53rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 53rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army that served from the early 1930s to the immediate postwar period following World War II.

53rd Rifle Division
ActiveI Formation: 1931–1946
II Formation: 1955
Country Soviet Union
BranchRed Army
TypeInfantry
EngagementsWorld War II
Decorations
Battle honoursNovoukrainka (1st formation)

named for Friedrich Engels (1st formation

Novorossiysk (2nd formation)

Interwar period

The 53rd was formed in 1931 as a territorial division; Ivan Boldin became its first commander and military commissar in April of that year, and would hold that position until December 1934.[1] It was stationed in the Volga Military District with the 12th Rifle Corps. By 1935, the division was headquartered at Engels and included the 157th Rifle Regiment at Engels, the 158th Rifle Regiment at Krasny Kut, the 159th Rifle Regiment at Pugachyov, and the 53rd Artillery Regiment at Pugachyov.[2] On 8 July 1937 it received the honorific "named for Friedrich Engels". Before the war it became part of the 21st Army in the Gomel Region of the Western Special Military District.[3]

World War II

Poirer and Connor, in their 1985 Red Army Order of Battle, say that the division fought at Yelnya, on the Dnieper River, at Uman and Targul Frumos. For its actions in the capture of Jassy, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner on 15 September 1944.[4] The division was with 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945.

Postwar

The division was disbanded on 30 June 1946 in the Odessa Military District with the 34th Rifle Corps of the 40th Army.[5][6]

In 1955, the division was reformed from the 318th Rifle Division with the 3rd Rifle Corps at Uzhhorod, inheriting the honorifics "Novorossiysk Order of Suvorov". On 9 September 1955, it became the 39th Mechanized Division.[7] The division received personnel and equipment from the disbanded 13th Guards Mechanized Division in fall 1955 and on 4 December became the 39th Guards Mechanized Division.[8]

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References

Citations
  1. Vozhakin 2005, p. 29.
  2. "Дислокация войсковых частей, штабов, управлений, учреждений и заведений Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии по состоянию на 1 июля 1935 года" [Stationing of military units, headquarters, directorates, institutions and establishments of the Red Army as of 1 July 1935] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: 4th Directorate of the Staff of the Red Army. 1 July 1935. p. 18.
  3. "53-я Новоукраинская Краснознаменная стрелковая дивизия" [53rd Rifle Division]. rkka.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1967, p. 492.
  5. Feskov et al 2013, p. 489.
  6. Glubokovskikh 1946.
  7. Feskov et al 2013, p. 151.
  8. Feskov et al 2013, pp. 205–206.

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