33rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 33rd Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army in the Second World War.
Avanzini and Crofoot write that the division was formed in June 1922 from a cadre from a rifle brigade at Samara in the Volga Military District as a territorial rifle division, and received the designation 'Samar'.[1] With 16th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on June 22, 1941. Fought vicinity Stalingrad and Berlin. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
Disbanded 1947, reformed briefly in Far East by redesignation of 215th RD 1955.[2] Honorifics "Smolensk Red Banner Order of Suvorov". There served with 5th Red Banner Army with headquarters located at Krasny Kut; disbanded 25 July 1956.[3]
References
- ↑ Avanzini and Crofoot, 'Armies of the Bear,' Vol. I, Part 2, p.54.
- ↑ Armies of the Bear
- ↑ V.I. Feskov et al 2013, Table 4.1.5, pp. 151-152.
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