62nd Guards Rifle Division
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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.
4th Guards Rifle Division
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The 4th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division on September 18, 1941, from the 1st formation of the 161st Rifle Division as one of the original Guards formations of the Red A
62nd Guards Rifle Division
…Army Gen. G. F. Zakharov, was determined to halt the German drive northwest of Bicske and created a new defensive line in depth containing the 62nd, 4th and 80th Guards Rifle Divisions, backed by 49th Antitank Artillery Regiment. In the event this phase of the offensive was halted by January 6 by the…
A counterattack by Soviet infantry and tanks of the 18th Guards Tank Corps.
Soviet troops in the Vienna Offensive