2nd Guards Artillery Breakthrough Division

Battle Path of the 2nd Guards Artillery Breakthrough Division

The division was formed as the 4th artillery division of the RGC , on the basis of the order of the NKO of the USSR No. 00226 of October 1942 and the order of the troops of the Don Front No. 0037 of November 16, 1942. The formation of the division management took place from November 16 to December 3, 1942 in the village of Fastovo in the Stalingrad region .

The division included:

• 5th Guards Army Artillery Red Banner Regiment RGC
• 7th Guards Army Artillery Regiment of the RSK
• 671st Army Artillery Regiment of the RSK
• 135th Howitzer Artillery Regiment RGC
• 272nd howitzer artillery regiment of the RSK
• 338th Light Artillery Regiment RGK
• 381st Light Artillery Regiment
• 391st Light Artillery Regiment RGK
• 709th Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Division
• 1859th Field Mail Station

In the period from February 3 to 9, 1943, the division completed recruitment and moved to a new staffing table:

• 6th Light Artillery Brigade
  • 338th Light Artillery Regiment
  • 381st Light Artillery Regiment
  • 391st Light Artillery Regiment
• 14th Howitzer Artillery Brigade
  • 101st Howitzer Artillery Regiment
  • 135th Howitzer Artillery Regiment
  • 272nd howitzer artillery regiment
• 3rd Howitzer Artillery Brigade
  • 5th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment
  • 7th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment
• 709th Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Division
• 1859th Field Mail Station

By the order of the NKO USSR No. 101 of March 1, 1943, the 4th Artillery Division, together with its units, was reorganized into the 2nd Guards Artillery Division of the RGC ^[2] .

On March 28, 1943, the units entering the division also received a new numbering:

• 4th Guards Light Artillery Brigade (6th until March 28, 1943) ^[3]
  • 168th Guards Light Artillery Regiment (until March 28, 1943, 338th)
  • The 202nd Guards Light Artillery Regiment (until March 28, 1943, the 381st)
  • 219th Guards Light Artillery Regiment (until 39.06rd until 20.06.1943)
• 5th Guards Howitzer Artillery Brigade (14th) 03/28/1943 ^[3]
  • The 204th Guards Howitzer Artillery Regiment (until March 28, 1943, the 135th)
  • The 207th Guards Howitzer Artillery Regiment (until March 28, 1943, the 272nd)
  • 101st Howitzer Artillery Regiment
• 6th Guards cannon artillery brigade (until 03/28/1943 3rd) ^[3]
  • 5th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment
  • 7th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment
• 15th Guards reconnaissance artillery division (until March 28, 1943, 709th)
• 873rd motor battalion ^[2]
• 533rd Medical Company
• 104th field car repair shop (since 07.15.1943)
• 1st field bakery
• 25780th (1859th) field post station
• 1790th field ticket office of the State Bank

The period of entry into the army: March 19, 1943 - May 9, 1945 ^[4] .

After the war, the 2nd Guards Artillery Perekop Red Banner Order of the Order of Suvorov division was withdrawn from the territory of the Baltic States in the Leningrad Military District , the city of Pushkin . The composition of its brigades after the war underwent some changes, and their numbering changed - in 1946 it consisted of 5 brigades: the 4th light (remaining 42th Guards heavy mortar) remaining in its composition from the war, 5th a howitzer and 6th heavy howitzer, 19th cannon, as well as the 165th high-power howitzer transferred from the 28th artillery division and 39th Guards mortar. By the early 1960s, all of these brigades were either disbanded or rolled up to the level of regiments. At the same time, in the 1970s-1980s, part of the regiments of the division were again deployed in brigades ^[5] .

The composition of the 2nd Guards Artillery Division ( military unit 25780) for 1990 ^[1] :

• 287th Guards Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade, military unit 51533 ( Pavlovsk )
• 268th Guards cannon artillery brigade, military unit 17404 (Pavlovsk)
• 285th Howitzer Artillery Brigade, military unit 93573 ( Toksovo )
• 457th guard howitzer artillery regiment, military unit 24451 ( Pushkin )
• 463rd Guards Rocket Artillery Regiment, military unit 25756 (Pushkin)
• 258th anti-tank artillery regiment, military unit 11209 (Pavlovsk)
• reconnaissance artillery regiment, military unit 96226 (Pavlovsk)

In 1993, the division was disbanded, and its battle flag , form and honorary names were transferred to the 34th Artillery Division.

Commanders

• Ignatov Nikolai Vasilyevich (03/01/1943 - 04/28/1943), the guard major general of artillery
• Alekseev Leonid Nikolaevich (04/30/1943 - 05/01/1944), guard colonel , guard major general of artillery
• Kobzev Vladimir Ivanovich (02.05.1944 - 04.06.1944), guard colonel
• Yakovlev Ivan Alekseevich (06/05/1944 - 12.1945), Guard, Major General of Artillery ^{[6] [7]}
• Yaremenko Pavel Petrovich , (1957 -) Guard Colonel, Guard Major General of Artillery

Political Deputy Commanders

• Tarasov Pavel Andreevich (08.1943 - 09.05.1945), guard lieutenant colonel

Chiefs of Staff

• Melenkov Innokentiy Grigorievich (1943 - 1944), guard lieutenant colonel
• Veshchunov Vladimir Rodionovich (1944), Guard Colonel

On April 9, 1975, in the secondary school No. 18 (now Lyceum No. 18) of Kaliningrad , the Museum of Military Glory of the 2nd Guards Perekop Red Banner Order of Suvorov Artillery Division of the High Command Reform Reserve and the 126th Gorlovskaya twice Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Rifle Division was opened ^8] .

Памятник героям Перекопа — памятный знак, установленный в Москве на Перекопской улице неподалёку от пересечения с Севастопольским проспектом 15 ноября 1972 года . На противоположной стороне памятника перечислены дивизии, участвовавшие в сражениях за перекоп в 1920 и 1944 годах.

В 1986 году на пересечении улиц Гайдара и Магдесяна города Армянска , в честь воинов артиллеристов героически сражавшихся на легендарной Перекопской земле в 1941—1944 гг., была установлена гаубица ^[9] .

• V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov. Chapter 5. The Artillery of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. // The Red Army in victories and defeats of 1941-1945 .. - Tomsk: Tomsk University Press, 2003. - p. 255-312. - 619 s. - ISBN 5-7511-1624-0 .

• The team of authors. Ground Forces // USSR Armed Forces after the Second World War from the Red Army to the Soviet. - 1st. - Tomsk: NTL, 2013. - 640 p. - ISBN 978-5-89503-530-6 .

• The memory of the people :: Fighting way of the 2nd guards. Adp RGC for the period from November 16, 1942 to November 16, 1944 (Neopr.) . pamyat-naroda.ru. The appeal date is June 17, 2019.
• 2nd Guards Artillery Division (Unsolved) . www.ww2.dk. The appeal date is June 20, 2019.