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214th Rifle Division
Active1941–1946
Country214th Rifle Division Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeInfantry
SizeDivision
EngagementsOperation Barbarossa
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Operation Typhoon
Battle of Stalingrad
Operation Uranus
Operation Ring
Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation
Chernigov-Poltava Strategic Offensive
Battle of the Dniepr
Kremenchug-Pyatikhatki Offensive
Kirovograd offensive
Uman–Botoșani offensive
First Jassy–Kishinev offensive
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
Vistula–Oder offensive
Lower Silesian offensive
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Bautzen (1945)
Prague offensive
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner (2nd formation)
Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Order of Suvorov (2nd formation)
Order of Khmelnitsky 2nd Class (USSR) Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (2nd formation)
Battle honoursKremenchug (2nd formation)
Aleksandriya (2nd formation)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Maj. Gen. Mark Mikhailovich Butsko
Maj. Gen. Anatolii Nikolaevich Rozanov
Maj. Gen. Nikolai Ivanovich Biryukov
Maj. Gen. Grigorii Nikitich Zhukov

The 214th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed in the months just before the start of the German invasion, based on the shtat (table of organization and equipment) of September 13, 1939. It was moved to the fighting front to join 22nd Army in late June and took part in the fighting between Vitebsk and Nevel in early July, escaping from encirclement in the process, and then played a significant role in the liberation of Velikiye Luki, the first Soviet city to be retaken from the invading armies. In October it was again encircled near Vyasma during Operation Typhoon and was soon destroyed.

The 433rd Rifle Division began forming in late 1941 at Ufa in the South Ural Military District as a Bashkiri national division but on December 25 it was redesignated as the 2nd formation of the 214th. In July 1942 it was moved to the area west of Stalingrad and fought in the battle for that city until the beginning of February 1943, eventually assisting in mopping up the factory district. From there it was moved north to form part of the reserves behind the Kursk salient in 53rd Army. During the subsequent summer offensive into Ukraine it reached and crossed the Dniepr near Kremenchuk and was awarded its name as a battle honor. In the winter battles on the west bank it won a further honorific as well as the Order of the Red Banner. During the spring offensives toward Romania it was part of 5th Guards Army in 2nd Ukrainian Front and fought unsuccessfully along the Dniestr River until being moved to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command and joining 52nd Army. Under this command it became part of 1st Ukrainian Front and advanced through southern Poland and Silesia, winning two further decorations in the process. In the final offensive into Germany it saw heavy fighting in Saxony during one of the last desperate German counteroffensives in late April 1945, then advanced with its Front toward Prague. After the German surrender it moved back to Poland and later Ukraine before being disbanded in mid-1946.

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