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concealed that even one close to it could not discover it... Our units managed to overcome that obstacle and capture the second trenches only by 1500 hours... The prolonged battles continued during the second half on November and in the beginning of December 1943. Overall our forces advanced from 6 up to 8 kilometres from 14 November through 5 December. In the light of the hopelessness of any further attempts to smash the enemy resistance on the approaches to Orsha, on 5 December the Western Front commander decided to cease offensive operations and withdraw 10th Guards Army into reserve.
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were said to have been destroyed. However, in a report at the time of the breakout the 91st Brigade recorded an infantry strength of about 2,800 men. During February 1943 the 6th Rifle Corps returned to the 22nd Army. On February 27 the 2nd Battalion of the 91st Brigade was tasked with attacking a German stronghold near the village of Pleten. Two machine gun bunkers were knocked out, but a third continued to hold up the assault.
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his body and was killed, allowing the attack to continue. While similar feats had occurred previously and would continue, Matrosov's sacrifice was written up by an attached journalist and soon became news across the USSR. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union on June 19 and the 254th Guards Rifle Regiment, which was mostly made up of men of the 91st Brigade, was soon given his name as an honorific.
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During the next day the Soviet forces probed the German defenses but did not begin their attacks until nightfall. By 0600 hours on September 25 most of Smolensk was liberated, although much of it was destroyed or damaged. In recognition of its part in this battle the division was awarded a battle honor:
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A third offensive on Orsha began on November 14. The 10th Guards Army was again called upon to form part of the strike group which was concentrated on both sides of the Orsha-Smolensk highway. The plan for the offensive differed little from those previous. 10th Guards and 31st Armies were to provide
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had both been reduced to just two infantry regiments and held very wide sectors, but the terrain was heavily wooded and dotted with numerous fortified villages. Furthermore, two key German positions at Gnezdilovo and nearby Hill 233.3 had not been identified by Soviet intelligence and so escaped the
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which was holding a 40km-wide line with five decimated divisions; known German positions were also pounded with artillery. At 0545 hours a 90-minute artillery preparation began, followed by an intense air bombardment. The ground attack began at 0715, south of the Smolensk - Yelnya railroad. At 1030
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had patched up a tenuous new front west of Yelnya. Sokolovsky continued local attacks through the first week of the month but his Western Front was again forced to a halt due to logistical shortages. He was authorized to pause the offensive for another week. It was during this period that the 254th
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The offensive resumed at 0730 hours on August 8 after a 30-minute artillery preparation. The 65th Guards, now reinforced by the 22nd Guards, remained stymied in front of Hill 233.3, held by a single German battalion. However the two German divisions were being drained by steady losses. The Hill was
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Aleksandr Matveyevich Matrosov, a 19-year-old volunteer, crept forward to the flank of the bunker and threw two grenades through its embrasure, which appeared to silence it. But when Matrosov's comrades resumed their attack the German gun began firing again. Matrosov then blocked the embrasure with
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from two strongpoints and continued to advance. The next day these rifle and tank brigades continued to push forward towards Bykovo. However, by November 27 German reserves were arriving and the 91st Brigade was alerted for commitment. By December 1 it was deep within 41st Army's salient, southeast
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in 7th Guards Rifle Corps and was replaced by Col. Fyodor Pavlovich Boyko. This officer was reassigned two months later and on January 13, 1945 Col. Ivan Filatovich Krovyakov took over the command, which he held for the duration of the war. By now the 10th Guards Army was part of the forces of 2nd
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Overnight the 330th Infantry made minor withdrawals to straighten its front. On September 16 the 10th Guards Army, now led by 15th Guards Corps, failed to make any substantive gains. However it was clear by the end of the day that IX Corps was close to breaking and during the night it fell back to
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in the center of the Front making the main attack. The objective was to finally shatter the XII Army Corps and then push mobile groups through the gaps to seize Yelnya. At 0800 hours the Front began a 90-minute artillery preparation across a 25-km wide front southeast of that city. 10th Guards and
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This brigade formed for the second time in late August 1942 by redesignating the 4th Siberian Volunteer Brigade in the Siberian Military District. Once formed its order of battle was identical to that of the 74th Brigade. Like the latter it was assigned to the 6th Rifle Corps, along with two other
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region. This transfer, which began on December 8, involved the movement of 43,250 soldiers, 1,700 vehicles, and 6,500 horses, since the Army was still dependent on quite a lot of horse-drawn transport. This move of about 210km was not completed until December 31. During its course the 19th Guards
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which advanced as much as 4km deep, and were reinforced on the right the next day by 65th Guards. However, the advance that day was considerably less, in part due to heavy German artillery fire and an inability to reply due to shell shortages on the Soviet side. While the remainder of 10th Guards
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505. Supply problems forced the Soviet armies to pause for a few days outside Smolensk before making the final push. On the morning of September 22 that push began and 68th Army made a clear breakthrough southeast of the city. Late on the 23rd German 4th Army signalled the evacuation of Smolensk.
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The encircled force was authorized to break out on the night of December 15/16. The 74th Brigade formed part of the first echelon while the 91st was left to help hold the perimeter before withdrawing through the corridor to the positions of 41st Army. In a German after-action report both brigades
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That bombardment began at 0440 hours and continued until 0630, consuming more than 50 percent of Western Front's available ammunition. Shortly after crossing the start line the 56th and 65th Guards ran into heavy resistance from the 499th Regiment of the 268th Infantry. That Division's artillery
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of the supporting 119th Tank Regiment. However, here and there some small detachments found a way through. The 56th managed to carve out a 1km-deep penetration near Kamenka but it was soon evident that 19th Guards Corps had been stopped cold. The 15th Guards Corps made somewhat greater progress
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The 56th, 85th, and 30th Guards Rifle Divisions attacked the enemy after an artillery and aviation preparation. They captured the first trenches by an audacious dash, but an antitank ditch up to 6 metres wide and 4 metres deep obstructed the attackers' subsequent advance route. It was so well
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On August 12 the 10th Guards Army made another major push and liberated Gnezdilovo. Despite German reinforcements by late afternoon XII Corps' front was crumbling and Soviet infantry and tanks were approaching Pavlinovo. Under the circumstances the Corps was ordered to evacuate Spas-Demensk
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Sokolovsky then ordered another regrouping during which the 19th Guards Corps moved northward to take up the Ozery-Shcheki sector along the Verkheta River north of the Smolensk-Orsha road. The offensive was renewed on the morning of October 21, following a two-hour-and-ten-minute artillery
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and allowed 10th Guards Army to finally reach the Smolensk - Spas-Demensk railway; the XII Corps was now forced to trade space for time until Sokolovsky's offensive outran its logistical support. Western Front's artillery had already shot off almost all of its available ammunition.
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was assembled behind the Army, ready to exploit the expected breakthrough. The operational objective for the first day of the offensive was the town of Pavlinovo situated on the Smolensk - Spas-Demensk railway, 10km to the south. The German defense in this sector was based on the
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21st Armies attacked a German battlegroup around Terenino station, held by one infantry battalion and an engineer unit. German reserves were brought in and the battle see-sawed for about eight hours until the German battlegroup fell apart and began retreating to the
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not finally taken until the evening of August 10. A few hours earlier the 56th Guards, now supported by the 249th Tank Regiment, had captured the village of Delyagino, causing the German forces to retreat 2km to the south. These gains unhinged the
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and 19th Guards Corps were deployed on a 10km-wide sector between Mazovo and Sluzna; the 56th and 65th Guards Divisions were in the first echelon with the 22nd Guards in the second. Each division had about 8,000 personnel on strength. The
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the next defensive line, which was mostly incomplete. Sokolovsky ordered a pursuit to approach Smolensk from the south with the 10th Guards and 68th Armies and most of his armor. The retreat of the 330th Infantry was covered by the
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Guards Regiment was granted the honorific title "in the name of Aleksandr Matrosov". During the night of September 14/15 Sokolovsky's center group of armies conducted aggressive probing all along the front of the German
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with a mass of infantry and tanks, pushing back two battalions. The Army, in cooperation with 21st Army, continued attacking into the afternoon, creating several small penetrations and advancing up to 3km.
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By the beginning of March the 6th Rifle Corps had been withdrawn to the reserves of Kalinin Front. Later that month it returned to 22nd Army but did not remain with that Army when it was transferred to
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The 56th Guards was formed on the basis of two rifle brigades which had been part of the 6th "Stalin Siberian Volunteer" Rifle Corps (later redesignated as the 19th Guards Rifle Corps).
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authorized a suspension of the offensive. German losses had been heavy, but the 10th Guards Army had also lost 30 percent casualties, although the 65th Guards had suffered the most.
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in June 1943, based on the 2nd formations of the 74th and 91st Rifle Brigades, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. Along with its "sister", the
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order No. org/2/133681 April 19 they were merged to form the 56th Guards Rifle Division in the redesignated 19th Guards Rifle Corps. By June 1 the Corps had joined the former
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in Estonia with the 19th Guards Corps and in 1947 was mostly disbanded, although the 254th Guards Regiment, owing to its Matrosov honorific, was retained as part of the
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from reserve to unhinge the river line. At this point the 19th Guards Corps finally crossed the river and joined the pursuit, which led to the eastern approaches to
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Army cleared German defenders from the bogs south of the Verkheta, this was also at considerable cost, and a halt was called once again at the end of October 26.
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Collection of orders of the RVSR, RVS USSR and NKO on awarding orders to units, formations and establishments of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Part I. 1920–1944
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When formed from Siberian militia volunteers it had, on August 31, 5,804 personnel, of whom 31.4 percent were Communist Party members or
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of Latvia. In March it was transferred to Leningrad Front as part of the Kurland Group of Forces, where it remained for the duration.
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in Estonia where it was disbanded in 1947, although the successor formations of the 254th Guards Regiment exist into the present day.
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summer offensive, Operation Suvorov. On September 8 the 254th Guards Rifle Regiment was given the honorific title "in the name of
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against the portion of the 499th Regiment that it faced. By the early afternoon the commander of Western Front, Col. Gen.
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broke up the assault groups before they could make any progress while a pair of German assault guns picked off advancing
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in 1960. In 1994 the regiment was moved to Yelnya and disbanded. In February 2004 the 752nd Motor Rifle Regiment of the
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and the 119th Tank Regiment in the lead. Yelnya was evacuated during the afternoon and was liberated on August 30.
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into the 10th Guards Army's sector, allowing the latter to pull back for rest and rebuilding. On August 21 the
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The 56th Guards officially received its Guards title on June 4. The division's order of battle was as follows:
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to the town of Baevo. Early on October 3 the Army launched an assault as part of Western Front's offensive on
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Col. Anatolii Ivanovich Kolobutin was appointed to command on the same day; he had previously commanded the
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Dunn states that this formation took place in April 1942 and that the brigade was assigned to
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of Bely, while 74th Brigade was holding its positions in the face of counterattacks by the
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and remained under those headquarters for the duration of the war. It first saw action in
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of Western Front, now redesignated as the 10th Guards Army; the Corps also contained the
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in July 1942 by redesignating the 1st Special Siberian-Altaian Volunteer Brigade in the
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During the late winter 10th Guards Army gradually advanced north of Pustoshka towards
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Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1964).
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When the fighting ended the men and women of the division shared the full title:
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Short history of the combat path of the 56th Guards Rifle Division. In Russian.
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finally took Liady on October 8 and 15th Guards Rifle Corps was able to commit
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The offensive was renewed on August 28, with the 10th Guards, 21st, 33rd and
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Corps received about half of 10,500 new replacements which were split with
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In the plan for this offensive the 6th Rifle Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen.
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and advanced into the Baltic states, eventually being decorated with the
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Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1967a
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The Army was transferred to the reserves of the 2nd Baltic Front in the
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Commanders of Corps and Divisions in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945
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Retrieved May 4, 2020. 340:Siberian volunteer brigades and the 255:3 rifle companies (180-200 men each) 248:. Its order of battle consisted of: 472:90th Guards Motor Transport Company 1471:HSU Aleksandr Matveyevich Matrosov 712:, and were to be supported by the 457:87th Guards Reconnaissance Company 14: 5740:Latvian Riflemen Soviet Divisions 258:1 submachine gun platoon (30 men) 1511: 827:36th Guards Motor Rifle Division 200:, first in Western and later in 118: 53: 36: 831:8th Guards Motor Rifle Division 823:36th Guards Mechanized Division 789:on the approaches to Riga near 699:was struck by the divisions of 677:25th Panzer Grenadier Divisions 451:187th Guards Artillery Regiment 1004:"Матросов Александр Матвеевич" 454:91st Guards Antitank Battalion 155:Col. Ivan Filatovich Krovyakov 1: 1393:. 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Index

Soviet Union

Red Army
Battle of Smolensk (1943)
Orsha Offensives (1943)
Battle of Nevel (1943)
Pskov-Ostrov Offensive
Baltic Offensive
Riga Offensive (1944)
Courland Pocket
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Banner
Battle honours
Red Army
65th Guards Rifle Division
19th Guards Rifle Corps
10th Guards Army
Western Front's
Aleksandr Matrosov
Smolensk
Vitebsk
2nd Baltic Front
Panther Line
Order of the Red Banner
Riga
Leningrad Front
Elva
Barnaul
Siberian Military District
antitank rifle

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