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| 102nd Rifle Division | |
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| Active | 1941–1947 |
| Country |  Soviet Union |
| Branch | .svg) Red Army /Soviet Army |
| Type | Infantry |
| Size | Division |
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The102nd Rifle Division was an infantry division of theRed Army which participated in theSecond World War. It was formed three times. Its first formation was listed as part of the active army from 2 July to 19 September 1941. Its third formation was awarded theOrder of Lenin, theOrder of the Red Banner, and theOrder of Suvorov, 2nd class.
The division was formed in the summer of 1939 atKachinskoye in theSiberian Military District. In March 1940, the67th Rifle Corps was formed in theKharkov Military District. The corps consisted of the 102nd,132nd, and151st Rifle Divisions, the 194th Separate Sapper Battalion and 207th Separate Communications Battalion. Corps headquarters was stationed inPoltava.
In June 1941, the 102nd Rifle Division received 5,450 more personnel.
On 22 June 1941, the division was stationed inKremenchug. It was ordered on June 28 to march toChernigov. On 1 August 1941,BSSA lists the division as part of the67th Rifle Corps,21st Army, part of theBryansk Front. In August, the division was surrounded and destroyed in theGomel area.
The division was recreated atChimkent in theCentral Asian Military District in January 1942. James Goff writes that the new division was reformed from the briefly active 462nd Rifle Division, which was only active from 22 December 1941 to 1 February 1942 before being re-designated the 102nd Rifle Division (Second Formation).[1]
The division was again reformed from Far East NKVD Division atKhabarovsk in June 1942 and joined the70th Army. It fought at theBattle of Kursk,Operation Kutuzov,Operation Bagration, theEast Prussian Offensive, and theEast Pomeranian Offensive. It was with the48th Army of the3rd Belorussian Front in May 1945.
Postwar, it became the 9th Separate Rifle Brigade atArmavir with the29th Rifle Corps. The brigade disbanded in March 1947.[2]
