40th Guards Rifle Division
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The 40th Guards Rifle Division was one of a series of ten Guards rifle divisions of the Red Army formed from airborne troops in the spring and summer of 1942 in preparation for, or in response to, the
Vasily Kochetkov, a soldier of the division killed at Stalingrad and posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin
Vasily Glagolev
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Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev was a Red Army Colonel general, Hero of the Soviet Union, and commander of the Soviet airborne. After initially serving in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Gla
40th Guards Rifle Division
…echelon of its corps. The division led the clearing of the east bank on 11 April and then received the following orders from army commander Lt. Gen. Vasily Glagolev: "Force the Dnestr River in the sector from Chebruchi (incl.) [southward] to Marker 107.5 and reach positions from 500 metres northeast of Hill 145.1…
Vasily Glagolev