53rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The division was formed in 1931. It was stationed in the Volga Military District. On 8 July 1937 it received the honorific "named for Friedrich Engels". Before the war it became part of the 21st Army in the Gomel Region of the Western Special Military District. Poirer and Connor, in their 1985 Red Army Order of Battle, say that the division fought at Yelnya, on the Dnieper River, at Uman and Targul Frumos. The division was with 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945.

53rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The division was formed in 1931. It was stationed in the Volga Military District. On 8 July 1937 it received the honorific "named for Friedrich Engels". Before the war it became part of the 21st Army in the Gomel Region of the Western Special Military District. Poirer and Connor, in their 1985 Red Army Order of Battle, say that the division fought at Yelnya, on the Dnieper River, at Uman and Targul Frumos. The division was with 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945.