143rd Rifle Division
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The 143rd Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in early September 1939 in the Byelorussian Military District, based on the shtat of September 13. It took part in the invas
Counterattacks against 2nd Panzer Group (Roslavl-Novozibkov Offensive). Note position of 13th Army.
75th Guards Rifle Division
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The 75th Guards Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division during World War II and afterwards, which later became the 75th Guards Tank Division and was finally disbanded in the 1990s.
Vlasenko, Gorishny, Colonel A.V. Mukhin, and Lieutenant Colonel and writer Konstantin Simonov at the command post of the 75th Guards Rifle Division near Ponyri during the Battle of Kursk
One of the four mass graves of soldiers who died in the liberation of the village of Yasnogorodka in 1943
Personnel of the division's 585th Medical Battalion, 1944
Gorishny (center) with regimental commanders, 1944