150^th Rifle Division
Unit History

The 150^th will represent a typical unit of the Soviet Rifle Division. The Rifle Forces
(infantry branch) consisted of basic rifle divisions, mountain rifle divisions, motor rifle divisions for the mechanized corps and independent motorized rifle divisions. The 756 Rifle Regiment is the unit portrayed by we the petitioners. Unlike the other allied and axis units, there is not a lot of information yet available to research individual units of the Soviet Army during The Great Patriotic War.

Unit History-from The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, by Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner.

150 Rifle Division

Units: 469, 674, 756 Rifle, 328 Artillery Regiments.

-Raised at Vyazma, Western Military District, Sep. 1939.

-Odessa Military District w/9 Independent Army, June 1941.

-Coastal Army, Odessa area, July 1941.

-Taganrog, Oct. 1941.

-Southern Front w/9 Independent Army, Oct-Nov 1941.

-Destroyed Izyum, May 1942.

-Second formation raised at Turga, Siberian Military District, Aug. 1942.

-East Pomeranian Op., Jan. 1945.

-Schniedemuhl, Jan. 1945.

-Koenigsberg, Apr. 1945.

-Berlin w/3 Shock Army: took Reichstag, Apr. 1945.

-The 756 Regiment has the "Banner of Victory," the flag raised over the Reichstag in Berlin, Apr. 1945.

-Rohrburg, Germany w/79 Rifle Corps, 3 Mechanized Army, Oct. 1946 (Feb 1947 OB)

-"Stalin, Idritsk, Pomeranian," Order of Kutuzov.

Key Commanders: Gen-Maj HSU B.M. Shatiloov, Apr. 1945.