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22nd Artillery Penetration Division
The 22nd Breakthrough Artillery Division () was an artillery division of the Red Army during World War II. History The division headquarters was formed in early January 1943 in the Moscow Military District under the command of Colonel Prokhor Ivanov, who was transferred to command the 16th Breakthrough Artillery Division on 29 June. Colonel Kuzma Korolyov, former commander of the 16th Breakthrough Artillery Division, took command of the 22nd Division on 30 May while it was in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command. The division was then sent to the 1st Belorussian Front, Belorussian Front, where it took part in the Gomel–Rechitsa offensive, Gomel–Rechitsa and Kalinkovichi–Mozyr offensive, Kalinkovichi–Mozyr offensive operations as part of the 65th Army (Soviet Army), 65th Army. The division received the Gomel honorific in recognition of its performance in the liberation of that city. In recognition of its performance, the division received the Order of the Red Banner on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |