20th Rifle Division

1st Belorussian Front

• June 26, 1944 - crossing the Orsa River and taking possession of the city of Luban.
• July 3, 1944 - fighting on the Moroch River, the capture of the village of Semezhevo.
• July 4-5, 1944 - boosting the battle of the river Bolvan. Capture of Puzovo, crossing the Tsepra River. The capture of the village of Tsepra. Boosting the river Doe and taking the city

Dumpling .

• July 6, 1944 - crossing the Shchary River in the Kozlikov Brod area, Holkuno. The defeat of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Hungarians in the area Nivische, Miniche, Dubice.
• July 7, 1944 - crossing the Mashanka River. The defeat of parts of the 4th Panzer Division of the Hungarians. The liberation of the settlements of Trotsky, Gantsevichi, Shcherbinov, Settlement, Buski.
• July 8, 1944 - the city of Baranavichy was liberated as a result of a detour from the southwest by parts of the 20th Rifle Division and a frontal strike of parts of the 65th Army.

Reference:

BARANOVICHI. Occupied on June 27, 1941. Released on July 8, 1944 by troops of the 1st BF during the offensive on the Baranavichy-Slonim direction:

• By order of the All-Russian Supreme Court, the name of the Baranavichy was assigned: 20 divisions (Colonel Petunin Nikolai Ivanovich), ...
• The troops participating in the Baranavichy’s liberation were thanked by the order of the Supreme High Command of July 8, 1944, and 20 artillery salvos of 224 guns were saluted in Moscow.

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• July 9, 1944 - in the morning the division reached the line of Smolnya - the state farm “Budniki” and fought all day for the crossing on the Shara River.
• July 10, 1944 - a breakthrough of the enemy’s defense on the Shara River. Taken by Heino. This division contributed to the capture of the city of Slonim.
• July 11, 1944 - the capture of the city of Ivatsevichi.
• July 14, 1944 crossing the Yaseldy River. Hard battle for the settlement of Shilin.
• July 15, 1944 - crossing the Yaseldy River and taking the village of Shilin.
• July 16, 1944 - the defeat of the Nazis near the village of Buda.
• July 18, 1944 - the defeat of the enemy near the village of Demidovschina.
• July 22-23, 1944 - battles on the outer contour of the fortifications of the Brest Fortress. July 26, 1944 - crossing the river Mukhovets, taking the city of Zhabinka .
• July 28, 1944 - the division bypasses the Brest Fortress from the north and seizes the settlements of Sachiki and Sychi.

Access to the state border along the Western Bug River . Crossing the Western Bug River, taking the fortress and the city of Brest .

• July 29, 1944 - fierce fighting.
• September 1944 - reorganization of the division in the area of ​​Zhabink, Brest region.

3rd Belorussian Front East Prussia

• October 21-27, 1944 - battle near the city of Gumbinnen.
• January 16, 1945 - the battle for the lordly estate Zodinel.
• January 19-20, 1945 - the battle for Gumbinnen (Gusev), the capture of Gumbinnen.
• January 27-31, 1945 - the battle for the city of Friedland ( Pravdinsk ), the capture of Friedland.
• February 9-10, 1945 - the battle for the city of Preisish-Eylau (Bagrationovsk).
• March 13-27, 1945 - battles at the Frisch-Gough Bay ( Vistula Bay ).

1st Ukrainian Front

• April 24-25, 1945 - battle in Berlin , Steglitz district. Forcing the Telt channel.
• April 26, 1945 - the battle in Berlin in the area of Grunevald and Charlottenburg .
• April 27-28, 1945 - battle in Berlin in the Charlottenburg area.
• April 30 − May 2, 1945 - fierce battles at the station. Sauvigny and Preisen Park.
• May 3, 1945 - fierce fighting, a short reformation and a swift march to help the rebels against the Germans in the capital of Czechoslovakia, Prague.
• May 7-8, 1945 - fierce battles in the area of ​​the cities of Geraits and Tsitau .
• May 9-10, 1945 fierce fighting and the liberation of the city of Prague .

• 1st Belorussian Front , 28th Army , 20th Rifle Corps - 07/01/1944
• Reserve Headquarters VGK , 28th Army , 20th Rifle Corps - 10/01/1944
• 3rd Belorussian Front , 28th Army , 20th Rifle Corps - 01/01/1945
• High Command Headquarters Reserve, 26th Army , 20th Rifle Corps - 04/01/1945

• 67th Rifle Regiment
• 174th Infantry Regiment
• 265th Infantry Regiment
• 61st artillery regiment
• 281st separate anti-tank fighter division
• 31st Separate Reconnaissance Company
• 161st Separate Engineer Battalion
• 174th separate communications battalion (1382th separate communications company)
• 121st Health Battalion
• 554th Separate Chemical Defense Company
• 409th Motor Company
• 724th (79th) field bakery
• 129th Division Auto Repair Shop
• 208th Division Veterinary Hospital
• 291st Field Post Station
• 221st box office of the State Bank

Periods of joining the army:

• May 28, 1944 - September 14, 1944;
• October 13, 1944 - March 31, 1945;
• April 20, 1945 - May 11, 1945.

List No. 5 Rifle, mountain rifle, motor rifle and motorized divisions that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Gylev A. - M .: Ministry of Defense. - 218 p.

• Colonel , from 03.06.1944 Major General Ioskevich, Ivan Fedorovich (04.21.1944 - 07.03.1944),
• Colonel Petunin, Nikolai Ivanovich (07/04/1944 - 07/08/1944)
• Colonel Nesterenko, Ignatius Gavrilovich (07/09/1944 - 01/29/1945)
• Major General Myshkin, Andrei Alexandrovich (01/30/1945 - 05/11/1945)

• July 27, 1944 - the honorary name "Baranovichskaya" - was awarded by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief No. 0225 of July 27, 1944 for distinction in the battles for the liberation of Baranavichy.
• July 27, 1944 (?) - Order of the Suvorov II degree ^[1]   - awarded the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown.
• ? - Order of the Red Banner   - awarded the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown.
• ? - Order of the Red Banner   - awarded the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the exemplary performance of combat missions of command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown.

Division Awards:

• 67th Rifle Brest ^[2] Red Banner Regiment
• 174th Rifle Gumbinnensky ^[3] Red Banner Regiment
• 265th Red Banner Rifle Regiment
• 61st artillery order of Kutuzov regiment

  Knights of the Order of Glory of three degrees. ^[four]

• Markov, Feoktist Georgievich , corporal, reconnaissance observer of the platoon of the 281st separate anti-tank fighter division.
• Ostapenko, Peter Fedorovich , senior sergeant, gun commander of the 281st separate anti-tank fighter division.
• Tuskolobov, Stefan Sergeevich , senior sergeant, gun commander of the 76-mm guns of the 174th rifle regiment.
• Ungarov, Alkar Dzhangelovich , foreman, assistant platoon commander of the 67th Infantry Regiment.

• 1st Penza Infantry Division
• 20th Penza Rifle Division
• 20th Mountain Division

The newspaper "At the military post" was published. Editor - Major Cherevan Leonid Andreevich (1910-?)

• Bormotov I.V. 20th Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree, Mountain Rifle Division // In the battles for Maykop. Crash in Operation Edelweiss . - Maykop: LLC “Quality”, 2010. - Stb. 158-188 - 384 s. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9703-0231-4 .
• 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

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• 20 rifle division on the site "Memory of the people 1941-1945"