184th Rifle Division

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184th Rifle Division 184-я стрелковая дивизия
Active	1941/42-?
Country	Soviet Union
Allegiance	Red Army
Type	Infantry division
Part of	2nd Guards Corps (39th Army), 3rd Armored Army, 5th Army, 62nd Army
Nickname	Dukhovshchinskaya (Духовщинская)
Battles/wars	Battle of Kursk[1], Battle of Stalingrad[2], Battle of Smolensk[3], Third Battle of Kharkov,[4] Dukhovshchinsk-Demidovo Operation[5]

The 184th Red Banner Rifle Division (Russian: 184-я Краснознамëнная стрелковая дивизия, abbreviated: 184-я сд) was a Soviet Red Army division during World War II. Among most notable division members was Roza Shanina. On July 12, 1944 the division liberated Trakai jointly with the 45th Rifle Corps. During the counter-offensive in Eastern Prussia the division hoisted the flag of the Soviet Union on the Soviet state border.^[6]

Commanders

Name	Date
Colonel Samuil Koyda	March 15, 1942 - January 18, 1943; February 11, 1943 - March 1, 1943
Major Pavel Galuza	January 23, 1943 - February 10, 1943
Colonel Stepan Khoteyev	March 18, 1943 - May 23, 1943
Colonel Samuil Tsukaryov	May 24, 1943 - December 12, 1943
Colonel Aleksandr Belov	December 13, 1943 - June 1, 1944
Major-General Basan Gorodovikov	June 10, 1944 - December 11, 1944; February 19, 1945 - September 3, 1945
Colonel Ivan Mayskiy	December 12, 1944 - January 15, 1945
Major-General Rakhim-Sagib Maksutov	January 17, 1945 - February 18, 1945

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