64th Guards Rifle Division
64th Guards Rifle Division | |
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Active | 1943–1997 |
Country | Tallinn Offensive Courland Pocket |
Decorations | Order of the Red Banner |
Battle honours | Krasnoye Selo |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Mjr. Gen. N. A. Poliakov Mjr. Gen. I. D. Romantsov |
The 64th Guards Rifle Division was created on January 19, 1943, from the
Formation
When the 64th Guards was formed, its basic order of battle was as follows:
- 191st Guards Rifle Regiment from 1098th Rifle Regiment
- 194th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1100th Rifle Regiment
- 197th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1102nd Rifle Regiment
- 134th Guards Artillery Regiment from 894th Artillery Regiment[1]
The division was considered a "sister" to the
During
Breaking the Siege
At the start of the
30th Guards Corps was pulled back for rest and refitting east of Leningrad later that month. On September 13 the corps headquarters got orders to prepare to take the leading role in the
As of January 1, 1944, the 64th Guards was in 30th Guards Corps, now under
"KRASNOYE SELO" - 64th Guards Rifle Division (Major General Romantsov, Ivan Danilovich)... The troops who participated in the breakthrough of enemy defenses and the liberation of Krasnoye Selo and Ropsha, by the order of the Supreme High Command of January 19, 1944, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.
It shared this honour with 63rd Guards and two divisions of the 123rd Corps.[7]
For the remainder of January, 42nd Army pursued the defeated German forces in the direction of
Karelian Offensive
In April, STAVKA's attention turned to completing the war with Finland. For this purpose Leningrad Front was reinforced with the headquarters of
Baltic Offensive
In August, 30th Guards Corps was once again assigned to 2nd Shock Army. With the fighting around Narva finally ending that month, 2nd Shock was able to move past that choke-point towards Estonia, crossing the narrows between
When the shooting stopped the division was officially designated as the 64th Guards Rifle, Krasnoye Selo, Order of the Red Banner Division. (Russian: 64-я гвардейская стрелковая Красносельская Краснознамённая дивизия).
Postwar
The 64th Guards continued to serve well into the postwar era, still in 30th Guards Rifle Corps, which in 1957 was redesignated as 30th Guards Army Corps. In 1957, the division was converted into a motor rifle division at Sapyornoye. During Operation Anadyr, the four motor rifle regiments sent to Cuba in the Cuban Missile Crisis were drawn from the 30th Guards Army Corps. The 302nd, 314th, and 400th Regiments were formed from units of the 269th, 194th, and 197th Guards Regiments respectively. In Cuba, they became the 43rd, 74th, and 108th Regiments. In the late 1980s, the division included the 197th Guards and 269th Guards Motor Rifle Regiments, the 10th Artillery Regiment, the 1001st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment, and other smaller units at Sapyornoye. The 194th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was at Svobodnoye, and the 83rd Separate Tank Battalion and 75th Guards Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion were at Pontonnoye.[14]
On June 1, 1997, the division was disbanded by being renamed the 36th Guards Weapons and Equipment Storage Base. The storage base was disbanded in 2007.[15]
References
- ^ Charles C. Sharp, "Red Guards", Soviet Guards Rifle and Airborne Units 1941 to 1945, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, Vol. IV, 1995, p 70
- ^ Sharp, "Red Guards", p 71
- ^ David M. Glantz, The Battle for Leningrad 1941 - 1944, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2002, pp 301-02
- ^ Glantz, pp 308-11
- ^ Glantz, pp 315-19
- ^ Glantz, pp 328, 334, 340-44
- ^ "Освобождение городов". www.soldat.ru. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
- ^ Glantz, pp 369, 372-75, 411
- ^ Glantz, pp 418, 420-21
- ^ The Gamers, Inc., Karelia '44, Multi-Man Publishing, Inc., Millersville, MD, 2011, pp 4-5
- ^ Glantz, pp 430-31
- ^ Karelia '44, p 6
- ^ The Gamers, Inc., Baltic Gap, Multi-Man Publishing, Inc., Millersville, MD, 2009, pp 30, 36, 38
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 438–439.
- ^ Holm, Michael (2015). "64th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
- 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.