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| 46th Rifle Division | |
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| Active | 1923–1964 |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Type | Infantry |
| Size | Division |
The46th Rifle Division was a rifle division of theRed Army.
The division was formed in 1923 as a territorial unit, assigned to the14th Rifle Corps of theUkrainian Military District. Based inKiev, it included the 136th, 137th, and 138th Rifle Regiments. Its regiments received the honorifics Pre-Dnieper, Kiev, andPereyaslavl, respectively, by 1930. Reorganized as acadre unit in 1931, it became part of theKiev Military District when the Ukrainian Military District was split on 17 May 1935. The division transferred to theZhitomir Army Group of the Kiev Special Military District on 26 July 1938 during another reorganization.
The 46th was soon transferred toIrkutsk, assigned to theTransbaikal Military District. It was reorganized under peacetime tables of organization and equipment with an authorized strength of 6,000 personnel in April 1940. WhenOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, the division was assigned to the32nd Rifle Corps of the16th Army of the Transbaikal Military District, and still stationed in Irkutsk. It was commanded by Major General Alexander Filatov at the time. Sent west, it was wiped out during theBattle of Smolensk in July.
The division was reformed atUfa after July 1941, but was destroyed in the Volkhov Pocket during June 1942. It was again reformed from the1st Rifle Division NKVD at Vaskelevo, and fought at Lutsk and Danzig. The 46th was part of the2nd Shock Army of the2nd Belorussian Front in May 1945. When theGroup of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany was formed in August 1945, the division was with the109th Rifle Corps of the 2nd Shock Army.
In 1955, the division was reformed from the272nd Rifle Division with the13th Guards Rifle Corps atKursk. It became the 46th Motor Rifle Division on 25 June 1957.[1] On 17 November 1964 it became the272nd Motor Rifle Division.[2]
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