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For the Guards Rifle Division, see 26th Guards Rifle Division.
26th Rifle Division
Active
3 November 1918–1952
Country
Soviet Union
Branch
Red Army (1918–1946) Soviet Army (1946–1952)
Type
Rifle Division
Nickname(s)
26th Zlatoust Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division[1]
Engagements
Russian Civil War
World War II
Demyansk Pocket
Leningrad-Novgorod offensive
Riga offensive
East Prussian Offensive
Battle of Königsberg
Samland Offensive
Decorations
Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner Order of Suvorov
Battle honours
Zlatoust Stalin
Commanders
Notable commanders
Vasily Shorin
Mikhail Matiyasevich
Yan Gaylit
Genrich Eiche
Kornily Cherepanov
Military unit
The 26th Rifle Division was a rifle division in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War, World War II and the Cold War. The division was formed on 3 November 1918 on the Eastern Front (China Border), sent to the Soviet-German Front in August 1941. Ended the war in Poland, where it was assigned to the Northern Group of Forces. It was disbanded in 1952.
^Avanzini and Crofoot (2004), p 5.
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Global Information
Soviet Union
Order of Suvorov