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97th Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

December 20, 2023

The 97th Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 97-ма гвардійська мотострілецька дивізія, romanized: 97-ma hvardiys'ka motostrilets'ka dyviziya) was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine.

343rd Rifle Division (1941–43)
97th Guards Rifle Division (1943–57)
97th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957–1992)
97th Mechanized Brigade (1992–2004)
Brigade Insignia
ActiveAugust 1941 – November 2004
CountryUkraine
BranchUkrainian Army
TypeMechanized Brigade
Part of13th Army Corps
Garrison/HQА-1766[1] Slavuta,[2] Khmelnytskyi Oblast
EquipmentT-64[3]
BMP-2[3]
ZSU-23-4[3]
2S3 Akatsiya[3]
2S1[3]
EngagementsWorld War II
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner
Order of Suvorov
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky

The full name of the division was the "97th Guards Poltava Motor-Rifle Division, Red Banner, Suvorov's, Bogdan Khmelnitsky". After the division became part of Ukrainian Armed Forces it was known as the "97th Separate Mechanized Brigade" [uk] (97-ma okrema mekhanizovana bryhada).[4]

History edit

World War II edit

The division was formed in August–September 1941 as the 343rd Rifle Division near the city of Stavropol. Over the next twelve months it was assigned to the 56th, 6th, 9th, 21st, and 24th Armies. The division took part in the defensive operations at Rostov, then in the Rostov and Barvenko-Lozovaia offensive operations. Later, it fought in the Second Battle of Kharkov, then fled eastward to take part in defensive operations near Stalingrad. On July 17, 1942, when the 21st Army joined the Stalingrad Front, the division had 2,795 men and fewer than 20 artillery pieces.[5] After October, 1942, it was assigned to the 66th Army, which later became the 5th Guards Army.

On May 4, 1943, the division was re-designated as the 97th Guards Rifle Division.[6] Its order of battle was as follows:

  • 289th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1151st Rifle Regiment
  • 292nd Guards Rifle Regiment from 1153rd Rifle Regiment
  • 294th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1155th Rifle Regiment
  • 232nd Guards Artillery Regiment from 903rd Artillery Regiment
  • 104th Guards Antitank Battalion from 567th Antitank Battalion
  • 110th Guards Sapper Battalion from 620th Sapper Battalion
  • 141st Guards Signal Battalion from 791st Signal Battalion
  • 100th Guards Reconnaissance Company from 402nd Reconnaissance Company

The day before its re-designation the division was assigned to the newly-formed 33rd Guards Rifle Corps.[7] On May 2, the commander of the division, Matvei Usenko, was promoted to the rank of Major General. Just ten days later he was killed after being blown up by a land mine while crossing a road in a vehicle.[8]

The division took part in the Battle of Kursk, along with the rest of 5th Guards Army as part of the Steppe Front. Later, it fought in the liberation of left-bank Ukraine. In September, the division was awarded the 'Poltava' honorific, along with its sister divisions, the 13th and 95th Guards Rifle Divisions.[9] In 1944 and 1945, it took part in the Kirovograd, Uman-Botoshany, Lvov-Sandomir, Sandomir-Silesia, Upper and Lower Silesia, Berlin, and Prague offensives. The division ended the war in 32nd Guards Rifle Corps, still in 5th Guards Army.[6][7]

Postwar edit

After World War II, the division was stationed in Austria, with the Central Group of Forces, where it remained until 1946. During that time, the division belonged to the 5th Guards Army. After its relocation to Slavuta, it became part of the 13th Army.[10] After it moved to Slavuta, the division was downsized into the 28th Separate Guards Rifle Brigade, but became a division again on 16 September 1949.[11] In 1957, it was reorganized from a Rifle into a Motor Rifle division.[12] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division was reorganized into a Brigade, which continued to exist until November 2004, when it was disbanded.[13]

Commanders edit

Division commanders included:[14]

  • General-mayor Matvei Usenko (4–12 May 1943)
  • Colonel Vasily Yakovlevich Kashlyayev (13–30 May 1943)
  • Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Antsiferov (1 June 1943–19 April 1944, general-mayor from 25 September 1943)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Lashkov (20 April–22 May 1944)
  • General-mayor Ivan Ivanovich Antsiferov (23 May–8 October 1944)
  • Colonel Yefrem Mikhailovich Golub (9 October–28 December 1944)
  • Colonel Anton Prokofyevich Garan (29 December 1944–16 June 1945)
  • General-mayor Leonid Kolobov (16 June 1945–20 March 1947)
  • General-mayor Fyodor Zakharovich Borisov (20 March 1947–21 February 1948)
  • General-mayor Vasily Ivanovich Shcherbenko (21 February 1948–12 September 1955)
  • Colonel Vasily Poyarov (12 September 1955–2 July 1958, general-mayor from 27 August 1957)
  • Colonel Pyotr Yegorovich Litvinenko (2 July 1958–19 December 1961, general-mayor from 9 May 1961)
  • Colonel Stepan Aleksandrovich Fedorenko (19 December 1961–15 January 1966, general-mayor from 13 April 1964)
  • Colonel Pyotr Timofeyevich Latuk (15 January 1966–unknown, general-mayor from 25 October 1967)
  • Colonel Leonid Ivanovich Pinchuk (general-mayor from 28 October 1976)

Order of battle edit

During the late 1980s, the division included the following units.[2]

  • 110th Tank Regiment
  • 289th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
  • 292nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
  • 294th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
  • 232nd Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
  • 1094th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ukrainskiy Ofitsery 2008-04-09 at the Wayback Machine (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ a b Feskov et al 2013, p. 473.
  3. ^ a b c d e 97-ма Полтавська окрема механізована 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Article in Ukrainian, website of Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
  4. ^ [97th Separate Mechanized Brigade soldiers defuse 171 WWII artillery shells] (in Ukrainian). Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. 8 May 2002. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2001-04-24. Retrieved 2008-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ a b c Bonn 2005, pp. 374–375.
  7. ^ a b Sharp 1995, p. 84.
  8. ^ Aleksander A. Maslov, Fallen Soviet Generals, trans. and ed. D.M. Glantz, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 1998, p. 95
  9. ^ "Освобождение городов". www.soldat.ru. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  10. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 471.
  11. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 149.
  12. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 472.
  13. ^ Vad777. "Дислокация частей украинской армии" [Bases of Ukrainian Army units] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ Kalashnikov & Dodonov 2019, pp. 249–250.
  15. ^ a b c Feskov et al 2013, p. 166.

Sources edit

  • Bonn, Keith E., ed. (2005). Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front. Bedford, PA: Aberjona Press. ISBN 097176509X.
  • Sharp, Charles C. (1995). "Red Guards", Soviet Guards Rifle and Airborne Units, 1941 to 1945, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, vol. IV. George F. Nafziger.
  • 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.
  • Kalashnikov, K. A.; Dodonov, I. Yu. (2019). Высший командный состав Вооруженных сил СССР в послевоенный период: Справочные материалы (1945-1975) (in Russian). Vol. 4, Part 1. Ust-Kamenogorsk: Media-Alyans. ISBN 9786017887315.

Further reading edit

  • I.A. Samchuk, “Guards from Poltava" (Moscow, Voenizdat, 1965) (Russian)
  • "World War II, Soviet Encyclopaedia, 1985, p. 573 [М. М. Козлов. Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945: Энциклопедия. — М: «Советская энциклопедия», 1985. — С. 573. — 832 с. — 105 000 экз.]
  • Феськов В. И., Калашников К. А., Голиков В. И. Глава 2. Стрелковые и воздушно-десантные войска, укрепленные районы Красной Армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны // Красная Армия в победах и поражениях 1941-1945 гг.. — Томск: Издательство Томского университета, 2003. — 619 с. — ISBN 5-7511-1624-0.
  • Чуйков В. И. Сражение века. — М.: Советская Россия, 1975. — 317 с.
  • Жадов А. С. Четыре года войны. — М.: Воениздат, 1978. — 334 с.
  • Военный энциклопедический словарь. — под. ред. Н. В. Огаркова. — Военное издательство, 1983. — С. 573. — 863 с. — ISBN ББК 68я2 В63.
  • Родимцев А. И., Гвардейцы стояли насмерть, 2 изд., М., 1973

External links edit

  • Matvei Alekseevich Usenko


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The 97th Guards Mechanized Brigade Ukrainian 97 ma gvardijska motostrilecka diviziya romanized 97 ma hvardiys ka motostrilets ka dyviziya was a rifle and then a motor rifle division of the Soviet Union s Army before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces based in Slavuta in western Ukraine 343rd Rifle Division 1941 43 97th Guards Rifle Division 1943 57 97th Guards Motor Rifle Division 1957 1992 97th Mechanized Brigade 1992 2004 Brigade InsigniaActiveAugust 1941 November 2004CountryUkraineBranchUkrainian ArmyTypeMechanized BrigadePart of13th Army CorpsGarrison HQA 1766 1 Slavuta 2 Khmelnytskyi OblastEquipmentT 64 3 BMP 2 3 ZSU 23 4 3 2S3 Akatsiya 3 2S1 3 EngagementsWorld War IIDecorationsOrder of the Red BannerOrder of SuvorovOrder of Bogdan Khmelnitsky The full name of the division was the 97th Guards Poltava Motor Rifle Division Red Banner Suvorov s Bogdan Khmelnitsky After the division became part of Ukrainian Armed Forces it was known as the 97th Separate Mechanized Brigade uk 97 ma okrema mekhanizovana bryhada 4 Contents 1 History 1 1 World War II 1 2 Postwar 2 Commanders 3 Order of battle 4 Awards 5 References 6 Sources 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory editWorld War II edit The division was formed in August September 1941 as the 343rd Rifle Division near the city of Stavropol Over the next twelve months it was assigned to the 56th 6th 9th 21st and 24th Armies The division took part in the defensive operations at Rostov then in the Rostov and Barvenko Lozovaia offensive operations Later it fought in the Second Battle of Kharkov then fled eastward to take part in defensive operations near Stalingrad On July 17 1942 when the 21st Army joined the Stalingrad Front the division had 2 795 men and fewer than 20 artillery pieces 5 After October 1942 it was assigned to the 66th Army which later became the 5th Guards Army On May 4 1943 the division was re designated as the 97th Guards Rifle Division 6 Its order of battle was as follows 289th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1151st Rifle Regiment 292nd Guards Rifle Regiment from 1153rd Rifle Regiment 294th Guards Rifle Regiment from 1155th Rifle Regiment 232nd Guards Artillery Regiment from 903rd Artillery Regiment 104th Guards Antitank Battalion from 567th Antitank Battalion 110th Guards Sapper Battalion from 620th Sapper Battalion 141st Guards Signal Battalion from 791st Signal Battalion 100th Guards Reconnaissance Company from 402nd Reconnaissance CompanyThe day before its re designation the division was assigned to the newly formed 33rd Guards Rifle Corps 7 On May 2 the commander of the division Matvei Usenko was promoted to the rank of Major General Just ten days later he was killed after being blown up by a land mine while crossing a road in a vehicle 8 The division took part in the Battle of Kursk along with the rest of 5th Guards Army as part of the Steppe Front Later it fought in the liberation of left bank Ukraine In September the division was awarded the Poltava honorific along with its sister divisions the 13th and 95th Guards Rifle Divisions 9 In 1944 and 1945 it took part in the Kirovograd Uman Botoshany Lvov Sandomir Sandomir Silesia Upper and Lower Silesia Berlin and Prague offensives The division ended the war in 32nd Guards Rifle Corps still in 5th Guards Army 6 7 Postwar edit After World War II the division was stationed in Austria with the Central Group of Forces where it remained until 1946 During that time the division belonged to the 5th Guards Army After its relocation to Slavuta it became part of the 13th Army 10 After it moved to Slavuta the division was downsized into the 28th Separate Guards Rifle Brigade but became a division again on 16 September 1949 11 In 1957 it was reorganized from a Rifle into a Motor Rifle division 12 After the collapse of the Soviet Union the division was reorganized into a Brigade which continued to exist until November 2004 when it was disbanded 13 Commanders editDivision commanders included 14 General mayor Matvei Usenko 4 12 May 1943 Colonel Vasily Yakovlevich Kashlyayev 13 30 May 1943 Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Antsiferov 1 June 1943 19 April 1944 general mayor from 25 September 1943 Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Lashkov 20 April 22 May 1944 General mayor Ivan Ivanovich Antsiferov 23 May 8 October 1944 Colonel Yefrem Mikhailovich Golub 9 October 28 December 1944 Colonel Anton Prokofyevich Garan 29 December 1944 16 June 1945 General mayor Leonid Kolobov 16 June 1945 20 March 1947 General mayor Fyodor Zakharovich Borisov 20 March 1947 21 February 1948 General mayor Vasily Ivanovich Shcherbenko 21 February 1948 12 September 1955 Colonel Vasily Poyarov 12 September 1955 2 July 1958 general mayor from 27 August 1957 Colonel Pyotr Yegorovich Litvinenko 2 July 1958 19 December 1961 general mayor from 9 May 1961 Colonel Stepan Aleksandrovich Fedorenko 19 December 1961 15 January 1966 general mayor from 13 April 1964 Colonel Pyotr Timofeyevich Latuk 15 January 1966 unknown general mayor from 25 October 1967 Colonel Leonid Ivanovich Pinchuk general mayor from 28 October 1976 Order of battle editDuring the late 1980s the division included the following units 2 110th Tank Regiment 289th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment 292nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment 294th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment 232nd Guards Self Propelled Artillery Regiment 1094th Guards Anti Aircraft Rocket RegimentAwards editSeptember 1943 received the honorific Poltava 6 19 received Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 15 19 received Order of Suvorov 15 19 received the Order of the Red Banner 15 References edit Ukrainskiy Ofitsery Archived 2008 04 09 at the Wayback Machine Ukrainian a b Feskov et al 2013 p 473 a b c d e 97 ma Poltavska okrema mehanizovana Archived 2011 07 18 at the Wayback Machine Article in Ukrainian website of Ministry of Defense of Ukraine 171 artilerijskij snaryad chasiv Drugoyi svitovoyi vijni yaki buli viyavleni na gorodi meshkancya sela Bilopil sho na Hmelnichchini zneshkodili voyini saperi 97 oyi okremoyi mehanizovanoyi brigadi Zahidnogo operativnogo komanduvannya 97th Separate Mechanized Brigade soldiers defuse 171 WWII artillery shells in Ukrainian Ministry of Defense of Ukraine 8 May 2002 Archived from the original on 11 February 2012 Retrieved 21 January 2017 Archived copy Archived from the original on 2001 04 24 Retrieved 2008 02 01 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link a b c Bonn 2005 pp 374 375 a b Sharp 1995 p 84 Aleksander A Maslov Fallen Soviet Generals trans and ed D M Glantz Frank Cass Publishers London 1998 p 95 Osvobozhdenie gorodov www soldat ru Retrieved 6 June 2017 Feskov et al 2013 p 471 Feskov et al 2013 p 149 Feskov et al 2013 p 472 Vad777 Dislokaciya chastej ukrainskoj armii Bases of Ukrainian Army units in Russian Archived from the original on 2 January 2013 Retrieved 21 January 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Kalashnikov amp Dodonov 2019 pp 249 250 a b c Feskov et al 2013 p 166 Sources editBonn Keith E ed 2005 Slaughterhouse The Handbook of the Eastern Front Bedford PA Aberjona Press ISBN 097176509X Sharp Charles C 1995 Red Guards Soviet Guards Rifle and Airborne Units 1941 to 1945 Soviet Order of Battle World War II vol IV George F Nafziger Feskov V I Golikov V I Kalashnikov K A Slugin S A 2013 Vooruzhennye sily SSSR posle Vtoroj Mirovoj vojny ot Krasnoj Armii k Sovetskoj 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 Kalashnikov K A Dodonov I Yu 2019 Vysshij komandnyj sostav Vooruzhennyh sil SSSR v poslevoennyj period Spravochnye materialy 1945 1975 in Russian Vol 4 Part 1 Ust Kamenogorsk Media Alyans ISBN 9786017887315 Further reading editI A Samchuk Guards from Poltava Moscow Voenizdat 1965 Russian World War II Soviet Encyclopaedia 1985 p 573 M M Kozlov Velikaya Otechestvennaya vojna 1941 1945 Enciklopediya M Sovetskaya enciklopediya 1985 S 573 832 s 105 000 ekz Feskov V I Kalashnikov K A Golikov V I Glava 2 Strelkovye i vozdushno desantnye vojska ukreplennye rajony Krasnoj Armii v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny Krasnaya Armiya v pobedah i porazheniyah 1941 1945 gg Tomsk Izdatelstvo Tomskogo universiteta 2003 619 s ISBN 5 7511 1624 0 Chujkov V I Srazhenie veka M Sovetskaya Rossiya 1975 317 s Zhadov A S Chetyre goda vojny M Voenizdat 1978 334 s Voennyj enciklopedicheskij slovar pod red N V Ogarkova Voennoe izdatelstvo 1983 S 573 863 s ISBN BBK 68ya2 V63 Rodimcev A I Gvardejcy stoyali nasmert 2 izd M 1973External links editMatvei Alekseevich Usenko Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 97th Guards Mechanized Brigade Ukraine amp oldid 1187303787, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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