19th Motor Rifle Division

The 19th Motor Rifle Division appears to have been formed

19th Rifle Division (1922–57)
originally in July 1922 at Tambov in the Moscow Military District as
a territorial formation. In 1923 it was awarded the 'Tambov' 92nd Motor Rifle Division
placename and renamed the 19th Voronezh Rifle Division. (1957–65)
19th Motor Rifle Division (1965–
2009)

Contents Active 1922–2009

Country Soviet Union,
History Russia
Subordinated units
Branch Soviet Army,
Personnel and Equipment Russian Ground
Notes Forces
References Type Division
Role Motor Rifle
Part of 58th Army
History
Garrison/HQ Vladikavkaz
By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War it consisted of the 32nd, Engagements Operation
282nd, and 315th Rifle, 90th Artillery, 103rd howitzer artillery Barbarossa, Battle
regiment. of Moscow, War in
It entered combat against the Germans on July 19, 1941 near Yelnya South Ossetia
as part of the 24th Army of the Western Front. It participated in the
(2008), others
Elninskaya offensive, the Battle of Moscow, Rzhev-Vyazma
offensive operation in 1942, the Rzhev-Sychevka offensive, Kharkiv
defensive operation in 1943, Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation (3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943) (a
part of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev).
As part of the 7th Guards Army, Poltava-Kremenchuk offensive, Pyatihatskoy offensive, Bereznegovatoe-
Snigirevskaya Offensive, Odessa offensive, Chisinau, Izmail offensive, Belgrade Offensive 1944 Derskoy
offensive, Bratislava–Brno Offensive.

It participated in the liberation of the cities Elnya, Ruza, Krasnograd, Bobrynets, Bratislava, Shumla
(Shumen) liberated September 9, 1944. For exemplary performance of command assignments in Bulgaria it
was given the honorary name "Shumlinskoy" (27 Sep. 1944). It boosts the Seversky Donets, Ingulets,
Dniester, Prut, Southern Bug, Dnieper and Danube. During the Belgrade operation it October 1944 entered
the territory of Yugoslavia, in November, crossed the river. Danube near apathy and in difficult conditions
forested mountainous terrain led fierce battles with the Nazis on his left side. In 1944 its combat path took it
through Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia where it ended the war. For their
courage in these battles and military skill he was awarded the Order of Suvorov 2nd degree (January 6,
1945).

During the war it served successively with the 24th, 43rd, 5th, 20th, External image
3rd Guards Tank, 57th, 37th, 7th Guards, and 46th Armies. In 1942
and 1943 it defended in the Gzatsk and Kharkov areas. Map of the division's fighting path
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was stationed in Vladikavkaz. [1] In May–June 1946, the division 00487bfd5a3ed397072e&ll=50.7920
was reorganised into the 11th Separate Rifle Brigade. All battalions 47,25.751953&spn=15.635441,33.2
of the brigade were stationed in Ordzhonikidze (which became 66602&z=5)
Vladikavkaz in 1990). On 1 July 1949 the 11th Separate Rifle
Brigade was reorganised as the 19th Mountain Rifle Division,[2]
12th Mountain Corps. On May 31, 1954, the 19th Mountain Division was renamed the 19th Rifle Division.
In March 1957 the 19th Rifle Division was reorganized as the 92nd Motor Rifle Division. According to the
USSR Minister of Defense Order No. 00147 of November 17, 1964, in order to preserve the martial
traditions, the 92nd Motor Rifle Division was renamed the 19th Motor Rifle Division. Thus in 1965 it
became again the 19th Motor Rifle Division.

It arrived in the Caucasus region by the mid-1950s and has been stationed for many years at Vladikavkaz. In
the late 1980s it was part of the 42nd Army Corps at Volgograd and consisted of the 397th Tank Regiment,
and the 201st, 429th, and 503rd Motor Rifle Regiments.

Today after reshuffling of units during the last fifteen years it is part of the reformed 58th Army, in the North
Caucasus Military District. Division honorifics are - Russian: Воронежско-Шумлинская
краснознаменная, орденов Суворова, Трудового Красного Знамени.

On August 8, 2008, elements of the 19th Motor Rifle Division (at least 503rd Motor Rifle Reg.) entered
South Ossetia.

In 2009 as part of the wider restructuring of the Russian Ground Forces the division became the 19th Motor
Rifle Brigade.

Subordinated units
429th Motor Rifle Regiment
503rd Motor Rifle Regiment
693rd Motor Rifle Regiment
292nd Self-propelled Artillery Regiment
481st Air-Defence Missile Regiment
141st Separate Tank Battalion
Engineer Battalion
Military Intelligence Battalion
Signal Battalion
Chemical Battalion
Supply Battalion
Maintenance Battalion
Medical Battalion

Personnel and Equipment

The 19th Motor Rifle Division currently has approximately 11,000 personnel in active service.[3]

Equipment Summary[3]
 Equipment Numbers
Main Battle Tanks 120 (T-72)
APC & IFV 330
Self Propelled Artillery 72 (2S3 Akatsiya)
Multiple Rocket Launchers 16

Notes
1. Feskov et al 2013, p. 516
2. Feskov et al 2013, p. 149
3. North Caucasus Military District (http://warfare.be/?lang=&link
id=2227&catid=321), warfare.ru, Russian Military Analisis.
Retrieved on September 1, 2008.

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.
Michael Holm, 19th Motor Rifle Division (http://www.ww2.dk/n
ew/army/msd/19msd.htm)

References
Michael Avanzini and Craig Crofoot, 'Armies of the Bear'
Aberjona Press, 'Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the
Eastern Front', 2005

Structure of the 19th Motor Rifle

Division

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