40th anti-aircraft artillery division

40th anti-aircraft
artillery division
*(40th zenad)*
	40th anti-aircraft; artillery division; (40th zenad)
	40th anti-aircraft; artillery division; (40th zenad)
Armed forces	USSR Armed Forces
Type of Armed Forces	land
The type of troops (forces)	flak
Honorary titles	Pechenga
Formation	08/30/1943
Awards
Combat areas
	1944: Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation; Svir-Petrozavodsk operation; 1944: Petsamo-Kirkenes operation

40th anti-aircraft artillery division - military unit of the Armed forces of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War

Content

Formed on 08.30.1943 in the Volga Military District.

As part of the army from 07/12/1944 to 05/09/1945.

In June 1944 , she was transferred to the border of the Svir River, where she took part in the Svir-Petrozavodsk operation .

Then she took part in the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation , took part in the liberation of the cities of Pechenga and Kirkenes .

At the end of the operation, it was stationed in Norway until the end of the war.

40th anti-aircraft artillery Pechenga Red Banner Division of the reserve of the Supreme High Command

date of	Front (district)	Army	Notes
09/01/1943	Volga Military District
10/01/1943	Volga Military District
11/01/1943	Volga Military District
12/01/1943	Volga Military District
01/01/1944	Volga Military District
02/01/1944	Volga Military District
03/01/1944	Volga Military District
05/01/1944	Volga Military District
06/01/1944	Volga Military District
07/01/1944	Karelian front	7th Army
08/01/1944	Karelian front	7th Army
09/01/1944	Karelian front	7th Army	except for the 1411th anti-aircraft regiment subordinate to the 32nd army
10/01/1944	Karelian front	7th Army
11/01/1944	Karelian front	14th Army
12/01/1944		14th Separate Army
01/01/1945		14th Separate Army
02/01/1945		14th Separate Army
03/01/1945		14th Separate Army
04/01/1945		14th Separate Army
05/01/1945		14th Separate Army

Award (name)	date of	For what received
Order of the Red Banner	11/14/1944	for taking Kirkenes
Honorary Name Pechenga	Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief No. 0354 of October 31, 1944	Awarded to commemorate the victory and for the difference in battles in the capture of the city of Petsamo ( Pechenga ).