19th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
| 19th Rifle Division (1922–57) 92nd Motor Rifle Division (1957–65) 19th Motor Rifle Division (1965–2009) |
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| Active | 1922–2009 |
| Country | Soviet Union, Russia |
| Branch | Soviet Army, Russian Ground Forces |
| Type | Division |
| Role | Motor Rifle |
| Part of | 58th Army |
| Garrison/HQ | Vladikavkaz |
| Engagements | Operation Barbarossa, Battle of Moscow, War in South Ossetia (2008), others |
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The 19th Motor Rifle Division appears to have been formed originally in July 1922 at Tambov in the Moscow Military District as a territorial formation. In 1923 it was awarded the 'Tambov' placename and renamed the 19th Voronezh Rifle Division.
By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War it consisted of the 32nd, 282nd, and 315th Rifle, 90th Artillery, 103rd howitzer artillery regiment. It entered combat against the Germans on July 19, 1941 near Yelnya as part of the 24th Army of the Western Front. Participated in Elninskaya offensive, the Battle of Moscow, Rzhev-Vyazma offensive operation in 1942, the Rzhev-Sychevka offensive, Kharkiv defensive operation in 1943, Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation (3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943) (a part of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev) as part of the 7th Guards Army, Poltava-Kremenchuk offensive, Pyatihatskoy offensive, Bereznegovatoe-Snigirevskaya offensive, offensive Odessa, Chisinau, Izmail offensive, offensive Belgrade 1944 Derskoy offensive, Bratislava-Brnovskoy offensive.
It participated in the liberation of the cities Elnya, Ruza, Krasnograd, Bobrynets, Bratislava, Shumla (Shumen) liberated September 9, 1944. For exemplary performance of command assignments in Bulgaria it was given the honorary name "Shumlinskoy" (27 Sep. 1944). It boosts the Seversky Donets, Ingulets, Dniester, Prut, Southern Bug, Dnieper and Danube. During the Belgrade operation it October 1944 entered the territory of Yugoslavia, in November, crossed the river. Danube near apathy and in difficult conditions forested mountainous terrain led fierce battles with the Nazis on his left side. In 1944 its combat path took it through Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia where it ended the war. For their courage in these battles and military skill he was awarded the Order of Suvorov 2nd degree (January 6, 1945).
During the war it served successively with the 24th, 43rd, 5th, 20th, 3rd Guards Tank, 57th, 37th, 7th Guards, and 46th Armies. In 1942 and 1943 it defended in the Gzatsk and Kharkov areas.
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