The 324th Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. On 6.04.1945 it was part of the 69th Rifle Corps of the 50th Army

Army (Soviet Army)

An army, besides the generalized meanings of ‘a country's armed forces’ or its ‘land forces’, is a type of formation in militaries of various countries, including the Soviet Union. This article serves a central point of reference for Soviet armies without individual articles, and explains some of...

.

On 6 April 1945 the 324th Rifle Division was one of the divisions in the encirclement around Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

 (the Battle of Königsberg

Battle of Königsberg

The Battle of Königsberg , was one of the last operations of the East Prussian Offensive during World War II. In four days of violent urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg...

), located at the northwest sector. The division to the right was the 110th Rifle Division

110th Rifle Division

The 110th Rifle Division, which was formed, dissolved, and re-formed three times, was a formation of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the course of World War II.-History:The division was formed 20.09.1939 года в Sverdlovsk....

, and to the left is unknown. They attacked German

Germany

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 positions and broke through the second defense line.

Feskov et al. lists it as part of the short-lived Gorki Military District

Military district

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 in 1945-6, where it was apparently disbanded by September 1945.

Sources and references

• V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945-91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004
• See also Divisions of the Soviet Union 1917-1945