170th Separate Engineering Battalion

Reorganized from the 170th separate bridge-building battalion of June 19 , 1942 .

As part of the army from 19.06.1942 to 10.09.1943 year.

From the moment of formation it acted as part of the Southern Front, retreating along with other troops. In September 1942 he equipped defensive lines in the Makhachkala region, in November 1942 he was transferred to the construction of defensive lines along the Bolshoi Zelenchuk River south of Nevinnomyssk , where he was surrounded, due to the late receipt of the order to retreat. The entire battalion, excluding one company, went into the mountains, and one of the companies (with the banner of the battalion) began to advance towards its troops in the Grozny area. The company went through the village of Zelenchukskaya , through Kislovodsk , Pyatigorsk (where it came under fire and was forced to change the direction of travel to Nalchik ).

From the memoirs of M.Kh. Seidler, veteran battalion

... In the army headquarters located near Beslan, they looked at us as they were from the other world: the battalion was considered dead, and no one was waiting for us. When we lined up with a banner in front of our cars, the chief of staff, in violation of any subordination, embraced the commanders and declared that he represented everyone for awards. On the same day I was handed an order to take a battalion .... And we did not know about the fate of the soldiers of those units of our engineering battalion who had gone to the mountains.

The battalion was replenished and manned and sent to the Elkhotovo area where he was preparing the defense system at the Elkhotov Gate .

Then, during 1943 , he repeated the combat path of the 58th Army . In September 1943, allotted, together with the army, to the reserve, after the disbandment of the army was transferred to the 69th army .

02.02.1944 renamed the 131st separate engineering battalion

Submission

Commanders

• M.Kh. Seidler, from November 1942

Reformed from the 169th separate battalion of engineering barriers of the 3rd formation of 05/13/1943 .

In the army from 13/05/1943 to 05/09/1945 year.

From the moment of formation until the end of hostilities in the Arctic, he was an army engineering battalion of the 26th Army . He built and perfected defensive lines on the Kestengsky, Ukhta, and Rebol directions, then, in the summer and autumn of 1944 , on the Soviet-Finnish border. At the end of the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, apparently remained at the former frontier frontiers, although it was reassigned to the 14th Army

Submission

Commanders

• 170th Separate Sapper Battalion of the 6th Mountain Division
• 170th Separate Battalion of the 63rd Infantry Division
• 170th Separate Engineering Mine Battalion
• 170th Separate Engineering Battalion

• List No. 27 of engineering units (individual battalions, companies, detachments), with the time frame for their entry into the active army during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)
• Memories M.Kh. Seidler (inaccessible link)