284th Infantry Division (2nd formation)

Battle Path

• Formed in December 1941 in Tomsk as the 443rd Infantry Division
• In January 1942 it was renamed the 284th Infantry Division
• Until mid-April 1942, she was engaged in combat training and coordination of units and units in the Siberian Military District.
• Between March 28 and April 26, 1942, it was on the road and on April 28 arrived in the Russky Brod area and became part of the Bryansk Front , where it fought defensive battles in the Voronezh direction. The first time she entered the battle on July 1, 1942 in the Kastornoye area. Repulsing the attacks of 2 enemy divisions, Siberian warriors steadily held the defense line for 3 days. With their active and stubborn actions, units of the division delayed the advance of the enemy in the Voronezh direction and ensured an organized withdrawal of neighboring formations and their defense on the river. Don In battles with the Nazis, the soldiers of the division showed courage, stamina and military skill.
• On August 2, the 284th Infantry Division was withdrawn to the reserve and sent to the city of Krasnoufimsk, Sverdlovsk Region, for recreation and replenishment, it included 2500 personnel sailors of the Pacific Fleet.
• On September 17, 1942, on the basis of the order of the NPO of the USSR and the directive of the General Staff of the Red Army No. 42/64, the division was urgently transferred by combined march to the region of Srednyaya Akhtuba and entered the Southeast Front, concentrating in the forests in the area of ​​Zarya, Krasnaya Sloboda, Khutor Burkovsky. ^[one]
• Before the start of the crossing, the division commander reported to the commander of the 62nd Army:

“Batyuk reported on his division: it was well equipped and armed, the strength was ten thousand, including three thousand sailors from the Pacific Ocean, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea (there were also Odessa defense participants among the Black Sea people). Before the last reorganization, the division distinguished itself at Kastornaya ....
The army received an excellent, outstanding in strength and fighting stubbornness division, which in the battle for Stalingrad earned the Guards Banner. ”

- Krylov N.I. The Stalingrad Frontier. Second Edition, p. 164 - M .: Military Publishing, 1984

On the night of September 21, 1942, 1045 infantry regiment crossed the Volga under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Timoshkin, the first regiment from the division.
At the end of September 1942, the division took the line on the left bank of the Volga: Banny ravine - Mamaev Kurgan - Dolgiy ravine. Cruel and bloody battles lasted 137 days and nights. Siberian warriors did the impossible - they stopped the enemy. Here, at Stalingrad, they took their main battle, proved the words of the famous division sniper V. Zaitsev: “There is no land beyond the Volga for us!” With their feat, their life they deserved the assessment given by Marshal V. I. Chuykov: “The Siberians were the soul of the battle for Mamaev Kurgan, for Stalingrad. "

• In September 1942, the division was transferred to Stalingrad and included in the 62nd Army of the Southeast (from September 28 Stalingrad, from January 1, 1943 Don) front. Since September 21, units of the division have been fighting fiercely with select units of the Nazis trying to capture Stalingrad and reach the Volga. In the battles for the plants "Red October" and "Barricades", Mamaev Kurgan , square them. On January 9 and in other areas, Siberian warriors showed courage, heroism and stamina.

“For Mamaev Kurgan ... Batyuk’s glorious four-time order-bearing guards division fought the most. The regiments of this division arrived on the right bank on September 21 and September 22 already entered battle on the line of Dolgiy ravine. Then the division seemed to grow into the Mamaev Kurgan, in its spurs, and fought on it until the end, before joining January 26, 1943 with the Don Front ....
This division brought up warriors, which not only all Stalingraders knew, but the whole country: the battery commander, the famous tank destroyer Shuklin; the commander of a mortar battery, the mines of which did not hit the target, - Bezdidko; famous snipers - Vasily Zaitsev, Victor Medvedev, Akhmet Avzalov and many, many other soldiers and officers - heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad ... ..
The combat team of the commanders and political workers of this division passed through Kastornaya, Stalingrad, Zaporozhye and Odessa, through Lublin, Poznan and triumphantly completed the military campaign in Berlin. "

- Chuikov V.I. “The Beginning of the Way.” Pp. 298-299 - M .: Military Publishing, 1962

• On February 8, 1943, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and on March 1, 1943, was transformed into the 79th Guards Red Banner Rifle Division .

• February 8, 1943 -   Order of the Red Banner - was awarded by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of February 8, 1943 for exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against German invaders in the battles for the defense of Stalingrad ? and valor and courage shown.

Successors

• 79th Guards Rifle Division
• 20th Guards Mechanized Zaporizhzhya Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan of the Khmelnitsky Division
• 27th Guards Tank Division
• 79th Guards Tank Division

• The division was commanded by:
• Ostroumov, Sergey Alexandrovich (12/15/1941 - 02/26/1942), brigade commander
• Batyuk, Nikolai Filippovich (02.27.1942 - 07.28.1943), Major General
  ^[2] .

“A few words about the commander ... of the division, Nikolai Filippovich Batyuk. He arrived in the city as a lieutenant colonel, and left him after the defeat of the army of Paulus by the general. In this commander, three invaluable qualities were especially well combined: commander's perseverance, courage and partisanship. He knew how to be strict and fair, he was feared and loved; he was often in sight of his soldiers. He had sore legs, sometimes he could barely move, but he did not sit out in the dugout: to the front edge, to his observation posts, he left with his wand, and returned to his dugout on the shoulders of the adjutant, and only at night so that no one would see . Batyuk hid his illness in every possible way, and I only found out about it in January, when he could no longer move without assistance. He was not shy about telling any boss and subordinate the truth in the eyes, even if it was bitter. His reports did not require clarification and verification, they were always true.
General Batyuk did not reach ... Berlin. His life was cut short in Ukraine, near Slavyansk ... He ... was the soul of the battle for Mamaev Kurgan, for a city on the Volga. "

- Chuykov V.I. “The Beginning of the Way” Second Edition, amended and supplemented, pp. 298-299 - M .: Military Publishing, 1962

Composition

• 1043, 1045 and 1047 infantry regiments,
• 820 artillery regiment,
• 334 separate anti-tank fighter division,
• 353 separate reconnaissance company,
• 589 separate combat engineer battalion,
• 754 separate communications battalion (185 separate communications company),
• 338 health battalion,
• 387 separate chemical defense company,
• 724 motor company,
• 430 field bakery,
• 895 Division Veterinary Hospital
• 1691 field post station
• 614 field office of the State Bank.

Periods of joining the army :

• 04/16/1942-2.8.1942;
• 09/17/1942-5.2.1943.

List No. 5 Rifle, mountain rifle, motor rifle and motorized divisions that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Gylev A. - M .: Ministry of Defense. - 218 p.

•   Zaitsev, Vasily Grigoryevich , junior lieutenant, sniper 1047 rifle regiment. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 02.22.1943.
•   Shuklin, Ilya Zakharovich , senior lieutenant, battery commander of the 820th artillery regiment. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 10.26.1943. He died in battle on July 21, 1943.
  By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR I.Z. Shuklin, he was forever enlisted in the lists of the 172nd Guards Self-propelled Artillery Regiment of the 79th Guards Tank Division .

• A street named after the 79th Guards Division is located in the Oktyabrsky and Leninsky districts of Tomsk .
• Museum of military glory at school number 34 in Tomsk .

• 62nd army
• 443rd Infantry Division
• 284th Infantry Division (2nd formation)
• 79th Guards Rifle Division
• 20th Guards Mechanized Zaporizhzhya Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan of the Khmelnitsky Division
• 27th Guards Tank Division
• 79th Guards Tank Division

• Prev Ch. ed. Commission N.V. Ogarkov. Soviet Military Encyclopedia: [In 8 volumes] V.3. = "Zaporizhzhya Rifle Division." - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1977 .-- S. 672 with 405,406.
• Zaporizhzhya Rifle Division // WWII 1941-1945: Encyclopedia / Editor-in-Chief of the Army General, Professor M.M.Kozlov . - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1985.- P.280
• V.I. Chuikov. The beginning of the path.- M.: Military Publishing, 1962
• N.I. Krylov . Stalingrad Frontier.- M.: Military Publishing, 1984.

• 79th Guards Tank Zaporizhzhya Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan of the Khmelnitsky Division (Yen)
• 79th Guards etc. on the portal about war veterans
• Handbook of parts and compounds of the Red Army
• 79th Guards rifle division
• 284 cd
• Field army. Lists of troops. List No. 5. Rifle, mountain-rifle, motor-rifle and motorized divisions.
• 284 ARROW DIVISION
• 284th Infantry Division, 2nd formation
• 284 rifle division on the site "Memory of the people 1941-1945"
• A brief combat description of the 284th infantry division of January 22, 1943 on the site "Memory of the People 1941-1945"