179th Rifle Division

179th Rifle Division 19401948 (1st formation) 19531955 (2nd formation) Soviet Union 23px Red Army Infantry Division Eastern Front (1941-1945) Operation Barbarossa Battles of Rzhev Battle of Smolensk (1943) Operation Bagration Riga Offensive (1944) Battle of Memel **Courland Pocket Order of the Red Banner Vitebsk The 179th Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. World War II Formation Established at Vilnius on 17 August 1940 as part of the 29th Lithuanian Territorial Rifle Corps on the basis of the 1st Infantry Division of the Lithuanian Army: Lithuanian Army units from which the Soviet unit was formedSoviet units1st Division's HQ, Lithuanian Army's StaffHQ1st Division's HQ, Lithuanian Army's Staff, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Regiment215th Rifle Regiment1st, 8th Infantry Regiments, 1st Cavalry Regiment234th Rifle Regiment2nd, 3rd Infantry Regiments, 3rd Cavalry Regiment259th Rifle Regiment Battles With 29th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941. Fought at Kalinin, Gomel, and Vitebsk; with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. After World War II It was reduced to the 27th Rifle Brigade in 1948 at Uralsk. It became a division again in October 1953.Feskov et al 2013, p. 149, Table 4.1.4 In 1955, the division became the 4th Rifle Division at Buzuluk in the South Ural Military District.Feskov et al 2013, p. 150, Table 4.1.5 See also List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957 References Books Feskov V.I. Golikov V.I. Kalashnikov K.A. Slugin S.A. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing 2013 978-5-89503-530-6 Tomsk ru The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner, The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. 0-89141-237-9. External links Combat Journal of the 179th Rifle Division, July 1944 179 Category:Military units and formations established in 1940 Category:Military history of Lithuania during World War II Category:Military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner Category:29th Territorial Rifle Corps