17th Rifle Division
| 17th Rifle Division | |
|---|---|
| Active | 1918–1941 1941–1945 |
| Country |  Soviet Union |
| Branch | .svg){kind=small} Red Army |
| Size | Division |
| Engagements |
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| Decorations |  Order of the Red Banner |
| Battle honours | Moscow Rezkaja Bobruysk |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Georgy Sofronov (1922–1923, 1924–1930) Pyotr Filatov (1923–1924) Georgy Bondar (1932–1937) Terenty Batsanov (1938–1941) |
The 17th Rifle Division was an
First Formation
The division was first formed on 23 October 1918 from the 1st Vitebsk Rifle Division and 2nd Smolensk Rifle Division by the order of the Military council of the Smolensk Defensive Region. The division participated in the
Composition
- 49th Rifle Regiment
- 50th Rifle Regiment
- 51st Rifle Regiment
- 17th Artillery Regiment
The division was maintained on a reduced status until December 1939 when the division was brought to full strength for the Winter War with Finland. The division returned to Gorky in April 1940. In June 1940 the division was moved to the Lithuanian border and assigned to the Belorussian Military District.[1]
Assigned to 21st Rifle Corps, 10th Army when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and located in the Vitebsk and Polotsk area. By the end of June the division was surrounded in the area east of Minsk. Though the division was destroyed in late June 1941 it was not officially disbanded until 19 September 1941.[2]
Composition
- 55th Rifle Regiment
- 271st Rifle Regiment
- 278th Rifle Regiment
- 20th Artillery Regiment
- 35th Howitzer Regiment (never formed)
- 390th Howitzer Regiment (added April 1940)
Second Formation
Reformed from the 17th Moscow People's Militia Rifle Division on 26 October 1941. Assigned to the
After a brief period on occupation duty the division was returned to the Soviet Union in the Volga Military District at Yoshkar-Ola where it was reorganized as the 1st Rifle Brigade as part of the 53rd Rifle Corps. It was disbanded in March 1947.[4]
Composition
- 1312th Rifle Regiment
- 1314th Rifle Regiment
- 1316th Rifle Regiment
- 980th Artillery Regiment
Commanders
- Colonel Pyotr Sergeyevich Kozlov (4 July–10 October 1941)
- Colonel Mikhail Pavlovich Safir (11–16 October 1941)
- Colonel Pyotr Sergeyevich Kozlov (16–21 October 1941)
- Kombrig Stepan Ivanovich Lyubarsky (21–24 October 1941)
- General-mayor Dmitry Mikhailovich Selezynov (24 October 1941–24 September 1942)
- Colonel Ivan Leontyevich Ragulya (25–30 September 1942)
- Lieutenant Colonel Matvey Kononenko (30 September–7 October 1942)
- Colonel Ivan Leontyevich Ragulya (8 October 1942–14 September 1943, promoted to general-mayor 14 February 1943)
- Colonel Pavel Stepanovich Romanenko (15 September 1943–6 January 1944)
- Colonel Viktor Aleksandrovich Ivanov (7 January–9 May 1944)
- Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Pavlovich Lukin (10 May–24 October 1944, promoted to colonel 15 August)
- Colonel Andrey Feoktistovich Grebnev (25 October 1944–20 February 1945)
- Colonel Pyotr Ivanovich Skachkov (21–27 February 1945)
- Colonel Andrey Fekotistovich Grebnev (28 February–31 July 1945)
- Colonel Mikhail Pavlovich Serebrov (21 July 1945–January 1946)
- General-mayor Ivan Vasilyevich Mokhin (February–September 1946)
See also
References
Citations
- ^ ISBN 0-89141-237-9.
- ^ a b c Crofoot, Craig. Armies of the Bear, Vol 1. Part 1.
- ^ Dvoinykh, Kariaeva & Stegantsev 1993, pp. 80–81.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 148
Bibliography
- Dvoinykh, L.V.; Kariaeva, T.F.; Stegantsev, M.V., eds. (1993). Центральный государственный архив Советской армии: Путеводитель [A Guide to the Central State Archive of the Soviet Army] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Minneapolis: Eastview Publications. ISBN 1879944030. Archived from the originalon 30 August 2017.
- Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.