265th Motor Rifle Division

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265th Motor Rifle Division
(1965–1989)

119th Motor Rifle Division
(1957–1965)

71st Mechanized Division
(1953–1957)

34th Separate Rifle Brigade
(1946–1953)

265th Rifle Division
(1941–1946)
ActiveJuly 1941–October 1989
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army
TypeRifle division
EngagementsWorld War II
Battle honours

The 265th Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 265-я мотострелковая дивизия) was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.

The division traced its heritage back to the 265th Rifle Division, which was formed in mid-1941 from an

Soviet Far East
in 1964 and being renumbered as the 265th Motor Rifle Division. It spent the rest of its career in the Far East and was downsized into a storage base in 1989.

History

World War II

The 265th Rifle Division began forming on 26 June 1941 in the

Leningrad with a 1500-man cadre of NKVD personnel. In early August it joined the 23rd Army, fighting in the Continuation War north of Leningrad on the Karelian Isthmus. On 26 August, its first Red Army commander, Major Ivan Prytkov, was assigned to the division.[1][2]

A memorial to the 265th Rifle Division in the village of Sofrino on the Karelian Isthmus

On 14 October, the division was transferred to the

Vistula–Oder Offensive began in January 1945, the division transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front. It fought in the advance through Poland and in the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945.[2] During the war, the division was awarded the honorific "Vyborg".[3]

Postwar

As of 1 December 1945, the division was still with the 3rd Shock Army's 7th Rifle Corps in eastern Germany, part of the

10th Army Corps (formerly the 10th Rifle Corps)[8] in the Baltic Military District.[9] Beginning on 11 July 1964, the division was relocated from Vilnius to the Amur Oblast. It was replaced at Vilnius by the 107th Motor Rifle Division.[10][11]

On 11 January 1965, the division was renumbered as the 265th Motor Rifle Division.

35th Army from 1969. In the late 1980s, the division's 421st Motor Rifle Regiment was based at Pozdeyevka, the 373rd Tank Regiment and division headquarters at Vozzhayevka, the 695th Motor Rifle Regiment and 798th Artillery Regiment at Srednebelaya, and the 212th Motor Rifle Regiment at Cheremkhovo. On 25 October 1989, it was downsized into the 5507th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.[12]

Commanders

The following officers commanded the division during World War II:[1]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 235.
  2. ^ a b Sharp 1996, pp. 52–53.
  3. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 166.
  4. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 383.
  5. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 397.
  6. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 149.
  7. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 441.
  8. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 206.
  9. ^ a b Feskov et al 2013, p. 163.
  10. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 140.
  11. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 442.
  12. ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 593–594.

Bibliography

  • 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
    .
  • Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1964). Командование корпусного и дивизионного звена советских вооруженных сил периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941 – 1945 гг [Commanders of Corps and Divisions in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Frunze Military Academy.
  • Sharp, Charles C. (1996). The Soviet Order of Battle World War II: An Organizational History of the Major Combat Units of the Soviet Army. Vol. 9. West Chester, Ohio: George F. Nafziger.
    OCLC 258366685
    .

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