299th Infantry Division (1st formation)

Formed in August 1941 in the city of Belgorod , consisting of:

• 956th Infantry Regiment (commander - Major I. Ya. Kravchenko ),
• 958th Infantry Regiment (commander - Major V. M. Baranov ),
• 960th Infantry Regiment,
• 843th artillery regiment,
• 344th separate anti-tank fighter division,
• 564th separate anti-aircraft artillery division,
• 363rd reconnaissance battalion,
• 559th Engineer Battalion (Commissioner Captain M.D. Maksimtsov),
• 739th Separate Communications Battalion,
• 307th Health Battalion,
• 372nd separate chemical protection company,
• 734th Motor Battalion,
• 390th field automobile bakery,
• 652nd Division Veterinary Hospital
• 960th field postal station,
• 844th box office of the State Bank.

Commander Colonel I.F.Seregin , Commissar Kornev, Chief of Artillery Sadul.

The division received baptism of fire on September 1, 1941 on the Desna River near the state farm Gostilovka of the Bryansk region .

On October 8, 1941, the 299th Infantry Division in the 50th Army was encircled near Bryansk .

On October 15, 1941, Major I. Ya. Kravchenko withdrew from the encirclement under the town of Belev the remains of the 299th rifle division: the 956th rifle regiment in full force with an excess of artillery limit of 4 barrels (four 45 mm guns were selected during the movement) , 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 958th Infantry Regiment, separate groups of 843 artillery regiments. In total, 5,000 people and 500 units of convoys are in service. At the same time, Vyacheslav Zvyagintsev in his book “The War on the Scales of Themis” cites the data that 3,788 servicemen of the 299th division, recently called up from the districts of the Chernihiv region, voluntarily surrendered. In total, only 7,500 people left the encirclement of the 26th and 50th armies.

On October 18, 1941, the division attacked the year of the Bolkhov , but due to poor leadership the division was surrounded and lost heavy weapons.

On October 23, having found fault with trifles, Seryogin removes T. Ya. Kravchenko from the regiment command and sends him to death in Tula, where he is appointed Head of the Southern Combat Station and repulses the most powerful onslaught on Tula , he is appointed deputy commissioner of the 154th Infantry Division, but Ser` the gin writes denunciations to Kravchenko in all instances, and Kravchenko is demoted to the commander of the Tula working regiment .

October 26, the entire Belev group of troops receives an order to withdraw to Tula for the defense of the city. The 299th infantry division was lost and was discovered by the year of Stalinogorsk (now Novomoskovsk ) in early November, that is, more than 50 km east of Tula, when the enemy near Tula was already stopped.

On November 6, 1941, the remnants of the division, with the support of 2 battalions of 413 rifle divisions, defended the village of Dedilovo . The 956th regiment supported the attack of the 413rd rifle division on the village of Panino, but to no avail. On November 11, 41 years, less than 500 people remained from the 956th Infantry Regiment. without artillery.

On November 18, 1941, the enemy launched a massive attack at the positions of the 299th and 413rd Infantry Divisions. The 299th Infantry Division retreated to the side of the year Venev .

On December 3, 1941, the division was disbanded, some of the officers were placed at the headquarters of the 50th Army, and some went to the city of Kovrov for the new 2nd formation of the 299th Rifle Division . Major V. M. Baranov, commissar of the 958th rifle regiment, was appointed commander of the Tula working regiment .

• Seregin Ivan Fedotovich (07/10/1941 - 12/03/1941), Colonel

• The diary of the headquarters 766 joint venture 217 sd senior lieutenant V.A. Benzel (September 1 - December 6, 1941)

• Directory on the website of the club "Memory" Voronezh State University
• The combat structure of the Soviet Army 1941-1945
• List No. 6 of the rifle, mountain rifle and motorized divisions that were part of the field army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945