The 56th Rifle Division (Russian: 56-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army of the Soviet Union, formed...
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II 56th Infantry Division (Russian Empire) 56th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 56th Guards Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 56th Division (Spain), a Spanish...
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342nd Rifle Division and took part in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. During the Cold War, it was reformed as the 56th Motor Rifle Division and later...
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The 56th (London) Infantry Division was a Territorial Army infantry division of the British Army, which served under several different titles and designations...
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The 56th Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in June 1943, based on the 2nd formations of the 74th and 91st...
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May 1957, rifle divisions were reformed into motor rifle divisions. On 17 May 1957, the 56th Rifle Division became the 56th Motor Rifle Division (in this...
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Division.) In the 1980s it was the 63rd Guards Motor Rifle Training Division. In 1987 it became the 56th Guards District Training Centre for the Preparation...
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Imperial German 56th Infantry Division Italian 56th Infantry Division Imperial Japanese 56th Division Soviet 56th Rifle Division 57th Division British 57th...
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Ukrainian Front May 1945. 55th Guards Rifle Division (ex 30th Rifle Division 18.12.42). 56th Guards Rifle Division (ex 74th and 91st Brigades January 1943)...
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1900 – 8 March 1950) was a Red Army major general who commanded the 56th Rifle Division in the early stages of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation...
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still having far fewer troops than the Soviets, the Finnish forces (12th Division) repelled the Red Army because the Soviets were only prepared to proceed...
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Rifle Division‡ 122nd Rifle Corps† 56th Rifle Division† 85th Rifle Division† 332nd Rifle Division‡ 130th Latvian Rifle Corps 43rd Guards Rifle Division 308th...
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front. On 12 December, the advancing Soviet 139th Rifle Division, supported by the 56th Rifle Division, was defeated by a much smaller Finnish force under...
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Soviet Rifle Division, 22 June 1941 Soviet Tank Division, 22 June 1941 Soviet Cavalry Division, 22 June 1941 Soviet Mountain Rifle Division, 22 June...
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87th Rifle Corps was renamed 2nd Rifle Corps; the 342nd Rifle Division was renamed the 56th Rifle Division; and the 258th Rifle Red Banner Division became...
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Rifle Division (Karl Grunstein [ru]) 6th Rifle Division (Aleksey Storozhenko [ru]) 21st Rifle Division (Georgy Ovchinnikov [ru]) 56th Rifle Division (K...
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Boruta-Spiechowicz, clashed with subunits of Red Army's 5th, 6th and 56th Rifle Divisions. The battle, which took place in the village of Obuchowo, located...
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Red Army. 1st Motor Rifle Division NKVD – established 23.6.38 at Moscow as Separate NKVD Motorized RD, with Western Front and 56th Army. Still exists in...
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56th Rifle Divisions. The division transferred to a new defensive line between Mežvalde and Jaunmeži, relieving elements of the 11th Rifle Division....
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the division was completely withdrawn from Chechnya. In 1999 key units included the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment; 242nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment;...
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Rifle Division is a Guards mechanised infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number is 23626. The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division...
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city in the afternoon on 26 September, and at about 8 p.m., Soviet 56th Rifle Division approached the Lebioda river crossing, guarded by Polish regiments...
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After several days of digging rifle pits, making breastworks and exchanging light fire with enemy skirmishers, the 56th Massachusetts took part in another...
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regiment is part of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. It was formed in 2021 from the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade, based at Kamyshin. The brigade...
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Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 3 March 2016. Feskov et al 2013, pp. 464–465 Holm, Michael. "56th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2...
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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 40th Rifle Corps alongside the 31st Rifle Division. During the war the division was at various times serving as part of the 46th, 37th, 56th, Separate...
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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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Borisov (1991–1992) 331st Guards Rifle Regiment 345th Guards Rifle Regiment 349th Guards Rifle Regiment 56th Guards Divisional Artillery Brigade 1947 331st...
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Rifle Corps at Novgorod with the 16th and 56th Rifle Divisions, and the 19th Rifle Corps at Leningrad with the 4th Turkestan and 20th Rifle Divisions...
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