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95th Guards Rifle Division
The 95th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in May 1943, based on the 1st formation of the 226th Rifle Division, and served in that role until well after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It ended the war on the approaches to Prague and continued to serve well into the postwar era in the Central Group of Forces. The 226th had distinguished itself in the Battle of Stalingrad and following the German surrender there it was moved north to the central part of the front. At about the same time its Army was redesignated 5th Guards Army it was itself redesignated as the 95th Guards; it would soon be assigned to the 33rd Guards Rifle Corps and it would remain under this Army for the duration of the war. At the beginning of July 1943 it was in Steppe Front and in the latter part of the Battle of Kursk it was brought forward to help defend the Red Army's positions around Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast, Prokhorovka. Shortly after it joined the summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army Flag
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Battle Of The Oder–Neisse
The Battle of the Oder–Neisse is the German name for the initial (operational) phase of one of the last two strategic offensives conducted by the Red Army in the Campaign in Central Europe (1 January – 9 May 1945) during World War II. Its initial breakthrough phase was fought over four days, from 16 April until 19 April 1945, within the larger context of the Battle of Berlin. The Soviet military planners divide the frontal and pincer phases of the operation, named Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation into: : Stettin–Rostock Offensive Operation (16 April 1945 – 5 May 1945) by the 2nd Belorussian Front : Seelow–Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April 1945 – 19 April 1945) by the 1st Belorussian Front : Cottbus–Potsdam Offensive Operation (16 April 1945 – 27 April 1945) by the northern flank and Cavalry Mechanized Group of the 1st Ukrainian Front : Spremberg–Torgau Offensive Operation (16 April 1945 – 25 April 1945) by the southern flank of the 1st Ukrainian Front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd Guards Rifle Corps
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Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast
Prokhorovka ( rus, Про́хоровка, p=ˈproxərəfkə) is an urban locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, along the Psyol River southeast of the city of Kursk. Population: History The first mention of the populated area in historical documents dates back to the second half of the 17th century. Polish nobleman Kiril G. Ilyinsky and his son Sava left during the Russian-Polish war of 1654–67 in Poland under the Belgorod, where they founded the suburb Elias. In 1860 Elias Sloboda was renamed in honor of the reigning Emperor Alexander II in the village of Alexandrov. In the 1880s west of the village passed a line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov railway. At the same time Prokhorovka station was built, named after the railway engineer names VI Prokhorov responsible for its construction. In the summer of 1943, Prokhorovka was the site of the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major armored confrontation during the Battle o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steppe Front
The Steppe Front (russian: Степной фронт) was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War which existed from July to October 1943. History On 9 July 1943, Stavka designated a new Reserve Front in the Voronezh region, that had been effective since 30 April.Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, Moscow 1977 It consisted of the command component of the 2nd Reserve Army (augmented by several officer and NCO courses), the 27th, 52nd, 53rd, 46th, 47th, 4th Guards Tank, 5th Air Army and eight mobile corps (Tank, Guards Tank, and Mechanised). Most of these armies had been reassigned from the Northwestern Front, North Caucasus Front, or the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (''Stavka'' reserve, or the RVGK). On 13 April 1943 the Front was renamed the Steppe Military District, to be effective 15 April. The Steppe Military District was redesignated the Steppe Front on July 9, 1943. It incorporated forces from the Soviet rear areas to the West of Kursk salient along t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Guards Army
The 5th Guards Army was a Soviet Guards formation which fought in many critical actions during World War II under the command of General Aleksey Semenovich Zhadov. The 5th Guards Army was formed in spring 1943 from the 66th Army in recognition of that army's actions during the Battle of Stalingrad. The 5th Guards Army fought in the Battle of Kursk, Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation, Battle of the Dnieper, Uman–Botoșani Offensive, Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive, Vistula–Oder Offensive, Berlin Offensive, and the Prague Offensive. During the Berlin Offensive elements of the army linked up with American troops at Torgau on the Elbe. Postwar, the army was disbanded as part of the Central Group of Forces. History On 5 May 1943, the 66th Army was renamed to the 5th Guards Army in accordance with a Stavka directive dated 16 April 1943. It included the 32nd and 33rd Guards Rifle Corps. The 5th Guards Army fought under command of the Steppe, Voronezh, and 2nd and 1st Ukrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Group Of Forces
The Central Group of Forces (Russian: Центральная группа войск) was a formation of the Soviet Armed Forces used to incorporate Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945 to 1955 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968. History First formation After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) reorganized its troops on the territories it liberated from the Nazi occupation and now occupied. Stavka Directive Nr 11097 on 10 June 1945 created several new formations, known as ''Groups of Forces'', equivalent to military districts but located outside the Soviet Union. The Central Group of Forces was created around that time from the 1st Ukrainian Front to control troops in Austria and Hungary, and did so from 1945 until 1955, when Soviet troops were withdrawn from Austria after the Austrian State Treaty was agreed. Its first commander was Marshal of the Soviet Union Iva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
226th Rifle Division
The 226th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed as one of the first reserve rifle divisions following the German invasion of the USSR. After being hastily organized it arrived at the front along the lower Dniepr River as part of 6th Army and in the wake of the German victory in the Kiev encirclement it fell back toward, and then past, Kharkiv and spent the winter fighting in this area. During the Second Battle of Kharkov in May 1942 it scored early successes but was soon forced back by counterattacking panzers and barely escaped destruction in the first phases of the German summer offensive. After rebuilding in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command the division returned to the front north of Stalingrad where it joined the 66th Army. It took heavy losses in one of the last efforts to break through to the city before Operation Uranus cut off the German 6th Army, but it still played an important role in the reduction of the pocket during Operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Oleynikov
Andrey Ivanovich Oleynikov (russian: Андрей Иванович Олейников; 25 May 1898 – December 1990) was a Soviet Army major general who commanded the 95th Guards Rifle Division during World War II. Early life, World War I, and Russian Civil War Andrey Ivanovich Oleynikov was born on 25 May 1898 in the ''khutor'' of Novo-Kuznetsovsky, Mechetinskaya ''stanitsa'', Novocherkassky Okrug, Don Host Oblast. During World War I, Oleynikov was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army in February 1917 and sent as a private to the 187th Reserve Regiment in Rostov-on-Don. After deserting in May, he worked at the ports in Kerch and Novorossiysk. During the Russian Civil War, Oleynikov returned to his home village in February 1918 and joined the partisan cavalry detachment of Boris Dumenko (later commanded by G.G. Kolpakov). With the detachment, he fought in battles against the Volunteer Army and White Cossacks. After the retreat to Tsaritsyn, the detachment was reorganized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Lyakhov
Andrey Nikitovich Lyakhov (russian: Андрей Никитович Ляхов; 25 August 1909 – 19 September 1943) was a Red Army colonel killed in World War II who commanded the 95th Guards Rifle Division. Early life and prewar service Andrey Nikitovich Lyakhov was born on 25 August 1909 in the village of Konstantinovka, Konstantinovskoy ''volost'', Petrovsky '' uyezd'', Stavropol Governorate. Before his military service, he began studies at the Stavropol Agricultural ''Tekhnikum'' in 1928, while working as a livestock specialist at the '' sovkhoz Plemrassadnik'' , a sheep farm part of the ''tekhnikum''. Conscripted into the Red Army on 13 November 1931 by the Voroshilovsky RVK in Voroshilov, Lyakhov was sent as a cadet to the one-year conscript detachment of the 65th Rifle Regiment of the 22nd Rifle Division at Novorossiysk. After graduating in October 1932, he was appointed to the 25th (later the 112th) Rifle Regiment of the 38th Rifle Division at Novocherkassk, serving a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Nikitchenko
Nikolai Stepanovich Nikitchenko (; 17 December 1901 – 1 April 1975) was a Soviet Army major general. Early life and Russian Civil War A Russian, Nikolai Stepanovich Nikitchenko was born on 17 December 1901 in Starodub, Chernigov Governorate. During the Russian Civil War, Nikitchenko joined the Red Army in the settlement of Unecha on 27 October 1918 and was sent as a Red Army man to the commandant's platoon of the 1st Ukrainian Division. With the division, he fought on the Southern Front against the Volunteer Army. In February 1919 he was wounded and hospitalized until June. After recovering in June he was sent to the convalescent detachment of the 19th Reserve Rifle Regiment at Bryansk, where he served as an assistant platoon commander in the regimental reconnaissance detachment from February 1920. In December 1920 he transferred to the 22nd Rifle Regiment at Liski as assistant platoon commander in the reconnaissance detachment. With the 22nd, he fought in the suppressio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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