46th Rifle Division

Division of the Red Army

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The 46th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army.

## History

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The division was formed in 1923 as a territorial unit, assigned to the 14th Rifle Corps of the Ukrainian Military District. Based in Kiev, it included the 136th, 137th, and 138th Rifle Regiments. Its regiments received the honorifics Pre-Dnieper, Kiev, and Pereyaslavl, respectively, by 1930. Reorganized as a cadre unit in 1931, it became part of the Kiev Military District when the Ukrainian Military District was split on 17 May 1935. The division transferred to the Zhitomir Army Group of the Kiev Special Military District on 26 July 1938 during another reorganization.

The 46th was soon transferred to Irkutsk, assigned to the Transbaikal Military District. It was reorganized under peacetime tables of organization and equipment with an authorized strength of 6,000 personnel in April 1940. When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, the division was assigned to the 32nd Rifle Corps of the 16th 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 the Battle of Smolensk in July.

The division was reformed at Ufa after July 1941, but was destroyed in the Volkhov Pocket during June 1942. It was again reformed from the 1st Rifle Division NKVD at Vaskelevo, and fought at Lutsk and Danzig. The 46th was part of the 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front in May 1945. When the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany was formed in August 1945, the division was with the 109th Rifle Corps of the 2nd Shock Army.

In 1955, the division was reformed from the 272nd Rifle Division with the 13th Guards Rifle Corps at Kursk. It became the 46th Motor Rifle Division on 25 June 1957.[1] On 17 November 1964 it became the 272nd Motor Rifle Division.[2]

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 151
2. ^ Holm, Michael. "272nd Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-21.

### Bibliography

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* Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.

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Rifle|

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* 2nd Priamur
* 1st Crimean
* 2nd Crimean
* 1st Polar
* Petrozavodsk

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* 60th
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* 68th
* 72nd
* 83rd
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Reserve|

* 10th
* 34th
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* 36th
* 41st
* 50th Lithuanian

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Guards|

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* 4th
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* 36th
* 69th
* 81st
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* 84th
* 103rd
* 109th
* 131st
* 163rd
* 185th
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Tank|

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Motor Rifle|

* 2nd Guards
* 3rd Guards
* 36th
* 57th
* 82nd
* 101st
* 106th
* 107th
* 112th
* 3rd Crimean

Other|

* Latvian Riflemen Soviet Divisions
* NKVD
* OMSDON
* People's Militia
* Reboly Direction Division
* Guards unit
* Destruction battalions

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Divisions of the Soviet Union 1945–1957

Airborne|

* 11
* 13
* 21
* 31
* 76
* 98
* 99
* 100
* 103
* 104
* 105
* 106
* 107
* 114

Artillery|

| Gun|

* 4
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 27
* 32
* 33
* 34
* 35
* 36
* 37
* 38

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* 2
* 3
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 5
* 6
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* 10
* 12
* 16
* 17
* 26
* 30
* 81

Antiaircraft|

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* 4
* 4
* 6
* 13
* 17
* 22
* 23
* 31
* 32
* 44
* 47
* 48
* 57
* 62
* 63
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* 86
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* 101
* 102
* 103

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* 5th
* 6th
* 7th
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* 10th
* 11th
* 12th
* 13th
* 15th
* 16th
* 17th
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* 20th
* 21st
* 22nd
* 24th
* 25

Cavalry|

* 1
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* 4
* 5
* 6 Separate
* 7 Separate

Rifle|

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* 9th
* 12th
* 14th
* 16th
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* 22nd
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* 109th
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* 123rd
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* 1st
* 1st Guards
* 2nd Guards
* 3rd Guards
* 4th Guards
* 5th Guards
* 6th Guards
* 7th Guards
* 7th
* 8th Guards
* 8th
* 9th Guards
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* 11th
* 11th Guards
* 12th Guards
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* 23rd Guards
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* 26th Guards
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* 27th Guards
* 27th
* 28th Guards
* 28th
* 29th Guards
* 30th Guards
* 31st Guards
* 32nd Guards
* 33rd Guards
* 34th Guards
* 35th Guards
* 36th Guards
* 37th Guards
* 38th Guards
* 39th Guards
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* 63rd
* 64th Guards
* 65th
* 66th Guards
* 67th
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* 69th
* 70th Guards
* 71st
* 72nd Guards
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Tank|

* 1st Guards
* 1st
* 2nd Guards
* 2nd
* 3rd Guards
* 3rd
* 4th Guards
* 5th Guards
* 5th
* 6th Guards
* 7th Guards
* 8th Guards
* 9th
* 9th Guards
* 10th Guards
* 10th
* 11th Guards
* 11th
* 11th Guards
* 12th Guards
* 13th
* 14th Guards Heavy
* 15th
* 16th
* 17th Heavy
* 18th Guards Heavy
* 18th
* 19th Guards
* 19th
* 20th
* 21st Guards
* 23rd
* 24th Heavy
* 25th
* 29th
* 31st
* 61st
* 111th

Other|

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