The 14th division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railway structures

Formed in accordance with the order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 00922 of August 3, 1944 .

The division’s management was formed from the personnel of similar units of the 28th separate brigade of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of railways that had just been disbanded in Kirov. The structure of the division includes the previously formed: 152nd regiment, 212nd regiment, 213rd regiment, 23rd separate armored train, 24th separate armored train, 25th separate armored train, 53rd separate armored train.

As part of the active Red Army from August 3, 1944 to February 10, 1945 ; On May 9, 1945, the 329th regiment of the division was part of the Active Red Army. She took part in the Belarusian , Baltic , East Prussian and East Pomeranian strategic offensive operations.

Division tasks: protection of railways, road bridges; participation in the elimination of armed underground nationalist anti-Soviet detachments ; participation in guarding the rear of the Active Red Army; participation in the protection of internal law and order; assistance to the border troops in guarding the state border of the USSR.

After the end of World War II, the 14th division of the NKVD troops (from 1946 - the Ministry of Internal Affairs) of the USSR carried out operational work to combat banditry.

Combat composition and deployment

• Headquarters of the division and combat support and rear units - Vilnius city ​​of the Lithuanian SSR
• The 76th Infantry Regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR for the Protection of Particularly Important Enterprises of Industry and Railways - since May 1950, the division has been headquartered in the city of Orsha in the Vitebsk Region ; disbanded on May 15, 1951
• The 82nd Infantry Regiment of the NKVD of the USSR for the Protection of Railways - in the division since November 1945, headquarters in the city of Insterburg ; since January 2, 1946 - in the city of Königsberg ^[1] ; disbanded on December 7, 1946 ^[2]
• 152nd infantry regiment of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of railways - from September 17, 1944, headquarters in the city of Rezekne ^[3] ; since December 5, 1944 - in the city of Riga ; from December 1946 - the 152nd Infantry Regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR for the Protection of Particularly Important Industrial Enterprises and Railways: disbanded May 15, 1951
• 211st Infantry Regiment of the NKVD of the USSR for the Protection of Railways - from September 2, 1944, headquarters in the city of Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR ^[4] ; disbanded on May 15, 1951
• 212nd rifle regiment of the NKVD USSR troops for the protection of railways - from August 16, 1944, headquarters in the city of Brest ^[3] ; from August 18, 1945 - in the city of Baranovichi, Brest region of the Belorussian SSR ^[5] ; May 25, 1946 included in the 24th division of the troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for the protection of railways ^[6]
  • The 212nd Infantry Regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR for the Protection of Particularly Important Industrial Enterprises and Railways - again in the division since December 14, 1946 ^[7] ; disbanded on May 15, 1951
• The 213th rifle regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR - from August 10, 1944, headquarters in the city of Bialystok ^[8] , and then in the city of Molodechno, Minsk Region, Belorussian SSR ; disbanded on May 25, 1946 ^[6]
• The 329th Infantry Regiment of the NKVD of the USSR - since February 13, 1945, has been part of the division headquarters in the city of Jelgava of the Latvian SSR ^[9] ; disbanded on October 3, 1945 ^[10]
• 353rd Rifle Regiment - formed in July - August 1946 in the city of Kaunas ; in September 1946 he was included in the 4th Infantry Division of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs ^[11]
• The 106th Separate Rifle Battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR for the Protection of Particularly Important Industrial Enterprises and Railways - in the division since December 1946 disbanded on May 15, 1951
• 23rd separate armored train - disbanded on July 4, 1946 ^[12]
• 24th separate armored train - from August 18, 1944 at Vilnius station ^[13] ; from September 17, 1944 at the Rezekne station ^[3] ; in 1946 removed from the division
• 25th separate armored train - from August 18, 1944 at Baranavichy and Brest stations ^[14] ; from January 16, 1946 transferred to the 32nd Infantry Division ^[15]
• 30th separate armored train - in the division since November 2, 1944 ^[16] ; from January 16, 1946 - transferred to the 32nd Infantry Division ^[15]
• 53rd separate armored train - at Bezdonis station; disbanded on July 4, 1946 ^[12]
• 56th separate Red Banner Armored Train - in the division since November 2, 1944 ^[16] ; disbanded on July 4, 1946 ^[12]
• The sergeant division school - from September 25, 1944 in the city of Kaunas ^[3] ; since November 23, 1945 in the city of Vilnius ^[17]
• A separate maneuvering group — formed on September 10, 1944, with a deployment of Vilnius ^[18] ; disbanded on October 3, 1945 ^[10]

The division was disbanded in accordance with the order of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 00248 of May 15, 1951 and the order of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 00665 of September 17, 1951. The personnel was transferred to the militarized guard of the 1st category of the Ministry of Railways of the USSR and the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry of the USSR.

• August 1944 - January 1949 - Major General Krylov, Alexey Konstantinovich