Mass grave of Soviet soldiers. The stories are based on true events. They begin with the section "Roads of the Old Crimean partisans to victory." In it, the reader will get acquainted not only with the 227th Infantry Division of the 1st Formation
Please help me find where my grandfather could be buried: TELEGIN KONSTANTIN ALEKSANDROVICH, b. 1903, place of birth - the village of Selishche, Kholmogorsky district, Arkhangelsk region. Mobilized by the Kholmogory RVC of the Arkhangelsk region. Rank - Red Army soldier, position - shooter, place of service - 285 rifle regiment. He died on 09/02/1942 in the Leningrad region. (but for some reason it was written in the "funeral" that he was missing).
285 joint venture was part of the 183rd Infantry Kharkov Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. The regalia voiced above are at the end of the 2nd World War.
As of September 1, 1942, the 183rd Rifle Division was part of the 29th Army of the Western Front ...
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Please help me find the grave of my grandfather, Utkin Mikhail Semyonovich, born in 1905. He was drafted into the army by the Lyubinsky RVC of the Omsk region. He served as a castle officer in the 183rd Rifle Division of the 29th Army with the rank of a Red Army soldier. He went missing on February 22, 1942 near the Monchalovo station of the Rzhevsky district of the Kalinin / Tver region ...
FOR A BREAKTHROUGH
The decision to withdraw the troops of the 29th Army from the encirclement in the south-western direction, to the location of the 39th Army, was taken at the Military Council of the Army, where all division commanders and commissars were present. From the Erzovsky forest, bypassing Monchalovo, scattered parts of the divisions were pulled into the forests near the village of Okorokovo, 15 kilometers west of Rzhev. The most combat-ready units and subunits occupied all-round defense, providing the main forces with a way out of the encirclement. The frantic attacks of the Nazis were often repulsed by bayonet counterattacks. On February 18, the fascists especially fiercely throughout the day shelled forests and bushes with artillery and mortar fire, in which the main forces of the encircled were concentrated. The remnants of the army, cut into several parts, by February 18 held only about 12 square kilometers of territory. Hitler's aviation with 20-30 planes continuously bombed the entire surrounded territory. As the survivors recall, it was "pure hell." The losses were huge. So, 15 bombers bombed the village of Bykovo, in which all the houses were filled to capacity with the wounded and frostbite. After the bombing, only smoking firebrands remained from the village, there was no one to bury.
"The 183rd division was entrusted with the task of covering this withdrawal, and it fought incessant battles. We were the last to go out, the heaviest blows of the Nazis fell on you, especially on our rearguard. A day later, on the night of February 21, the Nazis managed to block the paths of our withdrawal. At dawn, we rushed into the last battle. Many were killed or seriously wounded in this battle. The commander of the division, Major General Konstantin Vasilyevich Komissarov, died at a combat post, with whom we shared the hardships of combat life near Rzhev. "
In January-February 1942, the 29th Army suffered huge losses. The exit from the encirclement, which began on the night of February 18, was completed, basically, by February 28. 5200 people left the encirclement and joined the 39th Army, of which 800 were wounded, which is approximately half of the personnel of only one rifle division - and this is from 7 divisions of the shock group of the 29th Army, which actually completely died in the Monchalovsky forests . Source: http://rshew-42.narod.ru/rshew_history.html#8
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My grandpa:
The record number in the OBD is 1770304. Danilov Ivan Andreevich, born in 1909. Called by the Kuibyshev GVK of the Kuibyshev region. Fighter 183 sd, Red Army soldier. He went missing on October 25, 1942. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 818883, d. 322.
Danilov Ivan Andreevich. Born on 10/09/1909 in the village of Kryukovka, Lukoyanovsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region. Parents: Andrey Grigoryevich Danilov and Anisya Ivanovna. Sister is Mary. Wife - Danilova Marfa Pavlovna.
Since 1935 he lived in the city of Kuibyshev, where he worked as a carpenter.
I am posting two photos. On the first one, my grandfather, Danilov Ivan Andreevich, born in 1909, and on the second, prisoners of war from the Stalag VI A camp in Hemer (April 1945). The prisoner of war, standing in the center of the photo, looks very much like my grandfather to me, but even more like my father, not only in face, but also in the manner of standing.
There is also a small, amateur photo of my grandfather taken before the war.
According to the documents 295 sp 183 sd, he went missing.
A man who came after the war, who was with his grandfather in the camp, said: “It’s better not to go - they will drag you!”.
A man who came to my grandmother said that their team was divided. He was sent to unload the timber, and my grandfather was sent to unload wagons with weapons, from where no one returned.
Grandmother hid that grandfather was captured, the conversation was about this once in May 1982 and she did not want to continue it anymore. I made a request to Bad Arolsen to Dr. A. Kharitonov, the answer was negative. I did not find documents on the captivity of my grandfather. There are no documents for my grandfather in the military registration and enlistment office ...
Received a response from TsAMO: “The shooter of the sapper company 295 joint venture 183 sd private Danilov Ivan Andreevich, born in 1909, a native of the mountains. Kuibyshev, drafted by the Kuibyshev RVC, went missing on October 25, 1941. Place of birth - so in the document.
314 field postal station served the management of 183 sd.
We inform you that on October 24, 1941, units of the 183rd Rifle Division took up defensive positions along the northern bank of the river. Darkness in the area of Upirvichi, Novoe, Volno-Kozhevnikovo, Kunganovo, which is approximately 25, 30, 32, 36 km south of the large settlement of Torzhok, Tver region.
Information about the hostilities on October 25, 1941 is not available in the operational documents.
On the issue of establishing the place of burial, we recommend that you contact the military commissariat of the Tver region. (Tver)".
Trubnikov Alexander Ivanovich- fellow soldier of my grandfather on 183 sd. They were drafted together, they served together, they were captured together. I don’t know if A.I. returned from the war. Trubnikov. I went to the indicated address: the barracks were demolished in the 1960s, there were no old people left. I looked through the entire list of those missing on 10/25/1941 from 295 joint venture 183 rifle divisions and I found only two A.I. Trubnikovs: The entry number in the OBD is 1770301. Trubnikov Alexander Ivanovi, born in 1901, a native of the Samara region. Called by the Kuibyshev GVK of the Kuibyshev region. Fighter 183 sd, Red Army soldier. He went missing on October 25, 1942. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 818883, d. 322.
Record number in OBD - 78662069. Trubnikov Alexander Ivanovich, born in 1911. a native of the Bolsheglushitsky district of the Samara region. Called by the Dzerzhinsky RVC of the city of Kuibyshev, Kuibyshev region. Fighter 183 sd. Red Army soldier. 10/25/1941 was captured by the enemy in the Demyansk "cauldron".
In the hell of the Nazi camps, miraculously, he survived. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 18002, d. 1608.
This is the same warrior who served in the 295th joint venture of the 183rd division.
And this is another fellow soldier of my grandfather: The record number in the OBD is 272082667. Mikhail Georgievich Nikiforov, born September 8, 1914, born in Sukhorechka, Orenburg region. Officer 295 joint venture 183 sd, senior lieutenant.
10/22/1941 was captured by the enemy in the Demyansk "cauldron". Camp number - 16813. He died in captivity on 04/25/1942.
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GOLIKOV Konstantin Alekseevich (03/03/1905 - not earlier than December 1941). Born March 3, 1905 in the village of Borisovo. Non-partisan. Civil worker.
Was married. Wife - Agrafena Nikolaevna, lived in the village of Vypolzovo.
He was mobilized into the army by the Tutaevsky RVC in 1941. Based on the report of the Tutaevsky RVC dated February 27, 1947, under the outgoing number 1/0127, he was considered dead in captivity in January 1942.
Fighter of the 227th Rifle Lviv Red Banner Regiment of the 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Division (regalia at the end of the war), a Red Army soldier in his military rank. Captured on August 10, 1941 in the area of Staraya Russa. Prisoner of Stalag X D. Camp number assigned here is “41880“.
Documents from the OBD-Memorial about Pavel Demyanovich Demyanov:
The entry number in the OBD is 300657918. Demyanov Pavel Demyanovich, born May 15, 1909, a native of Udmurtia. Fighter 285 joint venture 183 rifle division, Red Army soldier. Captured by the enemy near the village of Demyansk in the modern Novgorod region. Prisoner of Stalag-6K (aka 326) with camp number "13824". He died in captivity on February 26, 1942 and was buried in Forellkrug/Senne. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 977521, d. 1505, l. 24. https://www.obd-memorial.ru/memorial/fullimage?id=300657917&id1=4ffa8ba366194e2d6150d52d9c13df57&path=SVS/003/058-0977521-1505/00000046.jpg
The entry number in the OBD is 300552976. Demyanov Pavel Demyanovich, born May 15, 1909, a native of Udmurtia. Fighter 285 joint venture 183 rifle division, Red Army soldier. Captured by the enemy near the village of Demyansk in the modern Novgorod region. Prisoner of Stalag-6K (aka 326) with camp number "13824". He died in captivity on February 26, 1942 and was buried in Forellkrug/Senne. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 977521, house 1118. l. 26. http://www.obd-memorial.ru/Image2/filterimage?path=SVS/002/058-0977521-1118/00000041.jpg&id=300552975&id=300552975&id1=
Record number in OBD – 66922390. Pavel Demyanov. He died in captivity on February 26, 1942. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 977525, d. 343, l. fifty. http://www.obd-memorial.ru/Image2/filterimage?path=Z/007/058-0977525-0343/00000053.JPG&id=66922384&id=66922384&id1=
Record number in OBD - 67099782. Pavel Demyanov, Red Army soldier. He died in captivity on February 26, 1942. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 18003, d. 1613, l. 77. http://www.obd-memorial.ru/Image2/filterimage?path=Z/007/058-0018003-1613/00000156.jpg&id=67099774&id=67099774&id1=
The record number in the OBD is 59521279. Demyanov Pavel Demyanovich, born in 1909. Called on 08/15/1941 by the Pychassky RVC of the Udmurt ASSR. Red Army soldier. Officially registered by the defense department as conditionally missing in September 1941. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 18004, d. 844, l. 33rev. http://www.obd-memorial.ru/Image2/filterimage?path=Z/005/058-0018004-0844/000000052.jpg&id=59521176&id=59521176&id1=
This article appeared in the Neue Westfälische in August last year, but I have just read it. I would like to translate for everyone: http://www.nw-news.de/owl/3690020_Odyssee_zum_Grab_des_Vaters.html07.08.2010
Holte-Stukenbrock CastleStuckenbrock-Senne Castle. Life writes incredible stories. And the story of Raisa Demyanova is one of those. A 72-year-old Russian woman set out on a 3,800-kilometer journey to Stukenbrock-Senn with 250 euros in her purse and a small travel bag to find her father's grave in the memorial cemetery there.
Yesterday at 5 o'clock in the morning without means of subsistence after a five-day odyssey, the old woman found herself in the Stuckenbrock-Senne traffic police. The head of the city law enforcement agencies provided her with a room in the boarding house early in the morning and informed the director of the documentation center of Stalag 326, historian Oliver Nickel. Together with him at noon, Raisa Demyanova visits the final resting place of her father Pavel, whom she saw for the last time when she was three years old.
Shortly after the 72-year-old woman passes the wrought-iron gates of the memorial cemetery, she is overcome with excitement. She prays and speaks with her father in her native dialect, which even translator Olga Kheptin can hardly understand. The woman stops all the time at the monuments marking the rows of mass graves, each 116 meters long. She squats down, stroking the stone.Earth from mother's grave
In her hand she tightly squeezes two small white bags. In one of them, land from her village for 200 inhabitants in Udmurtia (west of the Urals). In the other, earth from her mother's grave. When a 72-year-old woman enters the territory of the cemetery where gravestones are installed, she scatters the earth, despite the fact that, perhaps, 32-year-old Pavel Demyanov was buried by the Germans not at all here. He lies in one of the first mass graves.
Now tears flowed. “Daddy, can you see me?” she calls. "I am with you now." Seeing many tombstones, Raisa cries, including for many children who, like her, no longer saw their fathers. Brigitte Bartz, an employee of the documentation center, hugs her, consoles her and tries to calm the very agitated woman. Raisa Demyanova says that all her life she dreamed that her father, whose letters from Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1941 were the last news from him, would come back. All her life she did not know where her father died, and the Russian departments, despite her numerous requests, did not help her.
Only the opening of an archive in Russia and the Internet made the 72-year-old woman's daring journey possible. Recently, her 47-year-old son Semyon found a Stalag 326 registration card with his father's name on the net. From that moment on, Raisa had only one goal: to go to Germany. Even despite the fact that all the friends in the village dissuaded her and feared that she would not return. Still, they raised money so that their friend and neighbor could go.By bus from Moscow to Bielefeld
With ten thousand rubles, the elderly lady set off on Monday, first on her way to Moscow. She needs a visa. But her papers are not in order, and at first she is refused. Three strangers, seeing her despair, help her get the necessary documents. From Moscow she travels by bus to Bielefeld, then by taxi to Stuckenbrock-Senn.
Documentation center employees accompany Raisa Demyanova during the day, in the evening at 23.51 her train leaves for Moscow. The costs for its accommodation and the return ticket are taken over by the city. “In one day, it was like I saw the whole world,” says Raisa, and her brown eyes radiate gratitude. "Thanks!".Stalag-326
Prisoner of war camp (Stalag) 326 in Stukenbrock-Senn was formed shortly after the start of the war with the Soviet Union (June 1941). Before being liberated by the Americans on April 2, 1945, at least 310,000 Soviet soldiers were interned there in catastrophic conditions, in addition to representatives of other nations. The number of dead is difficult to ascertain, presumably between 10,000 and 100,000. A recently found document speaks of 50,000 dead Soviet soldiers.
The caption under the photo: Raisa Demyanova is leaning towards the tombstone with an inscription in Cyrillic, holding two bags of earth in her hand.
IVANOV Nikolai Fedorovich (09/14/1908 - not earlier than December 1941). Born in the village of Tarasovo. Non-partisan. From peasants.
Was married. Wife - Ivanova Ekaterina Ivanovna, lived in the village. Borisogleb.
He was mobilized into the army by the Tutaevsky RVC in June 1941. Based on the report of the Tutaevsky RVC dated September 6, 1947, outgoing number 1/0591, he was considered missing in October 1941, since there was no information about his fate from the military unit.
Fighter of the 227th Rifle Lviv Red Banner Regiment of the 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Division (regalia at the end of the war), a Red Army soldier in his military rank. Captured on August 4, 1941 in the area of the village of Vilenka, Starorussky district, Novgorod region. Prisoner of Stalag X D. Camp number assigned here is “31959“.
He died in German captivity not earlier than December 1941. The burial place is the commune of Witzendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany.
KOKOREV/KOKAREV Alexei Stepanovich (1909 - 03/27/1942). Born in 1909
Marital status is unknown. Relatives lived in the village of Kachalka, Pervomaisky district.
He was drafted into the army by the Prechistensky RVC. Based on the report of the headquarters of the 183rd Infantry Division dated May 24, 1942, under the outgoing number 0499, he was reported missing on February 22, 1942 in the area of st. Monchalovo, Rzhevsky district.
Fighter of the 183rd Infantry Kharkov Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division, Red Army soldier by his military rank. The date and place of captivity are unknown. Prisoner of the dulag 184.
He died in captivity on March 27, 1942. Place of burial - Vyazma, Smolensk region.
This is data from the Book of Memory of the Tver Region about my uncle, Vasily Vasilyevich Korshunov, who was born in 1922 in the village of Filimonovo, Tver Region. He was called up in 1941. He died of his wounds in December 1941.
The entry number in the OBD is 60571347. Korshunov Vasily Semyonovich, born in 1896. Called in 1941 by the Konakovsky RVC of the Kalinin Region. Soldier. Went missing in October 1943. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 977520, house 118.
The entry number in the OBD is 54915606. Korshunov Vasily Vasilyevich, born in 1922. Called up by the Konakovsky RV of the Kalinin region. Fighter 227 joint venture 183 rifle division, Red Army soldier. He died of wounds on December 24, 1941. Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 18002, d. 779.
KUDRYASHOV Ilya Nikolaevich (1911 - not earlier than December 1941). Born in 1911 in the village of Tikhonovo, Bolsheselsky District. Non-partisan. From peasants.
Was married. Wife - Evdokia Ivanovna, lived at the place of birth of her husband.
He was mobilized into the army by the Bolsheselsky RVC on June 22, 1941. Based on the report of the Bolsheselsky RVC dated October 1, 1946, outgoing number 1/0605, he was considered missing in December 1941, since there was no information about his fate from the military unit.
Fighter of the 227th Rifle Lviv Red Banner Regiment of the 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Division (regalia at the end of the war), a Red Army soldier in his military rank. Captured July 19, 1941 in the area of the city of Dno, Pskov region. Prisoner of Stalag X D. Camp number assigned here is “43034“.
He died in German captivity not earlier than December 1941. The burial place is the commune of Witzendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany.
SEDOV Mikhail Pavlovich (11/08/1907 - not earlier than 12/01/1941). Born on November 8, 1907 in the village of Gureevo, Tutaevsky district. Non-partisan. From peasants.
Was married. Wife - Sedova Evdokia Nikolaevna, lived at the place of birth of her husband.
He was drafted into the army by the Tutaevsky RVC in 1941. Based on the report of the Yaroslavl RVC dated March 19, 1947, under the outgoing number 1/0264, he was considered dead in captivity in December 1941.
Fighter of the 227th Rifle Lviv Red Banner Regiment of the 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division (regalia of the regiment and division at the end of the war), a Red Army soldier in his military rank. Captured on August 8, 1941 in the area of Staraya Russa. Prisoner of Stalag X D (Witzendorf commune, Lower Saxony, Germany). The camp number assigned here is “32717“.
1 December 1941 transferred to Stalag X B.
He died in German captivity not earlier than December 1, 1941. Burial place - Sandbostel commune, Lower Saxony, Germany.
HORKOV Fedor Alekseevich (04/20/1909 - not earlier than December 1941). Born on April 20, 1909 in the village of Yakunino, Bolsheselsky district. Non-partisan. From peasants.
Was married. Relatives: wife - Khorkova Elizaveta Ivanovna, lived in the village of Kuznetsovo; sister - Valentina Alekseevna, lived at the place of birth of her brother.
He was mobilized into the army by the Bolsheselsky RVC on June 23, 1941. Based on the report of the Bolsheselsky RVC dated May 28, 1947, outgoing number 1/0205, he was considered missing in September 1942, since there was no information about his fate from the military unit.
Fighter of the 227th Rifle Lviv Red Banner Regiment of the 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division (regalia of the regiment and division at the end of the war), a Red Army soldier in his military rank. Captured on July 20, 1941 in the area of the city of Dno. Prisoner of Stalag X D. Camp number assigned here is “43005“.
He died in German captivity not earlier than December 1941. The burial place is the commune of Witzendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany.
"I was killed near Rzhev." The tragedy of the Monchalovsky "cauldron" Gerasimova Svetlana Aleksandrovna
183rd Rifle Division
183rd Rifle Division
The division entered the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation in 1942 as part of the 39th Army. Its commander was Major General K. V. Komissarov, the military commissar was Hero of the Soviet Union, Regimental Commissar V. R. Boyko. In mid-January 1942, the division was located west of Rzhev and on January 15 (according to other sources, January 14) was transferred to the 29th Army. During the hostilities, its units and subunits occupied separate structures of the Rzhev-Vyazma defensive line on the eastern side of the army position, the construction of which was carried out in the summer and autumn of 1941 and was not completed. Even despite those remarks in the defense that were recorded by the inspectors, and as discussed above, the division staunchly defended its lines and successfully repelled enemy attacks. The division headquarters was located in the area of the military camp, 1 km east of the Monchalovo station. On January 29, communication with the army headquarters, the neighbors on the left - the 246th, on the right - the 369th rifle divisions were maintained by radio, telephone, with the help of communications officers. During the exit from the encirclement, communications were lost. At various times, the actions of the division were "supported" by separate units: faulty tanks of the 159th detachment, the 71st ski battalion.
Some veterans of the division recalled the funeral on January 24 of a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, commissar of the 285th rifle regiment, senior political officer Shopan Konuspaev, one of the leaders of Alma-Ata in 1937–1938. He died the day before in the battle for the village of Shchukino, replacing one of the unit commanders. They buried him in a deep crater from an air bomb near the Monchalovo station. A sign was placed over the grave with the inscription: “Bolshevik commissar Shopan Konuspaev, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, who died heroically in the battles for the village of Shchukino on January 21, 1942, is buried here.” When Monchalovo was occupied by the Nazis, the grave with the sign was destroyed. In 1956, the remains of Shopan Konuspaev were transferred to a mass grave at the Monchalovo station. An obelisk is installed there, where among the names of the dead soldiers the name of the senior political instructor Konuspaev is inscribed.
Major General K. V. Komissarov - commander of the 183rd Infantry Division. 1941
Hero of the Soviet Union, regimental commissar V. R. Boyko - military commissar of the 183rd Infantry Division. 1941–1942
Shopan Konuspaev
The first document of the division after leaving the encirclement is a report from the commander of the 227th Infantry Regiment, Art. battalion commissar D.K. Kasyanenko to the commander of the 29th Army: “I inform that on 21.II.42 he left the rear of the enemy and temporarily assumed the duties of commander of the 183rd division until the commander of the division, Major General Komissarov, left the rear of the enemy. I am forming the provisional administration of the division and regiment. The cash composition of the division is on the defensive - 285 joint ventures in the area of high. 232, 9, echeloned in depth 227 joint ventures, 295 joint ventures, 623 ap ... in the area of the village of Vysokoye. By the evening of that day, the division headquarters was located in the village of Klyuchi, communication with the army headquarters and neighbors was carried out by "foot messengers".
It has already been said above that the commander of the division, Major General Komissarov, when leaving the encirclement, died in the area of the village of Lebzino. He is currently buried in the village of Kokoshkino. The military commissar of the division, V. R. Boyko, went to his own on February 23, later he was a member of the Military Council of the 39th Army. After the war, he wrote his memoirs "With the thought of the Motherland." There were few division fighters who left the encirclement, since, as mentioned above, they were ordered to be reduced to one rifle regiment and subordinated to the commander of the 185th rifle division.
After completion, the division remained in the 29th Army. For a short time in March 1942, its commander was Chief of Staff Major P.K. Ruban, who left the encirclement, then, from March 19, Lieutenant Colonel A.S. Kostitsyn. In October 1942, the division was withdrawn to the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, from February 1943 it fought in the south.
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Politruk Aksyonov Alexander Petrovich. Deputy company commander for political affairs. 277th Infantry Regiment of the 243rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of wounds on October 26, 1941 in the BCP (mobile field hospital) -178.
Private Alyoshin Isaac Kornilovich. Killed October 25, 1941. Bullet blind penetrating wound of the abdomen, wound of the spleen, wound of the intestines, peritonitis. Brought to BCP-178 dead.
Private Antufeev Vasily Fedorovich, born in 1913. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. Wounded and died of wounds in the gluteal region on November 22, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of birth: Arkhangelsk region, Krasnoborsky district, Permogorsky village council, village. Small Fence. He was called up on August 14, 1941 by the Krasnoborsky district military registration and enlistment office.
Private Barabanov Ivan Nikolaevich. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a wound to the right thigh on November 14, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of birth: Yaroslavl region, Danilovsky district, Viktinskoe p / o, village. Tishevinskaya.
Private Borisov Grigory Ivanovich, born in 1918. 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a head wound on November 2, 1941 at PPG-178.
Private Vitvinov Ivan Ignatievich. 54th Cavalry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of wounds on October 27, 1941 at PPG-178.
Private Volkov Egor Kondratievich, born in 1916. 295th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of wounds in the left shoulder on November 9, 1941 at PPG-178.
Private Gamayunov. 119th Cavalry Regiment. He died of a head wound on November 1, 1941 at PPG-178.
Private Dobryakov Alexey Alexandrovich, born in 1908. 285th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a chest wound on November 2, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Arkhangelsk, prosp. Stalinskikh Udarnikov, 121, wing 3, apt. one.
Sergeant Zaitsev Pyotr Ivanovich. Entered PPG-178 on October 22, 1941, died on October 23, 1941. Death followed from damage to the gastric mucosa caused by a chemical solvent. package. Poisoning.
Sergeant Zakharov Georgy Vladimirovich. 777th Artillery Regiment. Entered PPG-178 on October 18, 1941. Bullet wound to the left iliac region, penetrating into the abdominal cavity, wound to the spleen. He died of blood loss on October 21, 1941.
Private Ivanov Alexey Fedorovich, born in 1909. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a wound in the right buttock on December 5, 1941 in PPG-178. Place of birth: Kalinin region, Novotorzhsky district, Bolshaya Vishnya village.
Private Karmanov Modest Grigorievich, born in 1906. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a wound in the stomach on November 1, 1941 in PPG-178. Place of residence: Komi ASSR, Ust-Kulomsky district, Pomozdinsky s / s, village. Sordjiv.
Private Karchagin Mikhail Mikhailovich. 285th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a wound in the chest, neck and left shoulder on December 4, 1941 in PPG-178.
Private Kokarev Andrei Mikhailovich, born in 1897. Tractor operator of the airfield maintenance battalion of the 36th Smolensk long-range aviation division. Hanged himself on May 1, 1944. Place of birth: Yaroslavl region, Poshekhono-Volodarsky district, village. Selino.
Private Korobanov Ivan Petrovich, born in 1913. On October 24, 1941, he received a shrapnel penetrating wound of the chest with damage to the right lung, a wound to the right buttock and soft tissues of the right thigh. Shock, great blood loss, purulent pleurisy. He was being treated at 370 OMSB 179 BCP, since October 25 - at BCP-178. Died October 28, 1941.
Private Kudryashov Nikolai Alexandrovich, born in 1903. 252nd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of wounds on October 23, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Kuibyshev region, Bogdashkinsky district, Krestinovsky s / s.
Private Kucherov Ivan Vasilievich. 924th Infantry Regiment of the 252nd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. Died of an abdominal wound on November 2, 1941 at PPG-178.
Private Maslennikov Nikolai Petrovich, born in 1918. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a stomach wound on December 6, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Mordovian ASSR, Ichasovsky district, Populevo village.
Private Molodykh Nikolai Ivanovich, born in 1907. Called 28 June 1941. He died of wounds on October 27, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Altai Territory, the village of Manzherok.
Private Petrov Nikolai Petrovich, born in 1922. 295th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a chest wound on November 13, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Mari ASSR, Lukolsky district, Markinsky village council.
Junior military engineer Pokrovsky Mikhail Vasilyevich, born in 1909. Head of the ammunition supply of the 15th separate security battalion of the field directorate of the headquarters of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. Died of wounds November 2, 1941. Place of residence: Moscow region, Belkovsky district, Gus village.
Private Ryabukhin Dmitry Alekseevich, born in 1918. 295th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a chest wound on November 2, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Vologda, st. Lansada, d. 6, apt. four.
Private Anatoly Ivanovich Silaev, born in 1925. Died of wounds March 9, 1944. Place of birth: Ulyanovsk region, Cherdaklinsky district, Malaevka village. Called up in 1943.
Private Smirnov Viktor Pavlovich, born in 1918. 295th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a head wound on November 2, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Yaroslavl region, Soligalichsky district, Ilyinsky village council, village. Golodnev.
Private Starostin Dmitry Mikhailovich, born in 1905. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a wound in the stomach on November 6, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Vologda region, Vokhomsky district, village of Konury.
Private Stepanov Alexander Sergeevich. 777th Artillery Regiment. He died from a bullet wound to the right hand and forearm on December 17, 1941 in PPG-178. Place of birth: Omsk region, Kazansky district, Dubensky village council, Zarechnoye village.
Private Stepanov Vasily Ivanovich, born in 1916. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a wound in both lower limbs on November 10, 1941 in PPG-178. Place of residence: Kalinin region, Martynovsky district, Martynovsky village council.
Private Tikhorobrazov Pyotr Ivanovich, born in 1922. 910th Infantry Regiment of the 243rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a head wound on November 8, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Krasnoyarsk Territory, Yeniseisk.
Private Usov Pyotr Kuzmich, born in 1908. 914th Infantry Regiment of the 246th Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a head wound on November 6, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Ryazan region, Izhevsk district, village. Makeevo.
Private Fidyukov Pyotr Gerasimovich, born in 1921. 285th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of a chest wound on December 2, 1941 in PPG-178. Place of residence: Gorky region, Arzamas, st. Kommunistov, d. 21.
Veterinary assistant Shatrov Ivan Petrovich, born in 1919. Veterinary instructor of the 4th Horse Depot Squadron of the 27th Army of the Kalinin Front, military unit 4165. Killed at the Spirovo station during an aerial bombardment on October 11, 1941. Place of birth: Ivanovo region, Seredsky district, Maryinsky village council, village. Demshchikovo.
Sergeant Shulepov Sergey Semyonovich, born in 1916. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. Died of an abdominal wound on November 22, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of birth: Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Yakobodinsky district, Milotichesky village council, village. Big Ita.
Red Army soldiers buried in Babia, not included in the list, not mentioned on the tombstone:
Private Simonenko Vasily Nikitovich. He died of a head wound on November 12, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Krasnodar Territory, Ust-Labinsky District, Voronezh Village Council.
Junior political instructor Stepan Ilyich Romanov, born in 1917. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a chest and jaw wound on December 11, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of birth: Altai Territory, Tanchinsky District, Makarovsky Village Council, Alekseevka village.
Deputy political instructor Voitsekhovsky Kazimir Stefanovich, born in 1921. 924th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a shrapnel wound to the left thigh on December 20, 1941 in PPG-178. Born in Mogilev.
Senior Sergeant Boyanov Nikolai Romanovich, born in 1909. 54th Cavalry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. Died of a head and chest wound on November 2, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Tashkent region, Begovazhsky district, Dilselvir village.
Private Avakumov Serafim Semyonovich. 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died from a wound in the stomach, lower limbs and shoulder on November 8, 1941 in PPG-178. Place of residence: Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Iyarsky district, Nizhnesyuriysky village council, village. Zyakino.
Lieutenant Ivashchenko Emelyan Semyonovich, born in 1918. Head of the ammunition supply of the 15th separate security battalion of the field directorate of the headquarters of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of wounds on November 13, 1941 at PPG-178. Place of residence: Chernihiv region, st. Balmach, Kurek village.
Private Yakhil Zakrat. 912th Infantry Regiment of the 252nd Infantry Division of the 29th Army of the Kalinin Front. He died of wounds on October 20, 1941 at PPG-178.
On June 22, 1941 the division was in the HVO in the Svyatogorsky camp. It was formed from residents of the northern part of the Donbass, as well as residents of the Kharkiv region (Izyumsky and Chuguevsky regiments). Was subordinate to the Kharkov Military District (HVO). The 777th Rifle Regiment, which was part of the 227th Rifle Division (about 4 thousand people), consisted entirely of residents of Slavyansk. Here, with the beginning of the war, the division carried out mobilization.
On July 1, at the direction of the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army G.K. Zhukov's division, heading for Shepetovka, was redirected to Zhmerinka, southwest of Vinnitsa, and included in the Southern Front.
From July 7, the division was unloading at the Bar station (30 km east of Zhmerinka), but already on July 9, an order was received to transfer the division to the Kanev area in the location of the South-Western Front.
On July 7, the German 1Tgr, having broken through the line of fortified areas on the old border, captured Berdichev and Zhitomir. On July 12, the enemy launched an offensive from Zhytomyr in an east and southeast direction, and on July 16 they captured Bila Tserkva. On July 15, the command of the 26th Army of the South-Western Front was withdrawn to the Kanev region and the troops operating in this region were subordinated to it. On July 19, the 26th Army launched a counteroffensive in the direction of Fastov and Belaya Tserkov. 227sd, along with other reserve divisions transferred from the southern front from July 19, were only unloaded in the Kanev-Korsun Shevchenkovsky area.
July 19 227 sd after unloading, concentrate in the district of Guli, Boguslav, Olkhovets, having one joint venture in the south-west. env. forests in. Boguslav.
On July 23, 1941, the 227th and 196th SDs received an order to advance to the Tarashcha-Medvin front, where units of the 5th KK fought with the Viking SS motorized division. On July 24, the division advanced on Tarashcha, but as a result of a sudden night attack by the enemy, Dubnitsy retreated.
The documents provide disappointing information about the combat capability of the unfired division: one joint venture of the 227th SD is occupied by Boguslav, the rest of the units are putting themselves in order. The enemy operating at Tarashch transferred his main efforts against units of the 199th and 227th, which turned out to be extremely unstable. The latter fled last night from the attack of one battalion of tanks. Today, two regiments were collecting it and putting it in order all day.
From July 25, the division fought in the area of Boguslav, and by July 28 it retreated to the Yakhny-Olkhovets-Moskalenki line. Until the beginning of August, she fought in the Taganch area (north of Korsun Shevchenkovskiy) on the Kanevsky bridgehead.
On August 8, the 26th Army launched a counteroffensive in the direction of Boguslav. It was also planned to attack north in the direction of the Rzhishchevsky bridgehead. On these days, the 6th German Army stormed the KIUR and the offensive from the Kanev bridgehead in a northern direction to connect with the Rzhishchevsky bridgehead, according to the plan, was to divert the German command from Kyiv.
8 August 26 A has the task, having covered itself from the south-west and the reserve with the defense of the left wing units, from the morning of 08/09/41 the main forces (5 kk, 12 td, 227 and 159 d) strike in the direction of Andreevka, Potok, m. Rzhishchev with the aim of encircling and the destruction of the enemy in the region (claim.) m. m. Rzhishchev.
On August 10, the shock group went over to the offensive in the direction of Rzhishchev. 227th Rifle Division attacked in the direction of Kovali, Kurilovka. During August 10-12, units of the division unsuccessfully tried to break through the enemy defenses. At noon on August 13, the Nazis, having pulled up reserves, after strong artillery preparation, launched an offensive against Litvinets and Kovaly. The division could not withstand the onslaught of the enemy and began to retreat to the south. At the same time, up to two German infantry battalions, with the support of artillery and mortar fire, attacked the 584th joint venture of the 199th rifle division from the forest south of Maslovka. On August 14, the offensive was stopped, and on August 15 it was decided to leave the Kanev bridgehead and withdraw parts of the army beyond the Dnieper. On August 16, the crossing was completed.
From August 16 to the beginning of September, the 227th Rifle Division defended the banks of the Dnieper and improved its defenses in engineering terms. On September 3, due to the threatening situation in the area of the breakthrough from the north of the 2nd Panzer Group of Guderian, the division was loaded into echelons and sent to the Konotop region to the front reserve.
On September 6, Guderian's tank divisions crossed the Seim. Konotop. At this time, the 227th Rifle Division unloaded from the echelons and was put into battle together with the 3rd VDK and 10th Division. From the morning of September 9, the 227th Rifle Division with two anti-tank anti-tank guns advances in the direction of Vyrovka, Popovka. By the end of September 9, the 227th SD holds Konotop with the front to the west.
On September 10, units of the 3rd Division made a breakthrough from the Konotop region to the south. Until September 18, gradually pushing to the southeast, the 227sd and the remnants of the 2nd and 3rd VDKs operated in the area south of Konotop.
On September 15, the ring around the main forces of the SWF closed. The division ended up on the outer front of the encirclement as part of the 40A remnant of the South-Western Front. Until September 26, the German troops did not take active offensive actions on the army front, they were busy destroying the encircled front and regrouping the troops. The 40th Army operated on the Tetkino-Vorozhba-Olshana front. Due to the lack of reserves at the front and in view of the start of the German offensive against Moscow, the 40th Army, due to the superiority of the enemy in forces, could only conduct containment battles. On October 8, 1941, units of the army withdrew at the line of Sudzha-Zamostye-Makhnovka. On October 9, units of the 227sd took part in a counterattack near Sumy against the 75sd of the Wehrmacht. On October 15, units of the division fought in the Slavgorodok area. But soon they continued their further retreat to the east - through Oboyan, Solntsevo to Tim and Skorodny.
At the beginning of January 1942 the division took part in the offensive of the 21st army on Oboyan. The operation began on January 1 from the Rzhava Plot-Vikhrovka line. By January 3, the right-flank 169sd captured the village of Kuliga, 4 kilometers north of Oboyan, and began to bypass the city from the northwest. At the same time, the 227th Rifle Division blocked the Nazi garrison in Nizhnyaya Olshanka and partially advanced to the line of the Psel River. One of its battalions cut the Belgorod-Oboyan-Kursk highway in the Zorskiye Dvory area, but the main forces of the division, like the rest of the formations of the 21st Army, were fettered by stubborn enemy resistance at the Prokhorovka, Leski, Savinino line. This forced the 227th division to disperse its units and slow down the pace of advance, as a result of which the left flank of the 169th division was exposed. Moreover, its right flank was exposed at the same time. The neighboring units of the 40th Army lagged behind, having the task of capturing Kursk and running into stubborn opposition from the enemy. Despite all efforts, it was not possible to capture Oboyan. Our units were forced to withdraw.
In mid-February 1942, the division became part of the 38th Army, occupied the line of defense in the Kharkov region.
At the beginning of March 1942, units of the division, being a neighbor on the left of the 226th Rifle Division as part of the 38th Army, advanced on Kharkov, broke through the enemy’s defenses in a 22-kilometer strip and reached the line of the settlement. Ternova-Uncovered-Sandy-Big Grandmother.
On March 9, units of the division with regiments of the 226th Rifle Division launched a joint attack on Rubezhnoye. Their initial success was not encouraging: they occupied only 15 houses. However, by noon on March 10, most of Rubizhne, including the church, was already in the hands of the fighters, which the enemy turned into a particularly dangerous center of resistance. The offensive was generally unsuccessful. It was possible to capture only a bridgehead to the North. Donets near Stary Saltov. From this bridgehead, in May, the armies of the northern wing of the South-Western Front will launch an unsuccessful attack on Kharkov.
On May 12, the Kharkov operation of the Southwestern Front began. 227sd was part of the 21st Army, which delivered an auxiliary strike on the right flank of the northern shock group of the front. However, it was the 21st Army that managed to achieve the greatest success in the first days of the operation. The 293rd and 227th Rifle Divisions advanced 10 kilometers northward and 6-8 kilometers northwest. By May 15, units of the division advanced to the village of Ustintsy, wedging 30 km into the depths of the German defense. But soon the enemy pulled up reserves and launched a counterattack on both flanks of our penetration. Parts of the division were forced to retreat on May 16 to Pylnaya, and by May 20, almost to the positions from which our attack on the Murom-Ternovaya line began.
On June 30, 1942, units of the 6th German Army launched an offensive from the south, in the Belgorod region, and 8, 134, 227, 279 rifle divisions of the 21st Army were surrounded. In the battles near Korochaya and Stary Oskol in the summer of 1942, she was surrounded. On the morning of July 3, 1942, advanced units of the enemy entered Stary Oskol. The encircled troops continued to resist, holding down the offensive of the enemy infantry with their actions. In the course of fierce fighting, the 227th division suffered heavy losses, failing to maintain command, headquarters, key personnel and rear. Therefore, the division was soon disbanded.
According to the operational report No. 191 of the General Staff of the Red Army, at 8.00 on 10.07.1942, the remnants of the 227th rifle division were concentrated in the area of the village of Zemledelets (4 km north-west of the city of Buturlinovka).
According to the operational report No. 194 of the General Staff of the Red Army, at 08.00 07.13.1942 293, 343, 226, 76 sd, 8 msd, 1 msbr, the remnants of 227 and 301 sd, 10 brigade were in the area of concentration Kozlovka - Chibisovka - Losevo - Vorontsovka, where they brought yourself in order.
The regiment traces its history back to the 1047th Infantry Regiment of the 284th Infantry Division.The division began its formation on December 15, 1941 in the city of Tomsk as the 443rd Rifle Division. The 1047th Rifle Regiment was formed from the conscripts of Tomsk and the regions that now belong to the Tomsk Region, as well as the Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Regions. The regiment included soldiers who had returned from hospitals and already had combat experience, and young officers - graduates of the Belotserkovsky military infantry and Tomsk artillery schools located in Tomsk. In the process of formation in January 1942, it was renamed the 284th Rifle Division.
The fighters of the division underwent serious training: field tactical exercises, forced marches, live firing, studied the experience of fighting near Moscow. The formation and training of personnel was completed by mid-March 1942, and on March 16, echelons with parts of the division went to the front. The team of workers of the Tomsk Electromechanical Plant, escorting the division to the front, handed the division commander a banner and gave the order: "Bring it to Berlin."
In early April 1942, units of the division unloaded from trains 15-20 kilometers southwest of the city of Yelets, Lipetsk Region, where they received the missing weapons and equipment and continued combat training.
From April 16 to May 18, 1942, the division as part of the Bryansk Front took up defensive positions at the line: mark 215.3 - western slopes of an unnamed height - western outskirts of the village of Melevoye - height 242.8 - western slopes of height 236 (these landmarks are located in the border zone between modern Verkhovsky and Pokrovsky districts of the Oryol region.
At the end of May 1942, the division was transferred to the area of the working settlement of Kastornaya in the east of the Kursk region and became part of the 40th Army of the Bryansk Front. In the area of the station of the Kastornaya unit, the 284th rifle division began to build an anti-tank defense. On the eastern bank of the Olym River, with the help of the local population, trenches, communication passages and shelters for equipment in full profile were torn off. Wood and earth bunkers were also built. Anti-tank guns were placed on the front line of defense. In a week, a solid anti-tank defense was created.
At the end of June 1942, the Germans, having broken through the front of the Red Army troops, began an offensive to the east, towards the city of Voronezh. On July 1, 1942, the 284th Rifle Division as part of the Bryansk Front took the first battle with advanced German units in the area of the village of Egorievka, six kilometers west of Kastornaya. Having broken through the defense, the enemy deepened 3-4 kilometers, but, having lost 72 tanks and 800 soldiers and officers on the battlefield, retreated to their original positions. On the morning of July 3, 1942, more than 35 German planes flew into Kastornaya. An hour later, the village was destroyed and engulfed in flames. Enemy planes also bombed the battle formations of the regiment. After such processing, the enemy infantry again went on the attack, which was repulsed. It even came to a bayonet fight. Tank attacks did not stop either. For 5 days, the division resisted the pressure of the enemy's tank and mechanized units, supported by aircraft. Communication with the 40th Army was lost, the division was surrounded, ammunition and food were running out, and losses were great. On the night of July 6-7, 1942, leaving a combat barrier in their positions, the regiments of the division, by order of the command, broke through the encirclement and went north to the location of the 8th cavalry corps. The division, although it suffered losses, remained in a combat-ready state. This was one of the rare cases in the early years of the war when a division emerged from encirclement undefeated, retaining heavy weapons. In the battles near Kastornaya, the enemy lost more than 8 thousand soldiers and officers, more than 160 tanks and 16 aircraft.
After a short rest, the division, as part of the troops of the Bryansk Front, entered the battle at the Perekopovka-Ozerki line, 80 kilometers from Voronezh, and again its soldiers showed examples of heroism and military skill. On August 2, 1942, the 284th Rifle Division was withdrawn to the reserve in the city of Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk Region, for rest and replenishment. It included 2,500 career sailors of the Pacific Fleet, graduates of military schools of the Ural Military District and the personnel of the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Perm regions called up from the reserve.
On September 17, 1942, on the basis of the order of the NPO of the USSR and the directive of the General Staff of the Red Army No. 42/64, the division was urgently transferred by a combined march to the Srednyaya Akhtuba region of the Stalingrad region and entered the 62nd (from April 1943 - 8th Guards) Army of the South-Eastern Front , concentrating in the forests in the area of Zarya, Krasnaya Sloboda, Burkovsky farm.
By order No. 125 of the commander of the South-Eastern Front, on the night of September 20-21, 1942, the division began to force the Volga River, concentrating in the area of the Krasny Oktyabr plant and to the south on the left bank of the Volga. On the night of September 22, 1942, all units and divisions of the division crossed the Volga River. During the crossing of the Volga River, parts of the division were subjected to fierce bombardment from the air and artillery and mortar shelling of the enemy.
From September 22 to September 28, 1942, the division fought offensive battles, breaking the fierce resistance of the enemy. On September 22, 1942, 1045 Rifle Rifle Regiments and 1047 Rifle Rifle Regiments advance along the banks of the Volga River, with the task of turning the front to the west and capturing the border: the railway station against Gogol St. (Stalingrad), having a railway bridge over the Tsaritsa River on the left. As a result of fierce fighting throughout the day, parts of the division occupied the lines: 1045 joint venture - the Krutoy ravine, 1047 joint venture - the northern spur of the Dolgiy ravine. In this battle, more than 600 enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed, 8 tanks were knocked out, and two machine guns were captured. Parts of the division kept a tough defense on the occupied lines, often undertaking counterattacks against the enemy advancing on Stalingrad.
On November 11, 1942, the enemy launched the third and final assault on the city of Stalingrad. At dawn, the positions of the 284th Infantry Division began to be attacked by enemy aircraft, then by artillery, after which the infantry went on the attack. The Nazis attacked the area of the "Barrikada" and "Red October" factories with particular persistence. In the southern part of the Barrikady plant, a unit of German submachine gunners on a 500-meter strip even went to the banks of the Volga, but the next day the soldiers of the 1045th rifle regiment, with the help of a rifle company from the 95th rifle division, drove the enemy out of the captured area.
On November 19, 1942, after a powerful artillery preparation, the troops of the South-Western, and the next day, the Stalingrad Fronts launched a counteroffensive with the aim of encircling and defeating the 6th German Army. The offensive developed successfully, and on November 23, 1942, the troops of the fronts united in the area of the city of Kalach, thus surrounding the German troops in the Stalingrad region.
Taking advantage of the fact that the German command had weakened the pressure on Stalingrad, having transferred part of the troops to the west of the city, the formations of the 62nd Army also went on the offensive. The 284th Rifle Division directed its main attack towards the complete capture of Mamaev Kurgan. The soldiers of the division advanced with heavy fighting. Sometimes advancement per day was only 100-150 meters. The enemy resisted fiercely. Sometimes the same trench changed hands several times. The battles for Mamaev Kurgan continued for a long time, and only in mid-January 1943 did parts of the division completely clear it of the enemy.
On January 26, 1943, soldiers of the 284th Rifle Division united on the western slopes of the mound with units of the 51st Guards Rifle Division advancing from the west. On February 2, 1943, the encircled northern group of fascist troops capitulated, and the Battle of Stalingrad ended. Fierce and bloody battles lasted 137 days and nights. Siberian warriors did the impossible - they stopped the enemy. Here, near Stalingrad, they took their main battle, proved the validity of the words of the famous sniper of the division from the 1047th rifle regiment, a former Pacific sailor, chief foreman V.G. Zaitseva: “There is no land for us beyond the Volga!”. By the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, he had 242 destroyed enemy soldiers and officers on his combat account. To fight our snipers, the Germans even called their best sniper, SS Standartenführer Heinz Thorwald, from Berlin. But he was also destroyed by the chief foreman V. G. Zaitsev. In February 1943, V. G. Zaitsev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. With their feat, with their lives, the Siberian warriors deserved the assessment given by Marshal V.I. Chuikov: "Siberians were the soul of the battle for Mamaev Kurgan, for Stalingrad." By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of February 9, 1943, the 284th Rifle Division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
For military merit on March 1, 1943, the 284th Red Banner Rifle Division was reorganized into the 79th Red Banner Guards Rifle Division.
The new numbering of the units of the division was assigned on April 5, 1943: the 1047th Rifle Regiment was transformed into the 227th Guards Rifle Regiment.
The 62nd army in full force was withdrawn to the rear for reorganization and replenishment. Army formations received new weapons and equipment. The participants of the Battle of Stalingrad passed on their combat experience to the new replenishment.
On April 16, 1943, the 62nd Army was reorganized into the 8th Guards Army. At this time, on the orders of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, she became part of the South-Western Front and occupied the defense line along the left bank of the Seversky Donets River near the city of Izyum, Kharkov Region.
In the period from July 17 to July 27, 1943, the troops of the Southwestern Front carried out the Izyum-Barvenkovskaya operation. Its goal was to pin down, and under favorable conditions, to defeat the enemy grouping in the Donbass and prevent the transfer of its forces to the Kursk Bulge region.
After powerful artillery and aviation preparation, the troops of the 8th Guards Army crossed the Seversky Donets, captured bridgeheads on its right bank and wedged into the enemy defenses to a depth of 5 kilometers. On the second day, to complete the breakthrough, tank and mechanized corps began to be introduced into battle in parts. However, by this time the German command had brought up its reserves - three tank divisions. Attempts to complete the breakthrough of the enemy's tactical defenses were unsuccessful. The 8th Guards Army, having captured two bridgeheads in the first days, by July 27, 1943, during stubborn battles, was able to unite them into a common one - along a front of 25 kilometers and to a depth of 2-5 kilometers. Despite the fact that the enemy's defenses were not completely broken through, the front's armies fettered the enemy's reserves with their actions, thereby assisting the troops of the Voronezh Front in conducting a defensive operation near Kursk. Parts of the 79th Red Banner Guards Rifle Division crossed the Seversky Donets in the area of the Hola Valley and the village of Bogorodichnoye, Slavyansk region, Donetsk region, overcoming the fierce resistance of the enemy. The fighters of the division were opposed by the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head" and penal battalions. On July 28, 1943, the division lost its commander - the heart of Major General N.F. could not withstand the stress of heavy fighting. Batyuk. The division was accepted by Colonel L. I. Vagin and commanded it until the end of the war.
The fighting on the Seversky Donets, especially in the Naked Valley, acquired a protracted and bloody character. Eight times the village of Holaya Dolyna (now - the village of Dolyna, Slavyansky district, Donetsk region) passed from hand to hand.
On August 10, 1943, the 8th Guards Army began to withdraw to the second echelon of the front for replenishment and resupply.
In the Donbass offensive operation, troops of the 8th Guards Army on August 22, 1943 broke through the enemy’s defenses from the bridgehead on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River near Dolgenkiy and Mazanovka south of the city of Izyum, which they recaptured from the enemy a month ago, however, the 1st mechanized corps was not yet ready to enter the breakthrough , only moving to their original positions. Meanwhile, the Germans went on to counterattacks and the breakthrough was eliminated. The 8th Guards Army went on the offensive again to clear the way for the tanks, but this failed the second time. Nevertheless, a bloody meat grinder 30 km north of Slavyansk, on the way from the Donets to Barvenkovo, nevertheless forced the Germans to weaken the defense near Kharkov - in order to delay the loss of the entire Donbass. August 23, 1943 Kharkov was liberated.
The offensive launched on September 3, 1943 by the 6th and 8th Guards Armies, due to the strong fire saturation of the enemy’s defenses, the use of tanks in the defense, was not successful. However, Hitler's decision to withdraw troops from the Donbass came into force and the Soviet troops switched to parallel pursuit by the forces of all the armies of the Southwestern Front. The Germans retreated in an organized manner, stubbornly defending intermediate lines. The enemy, under pressure from the advancing fronts, was forced to retreat to the west, hoping to stop the advance of the Red Army troops on the eastern rampart, which was built on the left bank of the Dnieper River. During the retreat, the enemy turned the abandoned territory into a desert zone, destroying roads, bridges, all buildings, and stealing the local residents with them. On September 22, 1943, the advancing troops approached Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Melitopol, completely liberating the Donbass and most of the northern coast of the Sea of Azov.
The 8th Guards Army changed formations of the 3rd Guards and 12th Army on the outer contour of the enemy defense of the city of Zaporozhye along the line of the Volnaya - Krinichnoye beam - Yantsevo station - the eastern outskirts of Druzhelyubovka - Novostepnyanskoye. The headquarters of the formations began to develop plans for a further offensive.
At dawn on October 1, 1943, powerful artillery preparation began on a breakthrough section 25 kilometers wide, under the cover of which the infantry went on the attack, but strong enemy fire from the depths of its defense several times forced the attackers to stop and dig in, and sometimes retreat almost to starting positions. The first days of the onset of success did not bring.
The offensive of the troops of the 8th Guards Army was suspended in order to reconnoiter the fire system of the enemy's defense. The offensive resumed on October 10, 1943. Fierce battles for the city did not stop for four days, and only on October 14, 1943, the guardsmen of the 79th Guards Rifle Division, together with other formations of the 8th Guards Army of the Southwestern Front, liberated the city of Zaporozhye. For the courage shown in the battles to liberate the city, the 79th Guards Red Banner Rifle Division was given the honorary name of Zaporozhye.
On October 20, 1943, the Southwestern Front was transformed into the 3rd Ukrainian Front.
On October 22, 1943, formations of the 8th Guards Army, by order of the command of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, concentrated south of Dnepropetrovsk, crossed the Dnieper River, and on October 25th, the 79th Guards Rifle Division of the 28th Guards Rifle Corps of the 8th Guards Army, together with the 152nd Rifle Division of the 46th Army, liberated the city of Dnepropetrovsk from the German invaders.
The front command set the task for the 8th Guards Army: to advance on the regional center of the Dnepropetrovsk region - the city of Apostolovo. On November 15, 1943, the offensive of the army began to the left of the Dnepropetrovsk-Apostolovo railway. The first days of the offensive were very difficult. The Germans threw tanks into counterattacks, and our infantry had only anti-tank rifles and horse-drawn field artillery to fight them. During the six days of the offensive, the army troops advanced only 10 kilometers into the depths of the enemy's extensive defenses. The settlements of the Solonyansky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region Natalyino, Nezabudino, Kategorynovka and others were liberated.
Some turning point was outlined by November 20, 1943. To help the troops of the 8th Guards Army, tanks of the 23rd Tank Corps began to approach, but there were too few of them. By this time, the corps had only 17 tanks and 8 self-propelled artillery mounts. The companies in the rifle regiments also thinned out. They numbered 20-30 people. Exacerbated the tension and the state of the weather. At the end of the year in Southern Ukraine there are always long rains, often with sleet. The country dirt roads along which the troops moved were wrecked so that sometimes the tanks sat on the bottom and could not move without outside help.
On November 27, 1943, the offensive continued with the support of the tank corps, and the troops advanced 10-12 kilometers that day, freeing the villages of Propashnoe, Alexandropol, and Petrakovka. On December 10, 1943, army formations captured the large settlements of Chumaki, Tomkovka, Lebedinsky in the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, but could not advance further. The enemy resisted desperately, holding the manganese mines.
Despite very bad weather and complete mud, on January 10, 1944, the offensive resumed, but developed slowly.
During the Nikopol-Krivoy Rog offensive operation (January 30 - February 29, 1944), the 79th Guards Rifle Division of the Zaporizhzhya Red Banner Division, as part of the 28th Guards Rifle Corps of the 8th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, in early February 1944, together with other army formations, liberated the village of Sholokhovo, Nikopol District, thus creating a threat of encirclement of the Nikopol grouping of fascist troops. The German command began to withdraw its troops from the area, which allowed the Soviet troops to liberate the city of Marganets on February 5, and the city of Nikopol on February 8, 1944. Developing the offensive to the south-west from Apostolovo, by February 29, 1944, formations of the 8th Guards Army reached the left bank of the Ingulets River near the villages of Novokurskaya and Shesternya. On March 3, 1944, army troops crossed the Ingulets River and captured a bridgehead on its right bank. From this bridgehead, the 8th Guards Army, breaking through the enemy defenses on March 6, developed an offensive towards the city of Nikolaev. Distinguished in battles between the rivers Ingulets - Southern Bug 79th Guards Rifle Division Zaporizhzhya Red Banner 03/19/1944 was awarded the Order of Suvorov II degree. Repelling fierce enemy counterattacks, the 79th Guards Rifle Division and the entire 8th Guards Army crossed the Southern Bug River near the city of Novaya Odessa north of Nikolaev on March 25, 1944 and launched an offensive towards Odessa.
Pursuing the retreating enemy, the troops of the 8th Guards Army on March 31, 1944 reached the Tiligul Estuary and crossed it. Continuing the offensive, on April 9, 1944, army formations approached the western outskirts and the next day captured the city of Odessa by a decisive assault. Coming out on April 13, 1944 in the region of Ovidiopol, the army troops took up defensive positions along the northern coast of the Dniester estuary. For participation in the liberation of the city of Odessa, the 79th Guards Rifle Zaporozhye Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree division was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky II degree on 04/20/1944.
On June 5, 1944, the 8th Guards Army was withdrawn to the reserve of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, and then the 79th Guards Rifle Zaporozhye Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree and Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree division as part of the 28th Guards Rifle Corps of the 8th Guards Army was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front to the area to the west city of Kovel, Volyn region.
In the Lublin-Brest offensive operation that began on July 18, 1944, parts of the division successfully crossed the Western Bug River, entered Poland, and, in cooperation with other army formations, liberated the city of Lublin on July 24, 1944. The Siberian guardsmen acted skillfully and decisively when forcing a large water barrier - the Vistula River in the Magnusheva area. Having captured the bridgehead, they waged defensive battles on it for six months, successfully repelling all the attacks of the enemy troops. For the courage shown during the crossing of the Vistula, ten soldiers of the division were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
On January 14, 1945, the 79th Guards Rifle Division from the Magnushevsky bridgehead took part in the offensive in the Warsaw-Poznan offensive operation in the direction of Lodz-Schwerin.
On January 30, 1945, at 10 a.m., the advance detachment of the 2nd Guards Rifle Battalion of the 220th Guards Rifle Regiment was the first to cross the German border, and on February 2, 1945, continuing the offensive, units of the division crossed the Oder River on the move and fought fierce battles to expand the bridgehead on its left bank south of the city of Kustrin (Kostszyn, Poland).
Since April 16, 1945, the soldiers of the division fought boldly and bravely in the Berlin offensive operation. Within one day, the division broke through the deep echeloned defenses of the enemy. The pursuit of the retreating enemy proceeded quickly and in an organized manner. Having broken the fierce resistance of the enemy on the Seelow Heights and other defensive lines, on April 23, 1945, its units came close to Berlin and until May 2, 1945 participated in the assault on the German capital.
Street fighting was fierce. Capturing the Temnelgorf airfield, Tiergarten park, participating in the assault on the government quarters of the German capital, the soldiers of the division made their worthy contribution to the defeat of the Berlin group.
On May 9, 1945, the 79th Guards Rifle Zaporozhye Order of Lenin, the Red Banner Order of Suvorov, II degree and Bogdan Khmelnitsky, II degree, accepted the surrender of the 56th tank corps of the Nazis on the Potsdam bridge.
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