300th Infantry Division (1st formation)

Formed in July 1941 in the city of Krasnograd, Kharkov region, as the 300th Infantry Division . Personnel drafted into the army from the reserve according to the mobilization plan were involved in staffing the division. Commanders and political workers from other units, as well as graduates of military schools, came to staff command and party political positions at all levels. Military schools have accelerated the release of all personnel. One of them was the Kharkov district military-political school . The first commander of the division was Colonel P.I. Kuznetsov.

The division received baptism of fire in the summer of 1941 on the South-Western Front , having entered the battle on August 10 on the left bank of the Dnieper . She waged intense battles on the Dnieper border and near Poltava , more than once fell into the environment and broke out of them.

In accordance with the order of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander in August 1941, the division was redeployed for reorganization in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the cities of Tuimazy , Buzdyak , Kandra .

On September 20, 1941, it was part of the 38th Army in the Kharkov direction, about 120 km west of Kharkov.

A division was defending on the plot to be boosted. The compound occupied a front length of 54 km.

On September 2, the troops of the 300th Rifle and 37th Cavalry Divisions of the 38th Army and transferred to the Army N.V. Feklenko from the command of the 5th Cavalry Corps ( 3rd , 15 I, 34th cavalry divisions) and parts of the 47th Panzer Division .

By early October 1941, the division suffered heavy losses as a result of heavy defensive battles. The 300th Infantry Division retreated with battles along the Poltava highway to Kolomak, Valki, Lyubotin, defending themselves at the most advantageous lines. A particularly fierce battle took place on the western outskirts of Lyubotin - the last frontier in front of Kharkov. The division occupied him, breaking away from the enemy and saddled the Poltava highway. On October 18, the division took the battle at this turn.

The 300th division, having in each battalion no more than 50-60 active bayonets, defended the southern part of Kharkov in the vicinity of the village of Osnovy.

On this day, the soldiers of the 300th Infantry Division repelled two strong attacks by the Nazis from Bezlyudovka in the direction of the eastern part of the city. The 97th German infantry division failed to break through to the rear of our defending forces. The attacks of the Nazis were repulsed with heavy losses for them. But the ranks of the division’s warriors also thinned significantly.

On the night of October 23-24, enemy artillery intensified shelling of the city, on October 25, the 300th Infantry Division received an order from the commander of the 38th Army, Major General V.V. Tsyganov, to leave his positions and begin to retreat to Stary Saltov .

Fierce fighting in the Kharkov direction and out of town, in which the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment, ended by the end of October 25, 1941.

On September 1, 1942, Colonel I. M. Afonin joined the division.

In 1942, the 300th Infantry Division, together with the 9th Guards Division, fought against the Nazi group, breaking through Kupyansk to the Don . On July 28, 1942, she was reorganized, arrived at the Kandra station of the BASSR. In August-September it was understaffed by immigrants from Bashkiria.

On October 4, 1942, the division was sent to the Stalingrad Front . The division arrived in the area of ​​the city of Kamyshin , from where it advanced to the defense of Stalingrad . Again she was surrounded, but with honor she came out of it under her Battle Banner.

Parts of the division maintained contact with the Stalingraders, helping them with the fire of their batteries. In order to prevent the enemy from crossing the Volga, the division took control of the Volga islands: Zaitsevsky, Controversial, Sandy, Big and Small Penkovaty. From December 19 - with the help of artillery and mortar fire, they helped to repulse the Germans' counterattack against the group of Colonel Gorokhov in the settlements of Rynok and Spartanovka. On December 19, the division took the main attack of Manstein’s tanks and infantry on the river. Myshkova under the farms of Nizhne-Kumsky, Chernomorov, Shabalensky and prevented their breakthrough to Stalingrad. The division freed Novocherkassk Art. Razdorskaya , Semikarakorskaya , Melikhovskaya .

On March 12, 1943, the 300th Rifle Division, which suffered significant losses in the winter battles, was withdrawn to the reserve and concentrated in the Krasnodon area.

In April 1943, for the courage and heroism shown by the personnel in the battles for Stalingrad, the 300th Infantry Division was transformed into the 87th Guards Infantry Division .

• 1049th Infantry Regiment
• 1051st Infantry Regiment
• 1053th Infantry Regiment
• 822 artillery regiment;
• 336 separate anti-tank fighter division;
• 416 separate anti-aircraft battery (581 separate anti-aircraft artillery division);
• 355 separate reconnaissance company;
• 591 separate combat engineer battalion;
• 756 separate communications battalion (282 separate communications company);
• 340 separate health battalion;
• 389 separate chemical defense company;
• 726 separate motor company;
• 382 field bakery;
• 643 divisional veterinary infirmary;
• 972 field postal station;
• 856 field office of the State Bank.

• 08/01/1941 - Kharkov VO
• From 09/01/1941 to 1.6.1942 SWF - 38 A
• 06/01/1942 - SWF - 28 A
• 07/01/1942 - SWF - front submission
• 08/01/1942 - Stalingrad Front - 21 A
• 09/01/1942 - reserve rate of VGK - 4 reserve A
• 10/01/1942 - reserve rate VGK - 4 reserve A
• November 1, 1942 - the Stalingrad Front - front submission
• 12/01/1942 - Stalingrad Front - 51 A
• From 1.1.1943 to 04.01.1943 - the Southern Front - 2 Guards. BUT

Commanders

• Kuznetsov, Pavel Ionovich (07/10/1941 - 01/10/1941), Colonel (injured?)
• Merkulov, Serafim Petrovich (10/02/1941 - 07/29/1942), Colonel (took office on 05/10/1941)
• Afonin, Ivan Mikhailovich (07/30/1942 - 02/07/1943), Colonel
• Tymchik, Kirill Yakovlevich (02/08/1943 - 05/09/1994), Colonel, from 02/11/1944 Major General

• 1049th joint venture:
• Ermolin Vasily Ivanovich (07/16/1941 - 09/09/1941), wounded (0? .9.1941).
• Cherepanov Pavel Nikolaevich (12/27/1941 - 09/16/1942)
• Cherepanov Pavel Nikolaevich (01/10/1942 - 08/01/1942), according to other sources
• Repnya Ivan Fedorovich (09/17/1942 - 04/21/1943)

• 1051st joint venture:
• Nakaenok Mikhail Lukich (07.16.1941 - 12.03.1941), died 03.12.1941
• Zavialov Konstantin Andreevich (on 09/23/1941), died on 09/23/1941
• Stepanov Ivan Vasilievich (from 10.01.1942) (?)
• Tymchik Kirill Yakovlevich (on 08/08/1942)
• Putyato Konstantin Timofeevich (from 02.28.1942) (?)

• 1053th joint venture:
• Putyato Konstantin Timofeevich (02/28/1942 - 06/00/1942), died of wounds
• Shevkun Pavel Moiseevich (10/03/1942 - 03/01/1943)

• 87th Guards Rifle Division

• Gladkov N. N. "In stubborn and defensive battles" in the book "In the battles for Kharkov region", Kharkov, 3rd ed., 1973, p. 37-42.

• 300th Infantry Division (1st formation, until April 17, 1943)
• 300th SD