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8th Motor Rifle Division NKVD information


8th Motorized Rifle Division
of the NKVD Internal Troops
January 1942 – June 1942
CountrySoviet Union
BranchNKVD
TypeInfantry
EngagementsWorld War II: Fighting in the area Oboyan - Stary Oskol - Buturlinovka
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Colonel F. M. Mazhirin (November 1941 – January 1942)
Colonel V. F. Krylov (January 1942)
Colonel V. A. Gorishnii [1] (February 1942 – April 1942)
Colonel N. D. Kozin (April–July 1942)

The 8th Motorized Rifle Division of the NKVD Internal Troops (Russian: 8-я мотострелковая дивизия внутренних войск НКВД СССР 8-y motostrelkovaya diviziya vnutrenikh voisk NKVD SSSR) was formed in accordance with NKVD Order Number 0021 from January 5, 1942, during execution GKO decree number 1099- ss on January 4, 1942. It was based on the 23rd Motorized Rifle Division NKVD Internal Troops.[2]

David Glantz writes that in early December, the Southwestern Front combined the remnants of the 91st, 92nd, 94th, and 98th Border Guards Detachments with the 6th, 16th and 28th NKVD MRRs to form the division.(Colossus Reborn, 165)

The 8th Infantry Division of the NKVD Internal Troops was part of the troops of the South-Western Front and included the:

  • 4th Red Banner Motor Rifle Regiment ;
  • 6th Motorized Rifle Regiment ;
  • 16th Motorized Rifle Regiment ;
  • 28th Motorized Rifle Regiment ;
  • 266th Motorized Rifle Regiment ;
  • 274th Motorized Rifle Regiment ;
  • 10th Artillery Regiment ;

On May 9, 1942, from the 8th Motorized Rifle Division of Internal Troops stand

  • Management Division,
  • 4th Red Banner Motor Rifle Regiment,
  • 266th Motorized Rifle Regiment,
  • 274th Motorized Rifle Regiment.

On the basis of these parts of the 8th Motorized Rifle Division of the NKVD the 13th Rifle Division NKVD was formed.[2] The 287th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division NKVD internal troops also joined the division.[3]

Colonel Gorishnii Vasily Akimovich was appointed the Divisional commander, while military Political commissar Division Senior Battalion Commissar Ilya Arkhipovich Vlasenko.

  1. ^ "Biography of Lieutenant-General Vasilii Akimovich Gorishnii - (Василий Акимович Горишний) (1903 – 1962), Soviet Union". www.generals.dk. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Оперативные – внутренние войска НКВД". shieldandsword.mozohin.ru. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  3. ^ "283 СП Махачкалинская СД ВВ НКВД - Мой дед-Дикаркин Михаил Павлович,1910 г". forum.patriotcenter.ru. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

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