35th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
| 35th Rifle Division | |
|---|---|
| Active | April 1919–late 1945 |
| Country |  Soviet Union |
| Branch |  Red Army |
| Type | Infantry |
| Engagements | Russian Civil War |
| Decorations | |
| Battle honours | Siberian |
The 35th Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army that fought in the Russian Civil War and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
History
Russian Civil War
The history of the 35th Rifle Division's first formation began in August 1918 when the Kamyshin front troops of the
Allied intervention forces in the area of Plesetsk and Onega. On 23 March, the division staff was given responsibility over the Onega–Arkhangelsk railway direction.[1]
In April, the division headquarters was transferred to the
Ay River and the Bol River. The division then withdrew to the line of Kusinsky Zavod and participated in the breakthrough of White defenses in the Zlatoust area.[1]
From 17 July to 4 August, the 35th Division fought in the
Novonikolayevsk railway line. During the Krasnoyarsk Operation from 18 December to 7 January 1920, the division continued to pursue the retreating White troops east and encircled and captured a large White group in the Balakhtinsky area while attacking Krasnoyarsk from the southwest. On 13 December, the division was awarded the honorific "Siberian".[1]
In May and June 1921, the division defended Soviet territory against
Mongolian operation from June to August. In July, the division's 104th Rifle Regiment defeated von Ungern-Sternberg's army at the battle of Lake Gusinoye.[2] The operation ended with the capture and execution of von Ungern-Sternberg, and the 35th returned to Soviet territory.[1]
Interwar period
The division became part of the
36th Rifle Division) and its corps became part of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, with which it fought in the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict over the Chinese Eastern Railway. Between April 1931 and October 1935, the 35th was a territorial unit. In 1938, it became part of the 2nd Red Banner Army.[1]
World War II
On 22 June 1941, when
5th Separate Rifle Corps, directly subordinated to the 2nd Far Eastern Front. When the invasion began on 9 August, the division attacked across the Ussuri into the Raohe Fortified Region in the corps' second echelon. It advanced to Boli in eastern Manchuria in eleven days of combat from 9 to 19 August.[4] The division disbanded in the fall of 1945.[5]
Commanders
The following officers are known to have commanded the division:[6]
- Fyodor Kuznetsov (22 April–27 June 1919)
- Leonid Verman (27 June–20 September 1919)
- Nikolay Tatarintsev (acting; 20–28 September 1919)
- Konstantin Neumann (28 September 1919–19 April 1921)
- Yan Gaylit: August-October 1921
- Petr Efimovich Shchetinkin: October-December 1921
- Kasyan Chaykovsky: December 1921-August 1922
- Eduard Lepin (18 August 1924–13 November 1925)
- Anatoly Ivanovich Tarasov (November 1925–1927)
- Kombrig Yulius Martynovich Shtal (8 August 1937–24 February 1938)
- Mikhail Andrianovich Popov (October 1938–July 1939)
- Colonel Fyodor Zakharovich Borisov (17 February 1939–7 February 1942, major general 9 November 1941)
- Colonel Georgy Alekseyevich Vasilyevich (8 February 1942–after 3 September 1945, major general 16 October 1943)
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e Dvoinykh, Kariaeva, Stegantsev, eds. 1993, pp. 118–119.
- ^ a b Walker 2017, p. 174.
- ^ Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1967, p. 187.
- ^ Sharp 1995, pp. 29–30.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 579.
- ^ Khromov 1983, p. 596.
Bibliography
- Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1967). Сборник приказов РВСР, РВС СССР, НКО и Указов Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о награждении орденами СССР частей, соединениий и учреждений ВС СССР. Часть I. 1920 - 1944 гг [Collection of orders of the RVSR, RVS USSR and NKO on awarding orders to units, formations and establishments of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Part I. 1920–1944] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 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. Archived from the originalon 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- 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.
- Khromov, S.S., ed. (1983). Гражданская война и военная интервенция 1918—1922: Энциклопедия [The Civil War and Foreign Intervention, 1918–1922: Encyclopedia] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia.
- Sharp, Charles C. (1995). The Soviet Order of Battle World War II: An Organizational History of the Major Combat Units of the Soviet Army. Vol. 8: "Red Legions", Soviet Rifle Divisions Formed Before June 1941. West Chester, Ohio: George F. Nafziger. OCLC 258366685.
- Walker, Michael M. (2017). The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Project MUSE.