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15th Motor Rifle Division

15th Rifle Division
15th Motorized Rifle Division
Active 1919-1992
Country  Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
Type infantry
Engagements

Russian Civil War World War II

Decorations

Leninorder.jpg Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner (2)

Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Order of Suvorov
Battle honours Sivash
Stettin
Commanders
Notable
commanders

Semyon Krivoshein
Vladimir Janjgava

Kuzma Grebennik

Russian Civil War World War II

Leninorder.jpg Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner (2)

Semyon Krivoshein
Vladimir Janjgava

The 15th Rifle Division (Russian: 15-я стрелковая дивизия) was a military formation of the Red Army formed by renaming the Red Army's Inzensk Revolutionary Division on 30 April 1919. The division was active during the Russian Civil War and World War II.

The 15th Rifle Division was awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, and the Red Banner of Labour of the Ukrainian SSR, ultimately receiving the honorific designation 15th Sivash-Stettin Order of Lenin, Twice Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, Order of the Red Banner of Labour Division (15-я стрелковая Сивашско-Штеттинская, ордена Ленина, дважды Краснознамённая, орденов Суворова, Трудового Красного Знамени дивизия).


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