The 189th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed as part of the prewar buildup of forces, based on the shtat of September 13, 1939. It began forming just months bef
Yefreytor Sergey Andreyevich Dorogov, cook of the 891st Rifle Regiment in June 1943. Dorogov was killed in action on 16 November.
76.2 mm ZiS-3 guns from Lieutenant Ivan Zubar's platoon of the division's 431st Artillery Regiment on 17 January
Krasnoye Selo-Ropsha Offensive. Note positions of 42nd and 2nd Shock Armies.
The 169th Rifle Division began forming as an infantry division of the Red Army in the Ukraine Military District in August 1939, based on the shtat of the following month. It nominally saw service in t
Sergeant Ivan Yakovlevich Razumny's mortar crew of the 434th Rifle Regiment in a firing position in a shell crater, late October to early November 1942. This scene was shot in the rear southeast of Sarepta when the division was in the second echelon. Razumn was killed in action on 20 October 1943.
Soviet submachine gunners advancing through Bolkhov