340th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 340th Rifle Division began forming in August 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Balashov in the Saratov Oblast. The division went into the lines defending Moscow in November, then into the winter counteroffensive in December. After rebuilding, the division was assigned as the only rifle division in the new 5th Tank Army, but avoided the fate of most of the tank units of that formation when it attacked in July 1942. Following another aborted offensive in July, the 340th settled into mostly defensive assignments until after the Soviet victory at Kursk, when it joined in the general offensive through eastern Ukraine to the Dniepr River, winning honors for its role in the liberation of Sumy, and later Kiev. During 1944 the division continued the westward march through northern
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340th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 340th Rifle Division began forming in August 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Balashov in the Saratov Oblast. The division went into the lines defending Moscow in November, then into the winter counteroffensive in December. After rebuilding, the division was assigned as the only rifle division in the new 5th Tank Army, but avoided the fate of most of the tank units of that formation when it attacked in July 1942. Following another aborted offensive in July, the 340th settled into mostly defensive assignments until after the Soviet victory at Kursk, when it joined in the general offensive through eastern Ukraine to the Dniepr River, winning honors for its role in the liberation of Sumy, and later Kiev. During 1944 the division continued the westward march through northern
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340 Dywizja Strzelecka (ros. 3 ...... echosłowackim mieście Karwina.
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340-я стрелковая дивизия, воин ...... в Великой Отечественной войне.
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The 340th Rifle Division began ...... Guards Army in Czechoslovakia.
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Kiev
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Sumy
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Col. Iosef Egorovich Zubarev
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Col. Ivan Dmitrievich Dryakhlov
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Maj. Gen. Fyodor Nazarovich Parkhomenko
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Maj. Gen. Sarkis Sogomonovich Martirosian
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Maj. Gen. Viktor Lvovich Makhlinovskii
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340 Dywizja Strzelecka (ros. 3 ...... echosłowackim mieście Karwina.
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340-я стрелковая дивизия, воин ...... в Великой Отечественной войне.
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The 340th Rifle Division began ...... estward march through northern
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340 Dywizja Strzelecka (ZSRR)
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340-я стрелковая дивизия
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340th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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340th Rifle Division
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