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Guards Armies
Guards units () were elite Military organization#Commands, formations, and units, units and formations in the Soviet Armed Forces that continue to exist in the Russian Armed Forces and other post-Soviet states. These units were awarded Guards status after distinguishing themselves in wartime service, and are considered to have elite#Military, elite status. The Guards designation originated during Eastern Front (World War II), World War II, its name coming both from the Russian Imperial Guard, and the old Bolsheviks, Bolshevik Red Guards (Russia), Red Guards. Practical benefits of the status included double pay for ordinary soldiers, usually priority in equipment and replacements, and the designation often served as a morale-boosting source of unit pride. History The title of Guards within the Soviet Armed Forces was first introduced on 18 September 1941, at the direction of the Stavka of the Supreme High Command, Headquarters of the Supreme High Command (Stavka). By order No. 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Guards Order
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
153rd Rifle Division (1940–1941)
The 153rd Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II, active from 1940 to 1941. For its actions in the Dukhovshchina offensive during the Battle of Smolensk (1941), Battle of Smolensk it became the 3rd Guards Rifle Division. History The 153rd Rifle Division was formed in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk in August 1940, under the command of Colonel Nikolai Gagen. The division included the 435th, 505th, and 666th Rifle Regiments, the 565th Light Artillery Regiment, the 581st Howitzer Artillery Regiment, and other smaller support units. Before June 1941, the division conducted training in the Kamyshlov camps, part of the Ural Military District. In the first half of June 1941 the division was relocated by rail across the Soviet Union to the city of Vitebsk, Belorussia, as part of the 62nd Rifle Corps of the 22nd Army (Soviet Union), 22nd Army. The first three troop trains of the division arrived in Vitebsk on 22 June, the day Operation Barbarossa began. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
64th Rifle Division (1925–1941)
The 64th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II. The division suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk but with some troops escaping from encirclement, it was rebuilt in mid-July 1941. For its actions in the Battle of Smolensk (1941), Battle of Smolensk it became the elite 7th Guards Rifle Division. Prewar service The 64th Rifle Division was formed in May 1925 in Smolensk as a cadre-strength territorial unit from the 80th Rifle Regiment of the 27th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 27th Rifle Division. As a territorial unit, the division conducted annual training for thousands of locals in the next decade. By 1935, its headquarters, 190th Rifle Regiment, and 64th Artillery Regiment were at Smolensk, while the 191st Rifle Regiment was at Roslavl and the 192nd Rifle Regiment was at Orsha. The 190th was named for the Smolensk City Council and the 192nd had the honorific Orsha. The division was assigned to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
120th Rifle Division
The 120th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times. Its first formation became the 6th Guards Rifle Division for its actions in the Yelnya Offensive. Its second formation became the 69th Guards Rifle Division for its actions in the Battle of Stalingrad. The division was reformed a third time in late April 1943. It was disbanded "in place" with the Central Group of Forces in the summer of 1945.Feskov et al. 2013, p. 413 First Formation The 120th Rifle Division was formed in July 1940 in the Orel Region from the 35th Reserve Rifle Brigade under the command of Major General Konstantin Petrov, part of the 33rd Rifle Corps. The 120th Rifle Division was composed of the following units: * 401st Rifle Regiment * 474th Rifle Regiment * 540th Rifle Regiment * 606th Artillery Regiment * 180th Separate Antitank Battalion * 105th Separate Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion * 150th Intelligence Company * 193rd Sapper Battalion * 224th Separate Communicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
107th Rifle Division
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Ivan Panfilov
Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov (; – 18 November 1941) was a Soviet Union, Soviet general and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union, known for his command of the 8th Guards Rifle Division, 316th Rifle Division during the Battle of Moscow, defense of Moscow at the Second World War. Biography Early life Panfilov was born in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Petrovsk. After the death of his mother in 1904, the child was forced to quit school and started working in a local shop when he was eleven years old. His father died in 1912.Panfikov's curriculum vitae , quoted in an article by Dmitry Yazov. In 1915, during the First World War, Panfilov was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and stationed in the 638th Olpinsk Infantry Regiment. Afterwards, he was transferred to the Southwestern Front (Russian Empire), Southw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen
The Panfilov Division's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen (), commonly referred to simply as Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, Panfilov's Men (, ''Panfilovtsy''), or just the Twenty-Eight, is a group of soldiers from the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division who took part in the 1941–1942 Battle of Moscow during World War II. According to Soviet records of the time, all were killed in action on 16 November 1941 after destroying 18 German tanks and stopping the enemy attack; the Twenty-Eight were collectively endowed with the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Post-war investigation by Soviet authorities, carried out in 1948 and since declassified, revealed the story to be a fabrication. Neither German nor Soviet operational documents confirmed the claimed German casualties, and the Germans fulfilled their day's objectives well before the end of the day. After one of the supposedly dead men was arrested on suspicion of collaboration with the enemy and confessed to having "voluntarily" surrendere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Guards Rifle Division
The 8th Guards Motor Rifle Panfilov Division (; ) originally the 316th Rifle Division, is a motorized infantry division of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic. Formed as a Soviet Red Army division during World War II, it was dissolved in 2003 but established anew in 2011. Its full title is ''8th Guards Rezhitskaya Motorized Rifle Division Named after Hero of the Soviet Union Major General Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov, awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and Suvorov''. History Formation After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, reserves were mobilized to be sent to the front. On 12 July 1941, the 316th Rifle Division was established in Alma Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Major General Ivan Panfilov, the military commissar of the Kirghiz SSR, was appointed its commander. The reservists allotted to the 316th were mostly from the two republics. It consisted of: * 1073th Rifle Regiment * 1075th Rifle Regiment * 1077th Rifle Regiment * 857th Arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
316th Rifle Division
The 316th Rifle Division was formed as a Red Army division during World War II. The division was initially formed in July 1941, renamed the 8th Guards Rifle Division on 18 November 1941. The division was recreated at Vjasniki in July 1942, fought in the early battles around Stalingrad and was disbanded in November 1942. The division was recreated for the third time from the 57th and 131st Rifle Brigades in September 1943. The division ended the war assigned to the 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. History 1st Formation After Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, reserves were mobilized to be sent to the front. On 12 July 1941, the 316th Rifle Division was established in Alma Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Major General Ivan Panfilov, the military commissar of the Kyrgyz SSR, was appointed its commander. The reservists allotted to the 316th were mostly from the two republics; when formed, the division was noted as being 90 percent Kazakh and Kirgiz, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Guards Rifle Division
The 4th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division on September 18, 1941, from the 1st formation of the 161st Rifle Division as one of the original Guards formations of the Red Army, in recognition of that division's participation in the successful counter-offensive that drove German forces out of their positions at Yelnya. The division then moved northwards to serve in the defense of Leningrad, as well as the early attempts to break that city's siege, but later was redeployed to the southern sector of the front as the crisis around Stalingrad developed. The 4th Guards took part in Operation Uranus which surrounded the German 6th Army in and around that city and then in the pursuit operations that drove the remaining German forces from the Caucasus steppes and the city of Rostov. The division remained in this sector for the duration of the war, fighting through the south of Ukraine through the summer of 1943 and winning the Order of the Red Banner in the proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division
The 3rd Guards Volnovakha Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division (Military Unit Number 61415) 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. The 3rd Guards Rifle Division was formed from the 153rd Rifle Division. History September 1941 to mid-1943 From 20 September to 9 November, the division conducted operations as part of the 54th Army of the Leningrad Front in the area of Mga and Sinyavino. From 10 to 14 November, the division relocated to the left flank of the army, south of the city of Volkhov. From 15 November to 28 December, the division conducted combat operations near Volkhov and then pursued the retreating German troops to the station of Pogostye. In the summer of 1942, the division was brought back up to strength and entered the Stavka reserve. From the end of August to September 1942, the division took part in the Sinyavino Offensive of the Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
