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The Red Army's cavalry forces was gradually expanded during the interwar period, reaching a peak in 1936, when the Red Army included 36 cavalry divisions. However, the increasing demand for mechanized units resulted in drastic reductions in the Red Army cavalry force during the last few years before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in ...
Recreated as a Latvian national formation as 308th Latvian Rifle Red Banner Division. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. 309th Rifle Division — established at Kursk 7.41, wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Abakan in January 1942, then fought at Kharkiv, Kursk, the Kaniv Bridgehead, Stanislav, and in Poland ...
The 5th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice. The division was formed in 1918, initially as the 2nd Penza Infantry Division. After becoming the 5th Rifle Division a month later, it fought in the Counteroffensive of Eastern Front in spring 1919 and later
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, [a] often shortened to the Red Army, [b] was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars [1] to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups ...
Army divisions of the Soviet Union (5 C, 12 P) Army units and formations of the Soviet Union by type ... Red Army units and formations of World War II (4 C, 20 P) S.
Training divisions of the Soviet Ground Forces (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Army divisions of the Soviet Union" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
At the time of the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army had 303 divisions and 22 brigades (4.8 million troops), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades (2.9 million troops) stationed in the western military districts. Their Axis opponents deployed on the Eastern Front 181 divisions and 18 brigades (3.8 million troops).
Pages in category "Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 500 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .