8th Infantry Division (2nd formation)

Formed on July 2, 1941 in the Krasnopresnensky district of Moscow , as the 8th Krasnopresnenskaya rifle division of the people's militia . On August 24, 1941 it was renamed the 8th Infantry Division.

In the army from August 4, 1941 to November 30, 1941.

By order of the commander of the Moscow Military District on July 9, 1941, all divisions of the militia were withdrawn from Moscow to the camps. Since July 10, 1941, the regiments of the division were stationed in the forest in the area of Nikolo-Uryupin and Buzlanov . At the end of July, the division was engaged in the construction of defensive lines of the Mozhaisk defense line . On August 4, 1941, she took up positions on the Rzhev - Vyazemsky line of defense, and on August 30, 1941, on positions equipped on the eastern bank of the Dnieper .

By October, in connection with the start of Operation Typhoon, it was relocated east of Yelny . She joined the battle on October 4, 1941. October 5, 1941 lost more than half of the personnel, and October 6 was cut off from the main forces.

Part of the surviving fighters replenished partisan units, part went to their own. In fact, as a regular military formation was destroyed on October 6-7, 1941.

November 30, 1941 officially disbanded.

As the 8th Krasnopresnenskaya rifle division of the people's militia :

• 22nd Rifle Regiment
• 23rd Rifle Regiment
• 24th Rifle Regiment
• 8th spare rifle regiment
• separate armored company
• separate artillery division of 45 mm guns
• separate artillery division of 76 mm guns
• sapper company
• separate communications company
• health battalion

Like the 8th Infantry Division

• 1299th Rifle Regiment
• 1301th Infantry Regiment
• 1303rd Rifle Regiment
• 975th artillery regiment
• 699th Separate Anti-aircraft Artillery Division
• 477th reconnaissance company
• 863rd Separate Communications Battalion
• 497th Health Battalion
• 336th Separate Company Chemical Defense
• 309th Motor Company
• 266th field bakery

• July 2, 1941 - brigade commander Skripnikov, Daniil Prokofievich

The newspaper Revenge of the People was published. Editor - Major Danilov Vladimir Fedorovich (1907-?)

• Moscow University in World War II / Otv. ed. A. M. Sakharov . - M .: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1975 .-- 256 p.
• Poshemansky Yu. M. Soldiers of Red Presnya . - M .: Moscow Worker , 1984. - 96, [16] p. - 75,000 copies.
• Gorbachev A.N. Military newspapers of the period 1900—2018. from the collections of the Russian State Library and Archives of the Russian Federation: A Quick Reference. M., Infogans, 2019

• Directory
• Directory on the website of the club "Memory" Voronezh State University
• Division History (link unavailable)
• List No. 5. Rifle, mountain-rifle, motor-rifle and motorized divisions