64th Rifle Division

Updated May 7, 2003
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Before the War
  Included 190,191,192 Rifle Regiments
since Apr.1941 Equipped by Staff #04/120
June 01.1941 Reinforced by 6000 men
June 1941 Disposed in Dorogobouzh camps
June 18.1941 Started loading to trains directing to Minsk region
The War
Front-line forces- June,22.1941 - Sep. 09, 1941, Sep. 29, 1941 - Dec. 14, 1941, Jan., 25, 1942- May 9, 1942
June 23.1941 Was ordered to unload at Ratomka st. (between Minsk and Zaslavl)
June 23 1941 Was ordered to defend Minsk Fortified Region. The defense must be build before June 25
June 2.1941 Recon Battalion joined the battle
till June 28 1941 Encircled to the West from Minsk. Broke encirclement with much losses
  Was reinforced in Smolensk and then in Vyazma
July 22.1941 Joined the battle as a part of 44th Rifle Corps in Svishchevo region (South to Yartsevo)
Sep. 17 1941 Transferred to Voronezh region to Supreme Command-in-Chief Reserve

June 22, 1941
Command 44th Infantry Corps, Zapadniy front (West Front)
Dislocation Smolensk, Dorogobouzh
State Half part of the division was in movement
Commander Col. S.I. Iovlev
Structure
30 Rifle Regiment  
159  Rifle Regiment  
288  Rifle Regiment  
163 Artillery Regiment  
219 Howitzer Regiment  
170 Separate Anti-Tank Battalion, 318 Separate Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 73 Recon battalion, 106 Field Engineering Battalion, 82 Separate Signals Battalion, 65 Medical Battalion, 178 Auto-Transport Company, 99 Field Bakery, 100th Veterinary Field Hospital, 140 Field Post Station, 105 field Bank Department
Strength
Artillery 76 mm Anti-|Tank guns - 12, 76 mm Field guns - 27, (in regiment - 9, in battalions - 18), 122 mm Howitzers - 18, 152 mm Howitzers - 9, Anti-Aircraft Guns - 9, mortars (without 50 mm) - 90
Armor 5 tankettes, 3 Armored cars in 73 recon Battalion

Structure since Feb. 20, 1942
14, 20, 26 Guards Rifle Regiments, 25 Guards Artillery Regiment, 1 Guards Separate Anti-Tank Battalion, 4 Guards Recon Company, 12 Guards Engineering Battalion, 6 Guards Separate Signals Battalion (13 Guards Separate Signals Company), 475 (10) Guards Medical Battalion, 11 Guards Separate Anti-Gas Company, 477 (4 Auto-Transport Battalion, 1 Auto-Transport Company), 605th (3) Field Bakery, 560th (13) Veterinary Field Hospital, 9 Supply Company (since Dec 10.1943), 140 Field Post Station, 105 Field Bank Department

Commanders
June 1.1940 - July 23.1941 Col. S.I. Iovlev
July 24 1941 - Jan. 5.1942 Col. A.S. Gryaznov
Jan. 7.1942 - Jan 26.1943 Col., since Nov 27 1942 Gen.-Major E.V. Bedin
Jan. 27 1943 - Mar. 7.1943 Gen.-Major N.P. Anisimov
Mar. 11.1943 - May 11.1943 Gen.-Major M.E. Kozyr
May 15.1943 - May 09.1945 Col. M.E. Moskalik

64 Rifle Division
2nd Formation
Mar 5.1942 Formed using troops of the 7th Field Engineering Brigade (State Defense Committee decision #1229 Feb 1.1942)
The war
Front-line forces Aug. 25, 1942 - Sep. 09 1944, Oct. 19, 1944 - May 9, 1945
June 1942 Transferred from Serpukhov to Medveditsa st. Entered into 8th Reserve Army
Aug. 14.1942 Transferred to Jugovostochnij Front (South-Western Front)

Structure
433, 440, 451 Rifle Regiments, 1029 Artillery regiment, 9 Training Company, 406 Separate Anti-Tank Battalion, 180 Recon Company, 167 Field Engineering Battalion, 613 Separate Signals Battalion (943 Separate Signals Company), 109 Medical Battalion, 124 Separate Anti-Gas Company, 528 Auto-Transport Company, 372 Field Bakery, 843 Veterinary Field Hospital, 1828 Field Post Station, 1151 Field Bank Department

Commanders
Mar 05.1942 - June 01 1943 Col. A.M. Ignatov
June 13 1943 - June 03.1944 Col. I.I. Yaremenko
June 04.1944 - May 09.1945 Gen.-Major T.K.Shkrylev

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