332 Ivanovo division.

On September 7, 1941, the 332nd infantry division, created in Ivanovo from cadets of the Moscow School named after. The Supreme Council of the RSFSR, residents of the Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Vladimir regions, took the oath and on October 19, 1941 set off to defend the capital - Moscow.

The division's combat path

1115 s.p. 332 s.d. after participating in the parade on November 7, 1941, he went to the front in the Davydkovo-Koshcheevo section.

A participant in this parade, retired Colonel V.P. Gilyarov. lived in the Moscow region and died in October 2009.

In the Velikoluksky district of the Pskov region lived a veteran of the 332nd s.d. 1117s.p. A.A. Bolshakov, who became a famous artist after the war.

Colonel S.A. was appointed division commander. Knyazkov, military commissar - political instructor V.K. Loskutov, chief of staff - Lieutenant Colonel A.N. Colobutine.

People of different ages were drafted into the division, incl. and those who took part in the civil war, who held significant positions in the region: N.N. Veselov - head. agricultural department of the regional party committee, G.S. Filachev - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ivanovo District Council of the Workers' Deputy, G.K. Nikolaichev is a teacher at the pedagogical institute and many others.

Former commander of the mortar company of the 1119th regiment. 332 s.d. IN AND. Anisimov wrote in his poems:

“...Under the Buyanovskaya Grove

Found the third company

And then with the company together

That’s where I ended up in Velizh.

Occupied a point near Yastreby,

Fire - at the Dvina,

Velizh is all before your eyes

The front line of that war..."

The division included 1115, 1117, 1119 rifle regiments, 891 artillery regiment, 608 separate engineer battalion, 615 separate anti-aircraft battalion and other units and units.

After the battles for Moscow, all personnel of the division were awarded medals “For the Defense of Moscow.”

December 20, 1941 332 s.d. became part of the 4th Shock Army and relocated to the city of Ostashkov, Kalinin Region, where they arrived only on January 8, 1942, to immediately enter the battle.

On January 9, troops of the 3rd and 4th Shock Armies of the Northwestern Front launched an offensive in the Peno - Andriapol - Toropets sector. The fighting was stubborn in conditions of severe frost, deep snow, off-road conditions, and wooded areas. It was especially difficult for the artillerymen. In addition, supplies have deteriorated.

On February 2, 1942, the division approached the town of Demidov, Smolensk region, but could not take it “due to the lack of artillery shells” (Marshal A.I. Eremenko).

While the battles for Demidov were going on, the situation in the Surazh-Velizh direction became more complicated, where units of the 332nd Rifle Division were sent. On February 16, 1942, the division replaced units of the 358th Rifle Division. in the area of ​​the villages of Malye Koryaki, Krutoye, Ugory and began an attack on Malaya Rzhava, Velizh region.

The enemy not only held the city of Velizh, but also built up forces here. On February 15, the Germans occupied M. Rzhava, on February 16 - Tivantsy, Shchetkino, Proyavino.

Entering the battles for Velizh 332 s.d. stopped the enemy's advance. On February 17, the Nazis were defeated in the Vasyuki area - M. Rzhava (1119 rifle regiments), Krutoye, Zarechye, Staroe Selo (1115 rifle regiments). Within three days, Kurbatovshchina, Shchetkino, O(A)chistka, Proyavino, Tivantsy, and Gypsies were liberated. February 22 - Wet Niva, for which particularly stubborn battles were fought. She was liberated by the 2nd battalion under the command of Art. Lieutenant Svintsov (Honorary Citizen of Velizh) and the artillery battery of the regiment under the command of Lieutenant Pasechnik.

In February - March, Ivanovo soldiers fought at the Belyaevo - Milovidy line in the Velizh region.

Intense battles were fought for the villages of Cleaning, Tivantsy, Shchetkino, Nikon. In all battles, the Ivanovo soldiers demonstrated their bravery and courage. Many of them died. So, during a hand-to-hand fight in the village of Shchetkino, the party organizer of the 1117th regiment died. Y. M. Sysko.

The party organizer more than once raised fighters to attack 1115 s. senior political instructor Falichev, former chairman of the Ivanovo district executive committee.

The offensive battles carried out by the division from January 9 to March 5, 1942 were quite effective. About 300 km were covered, 935 settlements were liberated.

The battles for Belyaevo - Milovidy became protracted. Just like Velizh, they were liberated only in September 1943.

In March 1942, a delegation of representatives from the region came to the division. This will not be the last visit of fellow countrymen to maintain the spirit of Ivanovo residents. First-hand information about how the Ivanovo region lives and works gave the soldiers confidence in victory over the enemy.

The delegation traveled from Ivanovo to Velizh for 20 days by train, trucks, sleighs, under bombing and shelling. Ivanovo residents received gifts from their native places and gave an amateur concert.

"Live in peace,

Work honestly

And we will come back to you

With victory and song"

The soldiers of the 332nd SD saw off their fellow countrymen with this song. In April 1942, Colonel Knyazkov S.A. was recalled to the headquarters of the 4th Shock Army. Lieutenant Colonel T.N. was appointed in his place. Nazarenko. Loskutov V.K. remained the Commissioner. The artillery was commanded by Colonel N.I. Taranov, chief of staff - Major S.A. Vrublevsky. Shelves - 1115 pp. - Major A.T. Samarsky, 1117th regiment - Lieutenant Colonel A.I. Serebryakov, 1119 rifle regiment - Major V.T. Gnedin, 891st artillery regiment - Colonel S.A. Birkalov.

During this period, the division occupied the defense at the line Starye Niva - Selishche - Lapeshki - Zabolotye - Zalesye - Yamnoye - Trus - Bordadyn. The division's command post was located in the village of B. Rzhava, Velizh district.

On April 18, the division launched an offensive in the area of ​​​​the village of Nikony - Belyaevo, trying to cut the Velizh - Surazh highway.

At the beginning of May 332 s.d. replaced units of the 48th Infantry Brigade and occupied a new line - the northern outskirts of Velizh - Lavrentyevo - Lyakhovo - Borovlevo - Ryabinka - Cleaning - Proyavino - Tivantsy - Starye Niva - Selishche - Ananchino - Staroe Selo - Zalesye - Yamnoye - Trusovshchina - Osinovtsy.

17 months 332 s.d. fought for Velizh land.

The command post was moved to the village of Dadony, closer to Velizh.

On July 24, 1942, the Germans launched a major offensive, trying to push our troops away from the Velizh-Smolensk highway. 332 s.d. was forced to leave. On July 26 - 28, the enemy resumed an offensive attempt. Our people stubbornly resisted. On July 29, the enemy launched a new offensive with tank support. It was especially hard for S.P. The 1st and 2nd battalions were surrounded. The 3rd battalion of newcomers - machine gunners took up defense in the village of Zhigalovo. Company commander Kravtsov died. The wounded political instructor Zhuravlev took command. For 5 days, a company of recruits held off superior enemy forces. ON THE. Zhuravlev was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

332 s.d. took up the defense of Velizh - Overnight - Ledinniki - Zhguty - Malyutino - Komary - Trikovo. The command post was located in the village of Mikhalovo.

On August 19, an operation was carried out to capture the village of Saxony. It was a gift to the division for its anniversary. It was celebrated in the village of Maklok, where the commander of the 4th Shock Army, General V.V., arrived. Kurasov, member of the Military Council General M.V. Rudakov, regimental commissar Tsinev G.K. and artillery commander of the 4th Shock Army N.M. Khlebnikov.

Rudakov presented government awards to the soldiers who distinguished themselves in battle. 113 people received them V this day. By this time, more than 400 Ivanovo soldiers had been awarded government awards. The celebration took place with great excitement, which further raised the spirit of Ivanovo residents.

There was a calm at the front. The division began to receive reinforcements from the liberated regions of Kalinin and Smolensk, incl. and Velizhans (Nikitin M.N., Konyukhov S.S., Marmashev P.A., Vitina E.S., etc.), as well as partisans. During one of the reconnaissance missions in the Surazh area of ​​the Vitebsk region, the scouts met an eleven-year-old boy, Yura Zhdanko. Near Velizh, the boy fought bravely, went on reconnaissance missions and was awarded the medal “For Courage.” Yura was not the only son of the regiment. To the assistant commander for software support of the 1117th rifle regiment. P.A. Leontyev’s sons Yura (13 years old) and Sasha (16 children) came to the front. A.P. Leontyev now heads the Council of Veterans of the 4th Shock Army. He is an Honorary Citizen of Velizh. With his help, a branch of the Moscow Electrical Mechanisms Plant appeared in Velizh, where he still works in Moscow.

Another son of the regiment was named Kolya Petukhov. He was adopted by the division topographer, Captain V.V. Pozdersky.

Participants of the Civil War A.Ya. Okunev and A.M. Timofeev were propagandists at the front.

The division published the newspaper “Frunzevets”. Correspondence was conducted with residents of Ivanovo. Not only individual, but also collective.

On November 5, 1942, the secretary of the Ivanovo region, Zhukov, and the commissar, Loskutov, went to the area of ​​the village of N. Vzvoz to present party cards to the soldiers of the 1115th regiment.

Until the end of 1942, the division did not conduct major combat operations.

On the night of December 31 to January 1, 1943, the Ivanovo soldiers were ordered to obtain the “tongue,” which was done. For this, the scouts received awards from a member of the Military Council, Tevchenkov.

In January 1943, the division received an order to recapture the northern part of Velizh from the Nazis. Velizh was a powerful stronghold of the Nazis. It was defended by units of the 251st Infantry Regiment, two battalions of the 277th Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division, and the 205th Artillery Division with 150 guns. The assault plan was carefully developed. From the area of ​​the village of Yastreb-1, it was planned to make excavations under the city hospital and a bunker in the cemetery area. 9 assault groups were created from all divisions of the 4th Shock Army, which underwent special training.

By January 16, 1942, the tunnel, about 200 m long, was ready. Each group consisted of a rifle platoon, a machine gun squad, a sapper squad, a T-34 tank and anti-tank weapons.

The assault was scheduled for January 17. One of the assault groups was commanded by Major V. Svintsov (Honorary Citizen of Velizh).

The operation to storm the northeastern part of the city was successful. Going out to the river. Velizhka, the fighters began to strengthen their positions. 22 quarters of the city were occupied, and 2 enemy battalions were defeated. The participants in the assault were thanked, and 187 soldiers were presented with awards. To develop the situation, the units did not have reserves,

The January operation became a turning point in the battles for Velizh. By March there was a temporary lull at the front.

The division occupied the defense at the line Velizh - Ledinniki - Zhguty - Trikovo (31 km).

An operation was planned for May 30, 1943, to capture one of the heights on the left flank of the division, which would make it possible to take a more advantageous position during the offensive. But the enemy launched an offensive and broke through the defenses, capturing the village of Doronino, Nochevki approached Kurmely. Within 3 days, the situation in the area of ​​these villages was restored. For this purpose, the 358th Rifle Division was called to help.

The Germans lost up to 4,000 people during the fighting from May 30 to June 5. On June 29, 1943, Ivanovo sent another 850 machine gunners to the front. They arrived at the division on July 20, 1943. The Ivanovo soldiers began to prepare for the 2nd anniversary of their division. V.D. was appointed head of the Ivanovo delegation. Doketova is the secretary of the party organization of the Ivanovo manufactory. From Art. Staraya Toropa Ivanovo residents with gifts were delivered to the division in cars.

On August 26, a ceremonial meeting took place. It was attended by soldiers of the division, member of the Military Council of the Army N.A. Kuznetsov, deputy. commander of the 4th Shock Army N.I. Kutuzov.

“1720 soldiers of the 332nd rifle division. were awarded government awards for their military exploits,” said division commander Nazarenko.

On September 1, 1943, the division became part of the 92nd Rifle Corps and its units began to move along the defense line, misleading the enemy. An attack was being prepared.

September 15-17, 1943 332nd rifle division moved to the area of ​​the villages of Krivka, Kolotovshchina, Zagoskino. The Dukhovshchina operation was successfully carried out on the left flank of the Kalinin Front. 332 s.d. was supposed to break through the enemy’s defenses in the direction of Kopylniki - Lemeshi - Pechenki - B. Rzhava - Gypsies - Staroe Selo.

Fearing encirclement, the Nazis left Velizh and on September 20, 1943, units of the 358th Rifle Division entered it. and 101st Rifle Brigade. Retreating, the Nazis left barriers from large mobile detachments with mortars, artillery, tanks, and mined roads and bridges. At the forefront are 332 s.d. was 1119 s.p. he had to take all the blows. 1115 s.p. had to take on the blow called from Vitebsk by the 14th Infantry Division, which was 5 times superior in strength.

In the Kasplyansky district, partisan formations joined the division. On October 6, 1943, the Kalinin Front launched an attack on Vitebsk. A 332 s.d. was transferred in the direction of Polotsk.

The memory of the Ivanovites who fought on Velizh land will forever remain in the name of Ivanovskaya Street in Velizh.

And the Ivanovo people immortalized Velizh, for which they fought for 17 months, in the name of a street in the city of Ivanovo. There is a memorial plaque at the entrance to the Ivanovo House of Physical Education. It is carved on it: “A talented teacher, master of sports of the USSR in boxing, Fyodor Petrovich Klimov, worked here in 1933-1941. He died at the front during the Great Patriotic War.” In February 1942, Klimov’s detachment stormed the village of Chepli in the Velizh region and was mortally wounded. For a long time, veterans of the 332nd infantry division, students of GPTU-2 in Ivanovo, and relatives of the division’s soldiers who died for the Velizh land came and continue to come to Velizh for meetings. The Velizh Museum of History and Local Lore contains a large amount of materials related to the 332nd infantry regiment, these are the memoirs of the division commander, Major General T.N. Nazarenko, officer of the 1117th infantry regiment. Nikonova M.M. (Nikonov’s book “On the Banks of the Western Dvina” was published), officer of the 891st ap. Raka A.K., the book by L. Taleporovsky “In the name of Frunze” and others, a large number of photographs of veterans of the 332nd infantry division, as well as photographs of fallen soldiers and officers of this division. The collection of materials on the division began in 1964 by local historians from secondary school No. 1 in the city of Velizh under the leadership of A.G. Bordyukova.

25.12.1941 - 09.05.1945

The army was formed on December 25, 1941 by transforming the 27th Army as part of the North-Western Front. The army defended the line along the eastern shore of lakes Velye and Seliger.

From January 9 to February 6, 1942, she took part in the Toropetsko-Kholm offensive operation. On January 22, 1942, it was reassigned to the Kalinin Front, from October 20, 1943, as part of the 1st Baltic Front.

From June 29 to July 4, 1944, the army took part in the Nevelsko-Gorodok and Polotsk offensive operations. In the second half of 1944, army troops fought as part of the 2nd Baltic Front - from July 4 and the 1st Baltic Front - from August 8.

Army units took part in the Rezhitsa-Dvina, Riga and Memel offensive operations, and in the blockade of the enemy group on the Courland Peninsula.

On February 9, 1945, the army was reassigned to the 2nd Baltic Front, and on April 1, it was included in the Leningrad Front.

Army commanders:

• Colonel General Eremenko Andrey Ivanovichfrom December 1941 to February 1942
• Lieutenant General Golikov Philip Ivanovich from February to March 1942
• Lieutenant General Vladimir Vasilievich Kurasov from March 1942 to April 1943
• Major General Seleznev Dmitry Mikhailovich from April to May 1943
• Lieutenant General Vasily Ivanovich Shvetsov from May to December 1943
• Lieutenant General Pyotr Fedorovich Malyshev from December 1943 to May 9, 1945

Members of the Military Council:

• brigade commissar Mikhail Vasilievich Rudakov from December 1941 to November 1942
• Major General Tevchenkov Alexander Nikolaevich from November 1942 to April 1943
• Major General Belik Trofim Yakovlevich from April 1943 to May 9, 1945

Compound:

• 6th Railway Brigade
• 40th Army Penal Company
• 154th Field Evacuation Point to December 1944
• 169th Field Evacuation Point from December 1944

Army composition

since June 1944

Infantry, airborne troops and cavalry

• 1st Rifle Corps - from January to February 1945
• 14th Rifle Corps - from August to February 1944
  • - since January 1945
  • 158th Rifle Division - from December 1944 to January 1945
  • 239th Rifle Division - from August 1944 to January 1945
  • 251st Rifle Division - November 1944
  • 311th Infantry Division - from August to November 1944
  • 378th Infantry Division - from July 1944 to January 1945
• 19th Rifle Corps - from January to May 1945
  • 70th Infantry Division
  • 344th Infantry Division
• 22nd Guards rifle corps - from August to September 1944
  • 51st Rifle Division
• 60th Rifle Corps - for June 1944 to July, from November to December 1944
  • 119th Infantry Division - for June to July 1944
  • 216th Rifle Division - from November to December 1944
  • 311th Infantry Division - from November to December 1944
  • 332nd Rifle Division - for June to July 1944
  • 334th Infantry Division - from November to December 1944
  • 101st Infantry Brigade - for June to July 1944
• 83rd Rifle Corps - for June to January 18, 1944
  • 51st Rifle Division - for June to July 1944
  • 119th Infantry Division - from June to January 18, 1945
  • 158th Rifle Division - from September to October 1944
  • 239th Rifle Division - from January to January 18 1945
  • 332nd Rifle Division - from July 1944 to January 18 1945
  • 357th Infantry Division - for June to July 1944
  • 360th Infantry Division - for June to January 18 1945
• 84th Rifle Corps - from October 1944 to February, from April 17, 1945
  • 47th Infantry Division - from December 1944 to January 1945
    
  • 158th Rifle Division - from October to December 1944
    
  • 191st Rifle Division - from November to December 1944
  • 251st Rifle Division - from October 13 to December 2, 1944
  • 270th Rifle Division - since April 17, 1945
  • 332nd Rifle Division - from January to February 1945
• 92nd Rifle Corps - since February 1945
  • 156th Rifle Division - since January 1945
  • 179th Rifle Division - since February 1945
  • 257th Rifle Division - since March 5, 1945
• 100th Rifle Corps - from July to September 1944
  • 21st Guards rifle division
  • 28th Infantry Division
  • 200th Rifle Division
• 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division - from July 1944 to August, from February to March 1945
• 32nd Infantry Division - since May 1945
• 101st Infantry Brigade - from July to August 1944
• 155th fortified area - from July to September 1944

Artillery RVGK, army and corps artillery

• 21st Artillery Breakthrough Division - from January to February 1945
  • 64th Heavy Cannon Artillery Brigade
  • 55th Howitzer Artillery Brigade
  • 94th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade
  • 103rd High Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade
  • 25th Mortar Brigade
• 8th Cannon Artillery Division - from January to February 1945
  • 26th Guards cannon artillery brigade - since January 1945
  • 28th Guards cannon artillery brigade - from September 1944 to October, from January 1945
• 138th Cannon Artillery Brigade - as of June 1944
• 93rd Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade - from January to February 1945
• 1224th Howitzer Artillery Brigade - from January to February 1945
• 64th Howitzer Artillery Regiment - for June 1944 to July, from February to March 1945
• 376th Howitzer Artillery Regiment - from February to March 1945
• 283rd Howitzer Artillery Regiment - for June to July 1944
• 480th Howitzer Artillery Regiment - for June to July 1944
• 45th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment - from November 1944 to January 1945
• 587th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment - as of June 1944
• 20th Mortar Brigade - from January to February 1945
  • 20th Artillery Breakthrough Division
• 31st Mortar Brigade - from September 1944 to October, from November to February 1945
• 408th Mortar Regiment - from September to March 1944
• 556th Mortar Regiment - as of June 1944
• 2nd Guards mortar division of rocket artillery - from January to February 1945
  • 17th Guards mortar brigade rocket artillery
  • 20th Guards mortar brigade rocket artillery
  • 26th Guards mortar brigade rocket artillery
• 2nd Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - from January to February 1945
• 22nd Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - from February to May 1945
• 34th Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - from January to February 1945
• 39th Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - from October to November 1944
• 49th Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - from January to February 1945
• 72nd Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - from August to September 1944
• 99th Guards rocket artillery mortar regiment - for June to August 1944
• 7th separate aeronautical division of artillery observation balloons - from July to August 1944
• 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division - from January to March 1945
  • 1069th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 1086th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 1113th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 1117th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
• 42nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division - from August to September 1944
  • 620th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 709th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 714th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 729th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
• 46th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
  • 609th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment - for June to July 1944
  • 617th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment - for June 1944 to August, from November to February 1945
  • 618th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment - for June 1944 to July, from November to February 1945
  • 717th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment - for June 1944 to July, from November to February 1945
• 73rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division - since March 1945
  • 205th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 402nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 430th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 442nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
• 1624th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment - as of June 1944
• 1714th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment - from October to November 1944
• 622nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion - from July to August 1944

Armored and mechanized forces

• 3rd Guards mechanized corps - from January to February 1945
  • 9th Guards mechanized brigade
  • 35th Guards tank brigade
  • 380th Guards heavy self-propelled artillery regiment
  • 1823rd self-propelled artillery regiment
  • 129th Mortar Regiment
  • 334th Guards rocket artillery mortar battalion
  • 743rd separate anti-tank artillery division
  • 1705th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
  • 1st Guards motorcycle battalion
• 34th Guards tank brigade - from January to February 1945
• 39th Guards tank brigade - from September 1944 to October, from January to February 1945
• 105th separate tank regiment - from August to October 1944
• 47th separate flamethrower tank regiment - from January to February 1945
• 119th Engineer Separate Tank Regiment - from January to February 1945
  • 10th Assault Engineer Brigade
• 171st separate tank battalion - for June to September 1944
• 333rd Guards heavy self-propelled artillery regiment - from September to February 1944
• 335th Guards heavy self-propelled artillery regiment - from November to December 1944
• 336th Guards heavy self-propelled artillery regiment - from January to February 1945
• 346th Guards heavy self-propelled artillery regiment - from January to February 1945
• 957th self-propelled artillery regiment - from October to February 1944
• 999th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment - from August to October 1944
• 1022nd self-propelled artillery regiment - from November to February 1944
• 1051st self-propelled artillery regiment - from January to February 1945
• 1056th self-propelled artillery regiment - from February to March 1945
• 1297th self-propelled artillery regiment - from August to September 1944
• 1403rd self-propelled artillery regiment - from August to September 1944
• 1476th self-propelled artillery regiment - from August to September 1944
• 272nd separate motorized special purpose battalion - since February 1945
• 285th separate motorized battalion OSNAZ - since April 1944
• 44th separate division of armored trains - since February 1945
• 60th separate division of armored trains - for June to October 1944

Corps of Engineers

• 2nd engineer brigade - since July 1944
• 10th Assault Engineer Brigade - from January to February 1945
• 21st motorized assault engineer brigade RGK - from December to February 1945
  • 229th Motorized Assault Engineer Battalion - from February to March 1945
• 106th Motorized Pontoon-Bridge Battalion - from December 1944 to February, from May 1945

Flamethrower units

• 12th separate flamethrower battalion - as of June 1944
• 35th separate flamethrower battalion - from January to February 1945
• 45th separate flamethrower battalion - from January to March 1945

PERSONNEL

Total: 6

Officers:

• Art. Lieutenant Andreev Vasily Andreevich, platoon commander of junior lieutenant courses 1909 - 08/01/1944
• Captain Bezyzvestny Ivan Egorovich, was at the disposal of the Military Council 1914 - 08/02/1944
• Major a/s Dokolin Pavel Pavlovich, head of the field communications department 1904 - 10/19/1944
• Military Major General Logadyuk Yakov Osipovich, chief of signal troops 1898 - 07/27/1944
• captain Sedykh Stepan Grigorievich, commandant of the rear department 1908 - 04/12/1945

Rank and file:

• Evsin Vasily Mikhailovich, served in the quartermaster department of the headquarters 1899 - missing

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The feat that the soldiers performed in defense and the liberation of the Republic of Latvia led to Our Victory, and the memory of the people who gave their lives for this will not be forgotten.

GAGARIN, see GZHATSK.

VADYACH. Occupied on September 27, 1941. Liberated on February 26, 1943 by VoRF troops during the Kharkov operation:
40 A- part of the forces of the 340th Infantry Division (Major General Martirosyan Sarkis Sogomonovich).
Occupied on March 1, 1943. Liberated on September 11, 1943 by WarF troops during the offensive in the Kiev direction during the Battle of the Dnieper:
40 A- 38th Infantry Division (Colonel Bogdanov Alexander Vladimirovich) 47th Infantry Division (Major General Gryaznov Afanasy Sergeevich).
47 A- 23 sk (Major General Nikita Emelyanovich Chuvakov) consisting of: 23 SD (Major General Alexander Ignatievich Korolev), 337 SD (Major General Grigory Osipovich Lyaskin); 88 Tgabr (Colonel Kofanov Vladimir Ivanovich), part of the forces of 47 Gabr (Colonel Struyev Andrey Stepanovich).
2 VA- part of the forces of 291 shad (Colonel Vitruk Andrey Nikiforovich); 256 IAD (Colonel Gerasimov Nikolai Semenovich) 5 IAC (Major General Avts. Galunov Dmitry Pavlovich).

GAYSIN. Occupied on July 25, 1941. Liberated on November 18, 1943, by the 2nd Partisan Brigade (Kondratyuk Anatoly Gerasimovich).
Occupied on November 19, 1943. Liberated on March 14, 1944 by troops of the 2nd UV during the Uman-Botosha operation:
40 A- 232nd Infantry Division (Major General Maxim Evseevich Kozyr) 51st Infantry Division (Major General Petr Petrovich Avdeenko).

GALICH. Occupied on July 2, 1941. Liberated on July 24, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation:
1st Guards A- 74 sk (Lieutenant General Sheverdin Fedor Efimovich) consisting of: 147 SD (Colonel Gerasimov Ivan Stepanovich), 155 SD (Colonel Ivanchura Ivan Markovich), 276 SD (Major General Bezhko Petr Maksimovich); 1 department Guards TPP (Lieutenant Colonel Strelets Anton Arsentievich); 24th Guards pabr (Colonel Brozgol Nikolai Izrailevich); 6th IF (Colonel Astapov Alexander Vasilievich).

GATCHINA, see KRASNOGVARDEYSK.

GVARDEYSK, see TAPIAU.

GDOV. Occupied on July 19, 1941. Liberated on February 4, 1944 by LenF troops during the Leningrad-Novgorod operation:
42 A- part of the forces of the 196th Infantry Division (Major General Ratov Pyotr Filippovich) 108th Infantry Division (Major General Tikhonov Mikhail Fedorovich).
The 40th partisan detachment (Andrey Efimovich Strelnikov) of the 9th Leningrad Partisan Brigade took part in the liberation of the city.

GENICA. Occupied on September 16, 1941. Liberated on October 30, 1943 by troops of the 4th UV during the Melitopol operation:
28 A- PO 263rd Infantry Division (Colonel Pavel Mikhailovich Volosatykh) 67th Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Ivanovich Kislitsyn).

GEORGIEVSK. Occupied on August 15, 1942. Liberated on January 10, 1943 by troops of the ZakF (SGV) during the North Caucasus operation:
9 A- 11 sk (Major General Rubanyuk Ivan Andreevich) consisting of: 62 naval forces. brigade (Colonel Grigory Osipovich Lyaskin), 84 Marines. sbr (Colonel Pavlov Boris Konstantinovich).
58 A- 223rd Infantry Division (Major General Vladimir Pavlovich Zyuvanov).
4 VA- 217th IAD (Colonel Galunov Dmitry Pavlovich).
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 23, 1984, the city of Georgievsk for the successes achieved by the working people of the city in economic and cultural construction, noting their merits in the formation of Soviet power in the North Caucasus, in the fight against the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, and In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the friendly Treaty of Georgievsk between Russia and Georgia, he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

HERTZ. Occupied on July 4, 1941. Liberated on March 31, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
1 TA

GZHATSK (GAGARIN). Occupied on October 9, 1941. Liberated on March 6, 1943 by Western Front troops during the Rzhev-Vyazemsk operation:
5 A- 29th Guards. SD (Major General Stuchenko Andrey Trofimovich), part of the forces of the 153rd Brigade (Colonel Savinov Ivan Fedorovich); part of the forces of the 153rd Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Krutiy Yakov Anisimovich).

DEEP. Occupied on July 2, 1941. Liberated on July 3, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Polotsk operation:
43 A- 145 Infantry Division (Major General Dibrova Pyotr Akimovich) 92 Infantry Division (Major General Ibyansky Nikolai Boleslavovich); 39th Guards TBR (Colonel Kalinin Ivan Petrovich).
1 Tank Corps (Lieutenant General T/V Butkov Vasily Vasilyevich) consisting of: 89 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Ermakov Alexey Nikolaevich), 46 Mechanized Brigade (Major General Manzhurin Nikolai Lukich).
The 2nd partisan detachment (Semyon Ivanovich Kotov) of the “October” partisan brigade took part in the liberation of the city.

GLUKHOV. Occupied on September 9, 1941. Liberated on August 30, 1943 by troops of the Central Front during the Chernigov-Pripyat operation:
60 A- part of the forces of 70 Guards. SD (Colonel Gusev Ivan Andreevich); 23rd Tank Brigade (Colonel Demidov Mikhail Sergeevich) 9th Tank Brigade (Major General T/V Rudchenko Grigory Sergeevich); 1st Guards adp (Major General Art. Godin Grigory Vasilyevich) consisting of: 1st Guards. pabr (Lieutenant Colonel Kerp Vladimir Martynovich), 2nd Guards. Gabr (Colonel Telegin Alexey Ivanovich).
16 VA- 6 Sak (Major General Avts. Antoshkin Ivan Diomidovich) consisting of: 282 IAD (Lieutenant Colonel Berkal Yuri Mikhailovich), part of the forces of the 1st Guards. iad (Colonel Sukhoryabov Vladimir Vikentyevich), part of the forces of 221 Bad (Colonel Buzylev Sergey Favstovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Glukhovsky was assigned: 70 Guards. SD, 226 SD (Colonel Petrenko Vasily Yakovlevich), 23 TBR, 1 Guards. adp.
The troops who participated in the battles near Sevsk, Glukhov and Rylsk were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of August 31, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

GOMEL. Occupied on August 19, 1941. Liberated on November 26, 1943 by the Baltic Fleet troops during the Gomel-Rechitsa operation:
11 A- 4th Infantry Division (Colonel Vorobyov Dmitry Demyanovich) 25th Infantry Division (Major General Khazov Ivan Vasilievich); 115 UR (Major General Fedor Filippovich Pichugin).
48 A- 102nd Infantry Division (Major General Andrey Matveevich Andreev) 29th Infantry Division (Major General Slyshkin Afanasy Nikitovich).
By orders of the Supreme High Command, the name Gomel was assigned: 96 Infantry Division (Colonel Bulatov Fatykh Garipovich), 121 Guards. SD (Major General Chervoniy Logvin Danilovich), 283 SD (Colonel Konovalov Vasily Andreevich), 506 opulab (Major Fedorov Viktor Petrovich), 231 TP (Major Poleshchuk Porfiry Fedorovich), 253 TP (Lieutenant Colonel Andreev Vasily Ivanovich), 1444 SRT (Lieutenant Colonel Myachev Fedor Petrovich), 22nd adp (Colonel Korolev Kuzma Ignatovich), 295th Guards. pope (Lieutenant Colonel Podolsky Boris Vasilievich), 584 iptap (Lieutenant Colonel Ushakov Petr Nikolaevich), 1179 iptap (Colonel Yusupov Galey Yunusovich), 37 Guards. Ministry of Defense (Lieutenant Colonel Ostreiko Konstantin Nikolaevich), 92nd Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Petrovich Tsarev), 481 Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Ignatievich Derbenev), 57 Isbr (Colonel Iosif Andreevich Loginov), 85 Bomb (Lieutenant Colonel Petr Isaakovich Masik), 741 Minzhb (Major Pavel Stepanovich Fedorchuk), 273 Iad (Colonel Ivan Fedorov Evgrafovich), 282 iad (Lieutenant Colonel Berkal Yuri Mikhailovich), 301 bad (Colonel Fedorenko Fedor Mikhailovich);
4th Guards Ak DD (Colonel Kovalev Sergey Pavlovich), 5th Guards. AD DD (Lieutenant Colonel Timashev Pavel Emelyanovich), 45 AD DD (Major General Avts. Lebedev Viktorin Ivanovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of November 26, 1943, the troops who participated in the liberation of Gomel were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

SLIDES. Occupied on July 12, 1941. Liberated on June 26, 1944 by troops of the 2nd BF during the Mogilev operation:
33 A- part of the forces of the 70th Infantry Division (Colonel Kolesnikov Mikhail Methodievich).

GORLOVKA. Occupied on November 2, 1941. Liberated on September 4, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
5 beats A- 55 sk (Major General Pyotr Ermolaevich Lovyagin) consisting of: 127 SD (Colonel Krymov Margazian Galliulovich), 126 SD (Colonel Kazartsev Alexander Ignatievich), 271 SD (Colonel Govorov Ivan Pavlovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Gorlovsky was assigned: 126 SD and 271 SD.
The troops who participated in the liberation of Donbass, during which they captured Gorlovka and other cities, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on September 8, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

GORODENKA. Occupied on July 5, 1941. Liberated on March 25, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
1 TA- 8th Guards MK (Major General Dremov Ivan Fedorovich) consisting of: 1st Guards. TBR (Colonel Gorelov Vladimir Mikhailovich), 21st Guards. MBR (Colonel Yakovlev Ivan Ivanovich).

TOWN (Vitebsk region). Occupied on July 10, 1941. Liberated on December 24, 1943 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Gorodok operation:
11th Guards A- 8th Guards sk (Lieutenant General Petr Fedorovich Malyshev) consisting of: 5th Guards. SD (Major General Soldatov Nikolai Lavrentievich), 83rd Guards. SD (Major General Vorobiev Yakov Stepanovich), 26th Guards. SD (Major General Korzhenevsky Nikolai Nikolaevich); 16th Guards sk (Major General Fedyunkin Ivan Fedorovich) consisting of: 1st Guards. SD (Major General Kropotin Nikolai Alekseevich), part of the forces of the 11th Guards. SD (Major General Maksimov Alexander Ivanovich); 10th Guards Tank Brigade (Colonel Burlyga Andrey Romanovich), 159th Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Semibratov Fedor Fedorovich); 15 adp (Colonel Korochkin Alexander Alekseevich) consisting of: part of the forces of the 35th brigade (Colonel Kushner Petr Semenovich), part of the forces of the 69th labr (Lieutenant Colonel Levin Abram Grigorievich), 18th minbr (Colonel Repyev Innokenty Nikolaevich); 21 adp (Major General Art. Samborsky Kirill Nikitovich) consisting of: 66 labr (Colonel Frolov Mikhail Nazarovich), 94 tgabr (Colonel Ponomarev Vladimir Ivanovich), 25 minbr (Colonel Mikhalev Sergei Sergeevich); part of the forces of the 10th Schisbr (Colonel Polyakovsky Ezekiel Gilevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Gorodoksky was assigned: 5th Guards. SD, 11th Guards. SD, 26th Guards. SD, 83rd Guards. SD, 10th Guards Tbr, 17th iptabr (Colonel Nelepa Vasily Pavlovich), 488 popes (Colonel Shtulberg Matvey Yakovlevich), 523 cap (Colonel Toropov Pavel Egorovich), 2nd Guards. Mind (Colonel Aprelkin Ivan Aleksandrovich), 545 Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Smirnov Anton Petrovich), 6th Guards. Ministry of Zhb (Major Evgrafov Alexey Ivanovich), 259th IAD (Colonel Kurbatov Yakov Arkhipovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of December 24, 1943, the troops who participated in the liberation of Gorodok were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

TOWN (Lviv region). Occupied on June 30, 1941. Liberated on July 27, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation:
3rd Guards TA- 7th Guards TK (Major General t/v Mitrofanov Vasily Andreevich) consisting of: 54 Guards. TBR (Colonel Ugryumov Stepan Ivanovich), 55th Guards. TBR (Colonel Dragunsky David Abramovich), 23rd Guards. MSBR (Colonel Golovachev Alexander Alekseevich), 702 SAF (Lieutenant Colonel Kostin Ivan Dmitrievich).
2 VA- part of the forces of 1 Guards. bad (Colonel Dobysh Fedor Ivanovich) 2nd Guards. tank (Major General Avts. Polbin Ivan Semenovich).

GOROKHOV. Occupied on June 24, 1941. Liberated on April 2, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernovtsy operation;
13 A- part of the forces of the 389th Infantry Division (Colonel Leonid Aleksandrovich Kolobov) 76th Infantry Division (Lieutenant General Mikhail Ivanovich Glukhov).
Occupied on April 6, 1944. Liberated on July 13, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation:
3rd Guards A- 389 Infantry Division (Colonel Kolobov Leonid Aleksandrovich) 22 Infantry Division (Major General Zakharov Fedor Vasilievich); 150 tbr (Colonel Pushkarev Sergey Filippovich); 47 Gabr (Colonel Struyev Andrey Stepanovich).
The troops who participated in breaking through the enemy's defenses in the Lvov direction, during which Gorokhov and other cities were liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated July 18, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

GORSKOE. Occupied on July 11, 1942. Liberated on February 8, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Voroshilovgrad operation:
1st Guards A- 44 Guards SD (Major General Kupriyanov Dmitry Andreevich) 6th Guards. sk (Major General Alferov Ivan Prokopyevich).
Occupied on March 3, 1943. Liberated on September 3, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Donbass operation:
3rd Guards A

HOSTYNI, now part of the town of Plavinas. Occupied on June 29, 1941. Liberated on August 20, 1944 by troops of the 2nd PribF during the offensive in the Riga direction:
22 A- part of the forces of 155 UR (Colonel Starukhin Nikolai Ivanovich).

GRAYVORON. Occupied on October 19, 1941. Liberated on February 16, 1943 by VoRF troops during the Kharkov operation:
40 A- 107th Infantry Division (Major General Pyotr Maksimovich Bezhko).
Occupied on March 13, 1943. Liberated on August 7, 1943 by VoF troops during the Belgorod-Kharkov operation:
4th Guards mk (lieutenant general t/v Pavel Pavlovich Poluboyarov) consisting of: 12th Guards. TBR (Colonel Dushak Nikolai Grigorievich), 13th Guards. TBR (Colonel Baukov Leonid Ivanovich), 3rd Guards. MSBR (Colonel Leonov Mikhail Pavlovich).
1 TA- 21st Guards TBR (Colonel Ovcharenko Kuzma Ivanovich) 5th Guards. mk (lieutenant general t/v Kravchenko Andrey Grigorievich).
2 VA- 5th Jacob (Major General Avts. Galunov Dmitry Pavlovich) consisting of: 8th Guards. Iad (Colonel Ilya Pavlovich Laryushkin), 256 Iad (Colonel Gerasimov Nikolai Semenovich); 291 shad (Colonel Vitruk Andrey Nikiforovich), 202 bad (Colonel Nechiporenko Stepan Ignatievich), part of the forces of 293 bad (Colonel Gribakin Guriy Vasilyevich) 1 tank (Colonel Polbin Ivan Semenovich).

MANE. Occupied on June 26, 1941. Liberated on July 28, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
6th Guards A- 154th Infantry Division (Colonel Alexey Prokofievich Moskalenko) 103rd Infantry Division (Major General Fedyunkin Ivan Fedorovich).

COMBIN. Occupied June 26, 1941 Liberated May 10
1945 by troops of 51 A LenF during the surrender of the enemy Courland group.

GRODNO. Occupied on June 23, 1941. Liberated on July 16, 1944 by troops of the 3rd BF and 2nd BF during the Bialystok and Vilnius operations.
3 BF: 31 A- 36 sk (Major General Provalov Konstantin Ivanovich) consisting of: 220 SD (Major General Polevik Vasily Alekseevich), 174 SD (Colonel Demin Nikita Ivanovich), 352 SD (Major General Strizhenko Nikolai Mikhailovich); 926 glanders (lieutenant colonel Alexander Nikitovich Khukhrin), 927 glanders (lieutenant colonel Fedor Andreevich Legeza); 140th April (Colonel Sergei Fedotovich Fedotov).
1 VA- part of the forces of 1 Guards. Shad (Colonel Prutkov Stepan Dmitrievich), 4th Guards. Iad (Colonel Kitaev Vladimir Alekseevich) 1st Guards. IAC (Lieutenant General Avts. Beletsky Evgeniy Mikhailovich); part of the forces of 240 IAD (Colonel Zimin Georgy Vasilyevich), 6th Guards. bad (Colonel Chuchev Grigory Alekseevich).
2 BF: 50 A- 69 sk (Major General Multan Nikolai Nikolaevich) consisting of: 42 sd (Colonel Slits Anton Ivanovich), 153 sd (Colonel Shchennikov Alexander Alexandrovich); 81 sk (Major General Fedor Dmitrievich Zakharov) consisting of: 95 SD (Colonel Sergei Konstantinovich Artemyev), 290 SD (Major General Isaac Gasparovich Gasparyan); 1444 glanders (Colonel Myachev Fedor Petrovich); 4th iptabr (Colonel Savlevich Mikhail Petrovich).
3rd Guards kk (Lieutenant General Oslikovsky Nikolai Sergeevich) consisting of: 5th Guards CD (Major General Chepurkin Nikolai Stepanovich), 6th Guards. CD (Major General Pavel Porfirievich Brikel), St. IBR (Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Efimovich Kovtonyuk).
By orders of the Supreme High Command the name of the Grodno Guards was assigned: 3rd Guards. kk, 6th Guards. CD, 49 dad (Major Boris Petrovich Arbatov), ​​62 chap (Lieutenant Colonel Philip Stepanovich Starovoytov), ​​103 chap (Lieutenant Colonel Ermilov Ivan Afanasyevich), 162 iap (Lieutenant Colonel Petr Ivanovich Kolomin), 634 nbap (Major Lopukhovsky Alexander Ivanovich), 644 nbap ( Lieutenant Colonel Katrukha Stepan Nikitovich); 494 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Bulavko Artem Pavlovich), 508 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Zheleznikov Ivan Andreevich), 628 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Mudrak Ivan Stepanovich), 202 isb (Lieutenant Colonel Tselishchev Alexander Makarovich), 875 dept. Sapb (captain Kharitonov Ivan Petrovich), 877 department. Sapb (Major Ivin Panteleimon Ivanovich), 653 OLBS (Major Pivovarov Nikolai Ivanovich), 566 dept. tsr (captain Sergeev Artem Titovich), 967 department. kshr (captain Andreev Nikolai Mikhailovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command dated July 16, 1944, the troops who participated in the liberation of Grodno were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

GROSS-SKAYSGIRREN (BOLSHAKOVO). The city was captured on January 20, 1945 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Insterburg-Koenigsberg operation:
39 A- 1 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant General T/V Butkov Vasily Vasilyevich) consisting of: 89 Tank Brigade (Colonel Sommer Andrey Iosifovich), 117 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ivanovich Khalaev), 159 Tank Brigade (Colonel Petrovsky Konstantin Ostapovich), 44 Motorized Rifle Brigade (Colonel Kuznetsov Konstantin Gavrilovich).
Order of the Supreme High Command, see Tilsit.
The troops who participated in the capture of Gross-Skaisgirren and other cities were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of January 20, 1945, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

GULBEN. Occupied on July 3, 1941. Liberated on August 28, 1944 by troops of the 3rd PribF during the Tartu operation:
54 A- part of the forces of the 225th Infantry Division (Colonel Pesochin Mikhail Aleksandrovich) 123rd Infantry Division (Major General Verzhbitsky Viktor Antonovich).

GULAYAPOLE. Occupied on October 6, 1941. Liberated on September 16, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
5 beats A- 34 Guards SD (Major General Brailyan Philip Vasilievich) 31st Guards. sk (Major General Utvenko Alexander Ivanovich).
5th Guards kk (Major General Selivanov Alexey Gordeevich) - 12th Guards. CD (Colonel Grigorovich Vladimir Iosifovich).
8 VA- 3rd IAC (Major General Avts. Savitsky Evgeniy Yakovlevich) consisting of: 265 IAD (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Aleksandrovich Karyagin), 278 IAD (Colonel Vasily Timofeevich Lisin); 9th Guards iad (Colonel Dzusov Ibragim Magometovich).

GUMBINNEN (GUSEV). The city was captured on January 20, 1945 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Insterburg-Koenigsberg operation:
28 A- 130 Infantry Division (Major General Sychev Konstantin Vasilyevich) 128 Infantry Division (Major General Batitsky Pavel Fedorovich), part of the forces of the 55th Guards. SD (Major General Turchinsky Adam Petrovich) 20 sk (Major General Shvarev Nikolai Aleksandrovich), part of the forces of 20 SD (Colonel Nesterenko Ignatiy Gavrilovich); 82 dept. Guards TTP (Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov Vasily Ivanovich); part of the forces of the 154th APABR (Colonel Yuskovich Vasily Vasilyevich) 10th ADP (Colonel Struyev Andrey Stepanovich).
1 VA- 311 Shad (Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Petrovich Zaklepa), 240 Iad (Colonel Georgy Vasilyevich Zimin), 303 Iad (Major General, Avts. Zakharov Georgy Nefedovich), 330 Iad (Colonel Andreev Alexander Mikhailovich), 6 Guards. bad (Colonel Chuchev Grigory Alekseevich), 276 bad (Major General Avts. Nechiporenko Stepan Ignatievich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Gumbinnensky was assigned: 128 sk, 168 guards. joint venture (Colonel Belkin Ivan Ivanovich), 174 joint venture (Colonel Shatov Vasily Arkhipovich), 295 joint venture (Colonel Voloshin Andrey Maksimovich), 664 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Piryazev Sergey Afanasyevich), 10 adp, 158 tgabr (Colonel Tishin Petr Semenovich), 20 dad OM (Lieutenant Colonel Terekhin Mikhail Aleksandrovich), 245 department. adp OM (Lieutenant Colonel Maltsev Semyon Savelyevich), 9th department. Guards mshisb (Major Meshkov Alexey Nikiforovich), 120 OLBS (Major Morozkin Mikhail Afanasyevich), 656 OLBS (Major Ponomarev Philip Filimonovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command dated January 21, 1945, the troops who participated in the capture of Gumbipnen were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

GURYEVSK, see NEUHAUSEN.

GUSEV, see GUMBINNEN.

GUSTE (HUST). Liberated on October 24, 1944 by troops of the 4th UV during the Carpathian-Uzhgorod operation:
17th Guards sk (Major General Gastilovich Anton Iosifovich) consisting of: 8th rifle division (Colonel Ugryumov Nikolai Stepanovich), 138th rifle division (Colonel Vasiliev Vasily Efimovich).

GUSYATIN. Occupied on July 7, 1941. Liberated on March 24, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
1st Guards A- part of the forces of the 24th Infantry Division (Major General Prokhorov Fedor Aleksandrovich) 11th Infantry Division (Major General Zamertsev Ivan Terentyevich).
4 TA- 10 Guards TK (Major General t/v Belov Evtikhiy Emelyanovich) consisting of: 61 Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Zhukov Nikolai Grigorievich), 62nd Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Denisov Sergey Alekseevich).
1 TA- part of the forces of 45 Guards. TBR (Colonel Morgunov Nikolai Viktorovich) 11th Guards. mk (lieutenant general t/v Getman Andrey Lavrentievich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Gusyatinskaya was assigned: 45 Guards. tbr.
The troops who participated in the breakthrough of the enemy’s defense, during which Gusyatin and other cities were liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of March 24, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DAVID TOWN. Occupied on July 7, 1941. Liberated on July 9, 1944 by troops of the 1st BF during the offensive in the Luninets-Pinsk direction in the Belarusian operation:
61 A- reconnaissance unit of the 397th Infantry Division (Colonel Andonyev Nikolai Fedorovich).

DARKEMEN (OZERSK). The city was captured on January 23, 1945 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Ipsterburg-Koenigsberg operation:
2nd Guards A- 32nd Guards SD (Major General Zakurenkov Nikolai Kuzmich) 11th Guards. sk (Major General Arushanyan Bagrat Isaakovich).
The troops who participated in the battles during the crossing of the Daime and Pregel rivers and the capture of Darkemen and other cities were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of January 23, 1945, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DAUGAVPILS. Occupied on June 26, 1941. Liberated on July 27, 1944 by troops of the 2nd PribF and 1st PribF during the Rezhitsa-Dvina and Siauliai operations.
2 PribF: 4 Ud. A- 14 sk (Major General Artyushenko Pavel Alekseevich) consisting of: 239 SD (Major General Vvedensky Konstantin Vladimirovich), part of the forces of 311 SD (Colonel Vladimirov Boris Aleksandrovich), 378 SD (Major General Belov Alexander Romanovich); 83 sk (Major General Soldatov Nikolai Lavrentievich) consisting of: 119 SD (Colonel Toropchin Ivan Mikhailovich), 360 SD (Major General Chinnov Ivan Ivanovich); 999 glanders (Major Nikolai Fedosovich Kozhemyachko), 1297 glanders (Major Mikhail Vasilyevich Bondarenko), 1476 glanders (Lieutenant Colonel Fedor Konstantinovich Shiyko); 19th Schisbr (Lieutenant Colonel Georgy Alekseevich Belozertsev).
1st PribF: 6th Guards. A- part of the forces of the 154th Infantry Division (Colonel Alexey Prokofievich Moskalenko) of the 103rd Infantry Division (Major General Fedyunkin Ivan Fedorovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Dvinsky was assigned to: 200 SD (Major General Lyashchenko Efim Antonovich), 311 SD, 319 SD (Colonel Dmitry Arsentievich Dulov), 325 SD (Colonel Nikita Zakharovich Sukhorebrov), 59 Guards. joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Chebotarev Nikolai Mikhailovich), 421 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Yakovlev Alexander Mikhailovich), 1117 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Prokhno Petr Kuzmin), 1119 joint venture (Colonel Mysin Nikon Guryanovich), 1193 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Korzhik Dmitry Makarovich), 5 Tank Corps (Major General t/v Sakhno Mikhail Gordeevich), 118 tank brigade (Colonel Bregvadze Leonty Konstantinovich), 999 glanders, 1297 glanders, 1403 glanders (captain Pichugin Mikhail Ivanovich), 1476 glanders, 1498 glanders (lieutenant colonel Yamshchikov Alexey Mikhailovich), 1503 glanders (lieutenant colonel Vladimir Ogorodnikov Semenovich), 18 department. iptabr (Colonel Mikhail Aleksandrovich Mishnin), 27th Guards. Minp (Major Ivan Fedorovich Malyk), 72nd Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Petr Petrovich Kurienko), 85th Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Plotnikov Valentin Alekseevich), 19th Shibr, 26th Isbr (Colonel Egorov Andrey Georgievich), 56th Ops (Colonel Bolshakov Pavel Vasilyevich), 190th Shap (Major Bakhtin Ivan Pavlovich), 638th Nbap (Lieutenant Colonel Shtovba Karp Vasilyevich).
The troops who participated in the liberation of Daugavpils and Rezekne were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on July 27, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DVINSK, see DAUGAVPILS.

DEBALTSEVO. Occupied on December 7, 1941. Liberated on September 3, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
51 A- 346th Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Ivanovich Stankevsky) 54th Infantry Division (Major General Kolomiets Trofim Kalinovich); part of the forces of the 11th iptabr (Colonel Stepashchenko Fedor Georgievich).
By order of the Supreme High Command the name was given to Debaltsevskaya: 346th Infantry Division.
The troops who participated in the liberation of Donbass, during which they captured Debaltsevo and other cities, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on September 8, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DEMIDOV. Occupied on July 13, 1941. Liberated on September 22, 1943 by KalF troops during the Dukhovshchinsko-Demidov operation:
43 A- 91 sk (Major General Volkov Fedor Andreevich) consisting of: 262 SD (Major General Usachev Zakhary Nikitovich), 270 SD (Colonel Belyaev Ivan Petrovich); part of the forces of the 145th infantry division (Major General Lyukhtikov Anisim Stefanovich) 1 sk (Major General Kotelnikov Vasily Petrovich); part of the forces of the 114th brigade (Colonel Yegoshin Tikhon Fedorovich); 105 TP (Lieutenant Colonel Georgy Gavrilovich Pavlov).
3 VA- part of the forces of 211 Shad (Colonel Pyotr Mikhailovich Kuchma), part of the forces of 259 Iad (Lieutenant Colonel Kurbatov Yakov Arkhipovich).
ADD- 4th Guards Ak DD (Colonel Kovalev Sergey Pavlovich) consisting of: part of the forces of the 4th Guards. ad dd (Colonel Kozhemyakin Ivan Ivanovich), part of the forces of the 5th Guards. hell dd (Lieutenant Colonel Timashev Pavel Emelyanovich); 7 Ak DD (Major General Avts. Viktor Efimovich Nestertsev) consisting of: part of the forces of 1 AD DD (Colonel Filippov Ivan Vasilyevich), part of the forces of 12 AD DD (Colonel Bozhko Georgy Dmitrievich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name of the Demidovskys was assigned to: 262 SD, 270 SD, 114 Brigade, 105 TP, 43 popes (Colonel Dydyshko Alexander Ivanovich), 118 minp (Lieutenant Colonel Melnikov Konstantin Vasilyevich), 273 inzhb (Major Alekseev Vsevolod Semenovich).

JANKOY. Occupied on October 31, 1941. Liberated on April 11, 1944 by troops of the 4th UV during the Crimean operation:
PG- 19 Tank Corps (Lieutenant General T/V Vasiliev Ivan Dmitrievich, also commander of the PG) consisting of: 202 Tank Brigade (Colonel Feshchenko Mikhail Grigorievich), 26 Motorized Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Khrapovitsky Anton Pavlovich), 52 dept. mtsp (major Nedilko Andrey Alekseevich), 867 sap (major Svidersky Alexander Grigorievich), 875 sap (major Oreshnikov Anatoly Alekseevich).
8 VA- part of the forces of the 6th Guards. bad (Colonel Chuchev Grigory Alekseevich).
The troops who participated in the battles during the breakthrough of the enemy defenses on Perekop and Sivash, the liberation of Armyansk and Dzhankoy, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated April 11, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DZERZHINSK (Donetsk region). Occupied on October 28, 1941. Liberated on September 5, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
51 A- 315th Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Semenovich Kuropatenko) 63rd Infantry Division (Major General Pyotr Kirillovich Koshevoy).

DZERZHINSK (Minsk region). Occupied on June 28, 1941. Liberated on July 7, 1944 by troops of the 2nd BF during the Bialystok operation:
49 A- part of the forces of the 290th Infantry Division (Major General Isaak Gasparovich Gasparyan) 81st Infantry Division (Major General Fedor Dmitrievich Zakharov).

DISNA. Occupied on July 5, 1941. Liberated on July 4, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Polotsk operation:
6th Guards A- 154th Infantry Division (Colonel Sochilov Leonid Timofeevich) 103rd Infantry Division (Major General Fedyunkin Ivan Fedorovich).
1 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant General T/V Butkov Vasily Vasilyevich) -159 Tank Brigade (Colonel Fedorov Ilya Andreevich).

DMITRIEV-LGOVSKY. Occupied on October 8, 1941. Liberated on March 2, 1943 by troops of the Central Front during an operation in the Sevsk direction:
2 TA- 112 Infantry Division (Major General Furt Porfiry Sergeevich).
The 1st Kursk Partisan Brigade (Ivan Konstantinovich Panchenko) and the 2nd Kursk Partisan Brigade named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky (Ostan Gavrilovich Kazankov) took part in the liberation of the city.

DMITROVSK-ORLOVSKY. Occupied on October 2, 1941. Liberated on August 12, 1943 by troops of the Central Front during the Oryol operation:
65 A- 18 sk (Major General Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich) consisting of: 37 Guards. SD (Colonel Ushakov Evgeniy Grigorievich), 149th SD (Colonel Orlov Andrey Arkhipovich); 29 department Guards Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Lieutenant Colonel Tezikov Pavel Petrovich).
70 A - 102 SD (Major General Andreev Andrey Matveevich).
16 VA- 6th IAC (Major General Avts. Erlykin Evgeniy Efimovich) consisting of: 273 IAD (Colonel Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich), 279 IAD (Colonel Dementyev Fedor Nikitovich); 2nd Guards Shad (Colonel Georgy Iosifovich Komarov), 299 Shad (Colonel Ivan Vasilievich Krupsky), 1st Guards. Iad (Colonel Vladimir Vikentyevich Sukhoryabov), 283 Iad (Colonel Sergey Prokofievich Denisov), 286 Iad (Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov), 301 bad (Colonel Fedorenko Fedor Mikhailovich).

DNEPRODZERZHINSK. Occupied on August 24, 1941. Liberated on October 25, 1943 by troops of the 3rd UV during the Dnepropetrovsk operation:
46 A- 6th Guards sk (Major General Alferov Ivan Prokopyevich) consisting of: 353 SD (Major General Kolchuk Fedor Samoilovich), 195 SD (Colonel Suchkov Alexander Mikhailovich); 52 dept. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Shkadov Ivan Nikolaevich), 1816 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Ryzhanov Mikhail Filippovich); 51st IRB (Colonel Vizirov Aslan Fakhradovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Dneprodzerzhinsky was assigned: 353 infantry division, 52 division. TP, 109 Guards. pope (Colonel Vasily Nikolaevich Ignatiev), 437 iptap (Major Vasily Dmitrievich Borodko), 51 Isbr.
The troops who participated in the liberation of Dnepropetrovsk and Dneprodzerzhinsk were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of October 25, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DNEPROPETROVSK. Occupied on August 25, 1941. Liberated on October 25, 1943 by troops of the 3rd UV during the Dnepropetrovsk operation:
46 A- 152nd Infantry Division (Colonel Pyotr Ivanovich Kulizhsky) 34th Infantry Division (Major General Ivan Stepanovich Kosobutsky).
8th Guards A- 39th Guards. SD (Major General Vasily Andreevich Leshchinin) 28th Guards. sk (Major General Guryev Stepan Savelyevich).
17 VA- 11th Guards Iad (Colonel Osadchiy Alexander Petrovich) 1st Guards. Sak (Major General Avts. Aladinsky Vladimir Ivanovich); part of the forces of 244 Bad (Major General Avts. Klevtsov Vasily Ilyich).
ADD- 3rd Guards ad dd (Colonel Brovko Ivan Karpovich) 3rd Guards. Ak DD (Major General Avts. Volkov Nikolai Andreevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name was given to the Dnepropetrovsk: 152 Infantry Division, 236 Infantry Division (Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Fesin), 518 Pope (Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Fedoseevich Mironov), 58th Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Linenko Vasily Zakharovich), 1114 zenap (Lieutenant Colonel Golubchikov Vasily Ivanovich), 4 Pombres (Lieutenant Colonel Balandin Konstantin Maksimovich), 5 Pombres (Lieutenant Colonel Nominas Boris Deomidovich), 8 metropolitan pumps (Lieutenant Colonel Korzhov Valentin Petrovich), 3 Guards. hell dd, 11th Guards. iad.
The troops who participated in the liberation of Dnepropetrovsk and Dpeprodzerzhipsk were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of October 25, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.
Noting the active participation of the working people of the city of Dnepropetrovsk in the revolutionary movement, in the fight against the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, for great achievements in economic and cultural construction, the successful implementation of the tasks of the ninth five-year plan and in connection with the 200th anniversary of the founding by the Decree of the Supreme Presidium Council of the USSR on May 20, 1976, the city of Dnepropetrovsk was awarded the Order of Lenin.

BOTTOM. Occupied on July 18, 1941. Liberated on February 24, 1944 by troops of the Leningrad Fleet and 2nd PribF during the Leningrad-Novgorod operation.
LenF: 54 A- 111 sk (Major General Rozhdestvensky Boris Aleksandrovich) consisting of: 288 SD (Major General Kolchanov Grigory Semenovich), 44 SD (Colonel Vorobyov Ivan Andreevich); 16 dept. TBR (Colonel Urvanov Kirill Osipovich).
2 PribF: 1 Ud. A- 14th Guards sk (Major General Stepanenko Pavel Afinogenovich) consisting of: 182 SD (Colonel Shatilov Vasily Mitrofanovich), 137 Special Brigade (Colonel Shulgin Stepan Stepanovich); 37 TP (Lieutenant Colonel Shilo Makar Antonovich).
By orders of the Supreme High Command, the name Dnovsky was assigned: 182 Infantry Division, 23 Guards. SD (Colonel Kartavenko Andrey Markovich), 137th Special Brigade, 37th Tank Troops, 239th Tank Troops (Lieutenant Colonel Goryachev Ivan Petrovich); 288 rifle division, 16 divisions Tbr, 823 oradn (Lieutenant Colonel Chumakov Petr Nesterovich), 499 arm. Ministry of Defense (Major Nikolay Markovich Makarov), 539 department. Ministry of Internal Affairs (Major Plushko Grigory Makarovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of February 24, 1944, the troops who participated in the liberation of the city of Dno were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

DOBELE. Occupied on June 28, 1941. Liberated on July 31, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
3rd Guards MK (Lieutenant General t/v Obukhov Viktor Timofeevich) -PO 35 Guards. TBR (Major General T/V Aslanov Azi Agadovich).

DOBROVOLSK, see PILKALLEN.

DOBROMIL. Occupied on June 28, 1941. Liberated on July 27, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lvov-Sandomierz operation:
3rd Guards TA- 91st brigade (Colonel Viktor Ivanovich Tutushkin).

DOBRUSH. Occupied on August 21, 1941. Liberated on October 10, 1943 by troops of the Central Front during a private operation in the Gomel direction:
48 A- part of the forces of the 73rd Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Ivanovich Smirnov) of the 42nd Infantry Division (Major General Konstantin Stepanovich Kolganov).

DOKSHITSY. Occupied on July 9, 1941. Liberated on July 2, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Polotsk operation:
43 A- 306th Infantry Division (Major General Mikhail Ivanovich Kucheryavenko) 1st Infantry Division (Lieutenant General Nikolai Alekseevich Vasiliev); part of the forces of 10 Guards. TBR (Colonel Volkov Nikolai Vladimirovich), 1203 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Serov Alexander Ivanovich).
The 1st partisan detachment (Grigory Emelyanovich Akhonenko) of the Zheleznyak partisan brigade took part in the liberation of the city.

VALLEY. Occupied on July 3, 1941. Liberated on July 31, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lvov-Sandomierz operation:
18 A- 95 sk (Major General Ivan Ivanovich Melnikov) consisting of: 351 SD (Major General Ilya Fedorovich Dudarev), 66 Guards. SD (Major General Frolov Sergei Frolovich).

DOLINSK, see OTIAI.

DOMBROVITSA (DUBROVITSA). Occupied on July 9, 1941. Liberated on January 10, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Zhitomir-Berdichev operation:
13 A- part of the forces of the 397th Infantry Division (Colonel Andonyev Nikolai Fedorovich) 77th Infantry Division (Major General Ivanov Nikolai Ivanovich).

DONETSK, see STALIN.

DONETSKO-AMVROSIEVKA (AMVROSIEVKA). Occupied on October 21, 1941. Liberated on August 23, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
4th Guards MK (Major General t/v Tanaschishin Trofim Ivanovich) consisting of: 14th Guards. MBR (Lieutenant Colonel Nikitin Nikodim Alekseevich), 15th Guards. MBR (Lieutenant Colonel Ovcharov Alexander Mikhailovich).

DONSKOY. Occupied on November 26, 1941. Liberated on December 13, 1941 by Western Front troops during the Tula operation:
10 A- 328th Infantry Division (Colonel Eremin Pyotr Antonovich).

DOROGOBUZH. Occupied on October 5, 1941. Liberated on February 15, 1942 by Soviet partisans during the Rzhev-Vyazemsk operation:
Partisan detachment "Hurricane" (Demenkov Feoktist Nikolaevich), partisan detachment "Grandfather" (Kiselev Vasily Andreevich), partisan detachment "Grandfather" (Voronchenko Vasily Isaevich).
Occupied on June 7, 1942. Liberated on September 1, 1943 by Western Front troops during the Elninsk-Dorogobuzh operation:
5 A- part of the forces of the 312th Infantry Division (Colonel Moiseevsky Alexander).

DRISSA (VERKHNEDVINSK). Occupied on July 3, 1941. Liberated on July 12, 1944 by troops of the 2nd PribF during the Rezhitsa-Dvina operation:
4 beats A- part of the forces of the 332nd Infantry Division (Colonel Egoshin Tikhon Fedorovich) 83rd Infantry Division (Major General Soldatov Nikolai Lavrentievich).

DROGOBYCH. Occupied on July 1, 1941. Liberated on August 6, 1944 by troops of the 4th UV during the Lvov-Sandomierz operation:
1st Guards A- 107 sk (Major General Dmitry Vasilyevich Gordeev) consisting of: 167 SD (Colonel Dryakhlov Ivan Dmitrievich), 129 Guards. SD (Colonel Grinchenko Timofey Ustinovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Drogobych was assigned: 107 sk, 330 guards. joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Ryabov Alexander Vasilyevich), 520 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Akulov Petr Grigorievich), 306 ap (Major Vladimir Fedorovich Pokatilo), 1356 zenap (Major Levitsky Pavel Afanasyevich), 115 isb (Major Safronov Sergey Aleksandrovich).
The troops who participated in the liberation of Drohobych were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on August 6, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

FRIENDSHIP, see ALLENBURG.

DRUZHKOVKA. Occupied on October 26, 1941. Liberated on February 6, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Voroshilovgrad operation:
Operational group - 103rd brigade (Colonel Georgy Maksimovich Maksimov) 3rd tank brigade (Major General T/V Sinenko Maxim Denisovich).
Occupied on February 9, 1943. Liberated on September 6, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Donbass operation:
3rd Guards A- part of the forces of the 279th Infantry Division (Major General Vladimir Stepanovich Potapenko) 32nd Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Sergeevich Zherebin); 1st Guards MBR (Colonel Chervyakov Fedor Vasilievich) 1st Guards. MK (Lieutenant General Russiyanov Ivan Nikitich).

DUBNO. Occupied on June 25, 1941. Liberated on March 17, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
13 A- operational group (Lieutenant General Nechaev Alexander Nikolaevich) consisting of: part of the forces of the 172nd rifle division (Colonel Korkishko Nikita Vasilyevich), part of the forces of the 149th rifle division (Colonel Orlov Andrey Arkhipovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command dated March 17, 1944, the troops who participated in the liberation of Dubno were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

DUBROVITSA, see DOMBROVITSA.

DUBROVNO. Occupied on July 16, 1941. Liberated on June 26, 1944 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Vitebsk-Orsha operation:
31 A- 331st Infantry Division (Major General Petr Filippovich Berestov) 71st Infantry Division (Lieutenant General Pyotr Kirillovich Koshevoy), 220th Infantry Division (Colonel Vasily Alekseevich Polevik) 36th Infantry Division (Major General Nikolai Nikolaevich Oleshev).
1 VA- 3 shak (Major General Avts. Gorlachenko Mikhail Iosifovich) consisting of: 307 shad (Colonel Kozhemyakin Alexander Vladimirovich), 308 shak (Colonel Chumachenko Leonid Karpovich); 7th Guards IAD (Major General Avts. Zabaluev Vyacheslav Mikhailovich) 2nd IAC (Lieutenant General Avts. Blagoveshchensky Alexey Sergeevich).

DURBE. Occupied on June 30, 1941. Liberated on May 9, 1945 by LenF troops during the surrender of the enemy Courland group.

SPIRITUALITY. Occupied on July 15, 1941. Liberated on September 19, 1943 by KalF troops during the Dukhovshchinsko-Demidov operation:
39 A- 2nd Guards sk (Major General Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich) consisting of: 91st Guards. SD (Major General Ozimin Mikhail Ivanovich), part of the forces of the 97th SD (Major General Davydov Pyotr Mikhailovich); 5th Guards sk (Major General Viktor Genrikhovich Poznyak) consisting of: 17th Guards. SD (Major General Kvashnin Alexander Petrovich), 19th Guards. SD (Major General Boris Semenovich Maslov); 21 adp (Major General Art. Samborsky Kirill Nikitovich) consisting of: 64 tgabr (Colonel Akhnazaryan Karapet Vardonovich), 94 tgabr (Colonel Ponomarev Vladimir Ivanovich), part of the forces of 66 labr (Colonel Frolov Mikhail Nazarovich), 25 mitsbr (Colonel Mikhalev Sergey Sergeevich); 4th Schisbr (Lieutenant Colonel Matuzas Grigory Ivanovich).
PMG (Colonel Dremov Ivan Fedorovich) consisting of: 46 mechanized brigade (Colonel Manzhurin Nikolay Lukich), 47 mechanized brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Mikhailov Roman Evdokimovich), 1820 glanders (Major Gora Ivan Savelyevich), 4 iptabr (Colonel Savlevich Mikhail Petrovich).
ADD- 7 Ak DD (Major General Avts. Nestertsev Viktor Efimovich) consisting of: part of the forces of 1 AD DD (Colonel Filippov Ivan Vasilyevich), part of the forces of 12 AD DD (Colonel Bozhko Georgy Dmitrievich); 8 Ak DD (Major General Avts. Buyansky Nikolai Nikolaevich) consisting of: part of the forces of 36 AD DD (Colonel Dryanin Vitaly Filippovich), part of the forces 48 AD DD (Colonel Nabokov Semyon Konstantinovich); part of the forces of 45 AD DD (Major General Avts. Lebedev Viktorin Ivanovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Dukhovshchinsky was assigned: 17th Guards. SD, 91st Guards SD, 184 SD (Colonel Tsukarev Samuil Ilyich), 46 infantry brigade, 47 infantry brigade, 21 adp, 4 iptabr, 4 shirbr.
The troops who broke through the enemy's defenses on the roads to Smolensk and participated in the battles for Dukhovshchina and Yartsevo were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of September 19, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

DYATKOVO. Occupied on October 9, 1941. Liberated on September 15, 1943 by troops of the BrF during the Bryansk operation:
3 A- 186th Infantry Division (Major General Revunenkov Grigory Vasilyevich).
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 6, 1983, the city of Dyatkovo was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, for the courage and fortitude shown by the city’s workers during the Great Patriotic War and for the successes achieved in economic and cultural construction.

EVPATORIA. Occupied on October 31, 1941. Liberated on April 13, 1944 by troops of the 4th UV during the Crimean operation:
2nd Guards A- Arm. mobile detachment (Lieutenant Colonel Puzanov Lev Illarionovich); mobile detachment (Colonel Saifullin Garifula Garifulovich) 3rd Guards. SD (Major General Tsalikov Kantemir Aleksandrovich).
8 VA- part of the forces of the 2nd Guards. nbad (Major General Avts. Kuznetsov Pavel Osipovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command the name Evpatoria was assigned: 24 Guards. SD (Colonel Kolesnikov Georgy Yakovlevich), 512 department. detachment (Major Pavel Grigorievich Perepelkin), 14th iptap (Major Ivan Ivanovich Mozgunov), 22nd Guards. AP (Lieutenant Colonel Tikhonov Alexander Vasilievich).
By order of the Supreme High Command dated April 13, 1944, the troops who participated in the liberation of Yevpatoria were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 1 24 guns.

EYSK. Occupied on August 9, 1942. Liberated on February 5, 1943 by SCF troops during the North Caucasus operation:
58 A- PO 417 Infantry Division (Colonel Vasiliev Nikolai Sergeevich).

EKABPPILS. Occupied on June 28, 1941. Liberated on August 9, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Belarusian operation:
6th Guards A- part of the forces of the 29th Infantry Division (Colonel Makariev Alexander Konstantinovich) 103rd Infantry Division (Major General Fedyunkin Ivan Fedorovich).
4 beats A- 378th Infantry Division (Major General Belov Alexander Romanovich) 14th Infantry Division (Major General Artyushenko Pavel Alekseevich).

ELGAVA. Occupied on June 29, 1941. Liberated on August 1, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
51 A- 1st Guards sk (Lieutenant General Missan Ivan Ilyich) consisting of: 347 Infantry Division (Major General Yukhimchuk Alexander Kharitonovich), 279 Infantry Division (Major General Potapenko Vladimir Stepanovich);
91st Infantry Division (Colonel Evgeniy Konstantinovich Sobyanin) 10th Infantry Division (Major General Konstantin Pavlovich Neverov); 3 dept. Guards TTP (Lieutenant Colonel Strekalov Nikolai Dmitrievich), 15th department. Guards TTP (Lieutenant Colonel Kutin Vasily Nikolaevich), 1102 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Komko Mikhail Vasilyevich); part of the forces of the 34th Lab (Colonel Gnatyshin Dmitry Nikolaevich).
3rd Guards MK (Lieutenant General t/v Obukhov Viktor Timofeevich) consisting of: 7th Guards. MBR (Major General Rodionov Mikhail Iosifovich), 9th Guards. ICBM (Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Vasilievich Starodubtsev), 64th division. Guards TTP (Lieutenant Colonel Nikolov Vladimir Georgievich).
3 VA- 5th Guards IAD (Colonel Rykachev Yuri Borisovich) 11th IAC (Major General Avts. Ivanov Georgy Aleksandrovich), 334th Bad (Colonel Skok Ivan Potapovich) 1st Guards. tank (Lieutenant General, Avts. Ushakov Vladimir Alekseevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name of the Mitavskys was assigned to: 503 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Shikhantsev Vasily Efimovich), 1175 joint venture (Lieutenant Colonel Proskurnya Fedor Mikhailovich), 64 dept. Guards ttp, 1102 sap, 1489 sap (lieutenant colonel Koshelev Alexey Iustinovich), 376 gap (lieutenant colonel Viskov Alexander Kuzmich), 831 ap (lieutenant colonel Ishichkin Nikolai Nikolaevich), 23 dept. shisb (major Manvelidze Georgy Vasilyevich), 276 isb (major Tretyakov Yuri Pavlovich), 8 dept. Guards BS (Lieutenant Colonel Brizhan Mikhail Petrovich), 123 obs (Major Mishin Alexander Fedorovich), 23 ops Air Force (Major Lutokhin Sergey Pavlovich), 399 aps (Major Ilyin Leonid Arsenievich).
The troops who participated in the liberation of Jelgava were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

DALE. Occupied on December 5, 1941. Liberated on December 9, 1941 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Yelets operation:
13 A- 148th Infantry Division (Colonel Cherokmanov Philip Mikhailovich).

YELNYA. Occupied on July 19, 1941. Liberated on September 6, 1941 by RezF troops during the Elninsky operation:
24 A- 100 Infantry Division (Major General Russiyanov Ivan Nikitich), 103 Infantry Division (Major General Birichev Ivan Ivanovich), 19 Infantry Division (Colonel Utvenko Alexander Ivanovich), part of the forces of 309 Infantry Division (Colonel Italiantsev Nikifor Alekseevich), part of the forces of 120 Infantry Division (General Major Petrov Konstantin Ivanovich).
Occupied on October 6, 1941. Liberated on August 30, 1943 by Western Front troops during the Elninsk-Dorogobuzh operation:
10th Guards A- 29th Guards. SD (Major General Stuchenko Andrey Trofimovich) 19th Guards. sk (Major General Vladimir Afanasyevich Chistov); 119 dept. TP (Colonel Losik Oleg Alexandrovich).
21 A- 76th Infantry Division (Colonel Babayan Amayak Grigorievich) 69th Infantry Division (Major General Kruglyakov Timofey Petrovich); 23 dept. Guards TBR (Colonel Kalinin Ivan Petrovich).
2nd Guards TK (Colonel Burdeyny Alexey Semenovich) consisting of: 25 Guards. TBR (Colonel Shevchenko Mark Terentyevich), 26th Guards. TBR (Colonel Nesterov Stepan Kuzmich), 4th Guards. TBR (Colonel Brazhnikov Andrey Konstantinovich), 1833 TsAP (Major Tagiev Mahmud Amir Aslan-ogly), 1819 SAP (Major Filippov Vasily Ivanovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command the name Elninsky was assigned: 29 Guards. SD, 76 SD, 23 Div. Guards TBR, 25th Guards. TBR, 26th Guards. TBR, 119 dept. etc.
The troops who participated in the offensive in the Smolensk direction, during which the city of Yelnya was liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of August 31, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 28, 1981, the city of Yelnya was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, for the courage and fortitude shown by the city’s defenders during the Great Patriotic War, the active participation of workers in the partisan movement and the successes achieved in economic and cultural construction.

ENAKIEVO, see ORDZHONIKIDZE.

ESSENTUKI. Occupied on August 10, 1942. Liberated on January 11, 1943 by troops of the ZakF (SGV) during the North Caucasus operation:
37 A- 2nd Guards SD (Major General Zakharov Fedor Vasilievich), Armenian. motorized detachment (Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Ivanovich Shcherbenko).

EFREMOV. Occupied on November 23, 1941. Liberated on December 13, 1941 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Yelets operation:
3 A- part of the forces of the 283rd Infantry Division (Colonel Nechaev Alexander Nikolaevich), part of the forces of the 6th Guards. SD (Major General Petrov Konstantin Ivanovich).

JAGARE. Occupied on June 26, 1941. Liberated on July 29, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
51 A- part of the forces of the 279th Infantry Division (Major General Potapenko Vladimir Stepanovich) 1st Guards. SK (Lieutenant General Mpssan Ivan Ilyich).

ZHDANOV, see MARIUPOL.

ZHELEZNOVODSK. Occupied on August 10, 1942. Liberated on January 12, 1943 by troops of the ZakF (SGV) during the North Caucasus operation:
9 A- 57th Brigade (Major Cherny Stepan Makarovich) 11th Guards. sk (Major General Khizhnyak Ivan Lukich).

ZHIDECHOW (ZHIDACHOV). Occupied on July 1, 1941. Liberated on August 1, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation:
1st Guards A-127 Infantry Division (Major General Ivan Pavlovich Govorov) 107 Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Vasilievich Gordeev).

ZHIZDRA. Occupied on October 5, 1941. Liberated on August 16, 1943 by Western Front troops during the Oryol operation:
50 A- 413 Infantry Division (Colonel Khokhlov Ivan Stepanovich).

ZHILLEN (ZHILINO). The city was captured on January 20, 1945 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Insterburg-Koenigsberg operation:
39 A- 124th Infantry Division (Major General Mikhail Danilovich Papchenko) 94th Infantry Division (Major General Iosif Ivanovich Popov).
1 VA- 240 IAD (Colonel Zimin Georgy Vasilyevich).
Order of the Supreme High Command, see Tilsit.
The troops who participated in the capture of Gillen and other cities were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of January 20, 1945, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ZHYTOMYR. Occupied on July 9, 1941. Liberated on November 12, 1943 by troops of the 1st UV during the Kyiv operation:
1st Guards kk (Lieutenant General Viktor Kirillovich Baranov) consisting of: 7th Guards. CD (Colonel Vasiliev Vyacheslav Dmitrievich), 2nd Guards. CD (Colonel Mamsurov Hadji-Umar Dzhiorovich), 1st Guards. CD (Major General Ovar Yulian Ivanovich), 230 division. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Afanasyevich Shcherbakov), 1461 glanders (Lieutenant Colonel Grigory Eliseevich Nikulin).
38 A- 23 sk (Major General Chuvakov Nikita Emelyanovich) consisting of: 30 SD (Colonel Yankovsky Viktor Pavlovich), 23 SD (Colonel Basteev Ivan Vasilyevich), 218 SD (Major General Sklyarov Sergey Fedorovich); 17 adp (Major General Art. Volkenshtein Sergey Sergeevich) consisting of: 37 labr (Colonel Kordyuk Andrey Illarionovich), 39 pabr (Colonel Rakovich Stanislav Vladislavovich), 50 gabr (Lieutenant Colonel Krasnyukov Nikolai Pavlovich), 92 tgabr (Colonel Didyk Alexey Kondratievich) , 108th brigade BM (Colonel Reutov Vladimir Dmitrievich), 22nd brigade (Colonel Irineev Iriney Petrovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Zhitomir was assigned: 23rd, 30th Infantry, 1st Guards. kk, 7th Guards. CD, 61 dept. TP (Major Ermolenko Ulyan Nikitovich), 87 det. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Ivantsov Grigory Ivanovich), 230 det. TP, 1461 gap, 17 adp, 143 iptap (Lieutenant Colonel Kalashnikov Dmitry Konstantinovich), 222 iptap (Major Kodyakov Leonid Timofeevich), 1660 iptap (Lieutenant Colonel Chernyak Ivan Vasilyevich), 839 gap (Lieutenant Colonel Bogatyrev Ivan Ivanovich), 1 Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Serednyak Fedor Yakovlevich), 83rd Guards. Ministry of Internal Affairs (Colonel Golubev Konstantin Timofeevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of November 13, 1943, the troops who participated in the liberation of Zhitomir were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes of 224 guns.
Occupied on November 19, 1943. Liberated on December 31, 1943 by troops of the 1st UV during the Zhitomir-Berdichev operation:
60 A- 15 sk (Major General Lyudnikov Ivan Ilyich) consisting of: 322 SD (Colonel Lashchenko Pyotr Nikolaevich), 336 SD (Colonel Ignachev Maxim Arsentievich); 59 dept. TP (Major Sheshukov Alexey Arkhipovich).
1st Guards A- 107 sk (Major General Gordeev Dmitry Vasilyevich) consisting of: 328 RD (Colonel Pavlovsky Ivan Grigorievich), 127 RD (Lieutenant Colonel Katrich Vladimir Ivanovich), part of the forces of 304 RD (Colonel Muzykin Mikhail Maksimovich); 94 Infantry Division (Major General Popov Iosif Ivanovich) consisting of: 350 Infantry Division (Major General Vekhin Grigory Ivanovich), 30 Infantry Division (Colonel Viktor Pavlovich Yankovsky), part of the forces of 99 Infantry Division (Colonel Bogdanov Ivan Mikhailovich); 316th Infantry Division (Colonel Okhman Nikolai Petrovich) 11th Infantry Division (Major General Zamertsev Ivan Terentievich); 93 dept. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Doropei Sergei Klementievich), 1831 glanders (Lieutenant Colonel Kulikov Andrey Kirillovich); 3 adp (Major General Art. Sanko Ivan Fedoseevich) consisting of: 5 pabr (Major General art. Kolesov Alexander Alekseevich), 15 labr (Colonel Parovatkin Dmitry Nikolaevich), 116 tgabr (Colonel Borisov Boris Kuzmich), 7 minbr (general -Major Art. Zhikharev Dmitry Nikolaevich).
18 A- 22 sk (major general Zakharov Fedor Vasilyevich) consisting of: 129 guards. SD (Major General Bushev Sergei Mikhailovich), 317 SD (Lieutenant Colonel Zherdienko Nikolai Terentievich); 71st Infantry Division (Colonel Nikolai Zakharovich Belyaev) 52nd Infantry Division (Major General Franz Iosifovich Perkhorovich); 17 adp (Major General Art. Volkenshtein Sergey Sergeevich) consisting of: 37 labr (Colonel Andrey Illarionovich Kordyuk), 50 gabr (Lieutenant Colonel Krasnyukov Nikolai Pavlovich), 92 tgabr (Colonel Didyk Alexey Kondratyevich).
3rd Guards TA- 6th Guards TK (Major General t/v Panfilov Alexey Pavlovich) consisting of: 51 Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Stepanovich Novokhatko), 52 Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Plessko Mikhail Leontyevich), 53rd Guards. TBR (Colonel Arkhipov Vasily Sergeevich), 22nd Guards. MSBR (Colonel Mikhailov Nikolai Lavrentievich), 1893 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Basov Fedor Evseevich); 7th Guards TK (Major General T/V Ivanov Sergey Alekseevich) consisting of: 54 Guards. TBR (Major General t/v Lebedev Viktor Grigorievich), 55th Guards. TBR (Colonel Alexander Sidorovich Borodin), 56th Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Malik Trofim Fedorovich), 23rd Guards. MSBR (Colonel Golovachev Alexander Alekseevich), 1419 SAF (Colonel Zhmakin Vasily Pavlovich), 1894 SAF (Major Dubnya Grigory Vasilyevich).
4th Guards mk (lieutenant general t/v Pavel Pavlovich Poluboyarov) consisting of: 13th Guards TBR (Colonel Baukov Leonid Ivanovich), 14th Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Petrov Veniamin Andreevich), 12th Guards. TBR (Colonel Dushak Nikolai Grigorievich), 3rd Guards. MSBR (Colonel Leonov Mikhail Pavlovich).
5th Guards mk (lieutenant general t/v Kravchenko Andrey Grigorievich) consisting of: 20th Guards TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Shutov Stepan Fedorovich), 21st Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Okhrimenko Petr Fedorovich), 22nd Guards. TBR (Colonel Koshelev Nikolai Vasilievich), 6th Guards. MSBR (Lieutenant Colonel Chekunov Ivan Semenovich), 1416 SRT (Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Vasilievich Mokhryakov), 1462 SAR (Major Georgy Grigorievich Musatov), ​​1458 SAF (Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Tikhonovich Titarenko).
2 VA- part of the forces of 264 Shad (Lieutenant Colonel Evgeniy Vasilyevich Klobukov), part of the forces of 235 IAD (Major General Avts. Lakeev Ivan Alekseevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command the name Zhitomir was assigned: 99 Infantry Division, 129 Guards. SD, 304 SD, 322 SD, 336 SD, 350 SD, 9 MK (Major General T/V Malygin Konstantin Alekseevich), 14 Guards. TBR, 21st Guards. TBR, 93 dept. TBR, 47 dept. Guards TP (Lieutenant Colonel Laptev Alexander Ivanovich), 1831 Sap, 3 ADP, 839 GAP (Lieutenant Colonel Bogatyrev Ivan Ivanovich), 1642 iptap (Major Kartashov Pavel Aleksandrovich), 1644 iptap (Major Natoptanny Anatoly Mikhailovich), 525 minp (Lieutenant Colonel Poslavsky Pyotr Kuzmich).
The troops who participated in the liberation of Zhitomir were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on January 1, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ZHLOBIN. Occupied on July 3, 1941. Liberated on July 13, 1941 by Western Front troops during the Battle of Smolensk:
21 A- 154th Infantry Division (Colonel Fokanov Yakov Stepanovich) 63rd Infantry Division (Corporate Corps Petrovsky Leonid Grigorievich).
Occupied on August 14, 1941. Liberated on June 26, 1944 by troops of the 1st BF during the Bobruisk operation:
48 A- 115 UR (Major General Fedor Filippovich Pichugin).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Zhlobinsky was assigned: 115 UR, 4 department. mpom (Lieutenant Colonel Masik Petr Isaakovich), 196 shad (Lieutenant Colonel Grishchenko Kirill Konstantinovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of June 26, 1944, the troops who participated in the liberation of Zhlobin were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

ZHMERINKA. Occupied on July 17, 1941. Liberated on March 20, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
38 A- 67 sk (Major General Dmitry Ivanovich Kislitsyn) consisting of: 151 SD (Major General Podshivailov Denis Protasovich), 237 SD (Major General Fedor Nazarovich Parkhomenko), 100 SD (Colonel Krasavin Fedor Mikhailovich); 23 dept. iptabr (Lieutenant Colonel Ponomarev Alexey Nikolaevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Zhmerinsky was assigned: 151 infantry division, 23 department. ipgabr, 628 arm. dad (Lieutenant Colonel Shevchenko Mefodiy Leontyevich), 224 shad (Colonel Kotelnikov Mikhail Vasilievich).
The troops who participated in the liberation of Zhmerinka were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

ZHOLKVA (NESTEROV). Occupied on June 29, 1941. Liberated on July 23, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation:
13 A- 112 Infantry Division (Major General Gladkov Alexander Vasilyevich) 27 Infantry Division (Major General Cherokmanov Philip Mikhailovich).
KMG-1 Guards CD (Colonel Vashurin Petr Semenovich) 1st Guards. KK (Lieutenant General Viktor Kirillovich Baranov), 20th Motorized Rifle Brigade (Major General Ilyin Petr Sysoevich) 25th Tank Corps (Major General T/V Anikushkin Fedor Georgievich).
8 VA- 7th Jacob (Major General Avts. Utin Alexander Vasilyevich) consisting of: 9th Guards. IAD (Colonel Pokryshkin Alexander Ivanovich), 205 IAD (Colonel Michin Mikhail Grigorievich), 304 IAD (Colonel Grisenko Alexander Ivanovich).

ZALESCHIKI. Occupied on July 7, 1941. Liberated on March 24, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
1 TA- 20th Guards MBR (Colonel Babajanyan Amazasp Khachaturovich) 8th Guards. MK (Major General Dremov Ivan Fedorovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Zaleshchitskaya was assigned: 20 Guards. mbr.
The troops who participated in the breakthrough of the enemy's defense, during which Zalishchiki and other cities were liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated March 24, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

WESTERN DVINA . Occupied on October 6, 1941. Liberated on January 21, 1942 by NWF troops during the Toropets-Kholm operation:
4 beats A- 332nd Infantry Division (Colonel Knyazkov Sergey Alekseevich).

ZAPOROZHYE. Occupied on October 4, 1941. Liberated on October 14, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Zaporozhye operation:
8th Guards A- 29th Guards. sk (Lieutenant General Fokanov Yakov Stepanovich) consisting of: 82 Guards. SD (Major General Makarenko Ivan Alekseevich), 27th Guards. SD (Major General Glebov Viktor Sergeevich); 28th Guards sk (Major General Guryev Stepan Savelyevich) consisting of: 88 Guards. SD (Colonel Pankov Boris Nikiforovich), 39th Guards. SD (Major General Vasily Andreevich Leshchinin), 79th Guards. SD (Colonel Vagin Leonid Ivanovich); 33 sk (Major General Aleksey Ivanovich Semenov) consisting of: 78 SD (Colonel Mikhailov Nikolai Matveevich), 50 SD (Major General Nikita Fedotovich Lebedenko); 5 dept. Guards TPP (Lieutenant Colonel Petr Petrovich Gretsky), 141 department. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Danilov Fedor Danilovich); 7 adp (Colonel Pavlov Alexander Fedorovich) consisting of: 9 Guards. Pabr (Colonel Pechenkin Fedor Fedorovich), 11 Labr (Lieutenant Colonel Arkady Petrovich Frantsev), 17 Pabr (Lieutenant Colonel Romanov Grigory Petrovich), 25 Gabr (Colonel Khovansky Mikhail Nikolaevich), 105 Gabr BM (Colonel Lupakov Nikolai Fedorovich), 3 Minbr (Lieutenant Colonel Borisov Yakov Ivanovich); 9 ADP (Major General Art. Ratov Andrey Ivanovich) consisting of: 30 Pabr (Lieutenant Colonel Bochko Yakov Andreevich), 113 Gabr BM (Colonel Zilberburg Abram Solomonovich), 115 Pabr (Colonel Polyakov Mikhail Ivanovich), 10 Minbr (on
Colonel Linnik Kuzma Denisovich); 22 zenads (Colonel Danshin Igor Mikhailovich); 11th Schisbr (Colonel Konoplev Mikhail Alekseevich).
12 A- 66 sk (Major General Kupriyanov Dmitry Andreevich) consisting of: 333 SD (Major General Golosko Anisim Mikhailovich), 244 SD (Major General Afanasyev Georgy Afanasyevich); 60 Guards SD (Major General Dmitry Petrovich Monakhov); 23rd Minbr (Colonel Vasily Pavlovich Usik).
3rd Guards A- 59 Guards SD (Major General Georgy Petrovich Karamyshev) 34th Guards. sk (Major General Makovchuk Nikolai Matveevich).
1st Guards MK (Lieutenant General Russiyanov Ivan Nikitich) -9th Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Murashko Sergei Filippovich), 1544 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Mamchur Nikita Efimovich).
23 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant General T/V Pushkin Efim Grigorievich) consisting of: 39 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Bespalov Stepan Ivanovich), 3 Tank Brigade (Colonel Devyatko Ivan Akimovich), 1443 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Myshkov Efim Romanovich).
17 VA- 1st Guards Sak (Major General Avts. Aladinsky Vladimir Ivanovich) consisting of: 6th Guards. Shad (Major General Avts. Mironenko Pavel Ivanovich), 11th Guards. iad (Colonel Osadchiy Alexander Petrovich); 1 Sak (Major General Avts. Shevchenko Vladimir Illarionovich) consisting of: 5 Guards. shad (Colonel Kolomeytsev Leonid Viktorovich), part of the forces of 288 IAD (Colonel Smirnov Boris Aleksandrovich); 9 Sak (Major General Avts. Oleg Viktorovich Tolstikov) consisting of: 305 Shad (Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Germanovich Mikhevichev), 295 Iad (Colonel Anatoly Aleksandrovich Silvestrov); 262 nbad (Colonel Belitsky Gennady Ivanovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name was given to the Zaporizhzhya: 50th infantry division, 78th infantry division, 79th guards. SD, 82nd Guards SD, 88th Guards. SD, 203 SD (Colonel Zdanovich Gavriil Stanislavovich), 244 SD, 9 Guards. TBR, 5 dept. Guards TP, 20 Guards. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Dobrozei Trofim Mironovich), 141st department. tp, 1443 sap, 1544 sap, 7 adp, 9 adp, 99 arm. pope (Colonel Kobrin Panteleimon Alekseevich), 103rd Guards. dad (Lieutenant Colonel Anokhin Maxim Fedorovich), 1248 iptap (Captain Merkulov Nikolai Andreevich), 23 Minbr, 35 Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Oleinik Ivan Grigorievich), 61st Guards. Ministry of Internal Troops (Lieutenant Colonel Kirillov Veniamin Ivanovich), 62nd Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Kislitsky Boris Eliseevich), 100 Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Zyrin Vasily Efimovich), 141 Minp (Major Zubov Dmitry Vasilyevich), 531 Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Chechetin Vyacheslav Mikhailovich), 22 Zenads, 8 dept. Guards Radn (Major Umansky Maxim Alekseevich), 11th Schisbr, 5th Guards. Shad, 6th Guards. shad, 34 kae (captain Anatoly Fedorovich Yudichev).
By order of the Supreme High Command of October 14, 1943, the troops who participated in the liberation of Zaporozhye were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

GROW UP. Occupied on June 25, 1941. Liberated on July 29, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
6th Guards A- part of the forces of the 51st Infantry Division (Major General Alexey Yakovlevich Khvostov) 22nd Guards. sk (Major General Ruchkin Arkhip Ivanovich).

ZASTAVNA. Occupied on July 6, 1941. Liberated on March 26, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation:
1 TA- 40 Guards TBR (Colonel Koshelev Ivan Andreevich) 11th Guards. mk (lieutenant general t/v Getman Andrey Lavrentievich).

ZBARAZH. Occupied on July 2, 1941. Liberated on March 6, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernovtsy operation:
60 A- 4th Guards mk (lieutenant general t/v Pavel Pavlovich Poluboyarov) consisting of: 12th Guards. TBR (Colonel Dushak Nikolai Grigorievich), 13th Guards. TBR (Colonel Baukov Leonid Ivanovich), 14th Guards. TBR (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Efimovich Skidanov), 3rd Guards. MSBR (Colonel Leonov Mikhail Pavlovich).

ZBOROV. Occupied on July 2, 1941. Liberated on July 20, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lviv-Sandomierz operation:
38 A- 67 sk (Major General Shmygo Ivan Stepanovich) consisting of: 121 SD (Major General Ladygin Ivan Ivanovich), 241 SD (Colonel Andrienko Timofey Andronikovich); 1st Gabr (Colonel Dobrinsky Alexander Grigorievich), 15th Labr (Colonel Dmitry Nikolaevich Parovatkin).
2 VA- 8 shak (Lieutenant General, Avts. Naneishvili Vladimir Vardenovich) consisting of: 224 shad (Colonel Kotelnikov Mikhail Vasilyevich), 227 shad (Lieutenant Colonel Levadny Alexander Sidorovich), 236 iad (Colonel Kudryashov Vasily Yakovlevich); 4 tank (Major General Avts. Arkhangelsky Pyotr Petrovich) consisting of: 202 bad (Major General Avts. Nechiporenko Stepan Ignatievich), 219 bad (Colonel Anisimov Pyotr Nikolaevich), 321 bad (Colonel Chuk Ivan Grigorievich); 256 IAD (Colonel Gerasimov Nikolai Semenovich) 5 IAC (Major General Avts. Galunov Dmitry Pavlovich), 1 Guards. bad (Colonel Dobysh Fedor Ivanovich) 2nd Guards. tank (Major General Avts. Polbin Ivan Semenovich), 208 nbbad (Colonel Yuzeev Leonid Nikolaevich).

Zvenigorodka. Occupied on July 29, 1941. Liberated on January 28, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV and 2nd UV during the Korsun-Shevchenko operation.
1 UV: 6 TA- tank group (Major General t/v Mikhail Ivanovich Savelyev) consisting of: 233 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Antonovich Chernushevich), 1228 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Dobroshinsky).
2 UV: 5 gv. TA- 20 Tank Corps (Lieutenant General T/V Lazarev Ivan Gavrilovich) consisting of: 8 Guards. Tank Brigade (Colonel Orlov Vasily Fedorovich), 80 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Evsyukov Vladimir Iosifovich), 155 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Prochti Ivan Ivanovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Zvenigorod was assigned: 62 Guards. SD (Colonel Moshlyak Ivan Nikonovich), 69th Guards. SD (Major General Jahua Kirill Kocheevich), 94th Guards. SD (Colonel Shostatsky Grigory Nikolaevich), 1st Guards. Airborne Division (Colonel Mikheenko Yakov Semenovich), 5th Guards. Airborne Division (Colonel Afonia Pavel Ivanovich), 20 tk.
The troops who broke through the enemy’s defenses and participated in the liberation of Zvenigorodka and other cities were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on February 3, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ZDOLBUNOV. Occupied on June 28, 1941. Liberated on February 3, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Rivne-Lutsk operation:
13 A- 24 sk (Lieutenant General Kiryukhin Nikolai Ivanovich) consisting of: 149 SD (Colonel Orlov Andrey Arkhipovich), part of the forces of 287 SD (Major General Pankratov Iosif Nikolaevich).
6th Guards kk (Lieutenant General Sokolov Sergei Vladimirovich)- part of the forces of 8 cd (Major General Khrustalev Petr Alekseevich).
Participating in the liberation of the city were Unit No. 1 of the partisan detachments of the Rivne region (Begma Vasily Andreevich) and Unit No. 2 of the partisan detachments of the Rivne region (Fedorov Ivan Filippovich).
The troops who participated in the liberation of Zdolbunov and other cities were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command on February 5, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ZELENOGORSK, see TERIOKI.

ZENKOV. Occupied on October 9, 1941. Liberated on September 6, 1943 by VoRF troops during the offensive in the Kiev direction:
52 A- 73 sk (Colonel Batitsky Pavel Fedorovich) consisting of: 136 SD (Colonel Puzikov Ivan Mikhailovich), 93 SD (Colonel Kruse Apollo Yakovlevich); 259 dept. TP (Colonel Lukyanov Alexey Vlasovich); 39 Pabr (Colonel Rakovich Stanislav Vladislavovich) and 108 Gabr BM (Colonel Reutov Vladimir Dmitrievich) 17 Adp (Major General Art. Vodkeashtein Sergei Sergeevich).
2 VA- 5th Jacob (Major General Avts. Galunov Dmitry Pavlovich) consisting of: 8th Guards. IAD (Colonel Ilya Pavlovich Laryushkin), part of the forces of 256 IAD (Colonel Gerasimov Nikolai Semenovich); 4th Guards shad (Major General Avts. Baidukov Georgy Filippovich) 5 shak (Major General Avts. Kamanin Nikolay Petrovich), 208 nbbad (Colonel Yuzeev Leonid Nikolaevich).

ZILUPE. Occupied on July 6, 1941. Liberated on July 18, 1944 by troops of the 2nd PribF during the Rezhitsa-Dvina operation:
10th Guards A- 7th Guards SD (Major General Moskalik Mikhail Emmanuilovich) 7th Guards. sk (Lieutenant General Novoselsky Yuri Vladimirovich).

WINTER HOUSES. Occupied on August 7, 1942. Liberated on January 8, 1943 by the troops of the Southern Front during the Rostov operation:
51 A- part of the forces of the 302nd Infantry Division (Colonel Makarchuk Efrem Fedorovich), 87th Infantry Division (Lieutenant Colonel Ekhokhin Mikhail Sergeevich); 8th Guards MBR (Major General Daniil Nikitovich Bely) 3rd Guards. MK (Major General Alexey Pavlovich Sharagin); 13th Tank Brigade (Major General T/v Tanaschishin Trofim Ivanovich) consisting of: 13th Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Grinkevich Franz Andreevich), 17th Mechanized Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Aksenchikov Pavel Ale
Kseevich), part of the forces of the 62nd infantry brigade (Major Ovcharov Alexander Mikhailovich).
2nd Guards A- 55 mbr (Lieutenant Colonel Goldberg Mikhail Iosifovich) 6 mk (Major General t/v Bogdanov Semyon Ilyich).
8 VA- 2 Sak (Major General Avts. Eremenko Ivan Trofimovich) consisting of: 214 Shad (Colonel Rubanov Stepan Ulyanovich), part of the forces of 201 IAD (Lieutenant Colonel Zhukov Anatoly Pavlovich).
By order of the NCO of the USSR, the name Zimovnikovsky 5th Guards was assigned. /former 6th/ mk.
The troops who participated in the liberation of Zimovniki and other settlements were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated January 25, 1943.

WICKED. Occupied on August 25, 1941. Liberated on September 26, 1943 by troops of the Central Front during the Chernigov-Pripyat operation:
48 A- 137th Infantry Division (Major General Alferov Alexey Ivanovich).

Znamenka. Occupied on August 5, 1941. Liberated on December 9, 1943 by troops of the 2nd UV during the operation to expand the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper:
5th Guards A- 32nd Guards sk (Major General Rodimtsev Alexander Ilyich) consisting of: 6th Guards. Airborne Division (Major General Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov), 110th Guards. SD (Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Ogorodov); 6th iptabr (Colonel Balashov Georgy Ivanovich).
5th Guards TA- 29 Tank Brigade (Major General T/V Kirichenko Ivan Fedorovich) consisting of: 32 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Bzyrin Vasily Alekseevich), 25 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Klepko Dmitry Evstafievich), 53 Motorized Rifle Brigade (Colonel Syroezhkin Ivan Vasilievich), 1446 Sapical Division (Major Lunev Mikhail Semenovich); 18 Tank Brigade (Colonel Firsovich Alexander Nikolaevich) consisting of: 110 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Fomich Reshetnikov), 181 Tank Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Mikhailovich Indeikin), 32 Motorized Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Filippovich Marshev), 1438 Sap (Lieutenant Colonel Fedor Anisimovich Zatylkin).
53 A- part of the forces of the 233rd Infantry Division (Colonel Vodopyanov Ivan Mikhailovich) 48th Infantry Division (Major General Rogozny Zinoviy Zakharovich).
5 VA- part of the forces of the 304th IAD (Colonel Pechenko Iogansen Konstantinovich) 7th IAC (Major General Avts. Utin Alexander Vasilyevich), part of the forces of the 1st Guards. bad (Colonel Dobysh Fedor Ivanovich) 1 tank (Major General Avts. Polbin Ivan Semenovich), part of the forces of 312 nbad (Colonel Kuznetsov Petr Nikolaevich).
The partisan unit named after K. E. Voroshilov (Dibrova Ilya Danilovich) took part in the liberation of the city.
By order of the Supreme High Command the name Znamenskiye was assigned: 233rd Infantry Division, 6th Guards. Airborne Division, 53 Motorized Rifle Brigade, 18 Tank Brigade, 29 Tank Brigade, 32 Tank Brigade, 110 Tank Brigade, 181 Tank Brigade, 1438 Sap, 1446 Sap, 6 Iptabr, 108 Iptap (Major Dmitrienko Mikhail Borisovich), 76 Guards. Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Semenov Semyon Ivanovich), 271 Minp (Captain Ryzhikov Vladimir Ivanovich), 256 dept. ainzhb (major Pinchukov Ivan Alekseevich), 203 iad (major general avts. Baranchuk Konstantin Gavrilovich), 312 nbad, 994 nbap (captain Sukhinin Evgeniy Aleksandrovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of December 10, 1943, the troops who participated in the liberation of Znamenka were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

ZNAMENSK, see VELAU.

GOLD. Occupied on July 12, 1942. Liberated on September 3, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Donbass operation:
3rd Guards A- part of the forces of the 259th Infantry Division (Colonel Vlasenko Alexey Mitrofanovich) 32nd Infantry Division (Major General Zherebin Dmitry Sergeevich).

GOLD BEAR. Occupied on September 19, 1941. Liberated on September 22, 1943 by VoRF troops during the offensive in the Kiev direction:
47 A- 3rd Guards MK (Major General t/v Obukhov Viktor Timofeevich) consisting of: 7th Guards. MBR (Colonel Rodionov Mikhail Iosifovich), 8th Guards. MBR (Major General Daniil Nikitovich Bely), 9th Guards. ICBM (Colonel Goryachev Pavel Ivanovich), 1831 glanders (Lieutenant Colonel Kulikov Andrey Kirillovich).

ZOLOCHEV. Occupied on July 1, 1941. Liberated on July 17, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Lvov-Sandomierz operation:
60 A- 322nd Infantry Division (Major General Petr Ivanovich Zubov) 15th Infantry Division (Major General Petr Vakulovich Tertyshny); 59 dept. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Kuznetsov Ivan Semenovich), 368 Guards. tsap (major Kuznetsov Ivan Grigorievich).
The troops who participated in breaking through the enemy's defenses in the Lvov direction, during which Zolochev and other cities were liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated July 18, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ZUBTSOV. Occupied on October 11, 1941. Liberated on August 23, 1942 by Western Front troops during the Rzhev-Sychevsk operation:
31 A- 239th Infantry Division (Colonel Martirosyan Gaik Oganesovich); 145th brigade (Colonel Sergienko Sergey Semenovich).

ZUGRES. Occupied on October 25, 1941. Liberated on September 3, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
5 beats A- part of the forces of 50 Guards. SD (Colonel Sergeev Konstantin Alekseevich) 3rd Guards. sk (Major General Alexander Ivanovich Belov).

IVANO-FRANKOVSK, see STANISLAV.

IDRITSA. Occupied on July 15, 1941. Liberated on July 12, 1944 by troops of the 2nd PribF during the Rezhitsa-Dvina operation:
3 beats A- PG 79 sk (Colonel Perevertkin Semyon Nikiforovich) consisting of: 713 joint venture (Major Tarasenko Semyon Trofimovich, also the group commander), 227 dept. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Sivkov Mikhail Sergeevich), 318 Guards. iptap (Lieutenant Colonel Repyakhov Alexander Ivanovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Idritsky was assigned to: 150 Infantry Division (Colonel Vasily Mitrofanovich Shatilov), 171 Infantry Division (Colonel Negoda Alexey Ignatievich), 219 Infantry Division (Colonel Vasily Grigorievich Kopalenko), 29th Division. Guards TBR (Colonel Georgy Lavrentievich Yudin), 227th division. tp, 991 glanders (major Vasily Ivanovich Gordeev), 1539 tsap (lieutenant colonel Mikhail Pavlovich Prokhorov), 1385 zenap (major Nikolai Grigorievich Chaika).
The troops who participated in the battles during the breakthrough of the enemy’s defenses north-west and west of Novosokolniki and the liberation of Idritsa were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated July 12, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ISHMAEL. Occupied on July 19, 1941. Liberated on August 25, 1944 by troops of the 3rd UV during the Iasi-Kishinev operation:
46 A- 5th Guards MSBR (Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Ivanovich Zavyalov), 1201st SAF (Colonel Vasily Safonovich Mukhin).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Izmail was assigned: 176 Guards. joint venture (Major Reznichenko Semyon Fedorovich), 311 Guards. joint venture (Colonel Rudko Iosif Petrovich), 53 dept. Mtsp (Major Shevkin Alexander Fokich), 1201 Sap, 101 Minp (Lieutenant Colonel Skichko Alexander Prokofievich), 116 IAP (Major Dmitriev Mikhail Zakharovich), 866 IAP (Lieutenant Colonel Kuzin Stepan Nikiforovich), 995 Shap (Lieutenant Colonel Kozlov Ivan Nikitovich), 97 Guards. nbap (lieutenant colonel Anatoly Vasilyevich Styazhkov), 17th border guard. regiment of the NKVD troops (Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Alekseevich Pavlov).
By order of the Supreme High Command of August 26, 1944, the troops who participated in the liberation of the city and fortress of Izmail were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

RAISIN . Occupied on June 24, 1942. Liberated on February 5, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Voroshilovgrad operation:
6 A- 267th Infantry Division (Colonel Gerasimov Viktor Aleksandrovich), 106th Rifle Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Moshlyak Ivan Nikonovich).
1st Guards A- part of the forces of 35 Guards. SD (Major General Kulagin Ivan Yakovlevich) 4th Guards. sk (Major General Gagen Nikolai Alexandrovich).

IZYASLAV. Occupied on July 5, 1941. Liberated on March 5, 1944 by troops of the 1st UV during the Proskurov-Chernovtsy operation:
60 A- part of the forces of the 226th Infantry Division (Colonel Vasily Yakovlevich Petrenko) 23rd Infantry Division (Major General Nikita Emelyanovich Chuvakov);
part of the forces of the 156th UR (Colonel Goltsev Mikhail Ignatievich) 18th Guards. sk (Major General Afonin Ivan Mikhailovich); part of the forces of the 59th IRB (Colonel Serebryakov Boris Petrovich).
A partisan detachment (Ivan Alekseevich Muzalev) and a partisan detachment (Grigory Kalenikovich Timchuk) took part in the liberation of the city.
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Izyaslavl was assigned: 58 departments. d-nu bepo (Major Marijanov Ivan Sergeevich), 1076 aiptap (Lieutenant Colonel Kalinin Fedor Aleksandrovich), 752 iptadn (Captain Piskun Ivan Yakovlevich), 59 Isbr, 379 obs (Major Blushtein Lazar Khonovich).
The troops who broke through the enemy’s defenses and liberated Izyaslav and other cities were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command dated March 5, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

IZYASLAVL, see IZYASLAV.

ILOVAISK. Occupied on October 22, 1941. Liberated on September 4, 1943 by troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation:
2nd Guards A- 13th Guards sk (Major General Chanchibadze Porfiry Georgievich) consisting of: 295 Infantry Division (Colonel Dorofeev Alexander Petrovich), 302 Infantry Division (Colonel Rodionov Alexey Pavlovich), part of the forces of 151 Infantry Division (Major General Podshivailov Denis Protasovich); part of the forces of the 33rd Guards. TBR (Colonel Babenko Ivan Mikhailovich), 62 division. Guards Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Lieutenant Colonel Mitrofan Mitrofanovich Anisimov); part of the forces of the 8th iptabr (Major General Art. Shalunov Yakov Dmitrievich).
5 beats A- 3rd Guards sk (Major General Belov Alexander Ivanovich) consisting of: 96 Guards. SD (Colonel Levin Semyon Samuilovich), part of the forces of the 54th Guards. SD (Major General Danilov Mikhail Matveevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command, the name Ilovaisk was assigned: 96 Guards. sd.
The troops who participated in the liberation of Donbass, during which they captured Ilovaisk and other cities, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of September 8, 1943, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

ILUKSTE. Occupied on June 28, 1941. Liberated on July 29, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
6th Guards A- 29th Infantry Division (Colonel Makariev Alexander Konstantinovich) 103rd Infantry Division (Major General Fedyunkin Ivan Fedorovich).

INSTERBURG (CHERNYAKHOVSK). The city was captured on January 22, 1945 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Insterburg-Koenigsberg operation:
11th Guards A- 36th Guards sk (Lieutenant General Pyotr Kirillovich Koshevoy) consisting of: 18th Guards. SD (Major General Karizhsky Grigory Ivanovich), 16th Guards. SD (Major General Pronin Mikhail Andreevich); 75 dept. Guards TTP (Lieutenant Colonel Zhog Ivan Vladimirovich), 350 Guards. tsap (Lieutenant Colonel Drobysh Elisey Grigorievich); 2nd Guards adp (Major General Art. Yakovlev Ivan Alekseevich) consisting of: 5th Guards. Gabr (Colonel Sinitsyn Alexander Fedorovich), 6th Guards. pabr (Colonel Medvedev Pavel Grigorievich), 114 pabr (Colonel Toropov Pavel Egorovich), 33rd Minbr (Colonel Shashlov Tikhon Fedorovich); 21st iptabr (Colonel Pavlov Nikolai Dmitrievich).
5 A- 215 Infantry Division (Major General Kazaryan Andronik Abramovich) and 954 lsap (Lieutenant Colonel Golovanov Konstantin Pavlovich) 72 sk (Major General Kazartsev Alexander Ignatievich); 15th Guards pabr (Colonel Sokolov Alexander Fedorovich).
1 VA- part of the forces of 130 IAD (Colonel Shinkarenko Fedor Ivanovich), part of the forces of 240 IAD (Colonel Zimin Georgy Vasilyevich), 303 IAD (Major General, Avts. Zakharov Georgy Nefedovich), 213 nbad (Major General, Avts. Molokov Vasily Sergeevich), part forces 6 Guards bad (Colonel Chuchev Grigory Alekseevich), part of the forces of 276 bad (Major General Avts. Nechiporenko Stepan Ignatievich).
3 VA- part of the forces of the 3rd Guards. Bad (Major General Avts. Andreev Sergey Pavlovich) 5th Guards. tank (Lieutenant General, Avts. Ushakov Vladimir Alekseevich).
By order of the Supreme High Command the name Insterburg was assigned: 18th Guards. sd, 480 rifle regiment (lieutenant colonel Vasily Kharitonovich Belyaev), 1 tk (lieutenant general t/v Butkov Vasily Vasilyevich), 61 isb (lieutenant colonel Petr Ivanovich Novik), 130 iad, 120 dept. Guards Aviation Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet (Lieutenant Colonel Sulimov Ivan Vasilievich), 142 dept. tap (Major Kiselev Mikhail Grigorievich), 976 dads (Lieutenant Colonel Kulev Vladimir Semenovich).
By order of the Supreme High Command of January 22, 1945, the troops who participated in the capture of Insterburg were thanked and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

IONAVA. Occupied on June 25, 1941. Liberated on July 29, 1944 by troops of the 3rd BF during the Kaunas operation:
39 A- 251st Infantry Division (Colonel Birstein Evgeniy Yakovlevich) 5th Guards. SK (Lieutenant General Ivan Semenovich Bezugly), 28th Guards. TBR (Colonel Kovalev Efim Maksimovich).

IONISKIS. Occupied on June 26, 1941. Liberated on July 28, 1944 by troops of the 1st PribF during the Siauliai operation:
3rd Guards MK (Lieutenant General t/v Obukhov Viktor Timofeevich)- 9th Guards MBR (Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Vasilievich Starodubtsev).

IRMINO. Occupied on July 12, 1942. Liberated on September 3, 1943 by troops of the Southwestern Front during the Donbass operation:
3rd Guards A- part of the forces of the 266th infantry division (Major General Rebrikov Korney Grigorievich) 32nd IC (Major General Zherebin Dmitry Sergeevich).

ISTRA. Occupied on November 27, 1941. Liberated on December 11, 1941 by Western Front troops during the Klin-Solnechnogorsk operation:
16 A- operational group consisting of: 9th Guards. SD (Major General Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich, also the group commander), 17th Tank Brigade (Colonel Starkov Nikolai Vasilievich).

YYGEVA (YYGEVA). Occupied on July 15, 1941. Liberated on September 20, 1944 by LenF troops during the Tallinn operation:
2 beats A- part of the forces of the 90th Infantry Division (Major General Lyashchenko Nikolai Grigorievich) 108th Infantry Division (Lieutenant General Polenov Vitaly Sergeevich).
The troops who participated in the battles to break through the enemy’s defenses north of Tartu and west of Parva, during which Iõgeva and other cities were liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of September 20, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

YYKHVI (YYKHVI), now a village. Occupied on August 12, 1941. Liberated on September 19, 1944 by LenF troops during the Tallinn operation:
8 A- 125th Infantry Division (Colonel Zinoviev Vasily Kondratyevich) 117th Infantry Division (Major General Trubachev Vasily Alekseevich); 82 dept. TP (Lieutenant Colonel Gritsev Fedor Grigorievich), 1222 Sap (Major Slutsky Ilya Borisovich).
The troops who participated in the battles to break through the enemy’s defenses north of Tartu and west of Narva, during which Iykhvts and other cities were liberated, were thanked by order of the Supreme High Command of September 20, 1944, and a salute was given in Moscow with 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

YYGEVA, see YYGEVA.

YYHVI, see YYHVI.

TO THE END OF 1943 Soviet troops, successfully completing the summer-autumn campaign, firmly held the strategic initiative, fought stubborn battles on Belarusian soil, liberated the first regional center of Belarus - Gomel, and a number of districts of the Gomel, Polesie, Mogilev and Vitebsk regions. Partisan detachments and formations made a significant contribution to the defeat of the enemy. The troops of the 1st Baltic Front, having defeated the enemy south of Nevel and developing an offensive, reached the German defense line on the approaches to the large railway station Gorodok, Vitebsk region.

IN MEMOIRS “This is how we walked to victory” Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Bagramyan noted that when appointing him to the post of commander of the 1st Baltic Front, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Stalin paid special attention to ensuring that the front troops, before the beginning of 1944, achieved a turning point in the situation and the development of previously achieved success in the direction of Gorodok and Vitebsk. Here, according to the Supreme, “... it was necessary to isolate two operational-strategic groupings of the enemy - northern and central, open the gates and create favorable conditions for the liberation of all of Belarus.”

The new front commander, Army General Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, accepted the association, which operated in one of the most important directions of the Soviet-German front - in the zone between Nevel and Rudnya. The front included three combined arms armies: the 4th Shock, 43rd, 39th, as well as the 3rd Guards Cavalry and 5th Tank Corps. The 11th Guards Army also completed its redeployment to the front line. The actions of the troops were supported by aviation units of the 3rd Air Army.

The front line in the area of ​​​​the advance of Soviet troops in the Belarusian direction had a complex configuration: during the Nevelsk operation, a ledge was formed, the top of which rested on the inter-lake region, where Vitebsk was at the base, and Gorodok was in the center. Near it there were many lakes, which significantly hampered the offensive actions of our troops.

The enemy did everything possible to ensure that Gorodok was turned into a fortress covering the strategically important city of Vitebsk. A “Panther” defensive line was created around the settlement. This is a powerful, well-equipped defensive system, which included four lines, of which the last one, which ran along the outskirts of the city, was especially difficult to break through. The Gorodok ledge was defended by a significant enemy group (8 infantry and air field divisions, one tank division and a number of individual units) from the 3rd Tank Army of Army Group Center and the southern wing of the 16th Army of Army Group North. In order to prevent a breakthrough of the front and a connection between Soviet troops and Belarusian partisans, the German command transferred two infantry divisions from Leningrad to Gorodok. The ledge occupied by the enemy was from thirty-five to sixty kilometers in diameter and stretched from south to north for 85 kilometers.
All this created a great danger for the Soviet troops, and it lurked in this ledge, from where the enemy could easily strike the flank and rear of our formations and units, who were striving to enter the operational space in order to liberate Belarus.

For Army General Bagramyan, the Gorodok operation was the first in which he acted with the rank of commander of the front forces. This circumstance determined the desire for active offensive actions, which manifested itself in his decisions and demands on his subordinates. Preparations for the offensive began on November 19 under unfavorable conditions: a thaw began, dense clouds covered the sky. The roads became impassable for wheeled vehicles, and in some places even for tracked ones.

Everything turned out in such a way that a hasty start of an attack in such unfavorable weather could have a detrimental effect on the course and outcome of the operation. Therefore, having prepared convincing arguments, Army General Ivan Bagramyan turned to Headquarters with a request to postpone the operation. Stalin reacted to this with understanding and allowed the offensive to be postponed to a later date.

BREATHTE was used for more thorough training of the troops of the 1st Baltic Front and subsequently carrying out the Gorodok offensive operation from December 13-31, 1943. Its plan was to use counter strikes from the 11th Guards and 4th Shock Armies in the direction of Bychikha Station to break through the enemy’s defenses on the flanks of the Gorodok bulge, encircle and destroy his group, and then develop a strike to the south, capture Gorodok and advance on Vitebsk . The main task in the operation was to be solved by the guardsmen of the 11th Guards Army, reinforced by the 1st Tank Corps, in the breakthrough area of ​​which they created a superiority over the enemy in manpower by three times and in artillery by four times. It was decided to deliver the main blow with the forces of the 36th and 16th Guards Rifle Corps in the direction of Mekhovoe and Gorodok. Two auxiliary strikes were also envisaged. In general, the depth of the planned operation was 100 kilometers, the duration was 6-7 days. The actions of ground troops were supported by aviation of the 3rd Air Army.

On the morning of December 13, the day of the offensive, it suddenly became warmer, the sky became cloudy, visibility deteriorated to the limit, which almost completely excluded the actions of our aviation. At 9 a.m., shelling of the enemy front line began, lasting almost two hours, then artillery fire was transferred to the depths. At the same time, rifle units, supported by tanks and artillery, began an assault on enemy positions. Despite the bad weather, the 11th Guards, 4th Shock and 43rd armies broke through the German defenses along a 15-kilometer front and by December 16 advanced deep into the enemy’s defenses.

In the zone of action of the 4th Shock Army, the 2nd Guards Corps of General A. Beloborodov, and especially the 47th Nevelskaya Division of Colonel G. Chernov, distinguished themselves, which, with a powerful blow, together with the tankers of the 24th Tank Brigade, did not give the enemy the opportunity to gain a foothold on intermediate lines and by the end of the day she had completely completed her task.

The 1st and 5th tank corps brought into the battle (commanded by generals V. Butkov and M. Sakhno) in the area of ​​​​the Bychikha station surrounded units of the enemy 4th infantry division, which was defeated. In the most difficult conditions of bad weather and impassable roads, with an acute shortage of ammunition, the front forces managed to encircle and basically destroy the enemy in the inter-lake region south of Nevel, and captured an operationally important area - a kind of springboard for a further push to Gorodok and Vitebsk.

ABOUT SUCCESS Soviet troops were noted in the operational report of the Sovinformburo on December 19, 1943. It said, in particular: “...troops of the 1st Baltic Front broke through the enemy’s heavily fortified defensive line, stretching along the front for about 80 km and up to 30 km in depth. “In five days of intense fighting, our troops liberated more than 500 settlements.”

Among the soldiers who distinguished themselves during the Gorodok operation, I would especially like to note Anatoly Efimovich Uglovsky. His feat is described by a leaflet from the political department of the 43rd Army, stored in the collections of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War: “On December 20, 1943, heavy fighting took place on the Surazh-Vitebsk highway in the area of ​​​​operations of the 429th Anti-Tank Fighter Division. Enemy tanks created a critical situation for our infantry and jeopardized the completion of the combat mission. The loss of several tanks did not stop the enemy; the tanks continued to move. The enemy's lead tank was approaching the position of the armor-piercing crew of Anatoly Uglovsky. When the tank was 30 meters from the crew, guardsman Uglovsky grabbed two anti-tank grenades, rose towards the fascist tank and threw the first grenade under the bottom of the tank, and the second under the track. The tank was hit at the cost of the hero's death. The enemy tanks abandoned further attack and turned back."

The army newspaper “Defender of the Fatherland” was one of the first to talk about the feat of the 20-year-old Red Army soldier. It also published for the first time a poster by the artist A. Chernov dedicated to the hero. A front-line leaflet dedicated to the feat of Anatoly Uglovsky called: “Privates, sergeants and officers! Take revenge on the enemy for the hot blood and noble heart of your hero friend. Hit your hated enemy harder! Be worthy of your glorious comrade, the armor-piercing hero Uglovsky! Love your Motherland like he does, fight like him in the name of our victory, in the name of the Motherland.” For his courage and heroism in the battles for his homeland, Anatoly Uglovsky was awarded (posthumously) the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Another heroic episode of the operation is evidenced by award sheets stored in the collections of the Belarusian State Museum. “During the battles southwest of Ezerische, the commanders of the tank companies of the 117th tank brigade, captain Ivan Nikolaevich Antonov and senior lieutenant Nikolai Martynovich Rudyk. On December 16, the tank companies of Antonov and Rudyk, having broken through the enemy defenses at the Mekhovoe and Drazhki line, turned into a powerful enemy resistance center, which had a reinforced infantry battalion, 15 tanks, 10 assault guns and a division of guns, rushed to Bychikha station. The enemy was surrounded. Antonov and Rudyk placed tanks in ambushes and methodically destroyed the fascists who were rushing out of encirclement with methodical fire. The battle lasted more than an hour. Most of our tanks were knocked out. The tanks of the company commanders also caught fire. Antonov and Rudyk, being wounded, jumped out of the burning combat vehicles with tank machine guns and ammunition, took up positions and held back the enemy with their fire. The heroes died at machine guns, but fulfilled their combat mission and duty to the Motherland, ensuring that our units captured an important resistance center.” The brave tank commanders were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Both heroes are buried in a mass grave near the Belarusian village of Mekhovoe.

Marshal Bagramyan recalled that “...the decisive battle for Gorodok began on December 23, 1943. Before the attack, reconnaissance in force was carried out. It revealed the most dangerous centers of German resistance. At 11.00 on December 23, artillery preparation began. After an hour-long artillery barrage, formations of the 11th Guards and 43rd Army went on the offensive. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting broke out in the trenches and passages of the formations. At the same time, the offensive impulse of our soldiers and officers, their moral superiority over the enemy, was clearly demonstrated.”
The attack was not easy; the Nazis clung to the city until the last. On the night of December 24, 1943, the order was given to launch an attack on the 83rd, 26th and 11th Guards divisions. Then, at the moment of the full intensity of the battle, the 5th Guards Division of Major General N. Soldatov was sent to storm Gorodok. The attack of the guards was fierce and unstoppable. Having crossed the river bed on the ice, they broke into the northern outskirts of the city. In close cooperation, soldiers of the 10th Tank Brigade and the 83rd Guards Division crushed an important center of enemy resistance in the station area. With the help of artillery and mortar fire, as well as tank landings, the enemy was defeated in the city center. By noon, the remnants of the enemy garrison retreated south towards Vitebsk. The town was liberated.

During these days, the 26th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Rifle Corps under the command of Guard Major General Nikolai Nikolaevich Korzhenevsky especially distinguished itself. In cooperation with the 83rd Infantry Division, it delivered a powerful blow from the west and, with a rapid offensive, crushed the enemy’s resistance center. The commander himself died near Vitebsk from a shell explosion on January 9, 1944. He was buried in Gorodok, a monument was erected on his grave, one of the streets bears the name of the hero. Documentary materials about him are exhibited in the Gorodok Museum of Local Lore.

IN THE ORDER Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Stalin No. 51 dated December 24, 1943 noted: “In the battles for the capture of the Town, the troops of Lieutenant General Galitsky, Lieutenant General Malyshev, artillerymen of Lieutenant General of Artillery Khlebnikov and Lieutenant General of Artillery Semenov distinguished themselves.”

To commemorate the victory, 12 formations and units that distinguished themselves in the battles for the liberation of Gorodok were given the name “Gorodoksky”. On the same day, Moscow saluted our valiant troops who liberated Gorodok with twelve artillery salvoes from one hundred and twenty-four guns. The personnel of the troops who participated in the battles for the capture of Gorodok were thanked by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
A solemn meeting took place in the liberated city, which was attended by residents of nearby villages, soldiers, and fighters of the Gorodok partisan brigade, which, consisting of five detachments, with the active help of the population of the entire region, bravely fought against the invaders.

A week later, on December 31, 1943, the Gorodok offensive operation was completed. Ivan Bagramyan recalled: “The town operation, not large in scale, remained in my memory as one of the most difficult among those carried out under my leadership during the last war.” During the Gorodok operation, in the most difficult terrain and weather conditions, overcoming exceptionally stubborn German resistance, front troops liberated over 1,220 settlements, destroyed over 65,000 enemy soldiers and officers, captured 3,300 Nazis, and captured a lot of military equipment and other military equipment.

Having cut off the Gorodok ledge, our troops hung over the northern flank of Army Group Center and disrupted its flank connection with the neighboring Army Group North, which was forced to begin retreating from Nevel to the west. Opportunities for further action have also opened up in the area of ​​Vitebsk, Polotsk and in the Baltic states. Ahead was 1944 - the year of the complete liberation of Belarus, the year of decisive victories of the Soviet troops.

In memory of the soldiers who gave their lives in the battles for the liberation of Gorodok, the Immortality memorial complex was erected in the center of the city. On Bagramyan Street there are monuments in honor of the soldiers of the 2nd Guards Red Banner Mortar Division, and on Tolkachev Street - to the tankers who were among the first to break into the city on the day of liberation.

For one of the authors of the material, the fact of the liberation of Gorodok also has a very personal character: on December 23, Anna Fedorovna Masalskaya (nee Leshchova), his mother-in-law, a front-line soldier, was born, who at that time was in the active army and took part in the liberation of Polotsk. Today she is almost 90. When she remembers the war, she always cries...

Nikolay SHEVCHENKO,
Valery PINCHUK, BN

SHVETSOV

Vasily Ivanovich

(28.2.1898 – 1.10.1958)

Soviet military leader

Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Colonel General

3rd shock army

R Born in the village of Lykovskaya, Cherepovets district (now Nikolsky village council, Kaduysky district), in a poor large family.

From the age of 12 he worked with his father on timber rafting, learned carpentry and was accepted into a team of railway bridge builders.

1915-17 – graduated from vocational school.

Member of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (5.1917-5.1918).

Candidate member of the CPSU (b) from 12.1918

1919 – volunteered for the Red Army.

Participant Civil War .

10.1919-7.1920 – Red Army soldier. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1919

Received baptism of fire as part of the Moscow Communist Regiment against Denikin on the Southern Front.

Participated in the Petrograd cadet brigade in battles against Wrangel on the Southern Front (autumn 1920).

– graduated from the VOSO department Petrograd KVISH.

4.1921 – at the disposal of the Administration of the University of the Priural Higher Educational Institution.

7-9.1922 – full-time teacher at the School of Aircraft Mechanics.

1923 – graduated from the military department of the Higher Military Pedagogical School in Petrograd.

11.1923 – teacher of the 8th Leningrad Infantry School.

10.1924-9.1926 – teacher at the Higher Cavalry School, Cavalry KUKS in Novocherkassk.

1929 – graduated from the main faculty of VA named after. M.V. Frunze.

6.1929-1.1930 - after the academy, on an internship as an assistant commander of the 131st rifle division in a combat unit.

1-7.1930 – assistant to the head of the 1st department of the headquarters of the Caucasian Red Banner Army, headquarters of the Ukrainian Military District.

1931 – graduated from the Eastern Faculty of Higher Education named after. M.V. Frunze.

5.1931-7.1935 – adjunct, senior lecturer at the VA named after. M.V. Frunze.

9.1939-11.12.1941 – commander of the 133rd Rifle Division. Brigade commander (1939). Major General (4.6.1940).

Participant Great Patriotic War.

He fought on the Western, Kalinin, 1st Baltic and Leningrad fronts.

On October 14, 1941, the enemy occupied Kalinin and rushed to Torzhok. At this critical moment, the 133rd SD and troops of the 29A surrounded and defeated the Germans who had broken through to the Torzhok area. Then the division took part in fierce battles near Yartsev and Yelnya.

I.S. Konev: « The enemy's breakthrough to Torzhok again aggravated the situation. There was a threat of completely unpunished enemy access to the rear of the North-Western Front and to the east - in the direction of Yaroslavl. Everything possible and impossible had to be done to prevent this serious danger. Kutsevalov temporarily helped out. His aircraft were already bombing enemy tank columns... On the same day I learned that the head units of the 133rd Infantry Division of Major General had approached Likhoslavl IN AND. Shvetsova. As a result of counter active actions of the 133rd Division and troops of the 29th Army, the enemy group, which broke through in the Torzhok area on a narrow section of the front, was cut off, then surrounded and defeated. The Nazis' attempts to cross the Volga east of Kalinin ended in failure».

12/11/1941 – commander of 29A.

12/16/1941 – during the offensive operation of the troops of the Kalinin Front, the 29th and 31st armies liberated the city of Kalinin.

Awarded the Order Lenin(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces dated January 12, 1942).

3-8.1942 - 29A participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemsk and Rzhev-Sychevsk offensive operations.

« In January-April 1942, the 29th Army took part in the Rzhev-Vyazemsk offensive operation, during which in January, in cooperation with formations of other armies, it cut off the enemy’s Olenin group from the main forces of its 9th Army. At the beginning of February 1942, as a result of strong flank counterattacks by the Nazi troops, the 29th Army was cut off from the main forces of the front. In the current extremely difficult situation, the army formations broke out of the encirclement. Subsequently, having accepted part of the troops of the 31st Army on March 9, the formations of the 29th Army continued to conduct defensive and offensive battles».

9.1942 – Deputy Commander of 3rd Division A.

5-12.1943 – commander of 4th division A. Lieutenant General (10/16/1943). Troops of 4 units show courage and heroism in the Nevelsk and Gorodok offensive operations, the best regiments and divisions become guards.

Awarded the Order Patriotic War 1 Art. (Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces dated February 22, 1943

The 3rd Shock Army (Lieutenant General K.N. Galitsky) advanced from the area west of Zhigar in the general direction of Nevel, the 4th Shock Army (Major General IN AND. Shvetsov) – south of Nevel. The operation began on October 6. The fighting immediately became fierce. Destroying one after another enemy strongholds on the approaches to Nevel, Soviet troops broke into the city by the morning of October 7 and liberated it. By October 10, the 3rd and 4th shock armies had advanced 25–30 km north and south of the city... For their distinction in battle, 12 formations and units received the honorary name “Nevelsk”».

Awarded the Order Suvorov 1 tbsp.(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of October 11, 1943).

2-4.1944 – commander of 21A.

6.1944-5.1945 – commander of 23A.

23A broke through the defenses of the Finnish troops and eliminated the enemy's bridgehead on the river. Vuoksa and captured the southern shore of the lakes of the Vuoksa system (6-8.1944).