150th Rifle Division
The 150th Rifle Division ( Russian 150-я стрелковая Идрицко-Берлинская ордена Кутузова дивизия 150-ja strelkowaja Idrizko Berlinskaja Ordena Kutusowa diwisija ) was an infantry division of the Red Army in World War II .
history
A 1st and 2nd formation of the 150th Division were destroyed and disbanded twice at the beginning of the Patriotic War. The 3rd formation of the 150th Rifle Division was reorganized from September 8 to 17, 1943 in the Staraya Russa area by merging the 127th, 144th and 151st Rifle Brigades. In September 1943 she was assigned to the 96th Rifle Corps and was part of the 34th Army . On November 11, 1943, she was brought by train to Newel in the Velikije Luki area and placed under the 6th Guard Army. The division was assigned to the 3rd Shock Army (Lieutenant General Juschkewitsch ) in the Idritza area. From this time the division belonged to the 79th Rifle Corps (Lieutenant General Perevjortkin ) and consisted of the 469th, 674th and 756th Rifle Regiment.
In the course of the Reschiza-Dwinsk operation , Sebesch was recaptured within the framework of the newly superordinate 2nd Baltic Front and the border into Latvia was crossed at Rēzekne . At the height of the Baltic operation , the 150th Rifle Division stood in front of Riga in October 1944 . At the end of 1944, the division moved to the area east of Warsaw as a reserve on the Vistula . As part of the 1st Belarusian Front , the division under General Shatilov took part in the section of the 3rd Shock Army (Colonel General Kuznetsov ) in the Battle of the Oder (April 16-19, 1945). The large association became known through the capture of the Reichstag building at the Battle of Berlin at the end of April 1945. In December 1946 the division was disbanded as part of the Soviet armed forces in Germany. A copy of the division flag is at military parades on the occasion of the Victory Day together with the Russian national flag shown.
The division was in 2016 under the name 150-я мотострелковая Идрицко-Берлинская ордена Кутузова дивизия (150-yes motostrelkowaja Idrizko-Berlinskaja Ordena Kutusowa diwisija) of the Russian armed forces with the same number and bar in Novocherkassk as Motschützendivision re-erected, consisting of two tanks and two motorized rifle regiments.
Division commanders
- Major General Sergei Alexejewitsch Knjazkow (1939-1940)
- Major General Alexander Ivanovich Pastrewitsch (1940)
- Major General Iossif Ivanovich Chorun (January 17 - October 26, 1941)
- Major General Danil Grigoryevich Yegorov (October 27, 1941 - May 25, 1942)
- Major General Colonel Nikolaj Olimpjewitsch Gus (April - September 1943)
- Colonel Leonid Wasiljewitsch Jakowlew (September 8, 1943 - April 1944)
- Major General Vasily Mitrofanowitsch Shatilow (May 1944 - May 1945)
literature
- WM Shatilov (Василий Митрофанович Шатилов): Знамя над рейхстагом. Wojenisdat , Moscow 1975. ( Russian )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Le Tissier: Der Kampf um Berlin, Bechtermünz Verlag 1997, p. 215
- ↑ Минобороны сформировало «дивизию 21-го века». Izvestia , August 4, 2017, p. 6.
- ↑ ПЕРИОДА ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ 1941 - 1945 гг. ИЗДАНИЕ ВОЕННОЙ АКАДЕМИИ имени М. В. ФРУНЗЕ Москва - 1964