28th Rifle Division

28th Rifle Division
Active	I Formation: 1918–1941 II Formation: 1941–1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Rifle Division
Engagements	Russian Civil War Kazan Operation Izhevsk-Votkinsk Uprising Northern Caucasus Operation (1920) Soviet invasion of Azerbaijan Battle of Kiev (1941) Battle for Velikiye Luki Riga Offensive (1944) Courland Pocket
Decorations	Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner (1st formation) Order of the Red Banner (2nd formation)
Battle honours	Highland (1st formation) Named for S. Ordzhonikidze (1st formation) Nevel (2nd formation)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Vladimir Azin (1918-1920)

Military unit

The 28th Rifle Division was a rifle division in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.

The history of the division dates from the 2nd Consolidated Rifle Division, which took part in the Civil War, and was then renamed the 28th Rifle Division. In the 1930s the 28th Rifle Division was renamed the 28th Highland Mountain Division, which became on September 28, 1936, the 28th Highland Mountain Division 'named for S. Ordzhonikidze' and then on July 16, 1940, the 28th Red Banner Mountain Rifle Division named for S. Ordzhonikidze. (see ru:28-я горнострелковая дивизия)

With the North Caucasus Military District in July 1941. Wiped out during Battle of Kiev, September 1941. Recreated at Archangelsk. With 3rd Shock Army, Kalinin Front, in November 1942.^[1] Fought at Velikiye Luki, and at the Battle of Târgu Frumos. With 22nd Army of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK) in May 1945.

The division received the honorifics "Nevel Red Banner" during World War II. The division was disbanded before 22 October 1945 with the 100th Rifle Corps in the Odessa Military District.^[2]

Notes

^ "Боевой состав Советской Армии на 1 ноября 1942 г. - Боевые действия Красной Армии в ВОВ". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 489

References

Crofoot, Craig (2005). Armies of the Bear, Orders of Battle Vol 1, Part 2. Tiger Lily Publications LLC.
Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.

Soviet divisions of the Russian Civil War

Rifle divisions

1st – 9th	1st 1st Communist 1st Don 1st Estland 1st Estonian 1st Inza 1st Kamyshin 1st Krasnouralsk 1st Siberian 1st Steel 1st Transbaikal 1st Tula 1st Turkestan 1st Ust-Medveditskaya Soviet 2nd (Army of Soviet Latvia) 2nd Consolidated 2nd Priamur 2nd Tula 2nd Turkestan 3rd Crimean 3rd Kazan 3rd Taman 3rd Turkestan 4th Petrograd 4th Smolensk 4th Ural 5th Saratov 5th Vitebsk 6th Oryol 7th Vladimir 8th Minsk 9th 9th Don

1st – 9th

1st
1st Communist
1st Don
1st Estland
1st Estonian
1st Inza
1st Kamyshin
1st Krasnouralsk
1st Siberian
1st Steel
1st Transbaikal
1st Tula
1st Turkestan
1st Ust-Medveditskaya Soviet
2nd (Army of Soviet Latvia)
2nd Consolidated
2nd Priamur
2nd Tula
2nd Turkestan
3rd Crimean
3rd Kazan
3rd Taman
3rd Turkestan
4th Petrograd
4th Smolensk
4th Ural
5th Saratov
5th Vitebsk
6th Oryol
7th Vladimir
8th Minsk
9th
9th Don

10th – 19th	10th Tambov 11th Petrograd 12th 13th 15th 15th Inza 15th Sivash 16th Simbirsk 17th Nizhny Novgorod 18th Yaroslavl 19th

20th – 29th	20th (I) 20th (II) 21st Perm 22nd Krasnodar 23rd 24th Samara 24th Simbirsk 25th Poltava 26th Zlatoust 27th Omsk 28th 28th Tsaritsyn 28th VNUS 29th 29th Vyatka

30th – 39th	30th Irkutsk 31st (9th Kuban Army) 31st Turkestan 32nd 33rd (10th Terek-Dagestan Army) 33rd Kuban 34th 35th Siberian 36th 36th (Field troops) 37th 37th Novocherkassk 38th 38th VNUS 39th 39th VNUS

40th – 49th	40th Boguchar 40th (Field troops) 41st (13th Army) 41st (14th Army) 42nd 43rd (I) 43rd (II) 44th Kiev 45th Volyn 46th Yekaterinoslav 47th (12th Army) 47th (14th Army) 48th Taman 48th Tver 49th

50th – 59th	50th Taman 51st Moscow 51st Perekop 52nd Yekaterinburg 54th 55th (13th Army) 55th 56th Moscow 57th 57th Yekaterinburg 58th Oryol 59th 59th VNUS