The 222nd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed in the months just before the start of the German invasion, based...
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Brigade. Fought in East Prussia. With 39th Army of the RVGK 5.45. 222nd Rifle Division — established at Starodub April 1941. Fought at Yelnaya, Moscow,...
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The 248th Rifle Division was formed in the Moscow Military District as a reserve infantry division of the Red Army just days after the German invasion...
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It was formed at Voronezh and was considered a "sister" to the 222nd Rifle Division. When Operation Barbarossa began it was in 28th Army but soon after...
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The 105th Rifle Division (Russian: 105-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army. Formed in the 1930s, the division spent World War...
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The 168th Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the Leningrad Military District in August - September 1939, based on the...
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Rifle Division was the last of a group of 10 regular rifle divisions formed from cadres of NKVD border and internal troops as standard Red Army rifle...
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38th Rifle Corps 52nd Rifle Division 64th Rifle Division 89th Rifle Division 169th Rifle Division 62nd Rifle Corps 49th Rifle Division 222nd Rifle Division...
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The 150th Guards Motor Rifle Idritsa-Berlin Order of Kutuzov Division (Russian: Russian: 150-я гвардейская мотострелковая Идрицко-Берлинская ордена Кутузова...
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from the 42nd and 290th Rifle Divisions and the 1st Polish Infantry Division, supported by the 164th and 222nd Rifle Divisions in second echelon. Meanwhile...
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221st Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 221st Security Division (Wehrmacht) 222nd Division 222nd Infantry Division (German Empire) Italian 222nd Coastal...
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The 266th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Soviet Red Army during World War II. The 266th was formed three times during the war. It was first...
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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". The...
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Order of Battle, volume 2: 291st – 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole...
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The 2nd Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army that served from the Russian Civil War to the Second World War. Originally formed in 1919...
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72nd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) (redirect from 72nd Guards Rifle Division)
29th Rifle Division (2nd formation) and then the 72nd Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet Ground Forces. In 1957, it became a motor rifle division. In...
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The 416th Rifle Division was formed for the first time as a standard Red Army rifle division late in 1941, after the Soviet winter counteroffensive had...
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Gordov deployed his 42nd and 290th Rifle and 1st Polish Infantry Divisions in first echelon, with 222nd and 164th Divisions in second echelon, to assault German...
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broken up into two separate rifle brigades, which were combined into the 1st Caucasian Rifle Division in 1922. The division was converted into a mountain...
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The 255th Rifle Division was formed in the Odessa Military District as a reserve infantry division of the Red Army about two weeks after the German invasion...
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Armee Zaloga, p. 60 See Adair, pp. 151–152 Niepold, p. 195 E.g. the 222nd Rifle Division, who after destroying one group at the Svisloch crossings on 7 July...
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Voronezh-Shumlinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Red Banner of Labor Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 19-я мотострелковая Воронежско-Шумлинская Краснознамённая...
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the Soviet front. Two German divisions with 70 tanks broke through in the 33rd Army's sector in the 222nd Rifle Division's area to the north of Naro-Fominsk...
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240th Rifle Regiment 269th Rifle Regiment 275th Rifle Regiment 322nd Artillery Regiment 222nd Antitank Battalion List of infantry divisions of the Soviet...
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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...
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The 89th Taman Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov and the Red Star Rifle Division (Russian: 89-я стрелковая Таманская Краснознамённая орденов Кутузова и Красной...
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49th Rifle Division was a Soviet Army infantry division, formed three times. First formed as a territorial division in 1931, the 49th Rifle Division's first...
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The 171st Rifle Division was originally formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the North Caucasus Military District on September 18, 1939, based...
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redesignated the 69th Rifle Division. In March 1941, it was reorganized as the 69th Motorized Division, and its 8th Rifle and 222nd Artillery Regiments...
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Banner Motor Rifle Division (Military Unit Number 29410 until September 1987; MUN 28320 thereafter) is a Russian military unit. The division was formed...
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