24th Rifle Brigade

It was formed by order "On the formation of 50 separate rifle brigades" No. 00105 dated October 14, 1941 from October 1941 in the Kharkov Military District , including at the expense of cadets of higher military educational institutions, and was a shock cadet brigade.

In the army from December 29, 1941 to March 1, 1944.

In the last days of December 1941, it concentrated along the boundary of the Volkhov River . The brigade was assigned the 39th separate ski battalion

January 7, 1942 entered the battle during the Luban operation , but rolled back to the original. At 8 a.m. on January 8, 1942, she was again brought into battle. The brigade was faced with the task of breaking through the enemy’s defenses along the 4-kilometer line of the Zmeisko-Russa villages, then reaching the railway between the villages of Lyubtsy and Krutik, and subsequently covering the entire left flank of the army. However, this offensive was stifled. He again went on the offensive on the extreme left flank of the army, at the junction with the 52nd army on January 13, 1942, and this time successfully crossing the Volkhov, by 17:00 captured the villages of Lobkovo, Novy and Stary Bystritsy, and started fighting for the expansion of the bridgehead near New Bystrica and leads their subsequent days, so on January 15, 1942, it repulsed enemy counterattacks in the area of ​​Gorelovo-Russ. On January 24, 1942, the brigade was introduced into the breakthrough, with the aim of advancing from the rear to a large stronghold in the village of Lyubtsy. On the morning of January 25, 1942, in severe frost, the brigade went on the offensive on Lyubtsy from the east and southeast, but to no avail. On January 28, 1942, the brigade resumed its attack on Lyubtsy from the east and again without success. The brigade remained with Lyubtsov in February 1942 too: on February 6, 1942, together with the 172nd ski battalion attached, it attacked Zemtitsy, managed to take part of the village, while simultaneously repelling the enemy’s counterattacks, which sought to close the corridor near Myasniy Bor. On the night of February 11, 1942, the brigade was relocated to help the 4th Guards Rifle Division , which led attacks on the Olkhovskie Farm.

In March 1942, the brigade was transferred to the area of ​​Krasnaya Gorka, where Soviet troops advanced on the approaches to Lyuban and on March 2, 1942 went on the offensive together with the 46th Infantry Division ^[1] . On March 10, 1942, together with the 92nd Infantry Division and the 93rd Separate Ski Battalion, they attack the enemy in the vicinity of the villages of Dubovoye and Koroviy Ruchey. ^[2] , as a result of battles that lasted several days, the village of Dubovoe was able to seize. After the threat to the throat of the breakthrough at Myasniy Bor was created, the command was forced to transfer the brigade closer to the throat, in the area of ​​New Keresti, where the brigade came to the aid of the 19th Guards Rifle Division on March 18, 1942. On March 19, 1942, together with the 7th Guards Tank Brigade, it attacks from the west, restores communications, which were liquidated again on the same day. The brigade fought for expansion of communications throughout March 1942, by the end of March 1942, it was operating with one of the regiments of the 4th Guards Rifle Division in the north-west of the neck, near the village of Olkhovka. In April 1942, the brigade was reassigned to the 59th Army , and in May 1942 it was withdrawn through the corridor from the encirclement where it was to be part of the 6th Guards Rifle Corps

After the 2nd strike army was again surrounded on May 30, 1942, the brigade was thrown into battles to break through the encirclement ring of the 2nd strike army from the outside and leads them almost all of June 1942, having lost 1,506 people in these battles. In the operation to withdraw from the encirclement of troops of the 2nd shock army, the brigade acted relatively successfully, reaching the Polist River

In the second decade of July 1942, the brigade was aimed at strengthening the 4th Army , which conducted an operation to destroy the enemy bridgeheads in the Georgian - Kirishi areas, which ended unsuccessfully. From that time until the end of 1943, the brigade operated in that area. After the enemy left the Kirishi bridgehead in October 1943, in November 1943 the brigade was transferred to the 59th Army .

During the Novgorod-Luga operation, the brigade, located on the right flank of the army in the area of ​​Spasskaya Polisti, was on the defensive, providing the offensive flank, and moving forward along with the advance of the army troops.

On March 1, 1944, the brigade was disbanded.

• Sobolev Semyon Ivanovich (April 1942), lieutenant colonel.
• Vorobyov Ivan Andreevich (June-September 1943), Colonel.
• Romanovsky, Mikhail Vasilievich , Colonel

• The combat structure of the Soviet Army 1941-1945
• List No. 7 of the directorates of brigades of all branches of the armed forces that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

• Gavrilov B. I. "Death Valley." The tragedy and feat of the 2nd shock army. - M .: Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999. ISBN 5-8055-0057-4