32nd Guards Rifle Division, 80th Regiment Battle path

    rifle division, who distinguished herself in the battles of Khasan, at the beginning of October 1941, arrived in the front line and became part of the 5th Army, taking up defense in the Mozhaisk direction. Almost 130 years after Napoleon's campaign, this division had to cross arms with the enemy on the Borodino field, which became an immortal monument to Russian military glory. The soldiers of the 32nd Infantry Division increased this glory. The division was formed on July 20, 1922 from the regiments that became famous during the civil war.
    In addition to the 32nd Rifle Division, the 110th, 133rd, 312th and 316th divisions were assigned to the newly formed 5th Army. However, due to the aggravation of the situation, almost all of them were soon sent to other sectors of the front. The 110,312 and 316 rifle divisions were transferred to the 33, 43 and 16 armies respectively. From the 133rd Rifle Division, only one rifle regiment arrived in the 5th Army. However, the situation demanded that on October 12 the 5th Army Directorate being created should be moved to the Mozhaisk direction.
    It turned out that the main force of the army at the moment was the 32nd Red Banner Far Eastern Rifle Division - one of the oldest formations of the Red Army.
    The division consisted of the 17th, 113th, 322nd rifle, 133rd artillery, 154th howitzer regiments, the 65th separate anti-tank battalion, the 166th anti-aircraft battery, an engineer battalion, communications and medical battalions , reconnaissance and chemical protection companies - up to 15 thousand people in total, 8593 rifles, 872 machine guns, 444 machine guns, 286 guns and mortars.
    The 113th regiment of this illustrious division was created in November 1917 from the workers of the Red Guard detachments of the Vyborg side of revolutionary Petrograd. He beat Kolchak, liberated Novonikolaevsk (Novosibirsk) from the Whites, participated in 1921 in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion. After civil war the regiment was listed under the 95th number, and after Hasan he was assigned the 113th number. But the veterans of the division still called it the Workers' Regiment.
    Another regiment, the 17th, also passed the heroic path. Its founders were Gomel and Starodub partisans in 1918. At the beginning of 1919, the regiment fought on Eastern Front with the troops of Kolchak, but he especially distinguished himself on the Western Front: for the massive heroism of the fighters and commanders shown in the battles near the city of Radomir, the regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In 1925 he was named after M.V. Frunze.
    In March 1934, the division from Saratov was redeployed to Far East. In the Volga Military District, it was called Saratovskaya. In the Far East, only a number remained behind it.
    The 322nd regiment was the youngest in the division, but it had already participated in the battles near Lake Khasan as part of the division (08/02-11/1939).
    In the battle of Hassan, the entire division became famous, which became the Red Banner. 1700 of its fighters and commanders were awarded orders and medals. And captain M.S. Bochkarev, junior commander N.M. Barinov, lieutenant V.P. Vinokurov, driver S.N. Rassokha, Red Army soldier E.S. Chuikov became Heroes of the Soviet Union. In memory of those who did not return from the battlefield, a monument was erected in the center of Razdolny. The inscription on it read: "The sacred borders of our Fatherland have been and will be impregnable for enemies Soviet people. The Soviet people will never forget the heroic deeds of the defenders of the Far Eastern borders of our Motherland."
    On September 11, 1941, the division was sent to the Arkhangelsk Military District in the Vologda and Arkhangelsk regions. The division was in the active army from September 27, 1941. On October 5, 1941, the 32nd Rifle Division was loaded into echelons at station. Zvanka and sent to Mozhaisk.
    Before being sent to the front, the division had 570 members and 308 candidate members of the party, 4313 Komsomol members. On the way from the Far East, another 622 people applied for admission to the party, 440 to the Komsomol. And already before the battle at the Mozhaisk line, the party organizations of the division received another 219 applications. October 13, 1941 was significant for the 133rd Light Artillery Regiment, which on that day became entirely party and Komsomol. In addition to the two regiments of this division - the 17th and 113th (the 322nd arrived later), at that time only the 230th training reserve regiment two-battalion composition, a battalion of the 127th (or 27th or 202nd) reserve regiment and a battalion of cadets of the Moscow Military-Political School named after V.I. Lenin. They were operationally subordinate to the commander of the 32nd Infantry Division, Colonel V.I. Polosukhin.
NBSP & NBSP & NBSP General Lelanushko in order to strengthen defense of the 32nd Rifle Division located along the Mozhaisk highway at the village of Aksakovo 19th and at the Minsk-Moscow highway 18 tank brigades. Both roads were covered with minefields and barriers. In addition, in the tank-hazardous direction, the army commander put three anti-tank artillery regiments - 121, 367 and 421 - into battle formations of the 32nd rifle division. All these forces and means were reliably prepared for a meeting with the advancing enemy and were firmly covered. When the enemy launched an offensive on October 12, organized artillery, anti-tank and anti-personnel defense fire fell upon him.
    For several days there was a continuous fierce battle. The Nazis undertook up to 30 divisions in the defense zone tank attacks. And all of them were shattered by the courage and unparalleled heroism of the warriors. German 40th mechanized corps tried to ram our defenses on the flanks. The junction with the left neighbor near the village of Utitsy was covered by the rifle battalion of Captain Shcherbakov and the howitzer division of Major Chevgus. 40 tanks and more than a regiment of motorized infantry were thrown here by the Nazis. For 36 hours, the unequal duel did not stop, but not a single fascist tank, not a single enemy soldier advanced a single meter.
    From October 13 to 18, the Nazi troops lost 117 tanks, 226 vehicles, 4 aircraft, 124 motorcycles and up to 10 thousand soldiers and officers on the Borodino field. The battle formations of the defense were thinned out, but the steadfastness of its fighters remained unshakable. Forced to retreat to the eastern side of the Ruza River, the regiments of the division, during the day of hard work, dug trenches and firing positions, created blockages on the roads, and mined all the fords. The enemy was also met with organized fire at this line. In early November, units of the 32nd Infantry Division, weakened in heavy fighting, took up defensive positions along the northern bank of the Narsky Ponds and the Nara River. Here, together with our other troops, the division not only survived, but itself went on the offensive in the direction of Kryukovo, Yastrebovo, pushing the Nazis across the Ruza River.
    On January 17, 1942, the division fought in the Borisovo area, capturing one Yazevo regiment.
    On May 24, 1942, the division was awarded the honorary title of the 29th Guards. In honor of the heroic deed of the Far East, a monument was erected near the village of Akulovo.
    For combat merit, the division was awarded the honorary title "Yelninskaya" (September 1943).
    December 7, 1943 29th Guards. rifle division (together with other formations and units of the 10th guards army) withdrew Western Front and became part of the 15th Guards rifle corps 2nd Baltic Front. The division met the year 1944 16 kilometers from Nevel. On January 12, 1944, the offensive of the divisions of the 10th Guards began. army in general direction to Pustoshka in order to cut off the paths of the 16th German Army from Army Group North, which was retreating from Velikiye Luki to the west.
    Before the division were parts of the 132nd German division, which included the 312th, 282nd battalions of Latvian riflemen and the 416th police regiment.
   The division was commanded by:
Khozin Mikhail Semenovich (1924 - 1926)
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Berzarin Nikolay Erastovich (~1936~1938)
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Polosukhin Viktor Ivanovich (03/26/1941 - 02/18/1942), colonel
Gladyshev Stepan Trofimovich (02/19/1942 - 05/24/1942), colonel
after conversion to the 29th Guards:
Gladyshev Stepan Trofimovich (05/24/1942 - 11/26/1942), colonel
Pererva Petr Vasilyevich (11/27/1942 - 12/20/1942), Major General
Stuchenko Andrei Trofimovich (12/25/1942 - 08/12/1944), colonel, major general from 01/29/1943
Lazarev Venedikt Mikhailovich (08/13/1944 - 05/09/1945), colonel
   Literature:
Stuchenko A. T. Our cherished destiny. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1964
Krylov N. I., Alekseev N. I., Dragan I. G. Towards victory. Battle path of the 5th army. October 1941 - August 1945. Moscow: 1970
Vakhrushev A. M. On the Mozhaisk direction. Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1959

The history of the formation The division was formed in July 1941 as the 293rd Rifle Division (I Formation). She fought as part of the troops of the Southwestern, Voronezh, Steppe and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. From November 1942 she participated in Battle of Stalingrad. In October 1942, she was included in the 66th (from April 1943 the Fifth Guards) Army and participated in the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine.

On January 21, 1943, the 293rd Division was renamed the 66th Guards Rifle Division for participation in the Battle of Stalingrad. The order of the Supreme High Command No. 34 dated January 21, 1943 stated:

“... In the battles for our Soviet Motherland against the German invaders, the 293rd Rifle Division showed examples of courage, bravery, discipline and organization. Waging continuous battles ... the division inflicted huge losses on the fascist troops and with its crushing blows destroyed the enemy’s manpower and equipment, mercilessly smashed the German invaders ... For the courage shown in the battles for the Fatherland, for stamina ... the third rifle division to the 66th Guards Rifle Division ... The transformed division will be awarded the Guards Banner ... "

After the fighting near Stalingrad, as part of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps, the 66th Guards Rifle Division was transferred to Stary Oskol.

Before the start of the Battle of Kursk, the 66th Guards Rifle Division of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps of the 5th Guards Army was in the second echelon of the combat formation of troops, that is, seventy kilometers north of Prokhorovka. After fierce fighting, on July 12, 1943, units of the division launched a counteroffensive near Prokhorovka, together with units of the 5th Guards Tank Army.

During the offensive on the territory of Left-Bank Ukraine, units of the division participated in the liberation of Poltava, Kremenchug, crossed the Dnieper on the move and captured a bridgehead on its right bank.

The connection was noted in the battles for the liberation of Poltava. The 32nd Guards Rifle Corps received a combat order to cross the Vorskla River and reach Poltava from the west. 66th guards division first crossed to the right bank of the river and boldly acted at the forefront of the troops. In commemoration of the liberation of Poltava, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of September 23, 1943 No. 22, the 66th Guards Rifle Division was awarded the honorary title "Poltava"



MILESTONES OF THE BATTLE PATH
The division traces its history from the 27th Omsk Rifle Division, formed in November 1917. On July 20, 1922, in Saratov, the division was reorganized into the 32nd Rifle Division.
In March 1934, as one of the best divisions of the Red Army, it was relocated to the Far East, arrived in full force in the village. Razdolnoe. In 1938, she participated in the repulse of Japanese aggression in the battles near Lake Khasan, and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
In September 1941, it was relocated to the west, became part of the 36th fortified area of ​​the Mozhaisk line of defense and the 5th army of the Western Front. She began her battle path on the famous historical Borodino field. She was the core of the defense in the Mozhaisk direction. The divisions set up a 40-kilometer defense zone (which was several times greater than the then-statutory norms for the division). In the center of the defense line was the legendary Borodino field.

The position of the fighters of the division on the legendary Borodino field

In that historic battle the soldiers of the division covered themselves with the unfading glory of the defenders of the motherland. The enemy, rushing towards Moscow in the operational space, was met by the division and stopped in bloody battles.
For heroic deeds in the battles for the capital, the division was awarded the title of Guards and became known as the 29th Guards Red Banner Rifle Division.

In the spring of 1943, the 29th Guards took part in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky operation, during which parts of the division liberated Gzhatsk. During the Yelninsko-Dorogobuzh operation, she took part in the liberation of Yelnya (08/30/1943), for which the division was given the honorary name "Yelninskaya". Then she advanced in the direction of Orsha.
On December 7, 1943, she left the Western Front and became part of the 15th Guards Rifle Corps of the 2nd Baltic Front. The division met 1944 16 kilometers from Nevel. On January 12, 1944, the divisions of the 10th Guards Army began an offensive in the general direction of Pustoshka in order to cut off the paths of the 16th German Army from Army Group North, which was retreating from Velikiye Luki to the west.
In front of the division were units of the 132nd German Infantry Division, which included the 312th, 282nd battalions of Latvian riflemen and the 416th police regiment. Since February 1944, it has been advancing in the direction of Pushkinskiye Gory, crossed the Velikaya River, since 04/18/1944 it has gone over to the defensive on the bridgehead along the right bank of the Sorot River.
In June 1944, it was actually turned into a motorized division, all of its rifle regiments and special units were planted on vehicles. The division was given a tank regiment, numbering 50 MK-3 units. Horse train and horse-drawn vehicles were withdrawn from the units. The division subsequently acted as a mobile army group. She took part in the Rezhitsa-Dvina offensive operation, during which she liberated Opochka (07/15/1944), 07/23/1944 took part in the liberation of the city of Ludza, later the cities of Rezekne and Daugavpils. She took part in the Madona operation, the Riga operation, breaking through the enemy defenses first and advancing along the Kekava-Riga highway. She took part in the liberation of Riga, 10/16/1944, knocking out the last enemy units from it. On November 3, 1944, the division was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class.
In 1945 she fought with the Courland grouping of the enemy. By the end of May 8, 1945, the division began to disarm the German troops and liquidate individual German groups and Latvian nationalists, and on May 31, 1945, completed military operations.
During the war years 18981 the soldier of the division was awarded orders and medals. Five soldiers of the division were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

COMPOSITION OF THE DIVISION
17th Rifle Regiment
113th Rifle Regiment
322nd Rifle Regiment
133rd Light Artillery Regiment
154th howitzer artillery regiment
Special units and subunits: a separate anti-tank battalion, a separate anti-aircraft battery, a mortar battalion, a reconnaissance company, an engineer battalion, a separate communications battalion, a medical battalion, a separate chemical protection company, a motor transport company, a field bakery, a divisional veterinary infirmary, a divisional workshop, a field post station.

ON THE FIELD OF BORODINO
September 11, 1941 The 32nd division was sent to Volkhov Front, where, without having time to fire a single shot, she came under bombardment, on October 5, 1941, she was put back into trains and transferred to Moscow.
Many units of the division unloaded not in Mozhaisk, but in Dorohovo, and were forced to make a 30-kilometer march on foot to positions on the Borodino field.
This is how the war correspondent M.G. describes the Borodino field on October 7-8, 1941. Bragin: “Polosukhin passed through the fields, climbed to the heights, examined the ravines, estimated the distances to the villages, to the forests - assessed the terrain. Part of the layout of the 32nd division lay on the same map on which the former Quartermaster General Kutuzova drew the layout of the Russian army. Of course, it was unthinkable to compare these schemes, they are so different, but the tactical features of the terrain were used in a new way even now. Behind the height where Raevsky's battery was located, Polosukhin decided to place his artillery battalion for firing from closed positions. But at the very height, firing positions were prepared for direct fire. In places where Russian gunners stood face to face with the enemy, Soviet gunners stood face to face with the enemy. In the hollows, in the bushes and in the Utitsky forest, where the huntsmen were once scattered, the infantry units of the 32nd division were located. Soviet artillerymen and infantrymen were to face not only firefight at long distances, but also close combat, close combat - an artillery duel face to face and a chest-to-chest bayonet strike. (Bragin M.G.: On the Borodino field. In the book From Moscow to Berlin. M., 1948.).

Soviet counterattack, autumn 1941

In mid-October 1941, the Mozhaisk direction was the shortest way to reach Moscow (from the western outskirts of Moscow to the front line of defense on the Borodino field - 125 kilometers). The 5th Army (commanded by General D.D. Lelyushenko), which took up defense here, was to fulfill the role of the backbone of the entire Western Front. The stability of the other armies of the front depended on the strength of the 5th Army. Everyone understood this, but...

According to the directive of the Headquarters, FOUR divisions were to enter Lelyushenko's 5th army. But due to the complexity of the situation here, only one was sent to the Mozhaisk line of defense - the 32nd Infantry Division. Yes, the 5th Army was somewhat strengthened by this, but one can hardly say that the 5th Army was full-fledged.
The position of the army was difficult. There are few troops. The front is stretched for 80 km. Both flanks are open. A very strong enemy - the 40th tank corps of the Nazis, following tank corps- The 7th Infantry Division, one of the most experienced in the entire Army Group Center, advancing on Moscow. The Germans were both quantitatively and qualitatively superior to the Soviet troops, possessing a large technical superiority.
Polosukhin walked along the birch alley to the small white house of the Borodino Museum, which stood alone in the middle of the field. He was met by a watchman, gave him a visitor's book, in which the colonel wrote that he was a division commander, arrived from the east, and in the column "The purpose of visiting the Borodino field" answered: "I came to defend the Borodino field." Polosukhin turned out to be the last visitor to the museum, which was then barbarously burned by the Nazis. (Bragin M.G.: On the Borodino field. In the book From Moscow to Berlin. M., 1948.).
On the evening of October 12, the advanced units of the enemy appeared on 125 km of the Minsk highway near the village of Yelnya, where they were met by a battalion of the 17th rifle regiment. The tanks moved two abreast with open hatches, without guards. Shots ripped through the silence; one lead tank froze, the other smoked, moved forward a little and, enveloped in flames, stopped. The tanks coming from behind began to bypass him, but the anti-tank guns hit point-blank. There was nowhere for the tankers to turn around, since the highway ran in a deep recess, and soon this defile contained an iron barrier of six wrecked tanks and two command vehicles.
Having failed in this direction, the command of the SS division shifted its attacks to neighboring defense sectors, north and south of Yelnya.
On October 13, the enemy tried to break through to the Borodino station. After an attack on our positions near the village of Rogachevo, air bombing and mortar shelling, the Germans occupied the village and stubbornly held the line in this area. By the end of the day, the battalion of the 322nd regiment, which had lost a third of its personnel in the battles for the village of Rogachevo, withdrew to the Fomkino-Doronino-Shevardino line and organized all-round defense.

Borodino field. Before meeting the enemy

Polosukhin sent a battalion of captain Shcherbakov and a battery of senior lieutenant Nechaev to the Shevardinsky redoubt. They let the enemy get closer, and then Nechaev ordered: “Rapid fire!” The battery continuously beat on the hollows where the Germans had accumulated, and hundreds of corpses in scanty uniforms filled up the approaches to Shevardino. The Germans responded with mortar, artillery, and aircraft fire and went on the attack again. Shcherbakov raised a battalion in a counterattack and held the height crowned with the Shevardino Redoubt. Then the enemy went around again.
Nechaev heard how the battle moved deeper and deeper into the rear, but continued to correct the shooting. He heard the command: “Grenades to battle!”, And he realized that the enemy was at his observation post. In the rear, the village of Shevardino caught fire, the wire connection laid along the street burned out; then signalmen occupied this section and began to transmit Nechaev's command through the chain by voice. Signalers died, others took their place, and the shells again and again fell on the enemy.
German submachine gunners leaked to the redoubt. The infantry guards that Shcherbakov left for Nechaev were all out of order. The security commander, Lieutenant Khomukha, with a gouged out eye, asked Nechaev to shoot him, and advised him to leave. But Nechaev and the signalers fought off the enemy with grenades, and again the words of the command flew, the numbers of artillery calculations, and the artilleryman's hot combat work continued.
For the battles at the Shevardinsky Redoubt, Captain Shcherbakov was awarded the Order of Lenin.
At dawn on October 14, Major Borodinov was forced to bring into battle the regimental reserve - the 3rd battalion under the command of Captain P.G. Mikadze, who managed to recapture Rogachevo.
In the morning, German dive bombers subjected the positions of the 17th Infantry Regiment to targeted bombing, after which, with the support of artillery and tanks, the German infantry entered the battle. All day on October 14, the battle continued in the defense zone of the 17th Infantry Regiment: despite strong resistance, the German infantry methodically ousted those who were short of ammunition Soviet soldiers from the trenches they occupy, using their tactical superiority. By evening, the operational reserves of the SS Reich motorized division were brought into battle, after which the defense of the 17th Infantry Regiment, which suffered big losses, was broken through the entire area. German troops expanded the breakthrough, occupying Utitsy, Artemki, as well as the extreme houses of the Borodino station. In Artemki, the German infantry managed to destroy the fire control platoon of the 154th artillery regiment, thereby depriving the Soviet troops of artillery support. Only after that did the command of the 32nd Rifle Division decide to bring into battle the 322nd Rifle Regiment, which had previously been in reserve.
On October 15, fighting took place in the area of ​​the village of Utitsa, Borodino station, the villages of Doronino, Shevardino. The Germans, repulsed on the highway, threw tanks, aircraft, motorized infantry into battle, broke through the edge of the Borodino field and captured the Borodino station, forced one of the battalions of the 322nd regiment to retreat to the forest between the villages of Semenovskoye and Shevardino. Developing success, the German SS motorized infantry rushed along the rear of the division to the Smolensk road, to Mozhaisk.
On this day, the commander of the 5th Army, D.D., was wounded. Lelyushenko. Major General L.A. was appointed the new commander. Govorov.
The autumn night has come. It got cold. For the fifth day the division fought.

Polosukhin knew that the enemy had penetrated into the depths of the division's defenses, cut off some units, was sitting on his rear, and, it would seem, an urgent need to “leave the encirclement”. But the battles showed that the division, even in these conditions, remains a combat-ready organism: battalions and divisions in the environment continue to fight, the centers of struggle interact, and this constitutes an integral tactical front of the division's defense, although it is torn apart on the map and on the ground.
Paul Karel in his book “Hitler Goes East” describes what is happening on the Borodino field in the following words: “Near Borodino, regiments of the SS infantry division “Reich” and the “Hauenschild brigade” from the 10th Panzer Division with the 7th Panzer Regiment, as well as a battalion The 90th Motorized Artillery Regiment and a motorcycle battalion from the 10th Division for the first time faced off against Siberians - tall, broad-shouldered guys in long overcoats, fur hats and felt boots. Siberians ... fought steadfastly. They never panicked - they did not give up an inch of land without a fierce fight. They killed and died. The battle was not for life, but to the death. Hell broke out on earth. There were no crowds at the dressing stations. Lieutenant General Hausser, commander of the SS Panzer Division "Reich", was seriously wounded. Row after row covered the ground with soldiers no longer able to fight - tankers in black overalls, grenadiers in tattered field uniforms and SS troops in spotted camouflage. Dead, badly wounded, burned or beaten to death. On both sides, the belligerents went wild - everyone forgot the word "mercy."
On October 16, there were stubborn battles in the center of the Borodino field.
The Germans threw 60 tanks into the area of ​​the Raevsky battery, where the batteries of Captain Belyaev and senior lieutenants Zelenov and Goldfarb were now stationed. During the night it snowed, and tanks were clearly black on the white field of Borodino, and on the slopes of the Borodino hills stood anti-tank guns advanced to open positions.
Soon, burning German tanks began to rush across the white field. Seven destroyed tanks froze in the sector of gunner Kulikov, eight - in the sector of Zaretsky's gun.
South-east of the Raevsky battery, a division of the 133rd artillery regiment occupied positions, in which the gunner Fyodor Chikhman fought and showed courage. He knocked out 8 tanks. The artilleryman's right hand was torn off by a fragment of a shell. Using one hand, the hero knocked out another enemy tank. Chikhman survived and was later awarded the Order of Lenin for his courage and heroism in battle.


Award list for the gunner of the Red Army soldier Fyodor Chikhman, who knocked out 9 fascist tanks in the battle on the Borodino field. Awarded with the Order Lenin

About 40 German tanks, burned, mutilated, froze next to the granite monuments on the Borodino field.
On this day, the command of the German troops threw the Bavarians and the French of the 638th French infantry regiment, Colonel Roger Labon, into battle against Polosukhin's division. Before the battle, the crusaders sent from Paris were lined up and Field Marshal von Kluge addressed them with a speech, recalling how, in the time of Napoleon, the French and Germans fought side by side against a common enemy - Russia. In his memoirs, the former chief of staff of the 4th German army, G. Blumentritt, wrote: “The next day, the French boldly went into battle, but, unfortunately, they could not withstand either a powerful enemy attack, or severe frost and snowstorms. They had never had to endure such trials before. The French legion was defeated, having suffered heavy losses from enemy fire. A few days later he was taken to the rear and sent to the West.
17 October. Late at night, the 32nd division received an order to withdraw to a new line. Having broken up into detachments, they pulled artillery on their hands a hundred meters to the highway, which was filled with enemy tanks and vehicles, and covered the guns with sheets. In a roadside ditch, three steps from the enemy, tank destroyers with bundles of grenades sat down at night. And when Polosukhin gave the order, a wall of fire arose over the highway for two kilometers, engulfing tanks, vehicles and German soldiers. With a shout of "Hurrah" the infantry went into hostility; rolling the guns, not stopping the fire, the artillery crossed the road.
The division went to the northeast, leaving on the distant approaches to Moscow, 117 burned and wrecked German tanks, 200 vehicles, dozens of guns and mortars, and 10 thousand killed and wounded German soldiers and officers.
In early November, the division took up defensive positions along the northern shore of the Narsky Ponds and the Nara River, from where, after a month-long defense on December 4, 1941, it was the first from the army to go on the offensive and on January 20, 1942, liberated Mozhaisk.
The main task, to push the enemy away from Moscow, was completed.
For the heroism shown in the battles near Moscow, the 32nd Rifle Division on May 24, 1942 was transformed into the 29th Guards Rifle Division.

16.06.1942 - 09.05.1945

The 32nd Infantry Division was formed in accordance with NCO No. 11625 of 06/03/1942. On June 16, 1942, the division began to form and deployed in the area of ​​​​the village of Borisoglebsk, Gorky Region, as part of the 9th reserve army Moscow military district. The formation of the division was completed on August 30, 1942, and by September 5 arrived to Naro-Fominsk a.

Since September 6, 1942, as part of the 43rd Army of the Kalinin Front. September 23 on Art. Naro-Fominsk plunged into trains and on September 30 arrived at Art. Andriapol, from where she made a five-day transition Andriapol - Lomonosovo - Rudnya. On the night of October 6-7, she replaced units of the 360th and 179th rifle divisions and occupied defensive lines northeast of the city of Demidov Smolensk region. During the defensive battles, 1977 enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed.

On December 5, the division surrendered the defense area and plunged to st. Lomonosovo, January 7, 1943 arrived at the station. Kunya, from where Kunya made a march - Velikiye Luki. As part of the 3rd shock army, led fighting in the area southeast of Velikiye Luki took part in battles near railway Novosokolniki - Velikiye Luki to push back the enemy grouping, trying to break through the encirclement, then, until August 1943, she fought on the occupied lines.

In August 1943, the division was transferred to the 39th Army and, during the Dukhovshchinsky-Demidov operation, advanced to Dukhovshchina, then to Kasplya, came out by the end of September 1943 to Rudna, could not advance further, despite numerous attempts.

In January-February 1944, as part of the Western Front, he conducted almost unsuccessful offensive battles. in the direction of Vitebsk and in February it was replaced by units of the 222nd Rifle Division and assigned to the 81st Rifle Corps of the 20th Army of the Reserve Headquarters of the Supreme High Command.

On May 29, 1944, as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front, on the eve of the Belorussian operation, she took up positions near the city of Shklov.

From June 23, 1944, as part of the 49th Army, he takes part in the Mogilev operation, advancing in the general direction to Mogilev broke through enemy defenses crossed the river Pronya, June 25 crosses the Dnieper near the city of Shklov. Then advanced in the general direction to Minsk, forced with battles rivers Drut, Berezina. Participated in the liquidation of the encircled Minsk grouping of the enemy, and by July 19, parts of the division reached the right bank of the river. Neman, where they served to protect it, conducted reconnaissance of the enemy, his crossings and fords.

From June 23 to July 27, 1944, the division, as part of the 19th Rifle Corps of the 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, liberated more than 833 settlements Byelorussian SSR, destroyed up to 3,000 and captured 511 enemy soldiers and officers. For excellent combat operations of the personnel of the division in offensive battles during this period, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the USSR Comrade Stalin, units of the 32nd Infantry Division were marked and awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and the division received the honorary name "Verkhnedneprovskaya".

From September 17 to 24, 1944, the division as part of the 43rd Army of the 1st Baltic Front took part in breaking through the enemy defenses southwest of Riga, came from Bauska district, in the direction of Tekava - Riga, where it broke through the enemy's defenses and in two days of stubborn offensive battles advanced up to 10 km and successfully repelled continuous counterattacks by infantry and enemy tanks.

By the end of September, as part of the army, she was transferred to the Memel direction, where on October 5 northwest of Siauliai, having successfully broken through the enemy’s defenses, units of the division went into a decisive pursuit of him and in two days of fighting moved to the west over 40 km, freeing more than 50 settlements and among them large ones: Varbutsyany, Ramuchi and m. Uzhventy. At the same time, heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy: over 250 German soldiers and officers were destroyed, 21 people were captured, 2 self-propelled guns were shot down, 11 guns and 6 mortars, 14 machine guns and many other weapons were destroyed. Captured: one ammunition depot, 8 guns, 3 mortars, 11 machine guns, many rifles and machine guns. The division suffers minor losses.

On October 22, 1944, the 32nd Rifle Verkhnedneprovskaya Red Banner Division was awarded the Order of Suvorov II degree.

PERSONNEL

Total: 45

Officers:

  • Art. Lieutenant Azarov Nikolai Makarovich, commander of a rifle company of the 322nd joint venture 1922 - 04/24/1945
  • Lieutenant Alekseev Mikhail Alekseevich, platoon commander of a battery of 122 mm mortars of the 113th joint venture 1923 - 01/29/1945
  • Art. Lieutenant Arutyunov Suren Samvelovich, Art. paramedic of the sanitary company 1923 - 03/24/1945
  • Lieutenant Boev Mikhail Kuzmich, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 17th joint venture 1920 - 01/28/1945
  • ml. Lieutenant Vladychev Vasily Georgievich, platoon commander of the 113th joint venture 1923 - 01/31/1945
  • captain Kazakov Iyuzif Moiseevich, party organizer of the 17th joint venture? - 01/25/1945
  • Lieutenant Kulik Alexander Pavlovich, party organizer of the Security Council of the 113th joint venture 1904 - 01/29/1945
  • Art. Lieutenant Kuchumov Vasily Abramovich, pom. head of radio communications of the 133rd AP 1914 - 01/28/1945
  • ml. Lieutenant Lapushkin Joseph Alexandrovich
  • Lieutenant Larin Mikhail Fedorovich, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 113th joint venture 1911 - 01/29/1945
  • Captain Novikov Petr Ignatievich, battery commander of the 133rd AP 1922 - 01/29/1945
  • Captain Ogiy Andrey Kuzmich, deputy battalion commander for the combat unit of the 17th joint venture 1918 - 01/28/1945
  • Captain Polozkov Ivan Vasilievich, commander of a rifle company of the 113th joint venture 1916 - 01/29/1945
  • Major Rosenthal Alexander Ivanovich, commander of the 2nd SB of the 322nd joint venture 1920 - 01/28/1945
  • Lieutenant Stepanenko Feodosy Feodosyevich, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 113th joint venture 1905 - 01/29/1945
  • Captain Faiziev Arif, deputy commander for political affairs of the 2nd Security Council of the 322nd joint venture 1908 - 01/29/1945
  • Captain Fomin Vasily Matveyevich, commander of a machine gun company of the 113th joint venture 1908 - 01/29/1945
  • Lieutenant Khlopov Sergey Sergeevich, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 322nd joint venture 1907 - 04/18/1945

Ordinary composition:

commander of the mortar squad of the 17th joint venture

1923 - 22.03.1945

  • Art. Sergeant Novitsky Matvey Georgievich, clerk of the 17th joint venture, born in 1897
  • foreman Parakhin Ivan Borisovich, gunner of the 2nd mortar company of the 17th joint venture, born in 1923
  • Corporal Proshin Ivan Lukyanovich, telephone operator of the 2nd mortar company of the 17th joint venture, born in 1909
  • foreman Romanov Vasily Romanovich, Art. clerk of the 1st Security Council of the 17th joint venture, born in 1903
  • red Army soldier Selibakin Yegor Prokopevich, liaison of the 5th rifle company of the 17th joint venture, born in 1909
  • Red Army soldier Sosovsky Vasily Ermolaevich, carrier of the 2nd machine-gun company of the 17th joint venture, born in 1926
  • red Army soldier Usenko Pavel Ivanovich, gunner of an easel machine gun of the 2nd Security Council, born in 1926
  • Red Army soldier Kholodilov Grigory Semenovich, riding battery of 45 mm guns of the 17th joint venture, born in 1898
  • foreman Khnokh Max Vladimirovich, clerk of the battery of 76 mm guns of the 17th joint venture, born in 1898
  • red Army soldier Chesnakov Philip Gavrilovich, loading the 2nd mortar company of the 17th joint venture, born in 1907
  • Sergeant Churbakov Fedor Dmitrievich, squad leader of the SMERSH ROC platoon 1910 - 04/14/1945
  • foreman Yasinsky Petr Vladimirovich, commander of the calculation of the 2nd mortar company of the 17th joint venture, born in 1914

If your family archive contains photographs of your relative and you send his biography, this will give us the opportunity to perpetuate the memory of a soldier, a participant in the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, on the territory of the Republic of Latvia.

The feat that the soldiers performed during the defense and liberation of the Republic of Latvia led to Our Victory, and the memory of the people who gave their lives for this will not be forgotten.

The division was formed in December 1942 in the Moscow region on the basis of the 1st airborne corps of the 2nd formation as the 9th guards airborne division:
- 23rd Guards Airborne Rifle Regiment (based on the 204th Airborne Brigade of the 2nd Formation)
- 26th Guards Airborne Rifle Regiment (based on the 211th Airborne Brigade of the 2nd Formation)
- 28th Guards Airborne Rifle Regiment (based on the 1st Airborne Brigade)
- 7th Guards Airborne Artillery Regiment
- 10th Guards Anti-tank Artillery Battalion
- 10th Guards Sapper Battalion
- 1 guards separate communications company
- 8th Guards Separate Airborne Reconnaissance Company
- 8th Guards Company of Chemical Protection
- 5 field bakery

Airborne Infantry Regiment:
composed of:
three parachute infantry companies
machine gun company
company of 82 mm mortars
platoon of 45 mm anti-tank guns
platoon of anti-tank guns
separate platoon of machine gunners
- parachute infantry battalion
- parachute infantry battalion
- 76 mm artillery gun battery
- 45 mm artillery cannon battery
- 120 mm mortar battery
- 2 separate companies of submachine gunners
- Reconnaissance Platoon
- Rear units

The composition of the artillery regiment:

- 76 mm artillery cannon battalion
- 122-mm artillery howitzer division

The composition of the anti-tank artillery battalion:
- 3 batteries of 45 mm anti-tank guns (then 57 mm) for 4 guns

Throughout the war, the fighting was conducted as a rifle formation. It was part of the 1st Shock Army, since May 1943 of the 5th Guards Army. As part of the troops of the North-Western, Steppe, Voronezh, 2nd and 1st Ukrainian fronts, she participated in the battles south of Staraya Russa, in the Battle of Kursk, in the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine, in Kirovograd, Uman-Botoshanskaya, Lvov-Sandomierz, Sandomierz-Silesian , Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian, Berlin and Prague offensive operations.

For military merits she was awarded the honorary title "Poltava" (Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief No. 22 on September 23, 1943), awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, Suvorov 2nd degree and Kutuzov 2nd degree; over 9 thousand of its soldiers were awarded orders and medals, 11 were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The division was commanded by: Colonel K. N. Vindushev (1942 - 43), colonel, from September 1943 Major General A. M. Sazonov (1943 - 44), Major General I. P. Pichugin (1944), Colonel F. A Afanasiev (1944), Colonel P. I. Shumeev (1944 - 45), Colonel E. M. Golub (1945).

Details about combat way to the Great patriotic war you can find out: Samchuk I. A., Skachko P. G., "The paratroopers are attacking", Moscow, 1975. Shtykov N.G. "The regiment accepts the battle", BLOG 9th Guards Airborne on Desantura.ru.

At the end of the war, the division included:
- 23 Guards Airborne Rifle Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment;
- 26 Guards Airborne Rifle Vistula Order of Kutuzov Regiment;
- 28 Guards Airborne Rifle Dembitsky Order of Kutuzov Regiment;
- 7th Guards Airborne Artillery Oder Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment.
Other divisions???

In June 1945, the division was reorganized into the 116th Guards Rifle Division:
- 362 Guards Rifle Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment (former 23 Guards)
- 364th Guards Rifle Vistula Order of Kutuzov Regiment (former 26th GVDSP)
- 366th Guards Rifle Dembitsky Order of Kutuzov Regiment (former 28th GVDSP)
- 429 divisional artillery brigade consisting of:
469th Guards Cannon Artillery Oder Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment (former 7th Guards VDAP)
475th Guards Howitzer Artillery Regiment
497 mortar Kiev Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2 tbsp. regiment.
- 999 separate anti-aircraft artillery division

- 162 Guards Separate Communications Battalion (formerly 1 Guards Ors) - later 211 Guards Obs
And other divisions???

In 1946 it was transformed into the 14th Guards Mechanized Division:
- 47th Guards Mechanized Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment (former 362th GVSP)
- 48th Guards Mechanized Vistula Order of Kutuzov Regiment (former 364th GVSP)
- 49th Guards Mechanized Dembitsky Order of Kutuzov Regiment (former 366th Guards Rifle Regiment)
- 10th Tank Regiment (former 1976 Detachment 33 Guards SK, aka 1976 SAP - entered the division when it was reorganized from 116 Guards Rifle Division)
- 5th Guards heavy tank-self-propelled Novorossiysk orders of Suvorov, B Khmelnitsky regiment (former 5th guards brigade - entered the division when it was reorganized from 116th guards division) - 04.1957 disbanded
- 2497 anti-aircraft artillery regiment (former 999 ozad - created in July 1945) - later replaced by 1009 guards. zenap
- 497 mortar Kiev Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2 tbsp. Regiment
- 469th Guards Artillery Oder Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment
- 107 separate motorcycle battalion - (created on the basis of 124 omsrr - entered the division when it was reorganized from 116 guards division)
- 18 separate guards jet division (created on the basis of 88 guards minp - entered the division when it was reorganized from 116 guards division).
- 148 separate guards engineer-sapper battalion (former 10 guards ovdsapb)
- 211 Guards separate communications battalion
- 723 separate automobile battalion (former 4 oatr).

Until 1947, it was part of the Central Group of Forces of the first formation (Austria), transferred to the GSOVG (GSVG).

In 1957 it was reorganized into the 14th Guards Motor Rifle Division:
216th Guards Motorized Rifle Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment (former 47th Guards Mechanized Regiment)
236th Guards Motor Rifle Dembitsky Order of Kutuzov Regiment (former 49th Guards Mechanized Regiment)
223rd Guards Motor Rifle Vistula Order of Kutuzov Regiment (former 48th Guards Mechanized Regiment)
330 tank regiment (former 10 TP)
469th Guards Artillery Oder Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment
And other divisions???

In 1958, the division included 69 SMEs, from the 82 MSD, which was withdrawn to Soviet Union. The 236th Guards SME was withdrawn to the USSR as part of the 82nd MSD.

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