67th Guards Rifle Division
The 67th Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in January, 1943, based on the 1st formation of the 304th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It was officially redesignated in the 65th Army of Don Front, in recognition of that division's leading role in reducing the German 6th Army during Operation Ring, the destruction of the encircled German and Romanian forces at Stalingrad. During the following months it was substantially rebuilt while moving north during the spring of the year. The division put up a very strong defense in the Battle of Kursk, facing some of the main elements of Army Group South, and then attacked through the western Ukraine after the German defeat. Along with the rest of 6th Gu
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304th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)42nd Army (Soviet Union)67th Division6th Guards Army71st Guards Rifle Division89th Guards Rifle Division90th Guards Rifle DivisionBattle of Kursk order of battleList of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957List of military divisions by numberMikhail KhvatkovOperation CitadelRifle corps (Soviet Union)Vasily Zhilin
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67th Guards Rifle Division
The 67th Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in January, 1943, based on the 1st formation of the 304th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It was officially redesignated in the 65th Army of Don Front, in recognition of that division's leading role in reducing the German 6th Army during Operation Ring, the destruction of the encircled German and Romanian forces at Stalingrad. During the following months it was substantially rebuilt while moving north during the spring of the year. The division put up a very strong defense in the Battle of Kursk, facing some of the main elements of Army Group South, and then attacked through the western Ukraine after the German defeat. Along with the rest of 6th Gu
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67-я гвардейская стрелковая ди ...... ебская Краснознамённая дивизия
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The 67th Guards Rifle Division ...... Guards was disbanded in 1946.
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Vitebsk
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Maj. Gen. A. I. Baksov, Hero of the Soviet Union
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Col. Mikhail Petrovich Pugaev
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Maj. Gen. Aleksei Ivanovich Baksov 10px
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Maj. Gen. Serafim Pavlovich Merkulov 10px
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Maj. Gen. Yakov Filippovich Eremenko
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67-я гвардейская стрелковая ди ...... ебская Краснознамённая дивизия
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The 67th Guards Rifle Division ...... Along with the rest of 6th Gu
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67-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия
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67th Guards Rifle Division
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67th Guards Rifle Division (January 21, 1943 – July, 1946)
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