The 11th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Soviet Union's Red Army. Its personnel were involved in the protection of the demarcation line in Pskov, defensive battles against the Army of t
Sergeants Mikhail Makarovich Yakovlev (left) and Matvey Mikhailovich Zvegintsev, snipers of the division's 163rd Rifle Regiment, June 1943
Alexey Skulachenko
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Alexey Yerofeyevich Skulachenko was a Red Army kombrig executed during the Great Purge.
11th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
…May and September 1932 as part of the 11th Mechanized Corps in the Leningrad Military District at Stary Petergof near Leningrad. It was commanded by Alexey Skulachenko from its formation until early 1935. It later became the 13th Light Tank Brigade. The division fought in the Winter War between January and March 1940…
Brigadier General Oleksiy Skulachenko. Kharkiv, 1935.