219th Motorized Division (March 11, 1941 - September 9, 1941) 219th Rifle Division (September 9, 1941 - November 16, 1941) 219th Rifle Division (January 14, 1942 - July 1945)
Active
1941–1945
Country
Soviet Union
Branch
Red Army
Type
Infantry
Role
Motorized Infantry
Size
Division
Engagements
Operation Barbarossa Battle of Kiev (1941) Case Blue Operation Little Saturn Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive Battle of Kursk Battle of Nevel (1943) Polotsk–Vitebsk Offensive Rezhitsa–Dvinsk Offensive Baltic offensive Riga offensive (1944) Courland Pocket
Decorations
Order of the Red Banner (2nd formation)
Battle honours
Idritsa (2nd formation)
Commanders
Notable commanders
Maj. Gen. Pavel Petrovich Korzun Col. Vasilii Nikolaevich Varichev Maj. Gen. Vasilii Petrovich Kotelnikov Col. Vasilii Grigorevich Kovalenko
Military unit
The 219th Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army after a motorized division of that same number was redesignated about 10 weeks after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Due to a chronic lack of vehicles, and especially tanks, the division had been effectively serving as a motorized rifle brigade since June 22, so the redesignation was a formality and it was soon destroyed in the encirclement battle east of Kiev.
A new 219th was formed in January 1942, based on the 441st Rifle Division and the rifle division shtat (table of organization and equipment) of December 6, 1941. It spent several months forming in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command before it was sent to the active front as part of 6th Army near Voronezh. During the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive in January 1943 it took part in the destruction of the 2nd Hungarian Army and was soon after moved to the Kursk region and defended the south face of the salient as part of 40th Army. It then moved north to join Kalinin Front and fought through the winter in the battles west of Nevel. After the summer offensive in 1944 began it was granted a battle honor and within weeks the Order of the Red Banner as well. The 219th fought through Latvia and in early 1945 was part of 22nd Army containing the Courland Pocket. Before the German surrender it was moved south to the Odessa area where it was disbanded later in the year.
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Global Information
Soviet Union
Order of the Red Banner (2nd formation)