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    The 44th Kievskaya of the Red Banner Rifle Division of Nikolay Shchors, or 44th Kievskaya for short, was an elite military formation of the Soviet Union...
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    Soviet 163rd Rifle Division captured Suomussalmi, but found itself trapped deep inside Finnish territory, and the Soviet 44th Rifle Division was sent to...
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    – 11 January 1940) was a Soviet kombrig and the commander of the 44th Rifle Division. His unit took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter...
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  • II) 44th Infantry Division Cremona (Kingdom of Italy) 44th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 44th Infantry Division (Poland) 44th Rifle Division (Soviet...
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    border along the Kiantajärvi lake. During this time, the Soviet 44th Rifle Division had advanced from the east towards Suomussalmi. It was entrenched...
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  • The defense of Lypovets was led by 44th Rifle Division under the command of General Semyon Tkachenko. This division consisted of two fresh regiments (305th...
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    Brigade reached Łaszczów, where it successfully outflanked the Soviet 44th Rifle Division and annihilated one of its regiments (only 100 POWs survived the...
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    commanded the Bohunsky regiment, brigade, 1st Soviet Ukrainian division and 44th Rifle Division against the Ukrainian People's Republic and their Polish allies...
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    Infantry School in 1930. He then became the commander and commissar of 44th Rifle Division in January 1931. Next, he became a general tactical lecturer at the...
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    the 14th Rifle Division on 9 May 1921. 44th Rifle Division — Formed on 22 September 1918 as the 1st Insurgent Division. 51st Rifle Division — Formed in July...
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  • the Soviets by surprise. After the first assault, the Bolshevik 44th Rifle Division had lost one of its brigades and its entire staff, which delayed...
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  • the Polish 5th Infantry Division under Gen. Władysław Jędrzejewski encountered elements of the Soviet 44th Rifle Division and cavalry units under Grigore...
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  • During the summer of 1942, the division fought in the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive and became the 44th Guards Rifle Division for its actions there on 5 October...
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    in 1939 According to narod.ru, the 3rd Army also included the 150th Rifle Division (in Odessa Military District as third echelon) Staging area in and around...
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    The 175th Rifle Division was originally formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the North Caucasus Military District in July 1940, based on the...
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    well as the destruction of the Soviet 44th Rifle Division, which was attempting to reinforce the 163rd Division, in the Battle of Raate Road. The defense...
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    Military Academy. After graduation he was chief of staff of the 44th Rifle Division, then chief of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar Autonomous Republic...
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  • the basis of the 44th Rifle Division as the 99th (territorial) Rifle Division. In 1926 it consisted of the 295th, 296th, and 297th Rifle Regiments. In 1931...
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  • Infantry Division Imperial German 44th Landwehr Division Imperial German 44th Reserve Division German 44th Infantry Division Indian 44th Airborne Division Italian...
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    Rifle Division]. lislib.at.ua (in Russian). Lysychansk Central Library System. Retrieved 10 April 2017. Holm, Michael. "44th Training Tank Division"...
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  • The 416th Rifle Division was formed for the first time as a standard Red Army rifle division late in 1941, after the Soviet winter counteroffensive had...
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    The 191st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed as part of the prewar buildup of forces, based on the shtat (table...
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  • Rifle Division - Colonel Aleksey Alekseyevich Polyakov[citation needed] 254th Motor Rifle Regiment[citation needed] Leningrad Military District 44th Army...
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  • The 44th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. It took part in the Great Patriotic War in 1941 and 1943-45. On 22 June 1941, the...
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  • Smolensk. The division became part of the 44th Rifle Corps of the Western Special Military District together with the 108th Rifle Division, and was ordered...
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  • it was assigned the 44th and 288th Rifle Divisions and the 53rd Rifle Brigade. The 53rd Rifle Brigade transferred to the 115th Rifle Corps in December....
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    1950-1956 it was one of the brigades of 16th Airborne Division. From 1956 the division was reduced to the 44th Independent Parachute Brigade Group, comprising...
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  • The 69th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army, formed twice. It was first formed in 1936 from the 3rd Kolkhoz...
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    War 400 'line' rifle divisions (infantry), 129 Soviet Guards rifle divisions, and over 50 cavalry divisions as well as many divisions of combat support...
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  • of the newly formed 44th Air Assault Division, but by July 2023, it was transferred to the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. The first known deployment...
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