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17th Rifle Division
The 17th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
The division was first formed on 23 October 1918 from the 1st Vitebsk Rifle Division and 2nd Smolensk Rifle Division by the order of the Military council of the Smolensk Defensive Region.
The division participated in the Soviet wars against Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus as well as in the Polish–Soviet War. The division was stationed along the Berezina River in 1920.
The 17th Rifle Division under Grigory Borzinsky consisted of four rifle regiments, a Ukrainian company, the 5th and 6th raions of the 2nd Border Protection District, a cavalry squadron, 18 light guns, armored train №5, an armored squadron and the 2nd Smolensk Air Group. In February, according to Polish intelligence, the division had 7,045 soldiers, 165 cavalrymen, 157 machine guns, 20 field guns, 4 heavy guns, 3 armored trains, 4 armored cars.
The division was garrisoned at Nizhny Novgorod (renamed Gorky in 1932) from 1920 to 1939.
In 1939 the division was broken up and used to form three divisions, the new 17th, 136th and the 137th Rifle Divisions. The new 17th Rifle Division, formed from the 49th Rifle Regiment, continued the traditions of the original 17th.
The division was maintained on a reduced status until December 1939 when the division was brought to full strength for the Winter War with Finland. The division returned to Gorky in April 1940. In June 1940 the division was moved to the Lithuanian border and assigned to the Belorussian Military District.
Assigned to 21st Rifle Corps, 10th Army when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and located in the Vitebsk and Polotsk area. By the end of June the division was surrounded in the area east of Minsk. Though the division was destroyed in late June 1941 it was not officially disbanded until 19 September 1941.
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17th Rifle Division
The 17th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
The division was first formed on 23 October 1918 from the 1st Vitebsk Rifle Division and 2nd Smolensk Rifle Division by the order of the Military council of the Smolensk Defensive Region.
The division participated in the Soviet wars against Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus as well as in the Polish–Soviet War. The division was stationed along the Berezina River in 1920.
The 17th Rifle Division under Grigory Borzinsky consisted of four rifle regiments, a Ukrainian company, the 5th and 6th raions of the 2nd Border Protection District, a cavalry squadron, 18 light guns, armored train №5, an armored squadron and the 2nd Smolensk Air Group. In February, according to Polish intelligence, the division had 7,045 soldiers, 165 cavalrymen, 157 machine guns, 20 field guns, 4 heavy guns, 3 armored trains, 4 armored cars.
The division was garrisoned at Nizhny Novgorod (renamed Gorky in 1932) from 1920 to 1939.
In 1939 the division was broken up and used to form three divisions, the new 17th, 136th and the 137th Rifle Divisions. The new 17th Rifle Division, formed from the 49th Rifle Regiment, continued the traditions of the original 17th.
The division was maintained on a reduced status until December 1939 when the division was brought to full strength for the Winter War with Finland. The division returned to Gorky in April 1940. In June 1940 the division was moved to the Lithuanian border and assigned to the Belorussian Military District.
Assigned to 21st Rifle Corps, 10th Army when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and located in the Vitebsk and Polotsk area. By the end of June the division was surrounded in the area east of Minsk. Though the division was destroyed in late June 1941 it was not officially disbanded until 19 September 1941.