The Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

's 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...

 raised divisions during the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

, and again during the interwar period from 1926. Few of the Civil War divisions were retained into this period, and even fewer survived the reorganisation of the Red Army during the 1937-1941 period. During the Second World War 400 'line' rifle divisions (infantry

Infantry

Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...

), 129 Soviet Guards

Russian Guards

Guards or Guards units were and are elite military units in Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The tradition goes back to the retinue of a knyaz of medieval Kievan Rus' and the streltsy, the Muscovite harquebusiers formed by Ivan the Terrible by 1550...

 rifle divisions, and over 50 cavalry divisions as well as many divisions of other combat support arms were raised in addition to the hundreds of divisions that existed in the Red Army before Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...

. Almost all the pre-war mechanised and tank divisions were disbanded during the war. There were also Red Air Force aviation divisions, and the NKVD divisions which also took part in fighting. However in contrast to Wikipedia's reasonably complete descriptions of U.S., British, and German divisions, only a few Soviet divisions have articles here, mostly because the detailed histories have either not been translated from Russian or have not been fully released from the official archives. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias).

The territorial principle of manning the Red Army was introduced in the mid 1920s. In each region able-bodied men were called up for a limited period of active duty in a territorial unit, which comprised about half the Army's strength, each year, for five years. The first call-up period was for three months, with one month a year thereafter. A regular cadre provided a stable nucleus. By 1925 this system provided 46 of the 77 infantry divisions and one of the eleven cavalry divisions. The remainder consisted of regular officers and enlisted personnel serving two-year stints. The territorial system was finally abolished, with all remaining formations converted to the other 'cadre' divisions, in 1937 and 1938.

The Red Army formed at least 42 divisions during the Second World War which had substantial ethnic majorities in their composition derived from location of initial formation rather than intentional "nationalisation" of the divisions, including four Azeri, five Armenian, and eight Georgian rifle divisions and a large number of cavalry divisions in the eastern Ukraine, Kuban region, and Central Asia, including five Uzbek cavalry divisions. See :ru:Национальные воинские подразделения РККА.

Rifle and Guards Rifle Divisions

See: List of infantry divisions of the Soviet Union 1917–1957

Airborne Divisions

• 1st Guards Airborne Division (ex 4th Airborne Corps at Tejkovo Dec 1942). Fought at Vyazma
  Vyazma
  Vyazma is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk and Mozhaysk. Throughout its turbulent history, the city defended western approaches to the city of Moscow...
  
  , Demyansk
  Demyansk
  Demyansk is an urban locality and the administrative center of Demyansky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Yavon River. Population:...
  
  , Staraya Russa
  Staraya Russa
  Staraya Russa is a town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located south of Veliky Novgorod. It is a wharf on the Polist River in the Lake Ilmen basin. It serves as the administrative center of Starorussky District, although administratively it is not a part of it...
  
  , Kremenchug, near Krivoi Rog, Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
  , Brno
  Brno
  Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
  
  , and in Manchuria
  Manchuria
  Manchuria is a historical name given to a large geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria usually falls entirely within the People's Republic of China, or is sometimes divided between China and Russia. The region is commonly referred to as Northeast...
  
  . With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 2nd Guards Airborne Division — established at Zvenigorod Dec 1942. Fought at Ponyri, Kursk, Korsun, and in the Carpathians. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front
  4th Ukrainian Front
  The 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
  
   5.45. Disbanded, after temporary loss of its divisional colours, soon after war ended.
• 3rd Guards Airborne Division (ex 8th Airborne Corps at Shchelkovo Dec 1942). Fought at Demyansk, Ponyri, Kiev, Zhitomir, Debrecen, Budapest, and Vienna. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 4th Guards Airborne Division (ex 1st Airborne Corps at Moscow Dec 1942). Fought at Kursk, Orel, Zhitomir, Korsun, Targul Frumos, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava and Prague. With 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 5th Guards Airborne Division — established at Kirshatsch Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, Voronezh, Korsun, on the Dniester River, and at Budapest. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 6th Guards Airborne Division (ex 6th Airborne Corps at Noginsk Dec 1942). Fought at Staraya Russa, Kursk, on the Dnieper River, and at Korsun, Targul Frumos, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava, and Prague. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 7th Guards Airborne Division — established at Ramenskoye Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, Voronezh, Korsun, on the Dnieper River, and at Targul Frumos and Budapest. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 8th Guards Airborne Division — established in Moscow MD Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, Voronezh, Kirovograd, Targul Frumos, near Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Became 107th Guards Rifle Division 12.44.
• 9th Guards Airborne Division (ex 1st Airborne Corps in Moscow MD Dec 1942). Fought at Demyansk, Staraya Russa, Kursk, Poltava, Kremenchug, Kirovograd, Sandomir, and in the Berlin Operation. with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 10th Guards Airborne Division — established at Dimitrov Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, on the Dniester River, and in Hungary. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 11th Guards Airborne Division — became 104th Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
• 12th Guards Airborne Division — became 105th Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
• 13th Guards Airborne Division — became 103rd Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
• 14th Guards Airborne Division — became either 99th or 114th Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
• 15th Guards Airborne Division — became 100th Guards Rifle Division
  100th Guards Rifle Division
  The 100th Guards Rifle Division was an elite Red Army airborne infantry division during World War II.-Creation:From the beginning of the war, the Soviet Army strongly emphasized the development of airborne forces and their use behind enemy lines...
  
   Jan 1944.
• 16th Guards Airborne Division — became 106th Guards Rifle Division December 1944. Now 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division of the Russian Airborne Troops.

NKVD Divisions

Not intended for front line combat, NKVD

NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

 Internal Troops

Internal Troops

The Internal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs ; alternatively translated as "Interior " is a paramilitary gendarmerie-like force in the now-defunct Soviet Union and its successor countries, particularly, in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan...

 were used to guard borders, secure railways, and combat elements such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that posed threats to the rear areas and supply convoys of the Red Army. Notwithstanding the original intent of these units, many saw at least some front line combat, several were converted to regular divisions of the Red Army, and others were grouped into a field NKVD army that was later re-numbered as the 70th Army. There were different types of divisions: Rifle Division (abbreviated to RD in this list), Railroad Security Division (RSD), Special Installation Security Division (SISD), and Convoy Forces Security Division (CFSD).

• 1st NKVD Rifle Division (RD) — *9.41 at Mga, with Northwestern and Leningrad Fronts. 9.8.42 became 46th RD (third formation) of the Red Army.
• 1st NKVD Motorized RD — *23.6.38 at Moscow as Separate NKVD Motorized RD, with Western Front and 56th Army. Still exists in the MVD troops
  Internal Troops
  The Internal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs ; alternatively translated as "Interior " is a paramilitary gendarmerie-like force in the now-defunct Soviet Union and its successor countries, particularly, in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan...
  
  .
• 2nd NKVD Railroad Security Division (RSD) — *8.3.39 at Leningrad, with Leningrad and Special Baltic Military Districts. 11.2.42 became 23rd NKVD RSD.
• 2nd NKVD Motor RD — *7.41 at Moscow, in Leningrad and Baltic regions. 10.45 disbanded.
• 3rd NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 at Mogilev. Wiped out twice in 1941, with the Western and Bryansk Fronts. 11.2.42 became the 24th NKVD RSD.
• 3rd NKVD RD — *1.42 at Leningrad, 8.42 disbanded.
• 3rd NKVD RD — *9.42 at Tbilisi as the Tbilisi Division. With Trans-Caucasian Front. 6.44 renamed 3rd NKVD RD, with 2nd Far Eastern Front in Manchuria in 1945. Disbanded 1946.
• 4th NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 in Kiev. 6.41 in the Odessa Military District and later with Southern Front. 11.2.42 became the 25th NKVD RSD.
• 4th NKVD RD — *9.41 in the Crimea. With 51st Army and the Separate Coastal Army
  Separate Coastal Army
  The Separate Coastal Army was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in the World War II. It was ordered to be established on July 18, 1941 by the order of the Southern Front from the forces of 9th Army’s Coastal Group and was stood up on July 20, 1941....
  
  . 10.41 became the 184th Rifle Division (second formation) of the Red Army.
• 4th NKVD Motor RD — *1.42 at Leningrad, 8.42 disbanded.
• 4th NKVD RD — *10.10.43 at Moscow. In Baltic regions, 12.8.51 disbanded.
• 5th NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 at Kharkov. With Southwestern Front. 11.2.42 became the 26th NKVD RSD.
• 5th NKVD RD — *11.1.42 at Tikhvin. In Leningrad and Baltic regions. 15.9.51 disbanded.
• 6th NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 at Khabarovsk. In the far east. Became the 37th NKVD RSD 11.2.42.
• 6th NKVD Motor RD — *11.41 behind Southwestern Front. Became the 8th NKVD Motor RD 11.2.42.
• 6th NKVD RD — *1.42 at Kalinin. With Kalinin and 2nd Baltic Fronts and later in the Belorussian Military District. 10.45 disbanded.
• 7th NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 at Svobodnyi. 11.2.42 became the 28th NKVD RSD.
• 7th NKVD Motor RD — *4.42 at Orel and Tula. With the Western, Bryansk, Central, Belorussian, and 1st Belorussian Fronts. Later in the Belorussian Military District. 13.9.51 disbanded.
• 8th NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 in Chita. 11.2.42 became the 29th NKVD RSD.
• 8th NKVD Motor RD — *1.42 at Voronezh from the 6th NKVD Motor RD. 7.42 became the 63rd RD of the Red Army, which then became the 52nd Guards RD 11.43.
• 8th NKVD Motor RD — *1.42 at Voronezh (? see above) and 5.42 renumbered as the 13th NKVD Motor RD.
• 9th NKVD RSD — *8.3.39 in Vilnius. With Special Baltic and Special Western Military Districts. Wiped out 1941, 25.9.41 disbanded.
• 9th NKVD Motor RD — *1.42 in Rostov. 8.42 became the 31st RD of the Red Army.
• 9th NKVD RD — *22.8.42 in Ordzhonikidze as NKVD RD with same name. Fought with Trans-Caucasian front during latter part of 1942. 5.44 became the 9th NKVD RD in Krasnodar. 10.44 disbanded.
• 10th NKVD RSD — *14.11.39 at L'vov. With Southwestern Front. Wiped out at Kiev and 10.41 disbanded.
• 10th NKVD RD — *7.42 at Saratov and Stalingrad. With Stalingrad Front. 10.42 became the 181st RD (third formation) of the Red Army and assigned to the NKVD Army which later was renamed the 70th Army.
• 10th NKVD RD — *26.3.42 at Rostov as the 41st NKVD RSD. 9.42 renamed at Sukhumi as NKVD RD with same name. With 46th Army of the Trans-Caucasian Front. 4.44 became the 10th NKVD RD at Sarny. With Central, Belorussian, and 1st Belorussian Fronts, and then in the Belorussian Military District. 6.46 disbanded.
• 11th NKVD RD — *1.42 at Nalchik and Krasnodar. With Crimean and Trans-Caucasus Fronts. 12.42 disbanded.
• 11th NKVD SISD — *6.11.39 at Moscow. 31.1.42 merged with 12th NKVD SISD to become 15th NKVD SISD.
• 12th NKVD SISD — *25.8.41 at Moscow. 31.1.42 merged with 11th NKVD SISD to become 15th NKVD SISD.
• 12th NKVD Mountain RD — *29.6.41 at Saratov. 7.41 became the 268th RD of the Red Army.
• 12th NKVD RD — *1.42 at Moscow. 9.42 converted to 22nd NKVD Rifle Brigade.
• 13th NKVD CFSD — *11.39 at Kiev. With Southern and Southwestern Fronts until wiped out 9.41. Remnants became the 35th NKVD CFSD 2.42.
• 13th NKVD Motor RD — *5.42 near Moscow from elements of the 8th NKVD Motor RD. With Voronezh Front. 8.42 became the second formation of the 95th RD of the Red Army.
• 14th NKVD CFSD — *9.40 near Moscow. 2.42 became the 36th NKVD CFSD.
• 14th NKVD SISD — *3.8.44 at Vilnius. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 15th NKVD Mountain RD — *29.6.41 at Moscow. With Southern Front. 7.42 became the 257th RD of the Red Army.
• 15th NKVD SISD — *31.1.42 at Moscow. Formed by merger of 11th and 12th NKVD SISD. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 16th NKVD Mountain RD — *29.6.41 at Moscow. 7.42 became the 262nd RD of the Red Army.
• 16th NKVD SISD — *31.1.42 at Moscow. 30.5.50 disbanded.
• 17th NKVD SISD — *31.1.42 at Gorki. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 18th NKVD RSD — *24.6.41 at Tbilis. 11.2.42 became 30th NKVD RSD.
• 18th NKVD SISD — *22.6.41 at Sverdlovsk as the 25th NKVD SISD. 31.1.42 became the 18th NKVD SISD. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 19th NKVD SISD — *1.42 at Vorishilovgrad. With Southern and Trans-Caucasus Fronts. 10.11.42 reformed as the 8th NKVD Brigade.
• 19th NKVD Special Installation and Railroad Security Division — *24.6.41 at Gorki. 26.3.42 became the 31st NKVD SIRSD.
• 19th NKVD RD — *8.42 near Grozni. With Trans-Caucasus Front, fought at Grozni.
• 20th NKVD SIRSD — *24.6.41 at Leningrad. 5.9.41 became the 20th NKVD RD.
• 20th NKVD RD — *5.9.41 at Tikhvin from the 20th NKVD SIRSD. With 8th and 23rd Armies. 8.42 became the 92nd RD of the Red Army.
• 20th NKVD SISD — *10.11.42 at Novosibirsk and Kuibyshev. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 21st NKVD Motor RD — *6.41 at Leningrad. With 42nd Army. 1.9.41 became the 21st NKVD RD. 8.42 21st NKVD RD became the 109th RD of the Red Army.
• 21st NKVD SISD — *28.7.43 at Novosibiirsk. 22.11.45 converted to 54th NKVD Brigade.
• 22nd NKVD Motor RD — *23.6.41 in Northwestern Front area. With 10th Rifle Corps. 8.41 wiped out and disbanded 1.42.
• 22nd NKVD RSD — *29.2.44 at Kuibyshev. 25.5.46 disbanded.
• 23rd NKVD Motor RD — *6.41 in Kiev Special Military District. With Southwestern Front, 1.42 became the 8th NKVD Motor RD.
• 23rd NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Leningrad. Fought in Leningrad area. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 24th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Moscow (was the 3rd NKVD RSD). 21.12.46 disbanded.
• 25th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Saratov (was the 4th NKVD RSD). With Southwestern and 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 25th NKVD SISD — *22.6.41 at Sverdlovsk. Became the 18th NKVD SISD 31.12.42.
• 26th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Liski (was the 5th NKVD RSD). 21.12.46 disbanded.
• 26th NKVD Mountain RD — *29.6.41 at Moscow. 7.41 assigned to Red Army.
• 27th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Khabarovsk (was the 6th NKVD RSD). 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 28th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Svobodnyi (was the 7th NKVD RSD). 29.2.44 became the 32nd NKVD RS Brigade.
• 29th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Chita (was the 8th NKVD RSD). 21.12.46 disbanded.
• 30th NKVD RSD — *11.2.42 at Tbilisi (was the 18th NKVD RSD). 16.12.46 disbanded.
• 31st NKVD RSD — *26.3.42 at Gorki (was the 19th NKVD RSD). 25.5.46 disbanded.
• 32nd NKVD RSD — *26.3.42 at Voroshilov. With Voronezh, Central, Belorussian, and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. 15.5.51 disbanded.
• 33rd NKVD RSD — *26.3.42 at Kuibyshev. 8.1.47 disbanded.
• 34th NKVD RSD — *26.3.42 at Sverdlovsk. 21.12.46 disbanded.
• 35th NKVD CFSD — *2.42 near Voronezh (was the 13th NKVD CFSD). With Stalingrad and Central Asian Military Districts. 7.51 disbanded.
• 36th NKVD CFSD — *2.42 near Krasnoiarsk (was the 14th NKVD CFSD). With Ukrainian Military District. 1.48 disbanded.
• 37th NKVD CFSD — *3.42 near Volodarsk. With Western and 1st Belorussian Fronts. 7.51 disbanded.
• 38th NKVD CFSD — *3.42 at Novosibirsk. 7.51 disbanded.
• 39th NKVD CFSD — *8.43 at Sverdlovsk. 7.51 disbanded.
• 41st NKVD RSD — *26.3.42 at Rostov. Successively renamed the Sukhumi Division and the 10th NKVD RD.
• 45th NKVD CFSD — *8.44 at Beltsy. With 2nd Ukrainian Front. 9.55 disbanded.
• 46th NKVD CFSD — *8.44 at Moscow. 9.55 disbanded.
• 47th NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Leningrad.
• 48th NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Riga.
• 49th NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Odessa.
• 50th NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Voronezh.
• 51st NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Kharkov.
• 52nd NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Voroshilovgrad.
• 53rd NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Rostov.
• 56th NKVD CFSD — *5.45 at Alma-Ata.
• 57th NKVD RD — *18.1.45 at Gaizhunai. With 3rd Belorussian Front. 10.45 disbanded.
• 58th NKVD RD — *1.45 at Slonim. With 1st Belorussian Front. 6.45 disbanded.
• 59th NKVD RD — *1.45 at L'vov. With 1st Ukrainian Front. 10.45 disbanded.
• 60th NKVD RD — *22.2.45 at Vinnitsa. With 2nd Ukrainian Front. 4.10.46 disbanded.
• 61st NKVD RD — *2.45 at Beltsy. With the Ukrainian fronts. 12.45 disbanded.
• 62nd NKVD RD — *12.44 at Belgrade. With 3rd Ukrainian Front. 9.51 disbanded.
• 63rd NKVD RD — *1.45 at Białystok. With 2nd Belorussian Front. 12.46 disbanded.
• 64th NKVD RD — *10.44 at Lublin as the NKVD Composite Division. 12.44 became the 64th NKVD RD at Lvov. With 1st Ukrainian Front. 6.48 disbanded.
• 65th NKVD RD — *23.1.45 at Stanisław. With 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts in Hungary. 18.7.46 disbanded.
• 66th NKVD RD — *1.45 at Sibiu. With 3rd Ukrainian Front in Romania. 10.45 disbanded.
• Grozny NKVD RD — *15.8.42 at Grozny. In combat with Trans-Caucasus Front until 12.42 and subsequently on security duties. 18.4.44 disbanded.
• Makhachkala NKVD RD — *8.42 at Makhachkala. Fought with Red Army until 11.42. 1.43 disbanded.
• Siberian NKVD RD — *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 140th RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
• Central Asian NKVD RD — *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 161st RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
• Far Eastern NKVD RD — *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 102nd RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
• Trans-Baikal NKVD RD — *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 106th RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
• Ural NKVD RD — *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 175th RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.

Cavalry Divisions

At the time of the German invasion, there were nine regular cavalry divisions and four mountain cavalry divisions in the Red Army. The rapid destruction of Soviet mechanized forces in the summer and autumn of 1941 resulted in a rapid expansion of cavalry units to provide the Red Army a mobile, if not armored, force. This expansion produced some 87 new cavalry divisions by early 1942, many of which were later disbanded as the Red Army rebuilt its tank and mechanized formations. 17 of the cavalry divisions were granted Guards

Russian Guards

Guards or Guards units were and are elite military units in Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The tradition goes back to the retinue of a knyaz of medieval Kievan Rus' and the streltsy, the Muscovite harquebusiers formed by Ivan the Terrible by 1550...

 status and renumbered accordingly. At the start of the conflict, a cavalry division had some 9,000 men; by 1945, they were authorized 6,000 men and often organized into corps of three divisions that were reinforced by artillery, tank, and assault gun elements.

• 1st Guards Cavalry Division — (ex 5th Cavalry Division 26.11.41). Fought at Moscow, Kharkov, Kiev, and in the Lvov-Sandomir, Carpathian, Berlin, and Prague Operations. With 1st Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 1st Mountain Cavalry Division — with Trans-Caucasus Front 12.41 and 15th Cavalry Corps 7.44.
• 2nd Cavalry Division — used to create the third formation of the 2nd Rifle Division on 23.11.41.
• 2nd Guards Cavalry Division (ex 9th Cavalry Division 11.41). Fought at Kiev and Zhitomir. With 1st Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 3rd Cavalry Division — Formed in Odessa Military District
  Odessa Military District
  The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in...
  
   prewar. 6.41 with 5th Cavalry Corps. Became the 5th Guards Cavalry Division 22.12.41. Originally 34,60,99,158 Cavalry Regiments and 44th Tank Regiment.
• 3rd Guards Cavalry Division (ex 50th Cavalry Division 11.41). With 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   5.45.
• 4th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 9th Cavalry Corps. Reformed by reorganisation of 210th Motorised Division later in 1941.
• 4th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 53rd Cavalry Division 11.41). Fought at Battle of Moscow
  Battle of Moscow
  The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of...
  
  . With 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   5.45.
• 5th Cavalry Division — (ex 2nd Cavalry Division 8.24). With 2nd Cavalry Corps, Ninth Army in 6.41. Became 1st Guards Cavalry Division 26.11.41. Originally 11,96,131,160 Cavalry Regiments and 32nd Tank Regiment
• 5th Guards Cavalry Division — (ex 3rd Cavalry Division 22.12.41). Fought near Stalingrad and in Kurland. With 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   5.45. Elements of division later used in postwar formation of the 1st (later the 18th) Tank Division. The 18th was later reorganised as the 5th Guards Tank Division
  5th Guards Tank Division
  The 5th Guards Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Ground Forces and Russian Ground Forces, active from around 1945 to 2009. It drew its heritage from a illustrious Soviet World War II cavalry formation, the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps...
  
  , which remains active today, having been relocated to the Transbaikal Military District
  Transbaikal Military District
  The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district...
  
   in 1965.
• 6th Cavalry Division — with 6th Cavalry Corps in 6.41. Disbanded 19.9.41. Originally 3,48,94,152 Cavalry Regiments and 35th Tank Regiment.
• 6th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 14th Cavalry Division 12.41). Fought at Stalingrad, Smolensk, and in the Belorussian Operation, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   5.45.
• 7th Cavalry Division — with 3rd Cavalry Corps in 5.37.
• 7th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 31st Cavalry Division 5.1.42). Fought at Kaluga, Kharkov, Kiev, Sandomir, and in the Berlin Operation. With 1st Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 8th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 1st Red Banner Army in Far East. Originally 49,115,121,163 Cavalry Regiments. With 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 8th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 11th Cavalry Division). With 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45, near Stalingrad in 1946.
• 9th Cavalry Division — formed in Odessa Military District
  Odessa Military District
  The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in...
  
   prewar, with 2nd Cavalry Corps, Ninth Army 6.41. Originally 5,72,108,136 Cavalry Regiments and 30th Tank Regiment. 11.41 became 2nd Guards Cavalry Division. Reformed, with 4th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 9th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 12th Cavalry Division 27.8.42). Fought near Mozdok, Stavropol, Melitopol, Odessa, Debrecen, Budapest, and Prague.
• 10th Cavalry Division — formed 23.4.36. 4.42 remnants merged into 12th and 13th Cavalry Divisions.
• 10th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 13th Cavalry Division 27.8.42). Fought near Mozdok, Stavropol, Melitopol, Odessa, Debrecen, Budapest, and Prague. With 4th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 11th Cavalry Division — with 3rd Cavalry Corps 5.37. 1.43 became 8th Guards Cavalry Division.
• 11th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 15th Cavalry Division 8.42). Fought at Korsun and Targul Frumos. With the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 12th Cavalry Division — 1.42 established at Krasnodar; with 17th Cavalry Corps 4.42. Became 9th Guards Cavalry Division on 27.8.42.
• 12th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 116th Cavalry Division 8.42). Fought at Korsun and Targul Frumos. With the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 13th Cavalry Division — established at Krasnodar 1.42; with 17th Cavalry Corps 4.42. Became 10th Guards Cavalry Division 27.8.42.
• 13th Guards 'Ровенская' Cavalry Division (ex 83rd Mountain Cavalry Division 1.43). Fought at Dubno in 1944. With 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45, became 30th Guards Tank Division in the Carpathian Military District
  Carpathian Military District
  The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two...
  
  , which became the 30th Mechanized Brigade
  30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
  The 30th Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.The full name of the Brigade is 30th Separate Guards Mechanized Novohrad-Volynskyi Rivne Orders of the Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade, .-World War II:...
  
   in 2004 after the fall of the Soviet Union.
• 14th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 5th Cavalry Corps. Became 6th Guards Cavalry Division 12.41.
• 14th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 21st Mountain Cavalry Division 14.2.43). Fought near Chernigov, and in the Lublin-Brest, East Pomerania, and Berlin Operations. With 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   5.45.
• 15th Cavalry Division — 4.42 with 17th Cavalry Corps. 8.42 became 11th Guards Cavalry Division.
• 15th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 55th Cavalry Division 14.2.43). Fought near Chernigov, and in the Lublin-Brest, East Pomeranian
  East Pomeranian Offensive
  The East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive operation was an offensive by the Red Army in its fight against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front...
  
  , and Berlin Operations. With 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   5.45. 15 GCD eventually became 15th Guards Tank Division, which served with the Central Group of Forces
  Central Group of Forces
  The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968....
  
   in Hungary postwar, before being withdrawn to Chebarkul in the Urals after 1990 and eventually being disbanded there circa 2002-4.
• 16th Guards Cavalry Division (ex 112th Cavalry Division 14.2.43). 'Bashkir Chernigovskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division.' Bashkir SSR
  Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
  The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union. Currently it is known as Bashkortostan....
  
   national formation. Raised from 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division. Fought near Chernigov, and in the Lublin-Brest, East Pomerania, and Berlin Operations. With 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   5.45. 14th and 16 Guards Cavalry Divisions of 7th Guards Cavalry Corps together eventually became 23rd Motor Rifle Division, which ended up in the Trans-Caucasus region as part of 4th Army.
• 17th Mountain Cavalry Division — 6.41 with Trans-Caucasus Military District. 7.42 disbanded.
• 17th Guards Cavalry Mozyr Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. Tajik national formation. Ex 20th Mountain Cavalry Division 8.43. Fought near Brest 8.44. With 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   5.45.
• 18th Turkmen Mountain Cavalry Division — as 18th Cavalry Division, operated under Dmitri Zhloba
  Dmitri Zhloba
  Dmitry Petrovich Zhloba was a Soviet military commander who participated in the Russian Civil War.He was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of Imperial Russia. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he was a member of an armed workers' detachment in Mykolaiv. In May 1916, he was arrested for...
  
   during the Red Army invasion of Georgia
  Red Army invasion of Georgia
  The Red Army invasion of Georgia also known as the Soviet–Georgian War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia was a military campaign by the Soviet Russian Red Army against the Democratic Republic of Georgia aimed at overthrowing the Social-Democratic government and installing the Bolshevik regime...
  
   2.21. With 4th Cavalry Corps, Central Asia
  Central Asia
  Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
  
   Military District
  Military district
  Military districts are formations of a state's armed forces which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and in countries with conscript forces, often handle parts of the conscription cycle.Navies have also used...
  
   6.41. 7.42 disbanded.
• 19th Cavalry Division - Uzbek national formation
• 20th Tajik Red Banner Order of Lenin Mountain Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 4th Cavalry Corps, Central Asia
  Central Asia
  Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
  
   Military District
  Military district
  Military districts are formations of a state's armed forces which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and in countries with conscript forces, often handle parts of the conscription cycle.Navies have also used...
  
  . 8.43 became the 17th Guards Cavalry Division. Also had honour title 'mining'?
• 21st Fergana Mountain Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 4th Cavalry Corps, Central Asia
  Central Asia
  Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
  
   Military District
  Military district
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  . Became 14th Guards Cavalry Division 14.2.43.
• 23rd Cavalry Division — with Trans-Caucasus Front 12.41 and 15th Cavalry Corps 7.44.
• 24th Order of the Red Banner
  Order of the Red Banner
  The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Red Banner , a military decoration, on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War...
  
   Cavalry Division — 6.41 with Transcaucasus Military District.
• 25th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 1st Mechanized Corps.
• 26th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 6th Cavalry Corps.
• 27th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 4th Army.
• 28th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 6th Cavalry Corps.
• 29th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Third Army (Soviet Union). 3.42 disbanded.
• 30th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 1st Mechanized Corps, and with 4th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 31st Cavalry Division — 7.41 established at Voronezh; 12.41 with 50th Army. 5.1.42 Became 7th Guards Cavalry Division.
• 32nd Cavalry Division — Established in the Odessa Military District
  Odessa Military District
  The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in...
  
  , 1941. Still with 9th Rifle Corps, Odessa MD 6.41. With 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   5.45.
• 34th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 6th Army.
• 35th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 37th Army.
• 36th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 6th Cavalry Corps under Gen. Maj. Efim Sergeevich Zybin. Disbanded 19.9.41.
• 38th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Eighteenth Army.
• 40th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Independent Coastal Army.
• 41st Light Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 50th Army. Disbanded in March 1942 due to losses. Personnel used to fill out other units of the 1st Guards Cavalry corps.
• 43rd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Southwestern Front.
• 44th Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 9th Cavalry Corps. Noted as mountain cavalry division 12.41 while assigned to 16th Army. 4.42 merged into 17th Cavalry Division.
• 46th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 30th Army.
• 47th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Southwestern Front.
• 49th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 6th Cavalry Corps.
• 50th Cavalry Division — 6.41 — 7.41 formed in North Caucasus Military District
  North Caucasus Military District
  The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
  
  . With 3rd Cavalry Corps 11.41. Became 3rd Guards Cavalry Division 11.41.
• 51st Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 36th Army of Transbaikal Front
  Transbaikal Front
  The Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
  
  .
• 52nd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 3rd Army.
• 53rd Cavalry Division — 6.41 — 7.41 formed in North Caucasus Military District
  North Caucasus Military District
  The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla....
  
  . With 3rd Cavalry Corps 11.41. Became 4th Guards Cavalry Division 11.41.
• 54th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Kalinin Front
  Kalinin Front
  The Kalinin Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front may operate within designated boundaries.The Kalinin Front was...
  
  .
• 55th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 13th Army
  13th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War...
  
  . 14.2.43 became 15th Guards Cavalry Division.
• 56th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 37th Army.
• 57th Light Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 10th Army
  10th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 10th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a field army active from 1939 to 1944.The Army was formed in September 1939 in the Moscow Military District, and then deployed to the Western Special Military District...
  
  . Disbanded in March 1942 due to losses. Personnel used to fill out other units of the 1st Guards Cavalry Division of the 1st Guards Cavalry corps.
• 59th Cavalry Division — 5.45 with the Transbaikal Front
  Transbaikal Front
  The Transbaikal Front was a front formed on September 15, 1941 on base of the Transbaikal Military District. Initially, it included the 17th and 36th armies, but in August 1942 the 12th Air Army was added to the front, and, finally, in June-July 1945 the 39th and the 53rd armies, the 6th Guards...
  
  .
• 60th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 57th Army.
• 61st Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 4th Cavalry Corps.
• 62nd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 56th Army.
• 63rd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 4th Cavalry Corps and 5.45 with the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
  . Eventually became 6th Guards Tank Division postwar, and today the 6th Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus
  Armed Forces of Belarus
  The Armed Forces of Belarus consist of the Army and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus...
  
  .
• 64th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 56th Army.
• 66th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 9th Army (Soviet Union)
  9th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 9th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a Soviet field army, active from 1939 – 43, and then after the war from 1966 to 1989.It was active during the Winter War against Finland as part of the Leningrad Military District, beginning operations at the end of November 1939 under ComKor M.P....
  
  .
• 68th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 9th Army (Soviet Union)
  9th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 9th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a Soviet field army, active from 1939 – 43, and then after the war from 1966 to 1989.It was active during the Winter War against Finland as part of the Leningrad Military District, beginning operations at the end of November 1939 under ComKor M.P....
  
  .
• 70th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 56th Army.
• 72nd Cavalry Division — 6.41 with 2nd Cavalry Corps.
• 73rd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 26th Army.
• 74th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 26th Army.
• 75th Light Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 10th Army. Disbanded in March 1942 due to losses. Personnel used to fill out other units of the 1st Guards Cavalry Division of the 1st Guards Cavalry corps.
• 76th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 39th Army.
• 77th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 57th Army.
• 78th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 59th Army.
• 79th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 57th Army.
• 80th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with RVGK (Stavka
  Stavka
  Stavka was the term used to refer to a command element of the armed forces from the time of the Kievan Rus′, more formally during the history of Imperial Russia as administrative staff and General Headquarters during late 19th Century Imperial Russian armed forces and those of the Soviet Union...
  
   Reserve).
• 81st Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 4th Cavalry Corps.
• 82nd Cavalry Division — 1.42 with 11th Cavalry Corps.
• 83rd Mountain Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 61st Army. 1.43 became 13th Guards Cavalry Division.
• 84th Cavalry Division — 5.45 with the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East.
• 87th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 59th Army.
• 91st Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 61st Army.
• 94th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with 39th Army.
• 97th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Turkmen national formation. 4.43 disbanded.
• 98th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Turkmen national formation. 4.42 disbanded.
• 99th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Uzbek national formation. 7.42 disbanded.
• 100th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Uzbek national formation. Disbanded July 1942.
• 101st Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Uzbek national formation. 7.42 disbanded.
• 102nd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Uzbek national formation. 6.42 disbanded.
• 103rd Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Uzbek national formation. 3.42 disbanded.
• 104th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Tajik national formation. 7.42 disbanded.
• 105th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. 7.42 disbanded.
• 106th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. 3.42 disbanded.
• 107th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Kyrgyz SSR national formation. 8.42 disbanded.
• 108th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Kyrgyz SSR national formation. 3.42 disbanded.
• 109th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Central Asian Military District. Kyrgyz SSR national formation. 5.42 disbanded.
• 110th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Stalingrad Military District
  Military district
  Military districts are formations of a state's armed forces which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and in countries with conscript forces, often handle parts of the conscription cycle.Navies have also used...
  
  . Kalmyk ASSR national formation. 1.43 disbanded.
• 111th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Stalingrad MD. Kalmyk ASSR national formation. 4.42 disbanded.
• 112th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Southern Urals MD. Became 16th Guards Cavalry Division on Feb 14, 1943. See also :ru:112-я Башкирская кавалерийская дивизия.
• 113th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Southern Urals MD. Bashkir ASSR national formation. 3.42 disbanded.
• 114th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Svir-Caucasus MD. Chechen-Ingush ASSR national formation. 3.42 became 255th Rifle Regiment.
• 115th Cavalry Division — 12.41 with Svir-Caucasus MD. Kabardino-Balkar ASSR national formation. 10.42 disbanded.
• 116th Cavalry Division — 4.42 with 17th Cavalry Corps. 8.42 became 12th Guards Cavalry Division.
• Independent Cavalry Division НО — 12.41 with 56th Army.

Tank Divisions

The Red Army tank divisions of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) were short-lived. In the face of the German invasion of 1941, many poorly-maintained vehicles were abandoned, and those that did meet the Germans in battle were defeated by the superior training, doctrine, and radio communications of the Panzertruppe. The magnitude of the defeat was so great that the mechanized corps parent headquarters of the tank divisions were either inactivated or destroyed by July 1941. Most of the tank divisions facing the Germans had met a similar fate by the end of 1941. The Soviets opted to organize more easily controlled tank brigade

Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...

s instead, eventually combining many of these into three-brigade tank corps in 1942, an organizational structure that served them until the end of the war. Until late in the war, two tank divisions remained in the Far East

Far East

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, serving in the Transbaikal Military District

Transbaikal Military District

The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district...

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• 1st Tank Division — with 1st Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
• 2nd Tank Division — with 3rd Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
• 3rd Tank Division — with 1st Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
• 4th Tank Division — with 6th Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
• 5th Tank Division — with 3rd Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
• 6th Tank Division — with 28th Mechanised Corps in June 1941. 6th Tank Division was part of the Transcaucasian Front
  Transcaucasian Front
  Transcaucasian Front or Transcaucasus Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front may operate within designated...
  
   when the Front moved into Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  , but was withdrawn from Iran in September 1941, whereas in November it was deployed by Novocherkassk with the 56th Army.
• 7th Tank Division — with 6th Mechanised Corps in June 1941.
• 8th Tank Division — with 4th Mechanized Corps in Jun 1941.
• 9th Tank Division
  9th Tank Division
  The 9th Tank Division was a division of the Red Army that saw action briefly in 1941. It was formed in the Central Asian Military District in the summer of 1940. In April 1941 the Division joined the newly formed 27th Mechanised Corps...
  
   — with 27th Mechanised Corps in June 1941. Quick separated from 27th Mechanised Corps and re-designated 104th Tank Division.
• 10th Tank Division — with 15th Mechanised Corps in June 1941. Ground down to a strength of 20 vehicles while serving with 40th Army
  40th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 40th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1945 and then again from 1979 to circa 1990.It was first formed, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had commenced, from elements of the 26th and 37th Armies under the command...
  
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• 11th Tank Division — with 2nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 12th Tank Division — with 8th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 13th Tank Division — with 5th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 14th Tank Division — with 7th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 15th Tank Division — with 16th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 16th Tank Division — with 2nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 17th Tank Division — with 5th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 18th Tank Division — with 7th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 19th Tank Division — with 22nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 20th Tank Division — with 9th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 21st Tank Division — with 10th Mechanized Corps in June 1941, with 201 or 217 tanks. By 1 October 1941, part of 54th Army but had no tanks remaining.
• 22nd Tank Division — with 14th Mechanized Corps in Jun 1941.
• 23rd Tank Division — with 12th Mechanized Corps in 6.41, disbanded by 8.41
• 24th Tank Division — with 10th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 25th Tank Division — with 13th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 26th Tank Division — with 20th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 27th Tank Division — with 17th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 28th Tank Division — with 12th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. With 27th Army
  27th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 27th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, which fought in World War II. First formed in May 1941. Initial commander was H. E. Berzarin. Took part in battles in the Baltic. On 22 June 1941 it consisted of the 22nd and 24th Rifle Corps, 16th and 67th Rifle Divisions, 3rd Separate...
  
   on 1 November 1941, not listed in BSSA next month.
• 29th Tank Division — with 11th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 30th Tank Division — with 14th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 31st Tank Division — with 13th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. (in Shchuchyn area 1941)
• 32nd Tank Division — with 4th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 33rd Tank Division — with 11th Mechanized Corps, 3rd Army in Jun 1941.
• 34th Tank Division — with 8th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. On disbandment, elements reorganised as 16th Tank Brigade, which was later transferred bodily from the Red Army to the Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War....
  
  . See :pl:16 Dnowsko-Łużycka Brygada Pancerna.
• 35th Tank Division — with 9th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 36th Tank Division — with 17th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 37th Tank Division — with 15th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 38th Tank Division — with 20th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 39th Tank Division — with 16th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 40th Tank Division — with 19th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 41st Tank Division — with 22nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 42nd Tank Division — with 21st Mechanized Corps in 6.41, disbanded by 8.41.
• 43rd Tank Division — with 19th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 44th Tank Division — with 18th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 45th Tank Division — with 24th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 46th Tank Division — with 21st Mechanized Corps in 6.41, disbanded by 8.41.
• 47th Tank Division — with 18th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 48th Tank Division — with 23rd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 49th Tank Division — with 24th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 50th Tank Division — with 25th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 51st Tank Division — with 23rd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 52nd Tank Division — with 26th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 53rd Tank Division — with 27th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 54th Tank Division — with 28th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 55th Tank Division — with 25th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 56th Tank Division — with 26th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
• 57th Tank Division — with Transbaikal Military District
  Transbaikal Military District
  The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district...
  
   in June 1941.
• 58th Tank Division — with 30th Mechanized Corps in Far East in June 1941. Became 58th Tank Brigade on 31 December 1941.
• 59th Tank Division — with 2nd Red Banner Army in Far East in Jun 1941.
• 60th Tank Division — with 30th Mechanized Corps in Far East in June 1941. Became 60th Tank Brigade on 20 January 1942.
• 61st Tank Division — with 17th Army
  17th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 17th Army of the Red Army was a Soviet field army. It was formed from the 1st Army Group of the Transbaikal Military District on 21 July 1940 . From 1941 to 1945, the army assumed a general defensive posture, including within Mongolia...
  
  , Transbaikal Military District
  Transbaikal Military District
  The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district...
  
   in June 1941, and still there in May 1945.
• 101st Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Western Front in August 1941.
• 102nd Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Reserve Front in August 1941.
• 104th Tank Division — formed after July 1941 by re-designation of 9th Tank Division; with Western Front in August 1941.
• 105th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Reserve Front in August 1941.
• 107th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Western Front in August 1941. Became 107th Motor Rifle Division 16 September 1941, and, three months after that, 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division on 12 January 1942.
• 108th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Reserve Front in August 1941.[becomes 108th Tank Brigade on 2 December 1941]
• 109th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Central Front in August 1941.
• 110th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with Reserve Front in August 1941.
• 111th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with the Transbaikal Front in May 1945.
• 112th Tank Division — formed after July 1941; with the Far Eastern Front in Sep 1941.[becomes 112th Tank Brigade on 3 January 1942]

Artillery Divisions

• 1st (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 25 May 1942 with South-Western Front
• 2nd (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 25 May 1942 with Brynsk Front
• 3rd (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 25 May 1942 with Western Front
• 4th (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 6 June 1942 with Kalinin Front
• 5th (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 6 June 1942 with Stalingrad Military District
• 1st Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 1st Guards Glukhovshchinskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner Znameni, Orders of Suvorov (II), Kutuzov (II), and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (II) Artillery Division - formed from 1st Artillery Division 1 March 1943 and fought with the Voronezh, later 1st Ukrainian Fronts.
• 2nd Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 2nd Guards Perekop Red Banner Order of Suvorov (II) Artillery Division created on 1 March 1943 from the 4th Artillery Division and fought with the Southern, 4th Ukrainian, 1st Baltic and 2nd Baltic Fronts.
• 2nd Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 3rd Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 3rd Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 4th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 4th Guards Heavy Gun Artillery Division — with 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 5th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 5th Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 6th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 6th Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945. In Manchuria Aug 1945.
• 7th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 8th Gun Artillery Division — with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 9th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 10th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 11th Artillery Division — with 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 12th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 13th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front
  4th Ukrainian Front
  The 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
  
   5.45.
• 14th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 15th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 16th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 17th Artillery Division — with 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 18th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 19th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   5.45.
• 20th Breakthrough Artillery Division — Fought at Kursk, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 21st Breakthrough Artillery Division — Fought in East Prussia and Kurland; with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 22nd Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 23rd Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 24th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front
  4th Ukrainian Front
  The 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
  
   5.45.
• 25th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.
• 26th Artillery Division — with 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 27th Artillery Division — with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) 5.45.
• 28th Breakthrough Artillery Division — Fought in Kurland; with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 29th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 30th Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 31st Breakthrough Artillery Division — with 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   5.45.

Guards Rocket Artillery Divisions

• 1st Guards Rocket Krasnoselsk Red Banner Artillery Division — Formed Sep 1942 at Moscow Military District
  Moscow Military District
  The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of...
  
   Jan 1945.
• 2nd Guards Rocket Gorodokskaya Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevskiy Artillery Division — Formed Sep 1942; with 1st Baltic Front Jan 1945.
• 3rd Guards Rocket Kiev Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov (II) and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (II) Artillery Division — Formed Sep 1942; with 1st Ukrainian Front Jan 1945.
• 4th Guards Rocket Sivashskaya Order of Alexander Nevskiy Artillery Division — Formed Sep 1942; with 2nd Belorussian Front Jan 1945.
• 5th Guards Rocket Kalinkovichskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov (II) Artillery Division — Formed Jan 1943; with 1st Belorussian Front Jan 1945.
• 6th Guards Rocket Bratislava Artillery Division — Formed Jan 1943; with 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
• 7th Guards Rocket Kovenskaya Red Banner Orders of Suvorov (II) and Kutuzov (II) Artillery Division — Formed Feb 1943; with 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.

Antiaircraft Divisions

• 1st AA Division - with 21st Army, Don Front and South-Western Front before renamed into 2nd Guards AA Division
• 1st Guards AA Division was a part of the PVO Strany organisation
• 2nd AA Division — with the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 2nd Guards AA Division — with 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 3rd AA Division — with the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   May 1945.
• 3rd Guards AA Division — with Eighth Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 4th AA Division — with the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   May 1945.
• 4th Guards AA Division — with 1st Guards Tank Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 5th AA Division — with Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 5th Guards AA Division — with 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   May 1945.
• 6th AA Division — with 5th Guards Tank Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 6th Guards AA Division — with 4th Guards Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 7th AA Division — with 8th Army
  8th Army (Soviet Union)
  The 8th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War.The 8th Army was formed in October 1939 from the Novgorod Army Operational Group of the Leningrad Military District with the task of providing security of the Northwestern borders of the USSR. The 8th Army was a field...
  
   of the Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
   May 1945.
• 9th AA Division — with the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   May 1945.
• 10th AA Division — with 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 11th AA Division — with 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 12th AA Division — with 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 14th AA Division — with 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 17th AA Division — with 51st Army
  51st Army (Soviet Union)
  The 51st Army was a field army of the Red Army that saw action against the Germans in World War II on both the southern and northern sectors of the front. In particular, it was involved in the Crimean debacle of May 1942, and the final cutting-off of German forces in the Courland area next to the...
  
   of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 18th AA Division — with 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 19th AA Division — with 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 20th AA Division — with 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 21st AA Division — with 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 22nd AA Division — with the 3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front
  3rd Ukrainian Front was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.It was founded on 20 October 1943, on the basis of a Stavka order of October 16, 1943, by renaming the Southwestern Front. It included 1st Guards Army, 8th Guards Army, 6th, 12th, and 46th Armies and 17th Air Army...
  
   May 1945.
• 23rd AA Division — with the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 24th AA Division — with 2nd Guards Tank Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 25th AA Division — with 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front
  4th Ukrainian Front
  The 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 26th AA Division — with 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 27th AA Division — with 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 28th AA Division — with 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 29th AA Division — with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 30th AA Division — with the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 31st AA Division — appears to have been with 47th Army
  47th Army
  The 47th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1946.The 47th Army was formed in late July 1941 in the Transcaucasian Military District as part of the Soviet Union's border defenses with Iran...
  
   in January 1945, with four anti-aircraft artillery regiments (BSSA). With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 33rd AA Division — with the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 34th AA Division — with 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 35th AA Division — with 37th Army in Bulgaria May 1945.
• 36th AA Division — with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 37th AA Division — with 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 38th AA Division — with the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
• 39th AA Division — with 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 40th AA Division — with 14th Army near Kirkenes May 1945.
• 41st AA Division — with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 42nd AA Division — with 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 43rd AA Division — with 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front
  4th Ukrainian Front
  The 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 44th AA Division — with 67th Army of the Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
   May 1945.
• 45th AA Division — with the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 46th AA Division — with 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 47th AA Division — with the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 48th AA Division — with the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 49th AA Division — with 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 50th - 63rd AA Divisions were of the air defense forces (PVO Strany).
• 64th AA Division — with 33rd Army
  33rd Army (Soviet Union)
  The Red Army's 33rd Army was a Soviet field army during the Second World War. It was disbanded by being redesignated HQ Smolensk Military District in 1945.-Initial Operations:...
  
   of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 65th AA Division — with the 2nd Belorussian Front
  2nd Belorussian Front
  The 2nd Belorussian Front was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 66th AA Division — with 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 67th AA Division — with the 3rd Belorussian Front
  3rd Belorussian Front
  The 3rd Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during the Second World War...
  
   May 1945.
• 69th AA Division — with the 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 70th AA Division — with Kiev Military District May 1945.
• 71st AA Division — with the 1st Ukrainian Front
  1st Ukrainian Front
  The 1st Ukrainian Front was a front—a force the size of a Western Army group—of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War.-Wartime:...
  
   May 1945.
• 72nd AA Division — in RVGK reserve of the Stavka
  Stavka
  Stavka was the term used to refer to a command element of the armed forces from the time of the Kievan Rus′, more formally during the history of Imperial Russia as administrative staff and General Headquarters during late 19th Century Imperial Russian armed forces and those of the Soviet Union...
  
   May 1945.
• 73rd AA Division — with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front
  Leningrad Front
  The Leningrad Front was first formed on August 27, 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad .-History:...
  
  ) May 1945.
• 74th AA Division — with 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
  1st Belorussian Front
  The 1st Belorussian Front was a Front of the Soviet Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.
• 76th AA Division — with 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front
  4th Ukrainian Front
  The 4th Ukrainian Front was a front of the Red Army during World War II...
  
   May 1945.

Aviation divisions

See Aviation Division

Aviation Division

An Aviation Division was a type of formation of the Military Air Forces of the Red Army during the Second World War, the Military Air Forces of the Soviet Union, Forces of Anti Aircraft Defence of the Soviet Union and Aviation of the Military Naval Fleet, and since 1991 remain major formations...

 for Soviet Air Forces divisions and Soviet Naval Aviation

Soviet Naval Aviation

Soviet Naval Aviation was a part of the Soviet Navy.- Origins :...

for naval aviation divisions