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52nd Rifle Division (1935 - Dec. 1941) 10th Guards Rifle Division (Dec. 1941 -1957) 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957 - 1991)
Active	1941 - 1991
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Ground Forces
Type	Division
Role	Motor Rifles
Part of	Transcaucasus Military District
Nickname	Honorary title = "Pechengskij"
Engagements	1939: Battle of Petsamo 1941-1944:Arctic Defensive 1944:Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation 1945: East Pomeranian Offensive Chojnice-Kezlinskaya Offensive

The 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Ground Forces. The full name of its predecessor division was the '10 Guards Rifle Pechengskij twice Red Banner, Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Red Star division.'

It traces its history from the 10th Guards Rifle Division. (ex 52nd Rifle Division, first formed 1935, 26.12.1941). Fought in East Prussia, and at Berlin.

In 1939 the division, as the 52nd Rifle Division, took part in the Battle of Petsamo during the Winter War and then the Soviet invasion of Poland.

The division was part of the Operational Army from 26.12.1941 to 09.11.1944 and from 29.01.1945 to 09.05.1945.

Before October 1944, the division has been in the Arctic, holding positions on the Zapadnaya Litsa River ('Valley of Fame')(near Murmansk(?)), as part of the 14th Army. Over the period of the defense it had about 150 fights of local importance. At the end of April 1942, it began an offensive in occupied positions, whose goals were not achieved, including in connection with severe weather conditions - on the day before 03.05.1942 was a very strong snowstorm.

At the end of September and the beginning of October 1944 the division was resubordinated to 131st Rifle Corps, itself reporting to 14th Army. 07.10.1944, it participated in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation, advancing in the first echelon in the building on Mount Small Karikvayvish to 08.10.1944, seizing a bridgehead on the west bank of the Titovka River. Then was fighting for the Luostari, to the 14.10.1944 crossed the Pechenga River west of Kakkuri participated in the liberation of Pechenga. After the liberation of Pechenga the division attacked Kirkenes, supported by the 378th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment.

After the operation it moved into reserve in the Vologda district, through Bologoye, the Baltic states, Bialystok in 'January 1945' crossed in Poland and unloaded station Ostrow-Mazowiecki.

Participated in the East Pomeranian Offensive.

26.02.1945 From Baldenberg and turned to the northeast in the direction of Rummelsburg andon 3 March 1945 took Rummelsburg

By'21 .03.1945 'moved to the right flank of the army at 30 kilometers south-west of Marchand, then advancing in the direction Pustkovits-Gdynia.

After taking Gdynia, together with 1st Polish Tank Brigade from 31 .03.1945 attacked in the band Zagorje, east of Janowo on the peninsula formed by the Gulf Puttsger Vic and the river Rod.

By the end of 14.04.1945 was concentrated in the forests of the north-east of Treptow as well and covered the coast of Baltic Sea to the right of Kohlberg and the left of Valddivinov as well. Division combed the forests, eliminated small scattered groups of enemy, the breakaway at the time of retreating to the west of large parts.

In the last days of the war the division crossed the delta Oder and the Swinemunde, graduated from the fighting on the island of Usedom. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.

After World War II the division became the 10th Guards Mountain Division(?) In 1957 it became the 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division. Sometime in the postwar period it moved to Akhaltsikhe in the Georgian SSR, joining 9th Army. The division appears to have dissolved in 1991-92.

Contents 1 Subordination September 1944 - May 1945 2 Components 3 Commanders 4 Awards and name 5 Warriors Divisional 6 Memory 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Subordination September 1944 - May 1945

Date	Front (District)	Army	Housing
01/09/1944 Year	Karelian Front	14 Army
01/10/1944 Year	Karelian Front	14 Army	131 Rifle Corps
01/11/1944 Year	Karelian Front	14 Army	99 Rifle Corps
01/12/1944 Year	Reserve Stavka	19 Army	99 Rifle Corps
01/01/1945 Year	Reserve Stavka	19th Army	40th Guards Rifle Corps
01/02/1945 Year	2nd Belorussian Front	19 Army	40th Guards Rifle Corps
01/03/1945 Year	2-nd Russian Front	19 Army	40th Guards Rifle Corps
01/04/1945 Year	2-nd Russian Front	19 Army	40th Guards Rifle Corps
01/05/1945 Year	2-nd Russian Front	19 Army	134 Rifle Corps

[edit] Components

• 24-th Guards Rifle Regiment
• 28-th Guards Rifle Regiment of the Red Banner
• 35-th Guards Rifle Regiment
• 29-th Guards Artillery Regiment
• 14-th Guards separate anti-tank battalion
• 4-th Guards antiaircraft battery (up to 04.06.1943)
• 21-th Guards Mortar Division (until 29.10.1942)
• 13th Guards reconnaissance company
• 1-Guards minesweeper HYDRATED Battalion
• 82 th (2 nd) separate Guards Battalion (8-Guards separate communication company)
• 481 th (12 th) health Battalion
• 7-Guards separate company chemical protection
• 499-I (5-I) trucking company
• 609-I (6-I) field bread opekarnya
• 569 th (3rd) Divisional veterinary hospital
• 141 I-divisional repair workshop (up to 19.07.1942)
• 105 th Field Postal Station
• 201-I field ticket office of the State Bank

[edit] Commanders

• Gen Maj N N Nikishin, 1941
• Pashkovskii Michael Kazimirovich (26/12/1941 - 02/03/1942), Colonel
• Krasilnikov Daniel Yefimovich (03/03/1942 - 23/07/1942), General - Major
• Khudalov Chariton A. (24/07/1942 - 29/11/1943), colonel, with 27/11/1942 Major General
• Grebenkin Fedor Alekseevich (30/11/1943 - 23/03/1944), Colonel
• Khudalov Chariton A. (24.03.1944 - 09.05.1945), Major-General

[edit] Awards and name

Award (name)	Date	For that received
Order of the Red Banner	19/06/1943	?
Pechengskij	31/10/1944	For the exemplary performance of tasks of command in the battles against the German invaders, for winning the city Petsamo (Pechenga) and for displaying valor and courage
Order of the Red Banner	05/04/1945	?
The Order of Alexander Nevsky	26/04/1945	For the fulfillment of the command in the battles against the Nazi invaders in the capture of cities Laudenburg, Kartuzy (Karthauz) and for displaying valor and courage
The Order of the Red Star	04/06/1945	?

[edit] Warriors Divisional

Award	Name	Position	Title	Date award	Notes
	Aliyev, Said Davidovich	Sniper 35-th Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard Sergeant	22/02/1943
	Borodulin, Ivan	Commander Branch 28 th Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard Sergeant	?
	Generalov, Alexei Petrovich	Mortar company commander of 28 th Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard capital	02/11/1943	Posthumously
	Zhulega, Gregory Prokhorovich	Assistant platoon leader walking Intelligence 35 Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard Sergeant	18.06.1944 24.11.1944 29.06.1945
	Zimakov, Ivan	Division commander 29-th Guards Artillery Regiment	Guard Major	24/03/1945	Posthumously: called artillery fire on himself
	Ivchenko, Michael Lavrent'evich	Sniper 28 th Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard Lance Corporal	02/11/1944	Posthumously: closed body machine gun embrasure
	Kvasnikov, Michael Savelievich	Mortar 28 th Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard Lance Corporal	24/03/1945	Posthumously: closed body machine gun embrasure
	Streltsov, Pavel	Heavy 28-th Guards Rifle Regiment	Guard ordinary	02/11/1944	26/10/1944 Died of
	Frolov, Andrei D.	Company commander	Guard Lieutenant	02/11/1944

[edit] Memory

• School Museum School № 26 of Murmansk.
• Museum of professional construction school № 48 of Moscow - Museum «Heroic Path 10th Guards Rifle Division»

[edit] References

• Khudalov JA. At the edge of the continent. 2nd Ed. Ordzhonikidze, 1978
• Veschezersky GA. I chill rocks. Moscow 1965
• Rumyantsev NM. The defeat of the enemy in the Arctic (1941-1944), Moscow, 1963

[edit] External links

• Directory
• Directory
• Battle of the Soviet Army, 1941-1945
• List № 5 shooting, mountain rifle and mechanized divisions were part of the active army in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.