25th Rifle Division
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25th Rifle Division | |
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Active | I Formation: 1918–1942 II Formation: 1943–1946 |
Country | Soviet Union |
Branch | Red Army |
Type | Infantry |
Engagements | Russian Civil War
Polish-Soviet War
Soviet invasion of Poland
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Decorations | Order of Lenin (1st formation) Order of the Red Banner (1st formation) |
Battle honours | named for V.I. Chapayev |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Gaspar Voskanyan Mikhail Velikanov Vasily Chapayev Ivan Yefimovich Petrov Trofim Kolomiets |
The 25th Rifle Division (
Formed in 1918, it was a Russian, and later
The 25th was formed for a second time, without inheriting the honors of the original unit, in 1943. This unit served in the Arkhangelsk Military District without seeing combat in the rest of the war, and was disbanded shortly after the end of the war.
Russian Civil War
The division was formed in 1918 at the beginning of the
In May 1920, the division transferred to the Ukrainian front. It aided the successful defence of Kiev against the Poles, before moving on to capture Kovel and participate in further operations along the Southern Bug. From April 1921 to the December 1922 the division was responsible for suppressing Ukrainian independence forces.
Interwar period
On 30 November 1921 the division was renamed the 25th Poltava Rifle Division before becoming the 25th Kremenchug Rifle Division on 4 January 1922. In 1922 the division became part of the
World War II
On June 24, 1941,
The division was subsequently reformed in the Arkhangelsk Military District in 1943. It did not see any further action in the Second World War.[2] While Poirer and Connor list further fighting it took part in, it is believed that this information was incorrect. It was attached to the 4th Rifle Corps of the Belomorsky Military District in May 1945.
Postwar
The division (Military Unit Number 15887) was disbanded on 10 July 1946 along with the corps.[3]
References
Citations
- ^ Dvoinykh, Kariaeva, Stegantsev, eds. 1993, pp. 96–97.
- ISBN 097202963X.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 429
Bibliography
- Dvoinykh, L.V.; Kariaeva, T.F.; Stegantsev, M.V., eds. (1993). Центральный государственный архив Советской армии [Central State Archive of the Soviet Army] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Minneapolis: Eastview Publications. ISBN 1-879944-03-0.
- 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.