The 79th Motor Rifle Division was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army. It was converted from the 79th Rifle Division in 1957 and inherited the honorific "Sakhalin". The division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.[1] The 79th Rifle Division fought in the Invasion of South Sakhalin in 1945 and was based at Leonidovo for most of its career.[2]
the 79th Separate Guards MotorRifle Brigade (Russian: 79-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада). The division was reformed from the 79th Separate...
Voronezh-Shumlinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Red Banner of Labor MotorRifleDivision (Russian: 19-я мотострелковая Воронежско-Шумлинская Краснознамённая...
renamed the 41st Motor-Rifle Red Banner Division; and the 79thRifle Sakhalin Division was renamed the 79thMotorRifle Sakhalin Division. On 28 March 1960...
The 150th Idritsa-Berlin Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class MotorRifleDivision (Russian: Russian: 150-я Идрицко-Берлинская ордена Кутузова 2-й степени мотострелковая...
The 171st RifleDivision was originally formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the North Caucasus Military District on September 18, 1939, based...
The 79th Guards RifleDivision (Russian: 79-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It was created...
The 254th MotorRifleDivision was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War and later the Ukrainian Army. It was formed in...
MotorRifleDivision (Russian: 265-я мотострелковая дивизия) was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War. The division traced...
The 34th Simferopol Red Banner Order of Suvorov MotorRifleDivision named after S. Ordzhonikidze (Military Unit Number 45463) was a unit of the Soviet...
Banner" MotorRifleDivision (Military Unit Number 29410 until September 1987; MUN 28320 thereafter) is a Russian military unit. The division was formed...
Lenin, twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov (II) and Kutuzov (II) MotorRifleDivision (Russian: 1-я гвардейская мотострелковая Пролетарская Московско-Минская...
RifleDivision became the 56th Motor-RifleDivision (in this case the 357th Rifle Regiment was renamed as the 390th Rifle Regiment); The 79thRifle Sakhalin...
War II which subsequently became a motor-rifle, a tank division and then back to a motor-rifledivision. The division was disbanded in 2009 and its traditions...
and in January 1944, the 207th joined the 79thRifle Corps in 3rd Shock Army in the same Front. The division would remain in that army until postwar, and...
The 416th RifleDivision was formed for the first time as a standard Red Army rifledivision late in 1941, after the Soviet winter counteroffensive had...
The 108th Nevelskaya MotorRifleDivision, abbreviated as the "108th MRD," was a unit of the Soviet Ground Forces and the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan. It...
The 32nd Guards MotorRifleDivision was a mechanised infantry division of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was descended from Red Army World War II formations...
Guards Volnovakha Red Banner Order of Suvorov MotorRifleDivision (Military Unit Number 61415) was a division of the Soviet Army from 1957 to around 1992...
the 154th, 178th, 524th, and 525th Separate MotorRifle Battalions, the 65th Separate Tank Battalion, the 79th and 83rd Separate Self-Propelled Howitzer...
Guards Mechanized Division, which was reorganized as the 83rd Guards MotorRifleDivision in 1957 before being disbanded in 1959. The division was formed as...
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