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121st Guards Rifle Division

121st Guards Rifle Division (September 23, 1943 – 1946)
Soviet Major General Logvin Danilovich Chervonii.jpg
Maj. Gen. L.D. Chervonii, Hero of the Soviet Union
Active 1943–1946
Country  Soviet Union
Branch Red Army flag.svg Red Army
Type Division
Role Infantry
Engagements Battle of Smolensk (1943)
Gomel-Rechitsa Offensive
Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
Vistula-Oder Offensive
Silesian Offensives
Battle of Berlin
Prague Offensive
Decorations

Order of Lenin Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner

Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Order of Suvorov
Battle honours Gomel
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Maj. Gen. L. D. Chervonii Hero of the Soviet Union medal.png

Order of Lenin Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner

The 121st Guards Rifle Division was formed on September 23, 1943, based on the first formation of the 342nd Rifle Division, in the 80th Rifle Corps of 3rd Army. During 1943 it shared a similar combat path to that of the 120th Guards Rifle Division, which was formed in the same Army about a week later. On November 26 it was given credit for its role in the liberation of Gomel and won that city's name as an honorific. It was soon reassigned to 13th Army and would serve under that command for the rest of the war. In 1944 the division helped form the bridgehead over the Vistula at Sandomir, and in January, 1945, joined in the breakout from this bridgehead and the subsequent advance through Poland and into Germany, earning its final honor for the capture of Wittenberg. The 121st Guards ended the war in western Czechoslovakia with a very impressive combat record.

The 342nd Rifle Division was raised to Guards status as the 121st Guards on September 23, 1943, based on its successful actions and mass heroism during Operation Kutuzov, the offensive that eliminated the German-held salient around Oryol. Its order of battle was as follows:


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