70th Infantry Division (2nd formation)

Formed in March 1943 by order of the Supreme High Command Headquarters No. 46081 dated 03/20/1943 on the basis of the 47th Rifle Brigade and the 146th Rifle Brigade

In the army during the Second World War from 07/12/1943 to 07/23/1943 and from 01/08/1943 to 05/09/1945.

Taking part in the Smolensk offensive operation, it conducts an offensive from the area east of Spas-Demensk , from 08/07/1943 comes south of the city, then through Stodolishche , Khislavichi went to the Pronya river south of Dribin , where it was stopped.

At the end of 1943 - in the spring of 1944, it conducts heavy and almost unsuccessful offensive battles in the Vitebsk direction. So, 03/21/1944 conducts battles in the area of ​​settlements Yazykovo, Kosachi ( Belarus ).

In April 1944, it was deployed 60 kilometers from Orsha in the village of Morozovka. 01-02.05.1944 conducts defensive battles in conjunction with the 1st Guards Tank Brigade in the area of ​​Maly Obertyn.

Since June 1944, takes part in the Belarusian operation, advances, having the 290th Infantry Division as a neighbor on the right, breaks through the enemy’s defenses with heavy fighting. 06/26/1944 participated in the liberation of the city of Gorki , on the same day approached the Dnieper opposite Shklov , 06/27/1944 part of the forces participated in the liberation of Shklov . Continuing the offensive in the second echelon of the front, she went to Prenai , from where she launched the offensive during the Kaunas operation, in the general direction of Marijampole , and went to the borders of East Prussia . So, 08/05/1944 is fighting for the village of Zelenka ( Lithuania ). During the end of August - beginning of September 1944, it reflects the counterattacks of the enemy from the Kibaratay region.

During the Riga operation, at the end of September 1944, comes from the Bauska area, was stopped at Jehovah , after which, as part of the army, it was transferred to the Memel direction to the area south of Šiauliai and from October 1944 comes in the direction of the Baltic Sea south of Memel , fights there until January 1945. . She took part in the liberation of Memel (01/28/1945). She made a march to the south, and since February 1945 has been advancing on Koenigsberg from the northeast. So, from 03–04.03.1945, the battle was fought near the village of Pobeten (now the village of Romanovo, Kaliningrad Region ). She entered the approaches to Koenigsberg, 04/07/1945 leads the battle for the village of Friedrichsberg (now the village of Zelenoye, Kaliningrad ), storms Koenigsberg , takes part in his capture on 04/09/1945.

She ended the war by participating in the Zemland offensive operation, during the end of April 1945 she conducts heavy battles, storms Fishhausen . 04/24/1945 withdrawn to the reserve, and together with the army regrouped in the area of Danzig , Gdynia , Neustadt .

• 70th Rifle Division of the Upper Dnieper Order of the Suvorov Division

• 68th Königsberg Rifle Regiment
• 252nd Infantry Regiment
• 329th Rifle Regiment
• 227th artillery regiment
• 94th Separate Anti-Tank Division
• 65th reconnaissance company
• 64th Separate Engineer Battalion
• 553rd separate communications battalion (650th separate communications company)
• 21st Health Battalion
• 36th Separate Chemical Defense Company
• 176th motor transport company
• 165th field bakery
• 286th Division Veterinary Hospital
• 1605th Field Post Station
• 1663th box office of the State Bank

• Abilov Mahmoud Abdul-Rza (04/14/1943 - 02/09/1944), Colonel ;
• Rakhmanov, Korniliy Fedorovich (02/10/1944 - 03/12/1944), Colonel
• Abilov Mahmoud Abdul-Rza (03/15/1944 - 05/27/1944), Colonel.
• Kolesnikov, Mikhail Mefodevich (05/28/1944 - 07/17/1944), Colonel;
• Krasnovsky, Serafim Andrianovich (07/22/1944 - 07/12/1945), Colonel;
• Kropotin, Nikolai Alekseevich (07/12/1945 - before the disbandment), Major General.

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