26th Guards Rifle Division
The 26th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in April, 1942, based on the 1st formation of the 93rd Rifle Division, and served in that role until after the end of the Great Patriotic War. It would soon after provide the headquarters cadre for the 8th Guards Rifle Corps. It was soon assigned, with its Corps, to 20th Army of Western Front and saw extensive fighting, while also suffering extensive casualties, in two campaigns against the German 9th Army in the Rzhev salient through the rest of 1942. The division, again with 8th Guards Corps, joined the 11th Guards Army when it was formed in April, 1943 and, apart from a brief reassignment in early 1944, remained under those commands for the duration of the war. During that summer the division took part in the liberation of Bryansk. By December, after fighting through western Russia north of Smolensk it was in 1st Baltic Front, attacking south towards Gorodok and won the name of that city as a battle honor. By the start of the offensive against Army Group Center in the summer of 1944 the 26th Guards had been redeployed with its Army to the south of Vitebsk as part of 3rd Belorussian Front, where it would remain for the duration. Driving westward during Operation Bagration the division advanced north of Orsha and then helped to seize a crossing over the Berezina River for which it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. It continued to advance through Lithuania to the border with East Prussia later that year. As part of the East Prussian Offensive the 26th Guards entered that heavily-fortified region in the winter of 1945 and helped gradually break the German resistance there, particularly at Insterburg and Königsberg, winning the Order of Suvorov for its part in the battle for the former place. The division ended the war at Pillau. The 26th Guards remained in the Kaliningrad Oblast well after the war, becoming the 26th Guards Motorized Rifle Division in 1957 and not finally disbanded until 1989.
Q251395
Red Army
ORG
None
93rd Rifle Division
UNK
None
8th Guards Rifle Corps
UNK
Q4029919
20th Army
MEDIA
Q848492
Western Front
MEDIA
Q275151
9th Army
MEDIA
Q191465
Rzhev
LOC
Q2032186
11th Guards Army
MEDIA
Q2801
Bryansk
LOC
Q2344621
1st Baltic Front
MEDIA
Q954265
Gorodok
LOC
Q102217
Vitebsk
LOC
Q2354459
3rd Belorussian Front
MEDIA
Q208609
Orsha
LOC
Q207927
Berezina River
LOC
Q337463
Order of the Red Banner
ORG
Q5655
Insterburg
LOC
Q1829
Königsberg
LOC
Q286471
Order of Suvorov
ORG
Q5660
Pillau
LOC
Q1749
Kaliningrad Oblast
LOC
None
26th Guards Motorized Rifle Division
UNK
Q16160625
26th Guards Rifle Division
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