Budapest Regiment.-History:The Regiment was formed as 145th Guards Training Motor-Rifle Budapest Regiment...
. - 67th Guards Rifle Division (ex 304th Rifle Division Jan 1943). Fought at Belgorod, Kursk, Vitebsk, and in Kurland. With 67th Army of the Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 68th Guards Rifle Division (ex 96th Rifle Division 2.43), fought at Voronezh and L'vov. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 69th Guards Rifle Division (ex 120th Rifle Division 2.43), fought at Voronezh, Iasi, and in Hungary. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Became 70th Guards Mechanised Division, then 45th Guards Tank Training Division, before being disbanded in 1960 in the Belarussian Military District. - 70th Guards Rifle Division (ex 128th Rifle Division 6.2.43), fought at Kursk, Lvov, and Krakow. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 71st Guards Rifle Division (ex 23rd Rifle Division Mar 1, 1943). Fought at Kharkiv, Kursk, Vitebsk, Riga, Memel, and in Kurland. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. See :ru:71-я гвардейская дивизия. - 72nd Guards Rifle Division (ex 29th Rifle Division in 1.3.43). Fought at Kursk, Targul Frumos, and Pressburg. With 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 73rd Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 38th Rifle Division 1.3.43). Fought at Kursk, Belgrade, and in Hungary. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 74th Guards Rifle Division74th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 74th Guards Rifle Division was an Guards infantry division of the Red Army during the Second World War. Its full formal name was the 74-я Guards Nizhnedneprovskiy Order of Lenin twice Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division. It was formed from 45th Rifle Division on March 1, 1943...
(ex 45th Rifle Division Mar 1, 1943). Fought at Zaporozhye, Nikopol, and on the Vistula River. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. See :ru:74-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия. - 75th Guards Rifle Division75th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 75th Guards Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division during World War II and afterwards, which later became the 75th Guards Tank Division and was finally disbanded in the 1990s.-Background:The Division was formed in the Tula area in September 1942 on the basis of units of the 13th...
(ex 95th Rifle Division 1.3.43). Fought at Ponyri, Kiev, in Belorussia and Poland, and at Riga and Berlin. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 76th Guards Rifle Division (ex 157th Rifle Division 1 Mar 1943). Fought at Chernigov, Odessa, Brest, and Danzig. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. After the war transferred to the Airborne Forces as the 76th Airborne Division76th Airborne Division (Russia)The 76th Guards Air Assault Division is a division of the Russian Airborne Troops based in Pskov.-History:The 76th Air Assault Division was originally established in 1939 as the 157th Rifle Division. On 1 March 1943 it became the 76th Guards Rifle Division...
. - 77th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of 173rd Rifle Division 1.3.43). Fought at Orel, Chernigov, Kalinkovichi, Kovel, the Puławy Bridgehead, Küstrin, and Berlin. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
5.45. - 78th Guards Rifle Division (ex 204th Rifle Division 3.43), fought at Kursk, on the Dnieper River, at Zaporozhye, Iasi, Targul Frumos, and near Prague. with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 79th Guards Rifle Division (ex 284th Rifle Division Feb 1, 1943). Fought at Zaporozhye, Nikopol, Odessa, the Magnuszew Bridgehead, near Küstrin, and Berlin. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. Eventually became 79th Guards Tank Division before the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent disbandment. - 80th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of 298th Rifle Division 3.43), fought at Uman, Iasi, and in Hungary. With 4th Guards Army4th Guards Army (Soviet Union)The Fourth Guards Army was an elite army headquarters of the Soviet Union during World War II and the postwar era.Formed on the basis of the 24th Army on April 16, 1943, the Fourth Guards Army fought in decisive actions such as the Battle of Kursk, the Iassy-Kishinev Offensive, the struggle for...
of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 81st Guards Rifle Division (ex 422nd Rifle Division 3.43). Fought at Krasnograd, Iasi, and Pressburg. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Later became 81st Guards Motor Rifle Division in the Far East Military District. Honourifics Красноградская краснознаменная, ордена Суворова.
- 82nd Guards Rifle Division (ex 321st Rifle Division Mar 1943). Fought at Zaporzhye, in the Ukraine and the Lvov-Sandomir and Vistula-Oder Operations, and at Poznań and Müncheberg. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 83rd Guards Rifle Division (ex 97th Rifle Division Apr 1943). Fought at Orel, Gorodok, Vitebsk, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 11th Guards Army11th Guards ArmyThe 11th Guards Army was a Soviet field army active from 1943 to 1997, which traces its origins to the formation of the Soviet 16th Army in June-July 1940.-History:...
of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1946 at Велау (Знаменск-Zhamensk). - 84th Guards Rifle Division (ex second establishment of the 110th Rifle Division Apr 10, 1943). Fought at Orel, Vitebsk, Memel, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. Disbanded 29 June 1946 at Gusev(?) or Kaliningrad. See :ru:84-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия. - 85th Guards Rifle Division (ex second establishment of 118th Rifle Division Apr 1943). With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 86th Guards Rifle Division (ex 98th Rifle Division 4.43). Fought at Kherson, Odessa, and Budapest. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 87th Guards Rifle Division (ex 300th Rifle Division Apr 1943). Fought in the Ukraine and Crimea before fighting in Kurland. With 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front3rd Belorussian FrontThe 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 88th Guards Rifle Division (ex 99th Rifle Division Apr 1943). Fought at Zaporozhye, in the Ukraine, at Küstrin, and the Seelow Heights. With 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 89th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 160th Rifle Division Apr 1943). Fought at Belgorod, Kharkiv, Iasi, Targul Frumos, Küstrin, and Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. See :ru:89-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия. - 90th Guards Rifle Division90th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 90th Guards Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Second World War.The division traces its history back to 8 September 1941 when the 325th Rifle Division was formed in the Orel Military District...
(ex 325th Rifle Division Apr 1943). Fought at Kursk, Belgorod, and Vitebsk. With 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 91st Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 257th Rifle Division 18.4.43). Fought at Smolensk, Vitebsk, Königsberg, and in Manchuria. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
- 92nd Guards Rifle Division (formed from 12 Guards Rifle Brigade 4.43.) Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, and Iasi. With 37th Army in Bulgaria 5.45.
- 93rd Guards Rifle Division—established at Valuki 4.43 from 13th Guards and 92nd Rifle Brigades, fought at Kursk, Kharkiv, Budapest, and Prague. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 94th Guards Rifle Division—established at Novy Oskol Apr 1943 from 14th Guards and 96th Rifle Brigades. Fought at Kursk, Belgorod, Kirovograd, Küstrin, and Berlin. With 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. - 95th Guards Rifle Division (ex 226th Rifle Division 4.5.43), fought at Kursk, Belgorod, Poltava, Kremenchug, on the Dnieper River, at the Sandomir Bridgehead and Breslau, and in the Berlin and Prague Operations. with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 96th Guards Rifle Division (ex second formation of the 258th Rifle Division 4.5.43), fought at Melitopol, Nikopol, in Belorussia, East Prussia, near Berlin, and in Czechoslovakia. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 97th Guards Rifle Division97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine....
(ex 343rd Rifle Division97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine....
5.43), Fought at Belgorod, Kirovograd, Poltava,in Poland, and near Prague. With 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 98th Guards Rifle Division (ex 13th Guards Airborne Division 1.44), fought on Svir River, and at Budapest and Vienna. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Became 98th Guards Airborne Division98th Guards Airborne DivisionThe 98th Guards Airborne Division is an airborne division of the Russian Airborne Troops, stationed in Ivanovo. It took part in the 2008 South Ossetian War....
after the war and still serving with the Airborne Troops. - 99th Guards Rifle Division (ex 14th Guards Airborne Division 1.44), fought at the North CapeNorth Cape, NorwayNorth Cape is a cape on the island of Magerøya in Northern Norway, in the municipality of Nordkapp. Its 307 m high, steep cliff is often referred to as the northernmost point of Europe, located at , 2102.3 km from the North Pole. However, the neighbouring point Knivskjellodden is actually...
, Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Active after war with Airborne Troops. See :ru:99-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия. - 100th Guards Rifle Division100th Guards Rifle DivisionThe 100th Guards Rifle Division was an elite Red Army airborne infantry division during World War II.-Creation:From the beginning of the war, the Soviet Army strongly emphasized the development of airborne forces and their use behind enemy lines...
(ex 15th Guards Airborne Division Jan 1944). Fought on Svir River, and at Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 101st Guards Rifle Division (ex 14th Rifle Division Oct 29, 1944). Fought in East Prussia, the Berlin Operation, and Kurland. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 102nd Guards Rifle Division (ex 65th Rifle Division Dec 29, 1944). Fought near Grodno, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front2nd Belorussian FrontThe 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
May 1945. - 103rd Guards Rifle Division (ex 13th Guards Airborne Division Dec 1944). Fought in Hungary and at Vienna. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Became 103rd Guards Airborne Division of the Soviet Airborne Forces postwar and after 1991 became part of the Armed Forces of BelarusArmed Forces of BelarusThe Armed Forces of Belarus consist of the Army and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus...
. - 104th Guards Rifle Division (ex 11th Guards Airborne Division Dec 1944). Fought in Hungary and at Vienna. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 105th Guards Rifle Division (ex 12th Guards Airborne Division Dec 1944). Fought in Hungary and at Vienna. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 106th Guards Rifle Division (ex 16th Guards Airborne Division Dec 1944). Fought at Belgrade, in Hungary and at Vienna. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 107th Guards Rifle Division (formed on basis of 8th Guards Airborne Division 12.44), fought at Budapest and Vienna, and in Czechoslovakia. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 108th Guards Rifle Division (formed on basis of 10th Guards Rifle Brigade 7.43), fought at Budapest. With 27th Army27th Army (Soviet Union)The 27th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, which fought in World War II. First formed in May 1941. Initial commander was H. E. Berzarin. Took part in battles in the Baltic. On 22 June 1941 it consisted of the 22nd and 24th Rifle Corps, 16th and 67th Rifle Divisions, 3rd Separate...
of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. - 109th Guards Rifle Division (ex 6th and 9th Guards Rifle Brigades 1943). Fought in Ukraine and Hungary. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 110th Guards Rifle Division—established at Voronezh 7.43 from the 5th and 7th Guards Rifle Brigades, fought at Aleksandriya, Iasi, and in Czechoslovakia and Manchuria. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
- 111th Guards Rifle Division – from 4th Guards Airborne Division. Eventually postwar became 32nd Guards Mechanised Division, and, in the 1980s, 117th Guards Tank Training Division.
- 112th Guards Rifle Division (from 5th Guards Abn Division)
- 113th Guards Rifle Division (from 6th Guards Abn Division)
- 114th Guards Rifle Division (formed on basis of 14th Guards Airborne Division? Dec 1944). Fought in Hungary, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. With 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
5.45. Became 114th Guards Airborne Division based in Ukraine SSR postwar but disbanded in 1959. - 115th Guards Rifle Division (from 7th Guards Abn Division)
- 116th Guards Rifle Division (from 9th Guards Abn Division) Initially formed in Kiev Military DistrictKiev Military DistrictThe Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces...
(MD) as 1st Airborne Corps and converted to an airborne division at Liubertsy, Moscow MD, 1942. After conversion to the 9th Guards Airborne Division (1942) the division was redesignated successively as the 116th Guards Rifle Division, 14th Guards Mechanized Division (with the 47th, 48th, and 49th Guards Mechanised Regiments), 14th Guards Motor Rifle Division and finally the 32nd Guards Tank Division. Fought at Kursk, Pokava, Kiemenchug, the battle for the Dnepr crossings, Kirovograd, the Sandomir bridgehead, and Prague. Postwar assgnment to 3rd Guards Mechanised Army in the 1940s and 1950s. Withdrawn from Group of Soviet Forces, Germany (now designated Western Group of Forces) 20th Guards Army. Honorifics and Awards included Полтавская краснознаменная, орденов Суворова, Кутузова. “Poltava” (located in Kiev MD), Orders of Red Banner, Suvorov and Kumm. - 117th Guards Rifle Division (ex 8th Guards, 81st, and 107th Naval Rifle Brigades 10.43), fought at Kerch, Berdichev, and in Poland and Germany. With 13th Army13th Army (Soviet Union)The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 118th Guards Rifle Division (formed from 7th Rifle Division7th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)The 7th Rifle Division was a infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed five separate times from 1918 to 1955. The division was first formed in September 1918 at Vladimir in the Moscow Military District....
on 28.06.1945 under the provisions of NKO Order № 0126). - 119th Guards Rifle Division (ex 11th and 15th Guards Naval Rifle Brigades Oct 1943 at Cholm). With the 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad FrontLeningrad FrontThe Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
) May 1945. - 120th Guards Rifle Division (ex 308th Rifle Division Sep 1943). Originally formed as 308 RD in May 1942 in the Siberian Military DistrictSiberian Military DistrictThe Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :...
. Assigned to the 24th, 62nd, and after May 1943, to the 3rd Army. In 1942–43 fought in the Battle of StalingradBattle of StalingradThe Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943...
, Orel, Briansk, and at Gomel-Rechitsa. In 1944–45 fought at Rogachev (during the Rogachev-Zlobin offensive operation), Białystok, Ostrołenka, in East Prussia, and at Berlin. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front1st Belorussian FrontThe 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
May 1945. Postwar it became the 'show' division of the Belarussian Military District. Now the Belarusian 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade120th Guards Mechanised BrigadeThe 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade is a mechanised infantry brigade of the Belarusian Ground Forces. It is the heir to the traditions of the Red Army 120th Guards Rifle Division which became the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division around 1957....
. - 121st Guards Rifle Division (ex 342nd Rifle Division Sep 1943). Fought at Gomel, Rogachev, on the San River, Kielce, and in the Berlin and Prague Operations. With 13th Army13th Army (Soviet Union)The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War...
of the 1st Ukrainian Front1st Ukrainian FrontThe 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
5.45. - 122nd Guards Red Banner Rifle Division (ex 249th Rifle Division 1945). Estonian national formation.
- 123rd Guards Rifle Division (from 8th Guards Abn Division)
- 124th Guards Rifle Division (from 1st Guards Abn Division, November 1945)
- 125th Guards Rifle Division (from 3rd Guards Abn Division, November 1945)
- 126th Guards Rifle Division (from 10th Guards Abn Division, November 1945)
- 127th Guards Rifle Division (from 2nd Guards Abn Division, November 1945)
- 128th Guards Rifle Division (ex 83rd Rifle Division Oct 1943). Fought in Caucasus, at Kerch and Sevastopol, in the Carpathians, and at Katowice. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
5.45. - 129th Guards Rifle Division—fought at Kerch, Zhitomir, Lvov, and at Uzhgorod. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front4th Ukrainian FrontThe 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
May 1945.
Motor Rifle Divisions
- Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution Red Banner Separate Motor Rifle Division of special purpose Internal Troops, Ministry of Interior of the USSR in the name of F. 3. Dzerzhinskiy created June 1924, still active in Russian Interior Ministry in 2009.
- 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division 1941 - 1943, reformed 1957 - 2002
- 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (ex 107th Motor Rifle Division Feb 1942). First formed at Kalininets Fought at Rzhev. Used to form 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps in Oct 1942.
- 3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division (ex 82nd Motor Rifle Division Mar 1942). Used to form 6th Guards Mechanized Corps in Jun 1943.
See also
- List of Soviet Union divisions 1917-1945
- List of Soviet Army divisions 1989-91
- Army (Soviet Army)Army (Soviet Army)An army, besides the generalized meanings of ‘a country's armed forces’ or its ‘land forces’, is a type of formation in militaries of various countries, including the Soviet Union. This article serves a central point of reference for Soviet armies without individual articles, and explains some of...