The 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a division of the

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History

World War II

It traces its history to the 57th Guards Rifle Division. The 57th Guards Rifle Division was formed from the

153rd Rifle Division The 153rd Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It was formed in the Ural Military District. On 22 June 1941 when the German Operation Barbarossa began, it was serving under command of Nikolai Gagen wi ...

(Second formation) on 31 December 1942. It was part of the 'operational army' from 31.12.1942 to 07.06.1944 and from 15.06.1944 to 09.05.1945. Its operations included: * Millerovo–Voroshilovgrad operation * Izyum–Barvenkovo Offensive *Donbass Offensive * Lower Dnepr offensive *Dnipropetrovsk offensive * Dnepr-Carpathian Offensive * Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive * Bereznegovatoe-Snigirevskaya Offensive *Odessa offensive *

Operation Bagration Operation Bagration (; russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (russian: Белорусская наступательная оп ...

* Lublin-Brest Offensive * Vistula-Oder Offensive * Warsaw-Poznan offensive * Seelow-Berlin operation *

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It fought on the

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, in

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, on the Vistula River, and in the Berlin Operation. With

8th Guards Army The 8th Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (abbreviated 8th CAA) is an army of the Russian Ground Forces, headquartered in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, within Russia′s Southern Military District, that was reinstated in 2017 as a success ...

of the

1st Belorussian Front The 1st Belorussian Front ( Russian: Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, ''Perviy Belorusskiy front'', also romanized " Byelorussian") was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army ...

May 1945.

Cold War

Became 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division on 17 May 1957 at

Naumburg Naumburg () is a town in (and the administrative capital of) the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany. It has a population of around 33,000. The Naumburg Cathedral became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. ...

, still with 8th Guards Army. During the 1980s it consisted of the : *170th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Naumburg) *174th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Weißenfels) *241th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Leipzig) *57th Guards Tank Regiment (Zeitz) *128th Artillery Regiment (Zeitz) The division withdrew from Germany in April 1993 and moved to

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...

, part of the

Ural Military District The Red Banner Ural Military DistrictHistory of the Ural Military District / Edited by Alexander Egorovsky, Ivan Tutarinov – 1 – Moscow: Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, 1970 – 352 Pages – 11,500 ...

. It was disbanded in June 1993.

Popular culture

The 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division is featured in the board game Red Storm Rising, based on

Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have ...

's book

Red Storm Rising ''Red Storm Rising'' is a war novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Larry Bond, and released on August 7, 1986. Set in the mid-1980s, it features a Third World War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact for ...

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