Battle of Moscow Battles of Rzhev Battle of Smolensk (1943) Operation Bagration Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive Minsk Offensive Gumbinnen Operation Vistula-Oder Offensive East Prussian Offensive Heiligenbeil Pocket Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Decorations
Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Order of Kutuzov
Battle honours
Vitebsk
Commanders
Notable commanders
Maj. Gen. Fyodor Vasileevich Chernyshev Maj. Gen. Nikolay Oleshev Maj. Gen. Vasilii Lavrentevich Alekseenko Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Alekseevich Volkhin Col. Arkadii Semyonovich Loginov
Military unit
The 371st Rifle Division was raised in 1941 as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. It began forming in August 1941 in the Urals Military District. It was soon moved to the front lines near Moscow, and took part in the counteroffensive that began on December 5. It spent all of 1942 and the first months of 1943 in the fighting around the Rzhev salient, and after a short break served in the offensive that liberated Smolensk. After a winter of brutal combat on the approaches to Orsha and Vitebsk it was reassigned to 5th Army in 3rd Belorussian Front and took part in Operation Bagration, during which it was recognized for its role in the liberation of the latter city with a battle honor. The division was further distinguished in late July with the Order of the Red Banner for its part in the liberation of Vilnius. In January 1945, it fought its way into East Prussia, and as that campaign was winding down it was moved across Asia, along with the rest of 5th Army, to take part in the campaign against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria.
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