1197th self-propelled artillery regiment

In the army since 02/12/1944.

He participated in the final stage of the Novgorod-Luga operation , at the end of which Bagration was transferred to the Mogilev direction for operations during the operation . The regiment participated in the liberation of Mogilev , Bykhov , Shklov , later participated in the Kaunas offensive operation.

08/19/1944 took up defense in the area of ​​the village of Descendants of the former Vilkovimsky District, Lithuanian SSR in the zone of the 49th Infantry Division .

He entered the approaches to East Prussia , where he took part in the East Prussian offensive operation

By the beginning of the operation, it included 21 SU-76s . At the beginning of the operation, he was subordinated to the 94th Infantry Corps and assigned to the 358th Infantry Division , advancing in the direction of the main attack in the first echelon, and with the introduction of the 124th Infantry Division into combat, it was subordinated to it.

Towards the end of hostilities in the Baltic states, it reached the Gulf of Kaliningrad , then it was withdrawn to the reserve as part of the army and transferred to the east in June 1945, where it completed hostilities in the Khingan-Mukden operation

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• The combat structure of the Soviet Army
• Colonel Matronov P. S., Lt. Col. Arsenyev A. M. “Organization and implementation of a breakthrough of prepared enemy defenses by the 94th Rifle Corps in the East Prussian Operation” (January 13-17, 1945)