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33-568: The 42nd Rifle Division was formed from individual infantry and construction battalions within the Region on 17 January 1940. Its commander in 1941 was General Major Mikhail Andrianovich Popov . Among Soviet definitions of Fortified Regions were: This Russian military article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Soviet Union –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 42nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 42nd Rifle Division

66-422: A cavalry division, as well as Panzer Group 2 . Some units faced several difficulties; when General Major A.A. Khorobkov, the army commander, saw his officers on 10 June, General Major Stepan Oborin , 14th Mechanised Corps commander, emphasized that more than half his soldiers were untrained recruits, that his artillery had received guns for which there was no ammunition, and that he only had enough lorries to make

99-401: A depth of 5 km in order to counter possible enemy actions north of Bobruisk. The division along with local civilian parties built these barriers. Unfortunately these efforts proved worthless as German flank attacks thwarted these plans and the entire 4th Army was surrounded. By 4 July the division was completely unfit for combat, but yet managed to escape from the encirclement and gather in

132-581: A quarter of the corps mobile – the rest would have to march. On the eve of the attack, 4th Army suffered, as did many Soviet formations, from German communication sabotage. Units lost telephone connections, electrical power, and the Brest Fortress lost its water supply. From about 5 am on 22 June fierce fighting began around the Brest fortress, but the seven battalions around the fortress, from 28th Rifle Corps, were undermanned, disorganized, and slow off

165-713: A series of delaying actions as they took up positions on the east bank of the Berezina River at Babruysk . The division fought a series of fierce defense battles in the area. By 1 July the occupied positions near Zhuravichi where it received 1,000 replacements. In early July the Western Front ordered to construct a defensive line along the Berezina River to the Dnieper River on the line of: Lyubanichi - Ohotichi - Ozerany - Shapchitsy to

198-660: The 21st Rifle Corps , and then reassigned to the 67th Rifle Corps . In early August 1941 the division transferred to the 3rd Army and participated in the battles in the Pripyat Marshes . After leaving the Pripyat Marshes the 42nd Division again became a part of the 67th Corps of the 21st Army, now assigned to the Bryansk Front . By 1 September 1941 the 67th Rifle Corps was deployed on the line Obolon - Reymentarovka - Zhadovo - Semenivka front to

231-568: The 8th Army 's 19th Rifle Corps , but was reassigned to the Western Special Military District to replace the 33rd Rifle Division . In the spring of 1941 the division was ordered to the area of Brest . As part of the 4th Army's 28th Rifle Corps , the division was tasked to defend the right wing of the Brest Fortified Region from the mouth of the river to Drohiczyn Pulva. By early June 1941

264-638: The Battle of Smolensk liberating the city in late September 1943. In June 1944, now back with the 49th Army the division took part in Operation Bagration and the defeat of Army Group Center . The division fought towards Minsk , and the liberated Grodno . The unit was awarded both the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Kutuzov II Class for it actions during this operation. In 1945

297-668: The Defense of Brest Fortress or joined the 22nd Tank Division on the outskirts of Zhabenko in an attack to relieve the siege of Brest. The remaining parts of the 42nd Rifle Division, stationed east of Brest attempted a defense in the Kobrin District and the Birch-Kartuzskaya area. During the period 25–27 June the division lost all of its assigned artillery and together with the rest of the Soviet 4th Army attempted

330-822: The Eastern Front , the Red Army was not making significant gains in the north by 1943. The 4th Army was disbanded in November 1943 and set up again in January 1944 as part of the Transcaucasus Front . The staff of the 4th Army was formed from the staff of the 34th Army . The 4th Army was stationed in Iran until August 1945 in accordance with the Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1921 . In February 1944,

363-696: The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939. When the German invasion of the Soviet Union commenced on 22 June 1941, the Army was part of the Western Front and had the 28th Rifle Corps ( 6th Rifle Division and 42nd Rifle Division ), 14th Mechanised Corps , and 49th and 75th Rifle Divisions , as well as the 62nd Fortified Region . General Colonel Pavlov, Commander of

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396-604: The Gorki - Vydrenka area. At this point the division had about 4,000 members, of which half were reservists who had arrived at the unit just before the war began. After resupply the division, still assigned to the 4th Army's 28th Rifle Corps, took up positions, along with the rest of the Corps, in the second tier of the Soviet Western Front near Propoisk . However, the rapid breakthrough of German Panzer groups across

429-617: The Leningrad Military District from individual infantry and construction battalions in the Karelian Fortified Region . Kombrig Ivan Sidorovich Lazarenko was appointed as commander. In February 1940 it fought in the Winter War as part of the 7th Army's 34th Rifle Corps and on 27 February was assigned to the 10th Rifle Corps . In June 1940 the division was sent to Estonia as part of

462-879: The division participated in the East Prussian Strategic Offensive Operation , fighting at Danzig , the East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive Operation , and the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operations . The division ended the war on the Elbe River near Ludwigslust . It was still part of the 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front . Initially, part of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany ,

495-592: The 2nd Reserve aviation group, and other artillery and support units. The Fourth Army participated in the defense and attack of Tikhvin from October to December 1941. On December 17, 1941, the Fourth Army was allocated to the Volkhov Front . From January 1942 to November 1943, the Fourth Army fought on the front in Volkhov and Leningrad while also doing many rear-area duties. Unlike in other parts of

528-621: The 42nd Division, was locked in Kiev cauldron. Likely destroyed by the end of September, the division was disbanded 27 December 1941. The 42nd Rifle Division name was assigned to one of the new units being formed at this time in the Volga Military District . Started forming on 27 December 1941 at Volsk in the Volga Military District. The division remained in the Volga Military District until Mar 42 and

561-681: The 4th Army consisted of: In the years after World War II the Fourth Army was stationed in the Azerbaijan SSR within the Transcaucasus Military District until the fall of the Soviet Union. It was headquartered at Baku , and after it arrived from Iran in 1946 the Baku Military District was abolished. Most of the divisions listed below joined the Army's forces in the Baku region toward the end of

594-468: The Dnieper line brought the division again under attack. By 15 July its divisions were pushed back from Propoisk and were surrounded, and the German 4th Panzer Division took the town. On 29 July, Colonel M.E. Kozyr with a group from the division headquarters and headquarters of the 44th Infantry Regiment, escaped from the encirclement. On 30 July, the 21st Army ordered the 42nd Division resubordinated to

627-678: The Dnieper, 4th Army was to hold the Shchara, the Slutsk ‘ fortified district ,’ and the Sluch river line. However the Slutsk fortified district, as the district commander reminded Khorobkov, had long ago been instructed to dispatch all its weapons to the Brest fortress (which was continuing to hold). The planned defence was thus practically non-existent, and Slutsk fell on 27 June. The Army took part in

660-593: The Western Front, had decided to redeploy some of 4th Army’s troops early in 1941, and John Erickson wrote that 12th Rifle Division was accordingly moved into Brest , and HQ 14th Mechanised Corps to Kobrin , which in Erickson’s words, ‘deprived 4th Army simultaneously of its reserve and its second echelon.’ It should be clearly understood that John Erickson (historian) was writing in the pre-1990 period when formation designations could be unclear, sometimes to

693-415: The attack was launched the next day, only insignificant progress was made. Three days later Western Front ordered a general withdrawal to try to keep the frontier armies out of threatened German encirclement; 4th Army was directed to fall back on a line from Bytin to Pinsk . Further instructions came through from Pavlov after a chance meeting later the same day; to cover the concentration of reserve armies on

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726-469: The defenses of the area around Babruysk . At the end of July 1941, the Fourth Army began to dissolve. The Fourth Army's staff members were absorbed into the general staff of the Central Front , and the troops were absorbed into other armies. Source: Commander Lieutenant General Aleksandr Korobkov Order of Battle for Operation Barbarossa At the end of September 1941, the Fourth Army

759-668: The division was ordered to disband in June 1945, and completed disbanding on 12 June 1945. Fought at Lenino, Mogilev. 4th Army (Soviet Union) The 4th Army was a Soviet field army of World War II that served on the Eastern front of World War II and in the Caucasus during the Cold War . It was disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union, with its divisions being withdrawn to Russia and disbanded. The Fourth Army

792-409: The division was still not fully manned having about 8,000 assigned out of 14,500 authorized. On 22 June 1941 the units of the division were in several places within the Brest covering region. The 459th Rifle Regiment, 472nd Artillery Regiment, 4th Antitank Battalion, and the 3rd Medical Battalion were in their training area around Zhabinka . The remaining units were based in the Brest Fortress and

825-565: The east and began an offensive against the units of the 2nd Panzer Group . However, on 2 September the Corps came under the flank attack by the Das Reich Motorized Division and the German 1st Cavalry Division and began to withdraw to their original positions . By the end of 12 September, Soviet forces fought along the on line Grigorovka - Hvastovtsy - Nizhin . By 20 September a large group of Soviet troops, including

858-482: The fortress with three of its guns, but no ammunition for them. In the Zhabinka training area the division managed to gather together two battalions of the 44th and 455th Rifle Regiments (mostly without weapons), as well as vehicles from the 7th Motorized Infantry Company of the 84th Reconnaissance Battalion. The rest of the division's surviving members were consolidated into a small number of groups, who either took up

891-414: The immediate surrounding areas. The massive artillery strike by the German 4th Army's 45th Infantry Division at 0400 on 22 June disrupted many of the division's units located inside the fortress. Many units inside the fortress dispersed into scattered groups and the division lost a significant number of personnel and most of its equipment. The 393rd Separate Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion escaped from

924-427: The mark to man the defences. Despite these deficiencies the final German reduction of the fortress took some time in the face of determined Soviet resistance. By 1600 hours on 22 June, 4th Army HQ was back at Zapruda, whereupon Front HQ ordered that 14th Mechanised Corps be launched in an attack to clear Brest and reach the frontier line. However the Army staff felt the plan had no chance of success, and so it proved; when

957-661: The point of deliberate deception (Soviet 'maskirovka'). According to Sharp the 12th Rifle Division was identified by the Germans on the Western Front, but the unit was assigned to the Far East for the entire war. The formation that appears to have been moved into Brest Fortress was 42nd Rifle Division. Facing the 4th Army across the Bug River was deployed the German Fourth Army , with twelve infantry divisions and

990-561: Was a unit of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War . The division, first formed in 1940, was nearly destroyed in the opening days of the Operation Barbarossa defending the Brest Fortress . Disbanded in late December 1941 and immediately reformed in the Volga Military District . The division then served on the front until disbanded at the end of the war. The division was formed on 17 January 1940 in

1023-529: Was assigned to the STAVKA reserves for another two months before being assigned to the front line. Assigned to the 49th Army in the Western Front . The division had a quiet year with the 49th Army before being reassigned to the 33rd Army in April 43. As the Soviet summer offensive began the division, along with the 33rd Army, Western Front, and the neighboring fronts advanced west. The division participated in

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1056-714: Was created in August 1939 in the Belorussian Special Military District from the Bobruisk Army Group as an independent army. In September 1939, the Fourth Army took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland commanded by the future Marshal of Soviet Union V.I. Chuykov , the defender of Stalingrad . Its order of battle in that operation is listed here . Elements of the army, apparently 4th Battalion, 29th Light Tank Brigade, took part in

1089-600: Was formed for the second time, retaining its Independent status until December while remaining in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK, the Stavka Reserve). The field staffs of the 52nd and 54th Armies were used to fill the command contingent of the Army. The new formation was made up of the 285th , 292nd , and 311th Rifle Divisions along with the 27th Cavalry Division , a Tank brigade,

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