7th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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7th Rifle Division | |
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Active | I Formation: 1918–1941 II Formation: 1941–1945 |
Country | Soviet Union |
Branch | Red Army |
Type | Infantry |
Engagements | Russian Civil War
Soviet invasion of Poland
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Decorations | Order of the Red Banner (2; 1st formation) (1; 2nd formation) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1st formation) |
Battle honours | Chernigov (1st formation) In the name of Frunze (1st formation) |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Ivan Sovetnikov |
The 7th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice.
History
The division was first formed in September 1918 at Vladimir in the Moscow Military District.
After reorganisation, probably as part of forming new divisions, the division was re-formed for the second time in August 1939 at Poltava in the
Returned to the Kiev Special Military District in April 1940, it participated in the
The division was reformed on 27 December 1941 for the third time from remnants of the 22nd Estonian Territorial Rifle Corps. It was reformed at Sverdlovsk in the Ural MD in 1942, as an Estonian national formation, which later joined the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Red Army. It took part in operations from 7 November 1942 as part of the 3rd, 1st Shock, 8th and 42nd Armies. Its first combat was the Battle of Velikiye Luki. On 1 December 1942 it was part of the 8th Rifle Corps, subordinated directly to the Kalinin Front alongside other Estonian formations.[4] On 22 September 1944 elements of the division, along with the 45th Estonian Tank Regiment and the 952nd SU Regiment (SU-76s), formed the forward detachment of 8th Rifle Corps and captured Tallinn, for which all three units received the name of that city as a battle honor.[5] The 7th Estonian Rifle Division was with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) in May 1945. On 28.06.1945 it became the 118th Guards Rifle Division by NKO Order No. 0126.
Feskov et al. 2013 does not, despite earlier publications, list the division among those reformed in the 1950s.[6]
Honorifics and awards
- 22.10.1944 Awarded the honorific "Tallinn"
- 16.12.1944 Awarded the Order of the Red Banner
See also
- List of Soviet Union divisions 1917–1945
Notes
- ^ Orbat.com/Niehorster
- ^ "The Battle of Lutsk - Rovno". theeasternfront.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ Ryabyshev, Dmitry (19 September 2011). "On the role of the 8th Mechanized Corps in the June 1941 counteroffensive mounted by the South-Western Front". english.battlefield.ru. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1 December 1942.
- ^ Charles C. Sharp, "Red Hammers", Soviet Self-Propelled Artillery and Lend Lease Armor 1941 - 1945, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, vol. XII, Nafziger, 1998, pp 50-51
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p.150, Table 4.1.5, contradicting Feskov et al 2004 and, through translation, Avanzini and Crofoot, 'Armies of the Bear'.
- 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.