103rd Rifle Division

103rd Rifle Division 1939–1946 Soviet Union Red Army Infantry Division World War II Yelnya Offensive Second Battle of Kharkov Soviet invasion of Manchuria Khingan (3rd formation) The 103rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times. It was first formed in 1939. It was converted into a motorized division and fought in the Yelnya Offensive. After being converted back to a rifle division it was destroyed in the Battle of Vyazma. The division reformed in early 1942 but was destroyed during the Second Battle of Kharkov. It was reformed a third time in the Far East in summer 1942 and participated in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. History First Formation The division was formed at Voroshilovsk in August and September 1939 КРАТКАЯ ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ СПРАВКА О ТЕРРИТОРИИ СВВАУЛШ http://svvaulsh.ru/content.php?article.32 svvaulsh.ru 2016-02-19 ru History of the Location of the Stavropol Military Higher Aviation School11395 Denis Osadchy from the 35th Rifle Regiment of the 74th Rifle Division.http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/26_meh.htm 26 механизированный корпус Drig Yevgeny 12 April 2007 mechcorps.rkka.ru ru 26th Mechanized Corps https://web.archive.org/web/20090204185314/http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/26_meh.htm 2009-02-04 21 August 2016 dead The division was converted to a motorized division in March 1941, part of the 26th Mechanized Corps.http://samsv.narod.ru/Div/Sd/mtd103/default.html 103-я моторизованная дивизия samsv.narod.ru ru 103rd Motorized Division https://web.archive.org/web/20160804090559/http://samsv.narod.ru/Div/Sd/mtd103/default.html 4 August 2016 2016-02-19 On 8 July the division became the 103rd Tank Division as a result of the reorganization of Red Army mechanized forces. During July and August, it fought in the Yelnya Offensive as part of the corps, now subordinated to the 24th Army. On 28 August, it became a rifle division again. Barbarossa Derailed: The German advance to Smolensk, the encirclement battle, and the first and second Soviet counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941 https://books.google.com/books?id=SDfInc6Gb40C Casemate Publishers 2010-01-01 9781906033729 en David M. Glantz 369 In October 1941, it was surrounded and destroyed in the Spas-Demensky District, trapped in the Vyazma Pocket. However, the division was only disbanded on 27 December, http://www.rkka.ru/handbook/reg/103sd.htm 103-я стрелковая дивизия 1 Jan 2016 rkka.ru 103rd Rifle Division ru despite coming out of the encirclement with only thirty men. The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon https://books.google.com/books?id=ntzZAwAAQBAJ Helion and Company 2013-08-01 9781908916501 en Lev Lopukhovsky 292 Second Formation thumb|Soviet prisoners of war after the Second Battle of Kharkov The division was reformed on 9 January 1942 from the 463rd Rifle Division (originally formed 22 December 1941) at Samarkand. The 103rd was composed of the 393rd, 583rd and 688th Rifle Regiments. In early March, the division was relocated to Starobilsk with the 28th Army and fought in the Second Battle of Kharkov during May 1942. Due to supply shortages the division was not provided with food from 28 April to 2 May.http://www.historia.ru/2008/01/kharkov.htm ХАРЬКОВСКАЯ КАТАСТРОФА МАЯ 1942 ГОДА Semidetko Vladimir January 2008 historia.ru ru The Kharkov Disaster May 1942 29 May 2016 On 19 May, it became part of 6th Army Kharkov 1942: The Wehrmacht Strikes Back https://books.google.com/books?id=_7GfAwAAQBAJ Osprey Publishing 2013-04-23 9781780961576 en Robert Forczyk 75 but was surrounded and destroyed at Izyum between 25 and 27 May. The division was officially disbanded on 30 June 1942.http://samsv.narod.ru/Div/Sd/sd103/main2.html 103-я (ф. 1941) стрелковая дивизия - samsv.narod.ru ru 103rd (1941) Rifle Division – Home of the Club "Memory" Voronezh State University https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113317/http://samsv.narod.ru/Div/Sd/sd103/main2.html 4 March 2016 2016-01-01 http://rkka.ru/handbook/reg/103sd41.htm 103-я стрелковая дивизия 19 February 2016 rkka.ru ru 103rd Rifle Division Third Formation The division was reformed a third time on 21 July 1942 in the Transbaikal Military District and served there for the duration of the war. It was with the 2nd Rifle Corps in Transbaikal Front in January 1945. Red Army: Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War https://books.google.com/books?id=68KZAQAACAAJ Random House Value Publishing 1991-07-01 9780517071984 en Robert G. Poirier Albert Z. Conner During August and September 1945, it fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. http://rkka.ru/handbook/reg/103sd42.htm 103-я стрелковая дивизия 19 February 2016 rkka.ru ru 103rd Rifle Division For its actions, the division was awarded the honorific "Khingan". It was disbanded in 1946 in the Transbaikal-Amur Military District. Стрелковые 91–105 http://myfront.in.ua/krasnaya-armiya/divizii/strelkovye-91-105.html myfront.in.ua 2016-02-19 ru Rifle 91–105 https://web.archive.org/web/20180105020616/http://myfront.in.ua/krasnaya-armiya/divizii/strelkovye-91-105.html 2018-01-05 deadFeskov et al 2013, p. 565 References Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской Feskov V.I. Golikov V.I. Kalashnikov K.A. Slugin S.A. Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing 2013 9785895035306 Tomsk ru The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces Poirer and Connor, Red Army Order of Battle Category:Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1946 Category:Military units and formations established in 1939