26th Infantry Division

Formed on November 3, 1918, by order of the 5th Army of the Right-Bank Group of Forces under the name of the 1st Infantry Division, on November 7, 1918 it was renamed the 26th Rifle Division.

• 1st brigade:

226th Petrograd Regiment.
227th Vladimir Regiment.
228th Karelian regiment.

• 2nd brigade:

229th Novgorod Regiment.
230th Old Russian Regiment.
231st Combined Regiment.

• 3rd brigade:

232nd Obliskomzap Regiment.
233rd Kazan regiment.
234th Malovisher Regiment.

• 1st Light Artillery Division:

2nd Putilov battery.
Rzhev-Novgorod battery.

• 2nd Light Artillery Division:

Smolensk battery.
Tver battery.

• 3rd Light Artillery Division:

Lenin battery.

• Division Headquarters (Krasnoyarsk)
• Military Tribunal and Military Prosecutor's Office (Krasnoyarsk)
• 76th Karelian Rifle Regiment ( Kansk )
• 77th Novgorod Rifle Regiment ( Achinsk )
• 78th Kazan Rifle Regiment ( Krasnoyarsk )
• Separate cavalry squadron (Krasnoyarsk)
• Light artillery regiment (Krasnoyarsk)
• Separate communications company (Krasnoyarsk)

In the army from September 19, 1941 to May 9, 1945.

On June 22, 1941, it was stationed in Dalnerechensk . On September 1, 1941, one of the first divisions from the Far East began the transfer and arrived in Yaroslavl , September 18, 1941 marched on Valdai , September 24, 1941, attacking the enemy from the march ( SS Division “Dead Head” ) in the Luzhno -Kraseya area ^{[ 3]} . In these battles, the division lost about a third of its combat strength. Until January 1942, the division held defenses in the Luzhno area. On January 7–9, 1942, the 87th Rifle Regiment (returned in the summer of 1942 ) was withdrawn from the division into the army reserve.

In February 1942, she took part in the Demian operation , and on February 20, 1942 she closed the encirclement of the enemy’s Demian group. March 20, 1942 brought to the rear for a vacation.

March 25, 1942 put forward on the eastern bank of the Lovati River. It fought for the so-called Ramushevsky corridor .

After a lull from November 30, 1942 to February 1943, she again participated in the offensive on the Ramushevsky corridor .

In August 1943, she participated in an attack on Staraya Russa .

Subsequently, she participated in the Starorussko-Novorzhevskaya offensive operation , the liberation of the Hill , Bezhanitsa , Novorzhev , the Pushkin Mountains , the capture of Koenigsberg , and the forcing of the Velikaya River.

• North-Western Front , 11th Army - on 09/20/1941.
• North-Western Front , 34th Army - from the end of January 1942 (without the 87th Regiment)
• North-Western Front , 11th Army - 04/01/1942.
• North-Western Front , 27th Army - 07/01/1942.
• North-Western Front , 11th Army - on 01/01/1943.
• North-Western Front , 34th Army - 04/01/1943.
• North-Western Front , front submission - on 01/01/1943.
• 2nd Baltic Front , 1st Shock Army , 12th Guards Rifle Corps - on 01/01/1944.
• 2nd Baltic Front , 22nd Army , 44th Rifle Corps - on 01/01/1944.
• 2nd Baltic Front , 1st Shock Army , 14th Guards Rifle Corps - on 01/01/1944.
• 1st Baltic Front , 43rd Army , 90th Rifle Corps - 10/01/1944.
• 3rd Belorussian Front , Zemland Group of Forces , 43rd Army , 90th Rifle Corps - on 01/01/1945.

• 87th Karelian Rifle Regiment
• 312nd Novgorod Rifle Regiment (formerly Koporsky 4th Infantry Regiment , leading its history from 1803)
• 349th Kazan Rifle Regiment
• 19th artillery regiment
• 79th howitzer artillery regiment (until 10.26.1941)
• 62nd separate anti-tank fighter division
• 459th mortar division (from 10.27.1941 to 10.19.1942)
• 153rd separate anti-tank fighter division (until 13.10.1941 and from 31.12.1941)
• 67th reconnaissance company
• 9th Engineer Battalion
• 70th Separate Communications Battalion
• 30th Health Battalion
• 29th Separate Chemical Defense Company
• 52nd (150th, 479th) motor transport company
• 20th Division Car Repair Shop
• 59th (196th) Division Veterinary Hospital
• 78th field bakery
• 171st (3812th) field postal station
• 261st box office of the State Bank
• Junior Commander School

• M.S. Matiyasevich (11/3/1918 - 03/26/1919)
• J.P. Gailit (03/26/1919 - 04/16/1919)
• G. H. Eiche (04.16.1919 - 08.10.1919)
• S. M. Belitsky (08/10/1919 - 8/08/1919)
• I.F.Blazhevich (September 8, 1919 - September 10, 1919), Wrede
• S. M. Belitsky (09/10/1919 - 09/21/1919)
• G. H. Eiche (09.21.1919 - 11.23.1919)
• A.M. Volpe (11/23/1919 - 11/25/1919), Wrede
• J.P. Gailit (11/25/1919 - 10/26/1921)
• Filatov, Peter Mikhailovich (11/26/1925 - 02/15/1927)
• Pashkovsky, Konstantin Kazimirovich (1924 - 1931)
• Commander Kassin, Grigory Iustinovich (1931 - 1937)
• brigade commander Glovatsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1937 - 1938)
• Colonel Kuznetsov, Pavel Grigoryevich (04/14/1941 - 02/22/1943)
• Colonel Cherepanov, Korniliy Georgievich (02/23/1943 - 09/25/1944)
• Major General Belonogov, Vasily Andreevich (09/26/1944 - 04/21/1945)
• Colonel Krasnov Nikolai Ivanovich (04/22/1945 - 05/09/1945)

26th Stalin Rifle ^[4] Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division

Before WWII

• 1920 - awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner
• 12/13/1921 - assigned the name "Zlatoust"
• 1928 - awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner

During the Second World War

• 05/05/1942 - was awarded the banner and diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of People's Commissars of Buryat-Mongolia, as the best division of the North-Western Front.
• 1944 year? -   Order of Suvorov II degree - awarded by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and at the same time shown valor and courage.

Awards and names of units of the division:

• 87 Rifle Karelian Red Banner Regiment
• 312 Rifle Novgorod Red Banner Regiment
• 349 rifle Kazan Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Regiment
• 19th artillery Krasnoyarsk regiment

•   Belonogov, Vasily Andreyevich , division commander, major general. Hero of the Soviet Union .
•   Gaidukov, Semyon Vasilievich , shooter of the 1st machine gun company of the 349th rifle regiment, corporal. Hero of the Soviet Union . The title was awarded 04/19/1945 for the difference in the battles of Königsberg .
•   Golovkin, Vasily Stepanovich , lieutenant, platoon commander of the 312th Infantry Regiment.
•   Gorshkolepov, Ivan Semenovich , senior sergeant, chemical instructor of the battery of the 19th artillery regiment.
•   Dontsov, Maxim Ivanovich , company commander of the 312th Infantry Regiment, senior lieutenant. Hero of the Soviet Union . The title was awarded 04/19/1945 for the difference in the battles of Königsberg .
•   Laznyuk, Roman Grigoryevich , foreman, reconnaissance observer 312 rifle regiment.
•   Malikhov, Fedor Ivanovich , platoon commander of the 67th separate reconnaissance company.
•   Merkulov, Ivan Danilovich , junior sergeant, gunner of the 312nd Rifle Regiment. Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous). In the battle for the city, the Hill of the Novgorod Region on February 22, 1944, covered the embrasure of a German bunker with his chest.
• *   Ponomarev, Ivan Fedorovich , junior sergeant, gunner of the 76-mm gun of 87 rifle regiment.
•   Moldagulova, Alia Nurmukhambetovna (1925-1944), corporal , sniper . Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous).
• *   Radikaltsev, Pyotr Kapitonovich , sergeant, assistant commander of a foot reconnaissance platoon of 312 rifle regiment.
•   Shanaurin, Prokopiy Stepanovich , commander of the intelligence department of the 19th artillery regiment. Hero of the Soviet Union . The title was awarded 04/19/1945 for the difference in the battles of Königsberg .
• Seleznev, Vladimir Ivanovich, private. Shooter of the 312th Infantry Regiment (October 1943 - April 1944). Awarded the Order of Glory 3 degrees.
•   Popov, Mikhail Yakovlevich, commander of a platoon of foot reconnaissance.
•   Sosnovsky, Nikolai Danilovich , shooter of the 312th Infantry Regiment, Red Army soldier. On September 24, 1941, he covered the loophole of the machine gun with his body. Awarded posthumously 11/06/1947.
•   Mezhov, Mikhail Vasilievich , shooter of the 349th Infantry Regiment, Red Army soldier. On July 17, 1942, he covered the loophole of the machine gun with his body. Awarded posthumously 09/03/1942.
• Matnin, Gabriel Sevastyanovich, Guards. Art. lieutenant. The commander of a machine-gun company 312 sp. (March 3, 1945 - April 26, 1946). Awarded the Order of the Red Star.
• Volosatov, Pavel Petrovich, lieutenant. Adjutant Commander 312 sp. Awarded the Order of the Red Star

• Adashev, Pyotr Fedorovich - in 1924, platoon commander of the 78th Infantry Regiment, later a Soviet military leader, colonel
• Batitsky, Pavel Fedorovich - until November 1941, chief of staff of the division, later Marshal of the Soviet Union , Hero of the Soviet Union , chief of the USSR Air Defense Forces
• Berzarin, Nikolai Erastovich - commander of a division regiment in 1936-37, subsequently the Soviet military commander, Hero of the Soviet Union , colonel general
• Putna, Vitovt Kazimirovich - Commissioner of the division in 1918, subsequently the Soviet military leader, commander
• Sukharev, Nikolai Fedorovich - in 1923-1924, the platoon commander of the 77th Infantry Regiment and in 1941 the commander of the 87th Infantry Regiment - subsequently the Soviet military leader, Major General
• Yurshevsky, Yakov Yakovlevich - commander of a division regiment in 1918
• Eltsin, Victor Borisovich - head of the Political Division of the division in 1920.

The newspaper "Stalinets" was published. Editor - Major Andreev Konstantin Alekseevich (1913-?)

• Kuznetsov P.G. - M.: Military Publishing, 1959. - 330 p.
• Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of three degrees. A Brief Biographical Dictionary - M.: Military Publishing House, 2000.
• Heroes of the Soviet Union. A Brief Biographical Dictionary in two volumes - M .: Military Publishing House, 1987.
• 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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