179th Rifle Division
179th Rifle Division | |
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Active |
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Country | ![]() |
Allegiance | Red Army |
Branch | Infantry |
Size | Division |
Engagements | Eastern Front (1941-1945)
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Decorations | Order of the Red Banner |
Battle honours | Vitebsk |
The 179th Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
World War II[]
Formation[]
Established at Vilnius on 17 August 1940 as part of the 29th Lithuanian Territorial Rifle Corps on the basis of the 1st Infantry Division of the Lithuanian Army:
Lithuanian Army units from
which the Soviet unit was formed |
Soviet units |
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1st Division's HQ,
Lithuanian Army's Staff |
HQ |
1st Division's HQ,
Lithuanian Army's Staff, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Regiment |
215th Rifle Regiment |
1st, 8th Infantry Regiments,
1st Cavalry Regiment |
234th Rifle Regiment |
2nd, 3rd Infantry Regiments,
3rd Cavalry Regiment |
259th Rifle Regiment |
Battles[]
With 29th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941. Fought at Kalinin, Gomel, and Vitebsk; with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
After World War II[]
It was reduced to the 27th Rifle Brigade in 1948 at Uralsk. It became a division again in October 1953.[1]
In 1955, the division became the 4th Rifle Division at Buzuluk in the South Ural Military District.[2]
See also[]
References[]
Books[]
- 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 978-5-89503-530-6.
- Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner, The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. ISBN 0-89141-237-9.
- Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II
- Military units and formations established in 1940
- Lithuania in World War II
- Military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner