14th Railway Facilities Protection Division NKVD
The 14th Division of the NKVD of the USSR for the Protection of railway facilities (Russian: 14-я дивизия войск НКВД СССР по охране железнодорожных сооружений) was a military formation of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.[1] It was a component of the NKVD Internal Troops.
It was formed in accordance with the order of the NKVD number 00922 of 3 August 1944.
From 1944 to 1946 it was placed under the Headquarters, Internal Troops, NKVD-MVD-MGB, Baltic Military District (Управление ВВ НКВД-МВД-МГБ Прибалтийского округа).[2]
Alongside the division in the Baltic MD VV forces at times from 1944 were the 4th, 5th and 63rd Rifle Divisions NKVD, along with detachments from the Dzerzhensky Division from Moscow.
Dispositions
- Division headquarters and units of combat support and logistics - Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR
- 211th Regiment - in the Lithuanian SSR, Soviet and former East Prussia
- 212th Regiment - headquartered in the city of Baranovichi, Brest Oblast
- 213th Regiment - first headquarters in the city of Bialystok, then in Molodechno Minsk region
- 329th Regiment - headquartered in the city of Jelgava, Latvian SSR
It served as part of the 'operational Army' from 3 August 1944 to 10 February 1945. It participated in the Belorussian, Прибалтийской, Восточно-Прусской and East Pomeranian offensive operations.
After the end of World War II the division conducted operational work to combat gang violence (the Forest Brothers?).
It was disbanded in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR number 00248 of 15 May 1951.
References
- ↑ David Glantz, Companion To Colossus Reborn: Key Documents And Statistics, University Press of Kansas, 2005, 119.
- ↑ Soldat.ru, Headquarters of Internal Troops 1941-1951, accessed April 2014.