100th Rifle Division

Soviet Red Army formation 100th Motor Rifle Division 100th Guards Rifle Division 100th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division 100th Rifle Division 1924–1945 Soviet Union Red Army Infantry Division Vasily YushkevichArkady Yermakov Ivan Russiyanov Frants PerkhorovichNikolai Bezzubov 20px Order of Lenin (1st formation) Winter War World War II Operation Barbarossa Yelnya Offensive Case Blue Battle of Voronezh (1943) Third Battle of Kharkov Zhitomir-Berdichev Offensive Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive Sandomierz-Silesian Offensive Upper Silesian Offensive Lower Silesian Offensive Moravian-Ostrava Offensive Prague Offensive Lviv (2nd formation) The 100th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, formed twice. In November 1923 in the Belaya Tserkov area of the Ukrainian Military District, the 45th Territorial Rifle Division was established. On 24 April 1924 the 45th Territorial Rifle Division became the 100th Rifle Division (Territorial). The division fought in the Winter War with Finland. When Operation Barbarossa began, it was part of 2nd Rifle Corps, with 2nd Rifle Corps immediately subordinate to Western Front (Soviet Union). It became 1st Guards Rifle Division on 18 September 1941, one of the first Guards units, http://bdsa.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=304&Itemid=30 Приказ о переименовании 100, 127, 153 И 161-й стрелковых дивизий в 1, 2, 3 И 4-ю гвардейские дивизии No. 308 18 сентября 1941 г Сборник боевых документов Великой Отечественной войн М. 1947 5–6 3 December 2018 23 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055534/http://bdsa.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=304&Itemid=30 dead immediately after the Yelnya Offensive. The second formation of the division began forming at Kushchuba station in Vologda Oblast on 5 February 1942. Predominantly Russian, it was primarily made up of conscripts from Vologda Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast. The formation of the division was completed by 15 May.Характеристика боевых действий 100 сд https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=440130304 live 2021-06-25 pamyat-naroda.ru 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20201128074738/https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=440130304 28 November 2020 Fought near Stalingrad, and in Ukraine and Belorussia. It was awarded the honorific "Lviv" for its part in the capture of that city during July 1944. On 27 January 1945, the division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. Auschwitz Ceremony Lays Bare Russian Tension With Europe https://www.rferl.org/a/auschwitz-ukraine-liberators-russia-tensions/26810197.html RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty 2015-01-23 2016-02-23 English Glenn Kates During the Moravian-Ostrava Offensive, the division captured Ratibor and entered Czechoslovak territory. It then fought in the Prague Offensive. It was with 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front in May 1945. Стрелковые 91-105 http://myfront.in.ua/krasnaya-armiya/divizii/strelkovye-91-105.html myfront.in.ua 2016-02-23 Russian Rifle 91-105 https://web.archive.org/web/20180105020616/http://myfront.in.ua/krasnaya-armiya/divizii/strelkovye-91-105.html 5 January 2018 dead dmy-all The division was disbanded in the final days of June and its personnel used to reinforce the 186th Rifle Division at Turek.Журнал боевых действий 186 сд https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=130358304 live 2021-06-24 pamyat-naroda.ru 10–11 https://web.archive.org/web/20210624234655/https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=130358304 24 June 2021 References Poirer and Connor, Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, 1985 June 2017 100 Category:Military units and formations established in 1924 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 Category:Military units and formations of the Soviet invasion of Poland Category:Military units and formations of the Soviet Union in the Winter War