97th Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
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The 97th Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 97-ма гвардійська мотострілецька дивізія, romanized: 97-ma hvardiys'ka motostrilets'ka dyviziya) was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine.
The full name of the division was the "97th Guards Poltava Motor-Rifle Division,
History
World War II
The division was formed in August–September 1941 as the
. The division took part in the defensive operations atOn May 4, 1943, the division was re-designated as the 97th Guards Rifle Division.[6] Its order of battle was as follows:
- 289th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1151st Rifle Regiment
- 292nd Guards Rifle Regiment from 1153rd Rifle Regiment
- 294th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1155th Rifle Regiment
- 232nd Guards Artillery Regiment from 903rd Artillery Regiment
- 104th Guards Antitank Battalion from 567th Antitank Battalion
- 110th Guards Sapper Battalion from 620th Sapper Battalion
- 141st Guards Signal Battalion from 791st Signal Battalion
- 100th Guards Reconnaissance Company from 402nd Reconnaissance Company
The day before its re-designation the division was assigned to the newly-formed 33rd Guards Rifle Corps.[7] On May 2, the commander of the division, Matvei Usenko, was promoted to the rank of Major General. Just ten days later he was killed after being blown up by a land mine while crossing a road in a vehicle.[8]
The division took part in the
Postwar
After
Commanders
Division commanders included:[14]
- General-mayor Matvei Usenko (4–12 May 1943)
- Colonel Vasily Yakovlevich Kashlyayev (13–30 May 1943)
- Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Antsiferov (1 June 1943–19 April 1944, general-mayor from 25 September 1943)
- Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Lashkov (20 April–22 May 1944)
- General-mayor Ivan Ivanovich Antsiferov (23 May–8 October 1944)
- Colonel Yefrem Mikhailovich Golub (9 October–28 December 1944)
- Colonel Anton Prokofyevich Garan (29 December 1944–16 June 1945)
- General-mayor Leonid Kolobov (16 June 1945–20 March 1947)
- General-mayor Fyodor Zakharovich Borisov (20 March 1947–21 February 1948)
- General-mayor Vasily Ivanovich Shcherbenko (21 February 1948–12 September 1955)
- Colonel Vasily Poyarov (12 September 1955–2 July 1958, general-mayor from 27 August 1957)
- Colonel Pyotr Yegorovich Litvinenko (2 July 1958–19 December 1961, general-mayor from 9 May 1961)
- Colonel Stepan Aleksandrovich Fedorenko (19 December 1961–15 January 1966, general-mayor from 13 April 1964)
- Colonel Pyotr Timofeyevich Latuk (15 January 1966–unknown, general-mayor from 25 October 1967)
- Colonel Leonid Ivanovich Pinchuk (general-mayor from 28 October 1976)
Order of battle
During the late 1980s, the division included the following units.[2]
- 110th Tank Regiment
- 289th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
- 292nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
- 294th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
- 232nd Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
- 1094th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
Awards
- September 1943 received the honorific "Poltava"[6]
- 19?? received Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky[15]
- 19?? received Order of Suvorov[15]
- 19?? received the Order of the Red Banner[15]
References
- ^ Ukrainskiy Ofitsery Archived 2008-04-09 at the Wayback Machine (Ukrainian)
- ^ a b Feskov et al 2013, p. 473.
- ^ a b c d e 97-ма Полтавська окрема механізована Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Article in Ukrainian, website of Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
- ^ "171 артилерійський снаряд часів Другої світової війни, які були виявлені на городі мешканця села Білопіль, що на Хмельниччині, знешкодили воїни-сапери 97-ої окремої механізованої бригади Західного оперативного командування" [97th Separate Mechanized Brigade soldiers defuse 171 WWII artillery shells] (in Ukrainian). Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. 8 May 2002. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2001-04-24. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b c Bonn 2005, pp. 374–375.
- ^ a b Sharp 1995, p. 84.
- ^ Aleksander A. Maslov, Fallen Soviet Generals, trans. and ed. D.M. Glantz, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 1998, p. 95
- ^ "Освобождение городов". www.soldat.ru. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 471.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 149.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 472.
- ^ Vad777. "Дислокация частей украинской армии" [Bases of Ukrainian Army units] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Kalashnikov & Dodonov 2019, pp. 249–250.
- ^ a b c Feskov et al 2013, p. 166.
Sources
- Bonn, Keith E., ed. (2005). Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front. Bedford, PA: Aberjona Press. ISBN 097176509X.
- Sharp, Charles C. (1995). "Red Guards", Soviet Guards Rifle and Airborne Units, 1941 to 1945, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, vol. IV. George F. Nafziger.
- 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.
- Kalashnikov, K. A.; Dodonov, I. Yu. (2019). Высший командный состав Вооруженных сил СССР в послевоенный период: Справочные материалы (1945-1975) (in Russian). Vol. 4, Part 1. Ust-Kamenogorsk: Media-Alyans. ISBN 9786017887315.
Further reading
- I.A. Samchuk, “Guards from Poltava" (Moscow, Voenizdat, 1965) (Russian)
- "World War II, Soviet Encyclopaedia, 1985, p. 573 [М. М. Козлов. Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945: Энциклопедия. — М: «Советская энциклопедия», 1985. — С. 573. — 832 с. — 105 000 экз.]
- Феськов В. И., Калашников К. А., Голиков В. И. Глава 2. Стрелковые и воздушно-десантные войска, укрепленные районы Красной Армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны // Красная Армия в победах и поражениях 1941-1945 гг.. — Томск: Издательство Томского университета, 2003. — 619 с. — ISBN 5-7511-1624-0.
- Чуйков В. И. Сражение века. — М.: Советская Россия, 1975. — 317 с.
- Жадов А. С. Четыре года войны. — М.: Воениздат, 1978. — 334 с.
- Военный энциклопедический словарь. — под. ред. Н. В. Огаркова. — Военное издательство, 1983. — С. 573. — 863 с. — ISBN ББК 68я2 В63.
- Родимцев А. И., Гвардейцы стояли насмерть, 2 изд., М., 1973
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