The 8th Guards Motor Rifle Panfilov Division originally the 316th Rifle Division, is a motorized infantry division of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic. Formed as a Soviet Red Army division duri
A gun and carriage of the division's 19th Guards Rifle Regiment near the front, 1943.
The parade contingent from the division on Red Square in 2010.
Ivan Panfilov
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Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov was a Soviet general and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union, known for his command of the 316th Rifle Division during the defense of Moscow at the Second World War.
8th Guards Motor Rifle Division
…mobilized to be sent to the front. On 12 July 1941, the 316th Rifle Division was established in Alma Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Major General Ivan Panfilov, the military commissar of the Kirghiz SSR, was appointed its commander. The reservists allotted to the 316th were mostly from the two republics. It…
Photo of Ivan Panfilov
Panfilov's bust in Almaty.
Panfilov Park, Bishkek