For the 1966–90 motor rifle division, see 36th Motor Rifle Division.
36th Motor Rifle Division (1940–1946)
36th Motorized Division (1937–1940)
36th Rifle Division (1919–1937) (1946–1956)
Active
1919–1956
Country
Soviet Union
Branch
Red Army
Type
Infantry
Size
Division
Engagements
Russian Civil War
Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
World War II
Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
Decorations
Order of Lenin
Battle honours
Transbaikal
Khingan
Military unit
The 36th Rifle Division (Russian: 36-я стрелковая дивизия) was a division of the Red Army and then the Soviet Army. The division was formed in 1919 as the 36th Rifle Division and fought in the Russian Civil War and the Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929. In 1937 it became the 36th Motorized Division. The division fought in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. It was converted into a motor rifle division in 1940 and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in World War II. Postwar, it became a rifle division again before its disbandment in 1956. The division spent almost its entire service in the Soviet Far East.
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