91st Rifle Division

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91st Rifle Division
ActiveFirst Formation: 1939–1941
Second Formation: 1941–1953
Country Soviet Union
BranchRed Army (to 1946)
Soviet Army (after 1946)
EngagementsWorld War II

First Formation:

Second Formation:

DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner (Second Formation)
Battle honoursMelitopol (Second Formation)

The 91st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the

Crimean Offensive, earning the honorific "Melitopol" and the Order of the Red Banner
. The division was downsized into a brigade postwar but became a division again in 1953. It became a motor rifle division in 1957.

First Formation

The 91st Rifle Division was formed in

German invasion of the Soviet Union four days earlier, the 91st Rifle Division began loading onto trains. On 29 June it left Achinsk. Between 8 and 10 July the trains arrived in Yelnya and Sychyovka. The division and its corps, which also included the 119th Rifle Division, joined the 24th Army.[1]

The 91st Rifle Division was active with 52nd Rifle Corps (24th Army) in June 1941,

2nd and Third Panzer Groups met at Vyazma on 10 October 1941.[3][4] Four Soviet armies (the 19th, 20th, the 24th, and 32nd) were trapped in a huge pocket just west of the city.[5]
It was formally disbanded in December 1941.

Second Formation

On 5 December 1941 the 464th Rifle Division was formed in

Battle of the Crimea.[8]

In August 1945, the 91st Rifle Division (Military Unit Number 34562) moved to the Kazan Military District at Sarapul with the 10th Rifle Corps. In 1946, it became the 14th Rifle Brigade, after being transferred to the Ural Military District as a result of the disbandment of the Kazan Military District. In October 1953, the brigade became the 91st Rifle Division again. On 4 June 1957, the division became the 91st Motor Rifle Division after relocating to Perm.[9] In 1959 it was disbanded.[10]

In 1960 the newly formed 8th Rocket Division was given the division's awards and honors.[11]

References

  1. ISBN 978-5-91502-018-3
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  2. ^ Niehorster, Leo. "24th Army, STAVKA Strategic Reserves, Red Army, 22.06.41". Orders of Battle. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  3. ^ Clark Chapter 8,"The Start of the Moscow Offensive", p.156 (diagram)
  4. ^ Glantz, chapter 6, sub-ch. "Viaz'ma and Briansk", pp. 74 ff.
  5. ^ Vasilevsky, p. 139.
  6. ^ See Goff, James F., The mysterious high-numbered Red Army rifle divisions, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 11, No.4, December 1998, pp. 195–202
  7. ISBN 978-0-14-103240-5
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  8. ^ "Combat Composition of the Soviet Army, 1 April 1944". www.teatrskazka.com. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  9. ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 149, 163, 507–508, 512–513.
  10. ^ "91st Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  11. ^ "8th Missile Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  • 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
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