105th Rifle Division

105th Rifle Division 1936–1946 Soviet Union Red Army Infantry Soviet invasion of Manchuria The 105th Rifle Division (ru 105-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army. Formed in the 1930s, the division spent World War II on the border in Primorye, seeing its only combat in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. It was disbanded shortly after the war ended. History The 105th Rifle Division was formed in May 1936 in Primorye. The elements of the division were previously assigned to the Poltavka Fortified Region. On 22 June 1941, the division was a separate unit of the 25th Army of the Far Eastern Front. The division included the following elements:Lensky Tsybin 2003 171 53rd Rifle Regiment 130th Rifle Regiment 267th Rifle Regiment 102nd (former 215th) Artillery Regiment 148th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (until January 1942) 17th Reconnaissance Company 57th Separate Anti-Tank Battalion 464th Separate Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion (from 1942) 88th Sapper Battalion 55th Separate Signals Battalion (former 55th Separate Signals Company) 498th Auto Transport Battalion (former 358th Auto Transport Company) 92nd Medical-Sanitary Battalion 100th Separate Chemical Defense Company 36th Field Bakery The division spent most of World War II covering the border east of Vladivostok. Colonel Vsevolod Seber commanded the division from 9 July 1943 and was promoted to major general on 22 April 1945. The 105th did not see action until August 1945, when it fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria as part of the 25th Army.Lensky Tsybin 2003 171 With the army, the 105th became part of the 1st Far Eastern Front on 5 August and by 8 August concentrated in the area of Aleksey-Nikolskoye, Bogatyrka, and Ulitikha, with the task of covering the approaches to Voroshilov and securing the flank of the 25th Army. After the war began, the division was in the army reserve and from 14 to 18 August carried out a 140-kilometer march in difficult mountain and forest conditions to concentrate in the area of Sanchakou, Dulin, Laoheishan, and Shitoukhentsy. During the march the division was subjected to repeated attacks of Japanese sabotage groups, losing four killed and twelve wounded while being credited with killing 42 Japanese saboteurs. The division then conducted a 72 kilometer march to the area of Wangqing between 18 and 28 August. During the invasion, the division captured 4,925 Japanese soldiers and officers, 22 light and nine heavy machine guns, and 220 horses.Tsapayev Goremykin 2014 339–340 The division was ordered disbanded by the 10 September order forming the Primorsky Military District from the 1st Far Eastern Front.Feskov Golikov Kalashnikov Slugin 2013 577 The disbandment of the division was carried out during July 1946.Исторический формуляр 53 сп 105 сд Historical Form, 53rd Rifle Regiment, 105th Rifle Division https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=451151034 Pamyat Naroda 5 ru Commanders The following officers commanded the division: Colonel Ivan Chistyakov (June 1938–July 1939)Tsapayev Goremykin 2014 947–949 Colonel Afanasy Kopychko (23 March 1941–7 August 1942)Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964 150 Major General Yudel Leontyevich Gorodinsky (10–28 August 1942)Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964 150 Colonel Vladimir Vasilievich Baranov (6 September 1942–2 March 1943)Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964 150 Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Grigoryevich Smirnov (10 March–8 July 1943)Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964 150 Colonel Vsevolod Ivanovich Seber (7 July 1943–March 1946, major general 22 April 1945)Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964 150Tsapayev Goremykin 2014 339–340 References Citations Bibliography Feskov V. 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Kompleks 2003 5-98278-003-0 St. Petersburg ru The First Hundred: Rifle, Mountain Rifle, Motor Rifle, and Motorized Divisions of the Red Army numbered 1-100 (1920s–1945): Handbook Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union http://militera.lib.ru/h/sb_komandovanie-korpus-diviziya-vov/index.html Командование корпусного и дивизионного звена советских вооруженных сил периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941 – 1945 гг. Frunze Military Academy 1964 Moscow ru Commanders of Corps and Divisions in the Great Patriotic War, 19411945 Tsapayev D.A. Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь Goremykin Viktor Kuchkovo Pole 2014 978-5-9950-0457-8 5 Moscow ru The Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary 1 Category:Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union Category:Military units and formations established in 1936 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1946