86th Rifle Division

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86th Rifle Division
Active
  • 1st formation: 1936–1941
  • 2nd formation: 1941–1946
CountrySoviet Union
AllegianceRed Army
BranchInfantry
SizeDivision
Engagements
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner (1st formation)
Battle honours
  • Kazan (1st formation)
  • named for the Central Executive Committee of the
    Tatar ASSR
    (replaced by named for the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR; 1st formation)
  • Tartu (2nd formation)

The 86th Rifle Division (

infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the interwar period, World War II
, and the early postwar period, formed twice.

Interwar period

Division commander Yakub Chanyshev observing maneuvers, c. 1932

By an order of the

111th Rifle Division while the remaining troops, reinforced by other units, were used to form the 86th Motor Rifle Division.[2]

Between January and March 1940, under the command of Kombrig

Proskurov from June.[3] On 16 July, the division's honorific named for the Central Executive Committee of the Tatar ASSR was changed to named for the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR, and it was converted back to a rifle division.[2]

World War II

1st Formation

It was engaged on 22 June 1941 in border battles, being almost destroyed in the process of defending the sector of the 64th Fortified Region of the 5th Rifle Corps, 10th Army, at Tzekhanovo in the Belostock area against five Wehrmacht infantry divisions.[4] The division was disbanded soon after, but in 1943 partisans found all the divisional standards in a hide, and the units were reinstated on the RKKA rolls.[3]

Composition

  • 169th, 284th, 330th Rifle Regiments
  • 248th Artillery Regiment
  • 383rd Howitzer Regiment
  • 128th Anti-tank Destroyer Battalion
  • 342nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion
  • 109th Reconnaissance Battalion
  • 120th Sapper Battalion
  • 95th Separate Communications Battalion
  • 14th Motor-rifle Battalion
  • 20th Auto-transport Battalion
  • 13th Field Bakery
  • 32nd Divisional Artillery Workshop
  • 366th Field Mail Station
  • 626th Field Bank

2nd Formation

The 86th Rifle Division (2nd Formation) was established at Lavrovo in September 1941 from the 4th Division of the Leningrad People's Militia Army, as part of the 7th Army. The 4th People's Militia Division was one of the better quality Leningrad provisional divisions, with men mostly having prior military service. The division fought near Leningrad in extremely difficult weather conditions at the Nevsky Pyatachok at which time it was renamed as the 86th Rifle Division. When formed it included 1st, 3rd and 4th Separate Special Rifle Brigades, 50th, 111th and 112th Separate Rifle Battalions and Special Sailor's Battalion.[5] From January 1942 the division fought in the 8th Army sector of the Leningrad Front. The division later served in the capture of Tartu on 25 August 1944 as part of the 67th Army (3rd Baltic Front), and in East Prussia. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.

Post-war

The division remained part of the

Dnipropetrovsk months later. In March 1947, the brigade was disbanded.[7]

References

Citations

  1. ^ "Никому своей земли ни пяди мы не отдадим | Республика Татарстан". rt-online.ru. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b Dvoinykh, Kariaeva, Stegantsev, eds. 1993, p. 180.
  3. ^ a b Stepanov, V.S. "86-я сд: первые дни войны" [86th Rifle Division: The First Days of the War]. rkka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 14 January 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  4. ^ "86sd.gif (1701x987)". Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  5. Yuri Aleksandrovich Panteleyev. "ДОКЛАД штаба Балтийского флота начальнику Главного морского штаба о боевых действиях частей Зимней обороны в районе побережья Ристниеми, Котка за период с 4 по 13 марта 1940 г." [REPORT of the Baltic Fleet Headquarters to the Chief of the Main Naval Staff on the combat operations of the Winter Defense units in the area of the coast of Ristniemi, Kotka for the period from March 4 to March 13, 1940] (in Russian). Archived
    from the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2013 – via aroundspb.ru.
  6. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 381.
  7. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 477.

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