The 4th division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railway structures is a military unit of the NKVD of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War .
 4th division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railway structures  | |
| Troops: | ground troops |
| Type of army: | NKVD infantry |
| Formation: | 03/08/1939 |
| Dissolution (transformation): | 02/11/1942 |
| Predecessor: | 5th separate Kiev railway brigade of troops of the OGPU of the USSR [1] |
| Successor: | 25th division of the troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of railways [2] |
| Battle way | |
| 1941-1942: The Great Patriotic War | |
History
By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 00206 of 08/08/1939 "On the reorganization of the Border and Internal Troops Command" pursuant to the Decree of the Council of People 's Commissars of the USSR No. 154-16ss of 02/02/1939 "On the reorganization of the Border and Internal Troops Command" 5th separate Kiev railway brigade of troops of the OGPU USSR [1] reorganized into the 4th division of the troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of railway structures .
The division’s administration and the 56th regiment were stationed in Kiev , the 55th regiment in the city of Korosten , the 57th regiment at the Shevchenko station .
Before the Great Patriotic War, the division carried out the tasks of protecting railway facilities on the South-Western Railway , the Vinnitsa Railway (after the war it became part of the South-Western Railway), the Odessa Railway , the Chisinau Railway, and the important strategic highway bridges in Kiev , Chernihiv , Zhytomyr , Vinnitsa regions . Until October 12, 1939, units and garrisons located in the border area with Poland assisted the Border Troops in guarding the state border. Then, before the start of World War II, in the protection of the fence zone, which passed along the former Soviet-Polish border. Since June 1940, units and garrisons of the 57th Regiment located in the border area with Romania assisted the Border Troops in guarding the state border.
In 1940, the anti-aircraft machine-gun companies of the division took part in the Soviet-Finnish war .
As of June 1, 1941, the number of the division was 4669 troops.
On June 22, 1941 the division was deployed:
- Division Management - Kiev
- 55th regiment
- Office shelf - Korosten
- 1st Battalion - Ovruch
- 1st company - Ovruch
- 2nd company - Chernobyl
- 2nd Battalion - Kazatin
- 3rd company - Kazatin
- 4th company - Shepetovka station
- reserve company - Korosten
- regimental school - Zhmerynka
- Armored train number 55 - Korosten, commander Captain Sudakov, Dmitry Matveevich [3] .
- 56th regiment
- Office Regiment - Kiev
- 1st company - Kiev
- 2nd company - Chernihiv
- 3rd company - bridge over the Teterev river
- 4th company - a bridge over the Dnieper River, Cherkasy
- reserve company - Kiev
- regimental school - Kiev
- armored train training division (armored train No. 56 after 06.22.1941) - Cherkasy station , commander senior lieutenant Ishchenko, Pyotr Kirillovich [4]
- 57th regiment
- Office of the regiment - Shevchenko station
- 1st battalion - Znamenka station
- 1st company - station Khristanovka
- 2nd company - Znamenka station
- 3rd company - Help station
- 2nd Battalion - Chisinau
- 4th company - Odessa
- 5th company - Bessarabskaya station
- 6th company - Balti station
- reserve company - Shevchenko station
- regimental school - Znamenka station
- Armored train number 57 - Znamenka station, commander Captain Solokhin, Mikhail Ivanovich [5]
- The 81st separate battalion for the protection of critical industrial enterprises is Vyshgorod .
As part of the army from June 26, 1941 to January 16, 1942.
During the Great Patriotic War, the division performed the tasks of protecting railway facilities on the South-Western Railway, Vinnitsa Railway, Odessa Railway, Chisinau Railway, important strategic bridges for highways in the Kiev, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa regions, and high-frequency communication lines in the areas of Kiev - Nizhyn - Bakhmach - Konotop , Kiev - Grebenka - Bakhmach - Konotop, the rear forces of the 5th , 37th , 40th , 9th , 56th armies , took part in the fight against sabotage and reconnaissance groups enemy with anditizmom on UkraineUkraine and Moldova , parts and units of the division took part in defensive battles in Moldova and Ukraine , Kiev defense .
On June 22, 1941, at 4 a.m., the 2nd battalion of the 57th regiment, which guarded the railway bridges across the Prut River , was the first of the division to take on the battle with the enemy. On June 26, 1941, on the basis of the 2nd battalion of the 57th regiment, the 114th regiment was formed, which became part of the division. On June 28, 1941, the division became operatively subordinate to the chief of the NKVD troops for the protection of the military rear of the South-Western Front .
In July 1941, part of the 57th regiment of the division retreated to Odessa and subsequently took part in its defense . The 114th regiment, being in operational subordination of the Southern Front, retreated to Melitopol . The remaining divisions of the division from July to September 19, 1941 took part in the defense of Kiev, where on September 15, 1941 they were surrounded .
In the Kiev defensive operation, the troops of the division had a great influence on the course of hostilities. From July 16 to July 22, 1941, units of the 56th regiment took part in the defense of Fastov . In August 1941, the 55th regiment of the division secured the retreat of the 5th army to Kiev, destroying up to 1,200 tons of Nazis in rear-guard battles. On September 4, 1941, the 1st battalion of the 56th regiment took under guard the HF communication line connecting Kiev with Moscow . On September 19, divisions of the division were the last to leave Kiev, ensuring the destruction of all existing bridges across the Dnieper. On September 23, 1941, the 56th regiment of the division secured the exit from the encirclement of units of the 37th Army, capturing the settlement of Baryshevka and crossing the Trubezh River near it and held the crossing until the end of the movement of units of the 37th Army through it. During the battle, the regiment was almost completely destroyed. During the breakthrough from the encirclement undertaken on September 25, 1941, only 27 commanders and fighters of the regiment managed to break through.
During the Kiev defensive operation, armored trains of the division were transferred to the 26th army , fighting south of Kiev, where they died.
On October 1, 1941, the division held its last battle during a breakthrough from the encirclement in the vicinity of the village of Devichki , during the breakthrough the division suffered heavy losses and settled down into small groups, effectively ceasing to exist as a single compound. By order of the NKVD of the USSR No. 00293 dated 02/11/1942, the division was reorganized into the 25th division of the troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of railways [2] .
Composition
- 55th railway regiment
- 56th railway regiment
- 57th railway regiment
- 64th railway regiment
- 114th railway regiment
- 227th convoy regiment (transferred to the division in operational subordination in August 1941)
- 81st separate battalion for the protection of critical industrial enterprises
- 34th Separate Standby Rail Battalion [6]
Commanders
- Achkasov, Alexander Ivanovich , Major General - (08.03.1939 - 06.23.1941)
- Mazhirin, Fedor Maximovich , Colonel - (06.23.1941 - 01.10.1941)
Memory
In the village of Chubinskoye, Borispol district, in the region of which the soldiers of the division defended in 1941, in 1984, a memorial was erected to the soldiers of the division [7] . In 2016, according to the decision of the village council, the mention of the division from the inscription on the monument was removed [8]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Formed on December 27, 1932 by order of the OGPU USSR No. 1266 / s. The headquarters of the brigade was stationed in Kiev.
- ↑ 1 2 Division management - Balashov city. In March 1942, the 56th regiment and the 57th regiment were restored as part of the division, the 121st regiment was included in the division. At the beginning of 1944, the division was redeployed to Ukraine, the division’s administration was in Kiev, the 60th regiment and the 69th regiment were included in the division, the 56th regiment was included in the 26th division. In 1948, she took part in the liquidation of the UPA. The division was disbanded by order of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 00248 of 05/15/1951 pursuant to Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 1483-749 ss "On the transfer of protection of industrial enterprises and railways to the paramilitary security of ministries and departments."
- ↑ Sudakov Dmitry Matveevich, born in 1908, reported missing (PBB), wounded near Orzhitsa on 09/22/1941, stayed in the occupied territory, was sent to a penal battalion, after a serious wound in a hospital, was demobilized, after the war he lived in Korosten.
- ↑ Ischenko Petr Kirillovich, born in 1903, commanded the 31st ODBP of the NKVD troops, was awarded the Order of Lenin on December 29, 1941
- ↑ Solokhin Mikhail Ivanovich, born in 1903, accounted for PBB in the Lyubartsy-Rogozov area in September 41st.
- ↑ NKGB-NKVD troops during the Second World War (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 10, 2018. Archived December 25, 2016.
- ↑ Villages and villages of Boryspil district
- ↑ Boryspil State Historical Museum - Document: Rishennya of the Great Olexandria Sіlsky for the sake of 02/11/2016 [I will write the letter]