41st Guards Rifle Division (August 6, 1942 – October 1945)
Active
1942–1945
Country
Soviet Union
Branch
Red Army
Type
Division
Role
Infantry
Engagements
Battle of Stalingrad Operation Little Saturn Operation Gallop Third Battle of Kharkov Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation Battle of the Dniepr Kirovograd Offensive Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket Uman–Botoșani Offensive First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive Budapest Offensive Operation Spring Awakening Vienna Offensive
Decorations
Order of Suvorov
Battle honours
Korsun Danube
Commanders
Notable commanders
Maj. Gen. Nikolai Petrovich Ivanov Col. Andronik Sarkisovich Sarkisyan Maj. Gen. Konstantin Nikolaevich Tsvetkov Lt. Col. Aleksandr Filippovich Belyaev
Military unit
The 41st Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in August 1942, based on the 1st formation of the 10th Airborne Corps, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It was the last of a series of ten Guards rifle divisions formed from airborne corps during the spring and summer of 1942. It was briefly assigned to the 1st Guards Army in Stalingrad Front, then to the 24th Army in Don Front, and suffered heavy casualties north of Stalingrad before being withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command for a substantial rebuilding. Returning to 1st Guards Army in Southwestern Front in November it took part in Operation Little Saturn as part of 4th Guards Rifle Corps and then advanced into the Donbas where it was caught up in the German counteroffensive in the spring of 1943. During the summer and fall the division fought its way through eastern Ukraine as part of the 6th, and later the 57th Army under several corps commands. It would remain in the southern part of the front for the duration of the war. By February 1944 it was in the 7th Guards Army and took part in the battle for the Korsun Pocket, winning its first battle honor in the process. Shortly after it was transferred to the 4th Guards Army, where it would remain for the duration, still moving through several corps headquarters. The 41st Guards saw limited service in the first Jassy-Kishinev offensive in the spring, but considerably more in August's second offensive and several of its subunits received battle honors or decorations. The division itself won a second honorific during the offensive into Hungary in January 1945 and was later decorated for its role in the capture of Budapest. After the fall of Vienna in April it did garrison duty in the city for a short time before being directed west into lower Austria where it linked up with U.S. forces in the last days of the war. In October, while still in Austria, it was converted to the 18th Guards Mechanized Division.
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