317th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 317th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army. It was formed in July, 1941, in the Transcaucasus Military District, as a standard rifle division. It was designated as an "Azerbaidzhani National" ethnic division, based on Azeri reservists, and may have carried the honorific name "Baku" (Russian: Бакинская). This first formation distinguished itself during the first liberation of Rostov in November, but was trapped and effectively destroyed in the Izyum Salient in May, 1942. A second division began forming, also in the vicinity of Baku, in the summer of that year and served in the offensives that drove the Axis forces out of the Caucasus. Following this, the division was transferred to Ukraine, eventually making its way into the Balkans and winning an honorific for its ro
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317th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 317th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army. It was formed in July, 1941, in the Transcaucasus Military District, as a standard rifle division. It was designated as an "Azerbaidzhani National" ethnic division, based on Azeri reservists, and may have carried the honorific name "Baku" (Russian: Бакинская). This first formation distinguished itself during the first liberation of Rostov in November, but was trapped and effectively destroyed in the Izyum Salient in May, 1942. A second division began forming, also in the vicinity of Baku, in the summer of that year and served in the offensives that drove the Axis forces out of the Caucasus. Following this, the division was transferred to Ukraine, eventually making its way into the Balkans and winning an honorific for its ro
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317-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го ...... Бакинского пехотного училища.
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The 317th Rifle Division was a ...... combat in that brief campaign.
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Col. Boris Vladimirovich Gushchin
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Col. Dmitrii Pavlovich Yakovlev
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Col. Ivan Fedorovich Romashchenko
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Col. Ivan Vladimirovich Seredkin
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Col. Mikhail Ignatovich Dobrovolskii
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Col. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shvarev
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Col. Yakov Mikhailovich Semizorov
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317-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го ...... Бакинского пехотного училища.
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The 317th Rifle Division was a ...... inning an honorific for its ro
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317-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го формирования)
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317th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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