The208th Rifle Division was aSoviet infantry division in theRed Army duringWorld War II. It beganOperation Barbarossa as the 208th Mechanized Division under ColonelV.I. Nichiporovich, with the128th Tank Regiment and 752nd and 760th Motorized Rifle Regiments.[1] The Division was part of the13th Mechanized Corps,10th Army,Soviet Western Front.[2] Unusually, Colonel Nichiporovich managed to keep a large group of men together after the destruction of his division during the border battles, and kept on the fight as 'Detachment No.208,' one of the first units of theSoviet partisans in Belarus.[3]
In 1942 the Division, under Col. K. M. Vysokoboinikov, was part of the 64th Army which fought in theBattle of Stalingrad.
On 6 April 1945, now under the title 'Siberian,' it was part of the divisions of the encirclement ofKönigsberg, located at the northwest sector as part of 124th Rifle Corps,43rd Army. The division to the right is unknown, and to the left was the216th Rifle Division. AttackedGerman positions and broke through the second defensive line.
The division was disbanded in theKiev Military District along with the 124th Rifle Corps in late December 1945.[4]
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