The 62nd Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in January, 1943, based on the 2nd formation of the 127th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after th
Lieutenant I. N. Moshlyak (center) and two Soviet soldiers on Zaozernaya Hill after the Battle of Lake Khasan.
Soviet soldiers crossing the Dniepr on improvised rafts.
The 89th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in April 1943, based on the 1940 formation of the 160th Rifle Division, and served in that role until after th
89th Guards Rifle Division troops in Belgorod 5 August 1943
Major V. A. Muradyan (left) and Yefreytor A. Tsarev (right) hanging the Red Banner over Dzerzhinsky Square in Kharkov, 23 August
Private Aleksey Markov, a machine gunner of the 273rd Guards Rifle Regimen and Private Ivan Mazuk of the 94th Guards Rifle Division, residents of the same village, embrace after meeting each other on the streets of Berlin