Plan:

Introduction

• 1. History
• 2 Full name
• 3 Awards
• 4 Submission
• 5 Composition
• 6 Commanders
• 7 Warriors of the division

Introduction

364th Rifle Division- military unit of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War

1. History

Formed in August-early November 1941 in Omsk (Siberian Military District) as part of the implementation of the USSR GKO resolution No. 459ss of 08/11/1941. Upon completion of the formation, by the directive of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command No. 004275 dated 11/02/1941, it was included in the 58th reserve army and received an order to redeploy from Omsk to Vozhega. In February 1942, it was sent to the North-Western Front (directive of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command No. 170090 dated February 10, 1942) Staraya Russa and included in the 1st shock army. She entered the active army on 03/01/1942.

Initially, the division participated in Demyanskaya offensive operation(until May 20, 1942). Then, until the autumn of 1942, it occupied positional defense at the turn of the Lovat River.

09/23/1942 The 364th Rifle Division is withdrawn to the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command and is included in the 2nd Reserve Army. In December 1942, the formation was sent to the Volkhov Front, where it became part of the 8th Army (entered the army on 12/14/1942). Here the division took part in the offensive operation "Iskra" (14-30.01.1943), where it led the offensive in the second echelon of the army. Then the 364th division continued to occupy the defense on the outer front of the Leningrad blockade and also participated in the Mginsky offensive operation (07/22-08/22/1943).

As part of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation (01/14-03/01/1944), the formation was initially involved in the Novgorod-Luga operation (01/14-02/15/1944). During the offensive, the division liberated Tosno on January 26, 1944, for which it was given the honorary name Tosnenskaya. After the end of this operation, the division became part of the 54th Army and subsequently operated in the Pskov direction.

In the spring of 1944, the division took part in the unsuccessful Pskov operation (09.03-15.04.1944), then took up positional defense on the outskirts of Pskov.

In the summer of 1944, the 364th Rifle Division took part in the Pskov-Ostrov offensive operation (07/11-31/1944), during which it liberated the city of Abrene (07/22/1944). Then the unit was involved in the Tartu operation (10.08-06.09.1944), during which the division liberated the city of Aluksne (08.19.1944) and about 200 settlements in the territory of Latvia. Subsequently, the division also took part in the Riga offensive operation (14.09-21.10.1944).

On 12/14/1944, the 364th Rifle Division was withdrawn to the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command and transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front with other forces of the 3rd Shock Army. As part of the troops of this front, the division participates in the Warsaw-Poznan operation (14.01-03.02.1945, part of the Vistula-Oder operation). After the end of this offensive, the division was transferred to the Kolberg direction, where it participates in the Arnswalde-Kolberg operation (03/01-18/1945). After its completion, the division was redeployed to the Berlin direction and took part in the Berlin offensive operation (04/16-05/02/1945), and the unit participated directly in the assault on the German capital.

By Directive of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command No. 11095 of 05/29/1945, the division was included in the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, formed on the basis of the 1st Belorussian Front.

2. Full name

364th Rifle Tosno Red Banner Division

3. Awards

4. Submission

• Siberian Military District - August-November 1941
• 58th Reserve Army - November 1941 - 03/01/1942
• Northwestern Front, 1st shock army - 01.03-23.09.1942
• 2nd Reserve Army - 09/23-12/14/1942
• Volkhov Front, 8th Army - 12/14/1942 - January 1943
• Volkhov Front, 2nd shock army - January-February 1943
• Leningrad Front, 2nd shock army - February-March 1943
• Volkhov Front, 8th Army - March 1943 - January 1944
• Volkhov Front - January-February 1944
• Volkhov Front, 54th Army, 119th Rifle Corps - February 1944
• Leningrad Front, 54th Army, 119th Rifle Corps - February 15 - April 1944
• 3rd Baltic Front, 67th Army, 123rd Rifle Corps - April-July 1944
• 3rd Baltic Front, 1st Shock Army, 123rd Rifle Corps - July-August 1944
• 3rd Baltic Front, 67th Army, 123rd Rifle Corps - August-September 1944
• 3rd Baltic Front - September-October 1944
• 2nd Baltic Front, 3rd Shock Army, 7th Rifle Corps - October-November 1944
• 2nd Baltic Front, 3rd Shock Army, 12th Guards Rifle Corps - November-December 1944
• 1st Belorussian Front, 3rd Shock Army, 7th Rifle Corps - since December 1944

5. Composition

• 1212th Rifle Regiment
• 1214th Rifle Regiment
• 1216th Rifle Regiment
• 937th Artillery Regiment
• 398th separate anti-tank battalion
• 223rd anti-aircraft battery - until 03/15/1943
• 766th mortar division (until 09/20/1942)
• 278th machine gun battalion (12/14/1942-03/15/1943)
• 436th reconnaissance company
• 654th engineer battalion
• 825th separate communications battalion (313th separate communications company)
• 459th Medical Battalion
• 452nd separate company of chemical protection
• 157th (489th) motor transport company
• 228th field bakery
• 797th (687th) Divisional Veterinary Infirmary
• 1422nd Field Post Station
• 709th field cash desk of the State Bank

6. Commanders

• 09/27/1941-03/12/1943 Solovyov Philip Yakovlevich, Major General
• 03/13/1943-05/28/1944 Verzhbitsky Viktor Antonovich, Colonel
• 05/29/1944-07/08/1944 Makulkin Fedor Aristarkhovich, Colonel
• 07/09/1944-05/09/1945 Vorobyov Ivan Andreevich, Colonel

7. Warriors of the division

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P Aikov Alexander Nikolaevich - platoon commander of the 364th Infantry Regiment (139th Roslavl Rifle Division, 50th Army, 2nd Belorussian Front), junior lieutenant.

Born on July 10, 1924 in the village of Glukhovo, now in the Voskresensky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, into a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1945. Graduated from 7 classes. He worked as an accountant on a collective farm, head of a hut-reading room. He graduated from the courses of instructors-social education in physical education. In 1941 he joined the Komsomol, was soon elected secretary of the Glukhov territorial organization of the Komsomol.

He was drafted into the army in November 1942 by the Zavetluzhsky district military commissariat and sent to the Leningrad Infantry School. In March 1943, as part of a cadet company, he was sent to the Western Front, to the Spas-Demensk region, to the 33rd Army. Fought on the Western and 2nd Belorussian fronts.

Junior Lieutenant A.N. Paykov distinguished himself during the Belarusian strategic operation "Bagration" during the crossing of the Dnieper and in battles on the captured bridgehead.

On June 27, 1944, at the head of an assault group of 35 volunteers on rafts, under artillery and mortar fire, crossed the Dnieper near the village of Buynichi. The paratroopers after the crossing captured the line on the right bank of the river and took up defense. With automatic fire and grenades, they repulsed several enemy counterattacks, destroying a large number of soldiers and officers. Under their cover, the battalion crossed the river and came to the aid of the paratroopers, who already had six people left. During the assault on the village of Buinichi by the battalion, the platoon of A.N. Paikov raised a red flag over one of the houses of the liberated village.

At Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945 for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown in this Paikov Alexander Nikolaevich awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal " Golden Star"(No. 5508).

After the end of the war, A.N. Paikov continued to serve in Soviet army. In 1946 he graduated from the Advanced Courses for Officers (KUOS). Since 1947, Captain A.N. Paykov has been in reserve.

He returned to the Nizhny Novgorod region. He worked as deputy chairman of the Chernovsky general store, instructor of the Zavetluzhsky district party committee, secretary of the party committees of the Rodina collective farm and Voskresensky timber industry enterprise. In 1959 he graduated from the Kirov Regional Soviet Party School, in 1969 - the Correspondence Higher Party School. Since 1978 - Chairman of the Resurrection Council.

Died October 14, 1995. He was buried in the village of Glukhovo, 5 km from the urban-type settlement of Voskresenskoye.

Awarded the Order of Lenin (03/24/1945), Patriotic War 1st (03/11/1985) and 2nd (07/07/1944) degrees, medals.

A.N. Paykov took part in the hostilities from April 1943. He fought as a squad leader in a machine gun company. Participated in the Smolensk strategic offensive operation. He was wounded, but remained in the ranks. In the autumn of 1943 he was sent to the army junior lieutenant courses. After completing the course in February 1944, he fought as a machine-gun platoon commander. He was wounded a second time, this time severely (blindly wounded in the chest). After the hospital in the summer of 1944, he was assigned to the 364th Infantry Regiment of the 139th rifle division rifle platoon leader. Until the end of the war, he fought in this division on the 2nd Belorussian Front.

Since June 24, he participated in the Belarusian strategic operation "Bagration" (its stages - Mogilev, Minsk and Belostok offensive operations).

During the Mogilev offensive operation (June 23-28, 1944), the 139th Rifle Division as part of the 50th Army from the concentration area on the western bank of the Pronya River, with the support of tanks and aircraft on June 24, 1944, broke through the enemy’s defenses, crossed the Basya River and in the morning On September 27, she reached the Dnieper in the immediate vicinity of Mogilev, in the area of ​​​​the Lupolovo station (now in the city of Mogilev).

When breaking through the enemy defenses on June 24, 1944, junior lieutenant A.N. Paikov near the village of Girovtsy (Chausky district of the Mogilev region) destroyed an enemy artillery gun along with servants with his platoon. In hand-to-hand combat for the village of Gorodets (Bykhov district, Mogilev region), he destroyed 5 German soldiers with the fire of his machine gun. He skillfully combined the fire of his platoon with attached funds.

Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class.

Having mastered the station, the division began crossing the Dnieper on the move using improvised means. The 364th Rifle Regiment crossed opposite the village of Buynichi, located on the right bank of the Dnieper, south of Mogilev.

By 17 o'clock on April 27, all parts of the division were on the right bank and immediately began the assault on Mogilev. After fierce street fighting, by the morning of June 28, Mogilev was completely liberated.

For his distinction in crossing the Dnieper, A.N. Paykov was presented with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the liberation of Mogilev, the 139th Rifle Division, pursuing the retreating enemy, crossed the Drut and Berezina rivers.

From June 29 to July 4, 1944, during the Minsk offensive operation, the division advanced with battles in the Minsk direction to the enemy grouping surrounded east of Minsk.

From mid-July to July 27, 1944, A.N. Paykov, as part of the 49th Army, participated in the Bialystok offensive operation, during which his division advanced from the area southwest of the city of Novogrudok to the west, freeing the settlements of western Belarus. By the end of the operation, she reached the state border of the USSR in the area between Grodno and Bialystok, crossed it and entered the territory of Poland.

Until the end of the war, the 139th Rifle Division was part of the 49th Army.

In August - the first half of September 1944, the army continued its offensive across Polish territory and by September 15 reached the Narew River near the city of Lomza, where it went on the defensive.

From January 14 to January 26, 1945, the 139th Rifle Division participated in the Mlavsko-Elbing offensive operation, an integral part of the East Prussian strategic offensive operation. In this operation, the 49th Army advanced from the Narevsky bridgehead to the north in the direction of the city of Myshinets, providing the main strike force of the 2nd Belorussian Front from the north.

In February-March 1945, A.N. Paikov, as part of his division, participated in the East Pomeranian strategic offensive operation, during which the 49th Army with heavy fighting advanced north from the area northwest of Chelmno in the Chersk direction, with the participation of 139 th Infantry Division took the city of Chersk on February 21. From March 14 to March 22, she fought fierce battles to break through the German defenses and advanced on Zoppot with the task of cutting the Danzig-Gdyn enemy grouping into two isolated groups and reaching the Danzig Bay of the Baltic Sea. From March 27, the 139th Rifle Division participated in the assault on the fortress city of Danzig (Gdansk), which was liberated on March 30.

From April 16 to May 8, 1945, he participated in the Berlin strategic offensive operation, in which the troops of the 49th Army advanced from the area of ​​the city of Schwedt to the west, cutting off the German Army Group Vistula from Berlin, located north of Berlin. By the end of the operation, the 139th Rifle Division reached the Elbe in the Ludwigslust area, where it met with the troops of the 2nd British Army.

In preparing the biography, a number of materials provided by S.V. Kuzovatov (Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region) were used.

364th Rifle Tosno Red Banner Division.

The division was formed in the period from August 28 to October 15, 1941 on the territory of the Omsk region of the Siberian military district.

Combat strength of the division:

Division management.

1212th Infantry Regiment.

1214th Infantry Regiment.

1216th Infantry Regiment.

937th Artillery Regiment.

398th separate anti-tank battalion.

223rd anti-aircraft battery - until 03/15/1943.

766th mortar division (until 09/20/1942).

278th machine-gun battalion (12/14/1942-03/15/1943).

436th separate reconnaissance company.

654th separate engineer battalion.

825th separate communications battalion (313th separate communications company).

459th medical battalion.

452nd separate company of chemical protection.

157th (489th) motor transport company.

228th field bakery.

797th (687th) divisional veterinary infirmary.

709th field cash desk of the State Bank.

After a short training, on November 7, 1941, the division boarded trains and departed west.

On November 13, 1941, she unloaded at the Vozhega station in the north Vologda region, housed in open forest dugouts and continued combat training, while receiving the missing weapons and equipment.

Two months later, the division was sent to the active army, where on March 1, 1942 it became part of the 1st Shock Army of the North-Western Front. In March 1942, the enemy, having concentrated significant forces in the Staraya Russa region of the Leningrad Region, launched an offensive in the direction of Demyansk to join the encircled 16th Army. With the breakthrough of our front line to the south of Staraya Russa, the division, by order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army, was transferred from the Ust-Bolshiye Yasny area to the Sokolovo-Podtsepochye-Veliky Selo-Ozhedovo-1 section with the task of stopping and disrupting the enemy’s offensive.

From the combat log:

From the moment of unloading from the echelons, on the basis of combat order No. 0741 of the North-Western Front from 6.00 on 1.3.1942, the division came under the control of the 1st Shock Army. By combat order No. 0691 of February 20, 1942, the headquarters of the North-Western Front determined the concentration area: Antipovo, Schekotets, Lukino, Schechkovo. Division headquarters in Manuylovo. The division's exit to the concentration area was carried out by regiments and separate units.

On the way, an order was received in which the commander of the North-Western Front ordered, without waiting for the concentration of the division in Antipovo, Shchekotets, Manuylovo, Shchechkovo, to go through the regiments in a forced march to the Andronovo, Kruglaya, Gorbovastitsa, Sanakovshchina regions. The route has changed from 75km to 125km. Headquarters of the 1st Shock Army-Borisovo.
The lack of transport did not allow providing the necessary amount of forage and food. Power shortages began, which caused the weakening of the fighters and the horse composition and led to significant deaths of people and the fall of the horse composition during the march.

6.3.1942. The 364th Rifle Division concentrated in the area of ​​Andronovo, Kuznetsovo, Bainovo, Sanakovshchina. The staging area is under continuous surveillance by enemy aircraft. The 1212th Rifle Regiment, by order of the front headquarters, is concentrated in the area: the forest, west of Sokolovo. By 10.00 concentrated: 1st rifle battalion, mortar battalion, anti-tank rifle company, battery of 45mm guns (both batteries without means of traction and ammunition), 2nd and 3rd rifle battalions - in Shchechkovo.
Losses for the march: 5 people were killed, 2 commanders and 13 soldiers were wounded, 2 people died on the way.
The 1214th Rifle Regiment - concentrated in the forest area, east of Kruglaya. Losses: 7 killed, 2 medium commanders wounded, 3 junior commanders, 15 fighters, 13 people died on the way.
The 1216th rifle regiment without the 3rd rifle battalion and a battery of 76mm cannons - forest, east of Andronovo, Kornylyevo. The 3rd Rifle Battalion and a battery of 76 mm guns on the march from Shchechkovo to the Kudrovo area. Losses: 7 soldiers killed and wounded.
937th artillery regiment - 2nd artillery division - forest, west of Sokolovo; 1st division on the march from the B. Gorba area. Losses: 11 fighters killed and 1 mln.commander, 1 person died, 1 wounded, 1 shell-shocked.
The 766th separate mortar battalion concentrated with 2 batteries in the forest east of Kuznetsovo, one battery in the forest east of Andronovo. Losses: 1 person died.
The sapper battalion lagged behind due to lack of fodder, is on the march from Shchechkovo. Division Headquarters-Sanakovshchina.

7.3.1942. The 1212th Rifle Regiment concentrated in the forest, west of Sokolovo, without a sanrot and a transport company - all without a convoy, horses, fodder. Products are missing for 2 days. During transportation by road during the day, 9 people died, 1 was killed, and 1 was injured.
1214th rifle regiment - forest, east of Kruglaya, Kuznetsovo. Losses per day: 8 people died.
1216th Rifle Regiment (without the 3rd Sat and the 76mm battery) - forest, east of Andronovo, Kornylyevo. The 3rd rifle battalion on the march from Kudrovo in the forest area west of Sokolovo, where it will enter the reserve of the 1st Shock Army.
937th Artillery Regiment 1st Battalion - forest 2km east of Andronovo, 2nd Battalion - 2km east of Kruglaya. From the side of the enemy, they were fired upon from the direction of Minino-Strushino, the western part of the forest east of Andronovo. Parts of the division are engaged in the separation of cracks and camouflage.

March 9, 1942. The division occupies the area of ​​concentration of Andronovo, Kuznetsovo, Bainovo, Sanakovshchina. Parts are engaged in extracting dugouts and preparing defenses. Food and fodder are missing for the 2nd day, in a number of parts they are completely absent. Losses: 13 soldiers died, 4 died of wounds, 4 wounded.
The 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 1212th Rifle Regiment is moving out to the Trokhino line, Views, in accordance with the order of the army.

10.3.1942. The division occupies the former area of ​​concentration.
The 1216th Rifle Regiment was moved to the forest area 1.5 km west of N. Svinukhovo. The 1212th Infantry Regiment occupied the location of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1216th Infantry Regiment, a forest northwest of Sokolovo. The 1212th Rifle Regiment has been moved forward and occupies one company of Trokhovo, one company of Views, one company in the second echelon - the edge of the forest to the east of Views.
1212th Infantry Regiment - in the forest southwest of Sokolovo, 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1212th Infantry Regiment - forest northwest of Sokolovo, 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 1212th Infantry Regiment - at the line of Trokhovo-Vzglyady.
1216th rifle regiment - 3rd rifle battalion - forest, 1 km west of the Krasno-Svinukhovo collective farm. The regiment is on the march to the Novo-Svinukhovo area.
1214th rifle regiment - forest, east of Kruglaya, Kuznetsovo.
937th Artillery Regiment - on the former OP, except for 2 batteries, on the march to the N. Svinukhovo area. Losses: 1 fighter died.

11.3.1942. The enemy wandered out into the Astratovo area. A company of machine gunners of the 1214th Rifle Regiment and a separate motorized rifle reconnaissance company set out for the Slugino-Galuzino area to destroy the enemy. 1212th rifle regiment - forest, west of Andronovo, 1214th rifle regiment - forest east and southeast of N. Svinukhovo, 1216th rifle regiment on the march to the forest area, southeast of Kolyshkino, east of Ozhedovo 1st, north -east of V.Selo.

13.3.1942. The division began to carry out defensive work and strengthen the line: the 1216th Infantry Regiment - along the eastern bank of the Porus River at the front of Chernyshovo, Mavrino, the 1214th Infantry Regiment - Klimkovo, Ozhedovo 1st, the 1212th Infantry Regiment - with one battalion along the western edge of the forest from mark 51.5 to mark 52.8 and one battalion along the eastern bank of the Porusya River, at the line of Views, Andronovo. A double norm for the issuance of products, one and a half norm of fodder for horses has been established.

15.3.1942. The division received an order to relocate to the area of ​​​​B. Yasny, Podsosonye, ​​Sushitsa, Gorodok, Grivy, where to concentrate by the morning of 16.3.1942. The enemy, using units of the 30th, 290th, and 5th Infantry Divisions, stubbornly holds the lines of Fast Coast, Transitions, Chernaya, and Zyulema. The ski group under the command of Colonel Subbotin, consisting of the 7th, 18th, 17th, 8th, 4th, 269th, 268th separate ski battalions, destroys the enemy and subsequently organizes defense at the turn of the Fast Coast, Lubnovo, Vashkovo, Priluzhye, Gudki. The task was set: the 364th rifle division with one division to support the actions of the ski group from the Skopino area.

March 16, 1942. Parts of the division (without the 2nd division of the artillery regiment) concentrated in the Ustye-Vekshino area. We began preparations for an offensive front to the west.

17.3.1942. Parts of the division continue to conduct defensive work. The enemy is firing. Leaflets were dropped over the location of the 1212th Infantry Regiment, which were collected and destroyed. Losses for 15-16.3.1942: 10 people died, 22 horses died.

19.3.42 years. According to the report of the 26th separate rifle brigade in the Mintsevo-Mikhailovo area, 3 downed German transport aircraft fell.

20.3.1942. Parts of the division continued defensive work, which was delayed by an acute shortage of entrenching tools and great permafrost. The artillery regiment concentrated: 1st division - in the Skopino area, 2nd division - in the B. Sheludkovo area, the headquarters of the regiment - Lipovka. Division Headquarters - Manes. The 2nd rifle company of the 1216th rifle regiment was sent to Meglets to develop the area and establish contact with the outposts of the 12th border regiment. The 1212th Infantry Regiment shot down a Yu-52 aircraft. Aircraft crew members were taken prisoner. Losses: 1 killed, 3 wounded.

21.3.1942. The operational department of the army reported that enemy units from the Staraya Russa region of the 8th, 5th, 329th infantry divisions on the right flank of the 1st Shock Army were limiting the offensive at the Derevkovo-Rogashevo line and by the end of the day they had captured Rogashevo, Krasno-Svinukhovo , Novo-Svinukhovo (Uchno) further along the western bank of the Porusya River to the north.
The 364th Rifle Division received an order for the 1216th Rifle Regiment with a battery of the Mindivision to leave the occupied area and concentrate along the Bolshaya Yasny, Dolgaya, Vidzha route by 0600 on March 22, 1942 in the forest northwest of Sokolovo. At 20.00, an order was received to transfer the entire division to this area: the 1214th Rifle Regiment, northwest and northeast of the village of Sokolovo. The 1212th rifle regiment with a battery of the Mindivision - a forest east of Andronovo. Division concentration area: forest, 1 km west of Zubakino, forest, 1.5 km southwest of the Krasny Mayak (Podtsepochie) collective farm, forest, east of Sokolovo, forest, east of Andronovo.

From 03/22/1942 to 04/10/1942, the division fought stubborn battles on the Velikoye Selo-Sokolovo front, with a total length of 11 km.
The regiments of the division covered the directions:
- 1212th Rifle Regiment - Kolyshkino - Velikoye Selo and Klimkovo - Velikoye Selo;
- 1214th Rifle Regiment - Zubakino - Voskresenskoye - Ozhedovo-1;
- 1216th Infantry Regiment - Podtsepochye - Sokolovo.

From the combat log:

22.3.1942. Parts of the division by the morning of March 22, 1942 concentrated in the area:

1216th Rifle Regiment - in the groves north of Sokolovo.

1214th Rifle Regiment - two companies in the forest west of Bainov.

1212th Rifle Regiment - forest west of Sokolovo.

During the day, enemy aircraft carried out continuous bombardment of the areas where the units were located and the approach routes.

By the end of the day, the 1216th Rifle Regiment was given the task of advancing to the Zubakino area and liquidating the enemy in the Zubakino-Mavrino area. After destroying the enemy, go to the Podtsepochye road, blocking the road to the north. and south. direction.
The 1214th Rifle Regiment was given the task of concentrating the forest, north of Sokolovo, where to build defenses, block the road leading from Podtsepochie to Sokolovo, Bainovo, at nightfall, go to the forest area, north and northwest of Sokolovo, take up defense along the northern edge of the forest northeast and northwest of Sokolovo (1.5 km to the right and 1.5 km to the left of the road). The task is not to miss the enemy on the way to the south. Mavrino, Vasilevshchina, Klimkovo are in the hands of the enemy, for the elimination of which the 1216th Infantry Regiment is advanced, with which to keep constant contact and conduct reconnaissance in Mavrino and the forest 3.5 km east of Borodino.
The 1212th Rifle Regiment with a minbattery to advance into the district of the forest east Andronovo, in readiness to move to the Sokolovo district.

23.3.1942. By order of the 1st Shock Army, the 1214th Infantry Regiment was tasked to take the starting position - Klimkovo, mark 31.7, at 7.00 23.3 attack the enemy occupying Vasilievshchina, Mavrino and capture Podtsepochie. Establish contact with the 201st Rifle Division, securely ensure a junction with it. In the Klimkovo area, have 1-2 battalions. The 1216th Infantry Regiment, with the second battalion, concentrate in the forest, one battalion in Kudrovo, in no case allowing the enemy to break through in Shapkino. To the right, the 62nd and 44th rifle brigades are advancing on Novo-Svinukhovo; At 0400, the attack began, the enemy put up stubborn resistance, counterattacking in small groups. Enemy aviation is constantly bombing and machine-gunning the areas where our troops are concentrated and the routes of approach. 10 paratroopers landed in Klimkovo.
The 1214th Rifle Regiment is fighting for Zubakino and on the southern outskirts of Podtsepochie, the 1212th Rifle Regiment is on the occupied line.
As of 16:00, the enemy is putting up stubborn resistance in separate groups of 100-150 people with the support of his aviation, which is constantly bombarding and machine-gunning from 50-60 aircraft, the enemy is dropping groups of paratroopers up to 10 people.

The actions of the 1216th and the battalion of the 1214th rifle regiments on Klimkovo and Zubakino and two battalions of the 1214th rifle regiment on Podtsepochie were delayed by heavy bombardment from the air. One battalion of the 1216th Infantry Regiment suffered heavy losses. The actions of enemy aviation take place without the influence of our aviation, therefore enemy aviation operates with complete impunity, flying at low altitudes and in close formations, covering the areas where units are located big amount bombs, shooting through all the villages with machine-gun fire, individual houses are burning from incendiary bullets. By the end of the day, the combat mission was not completed for the indicated reasons, and our units lay down in front of the settlements.

24.3.1942. 1216th joint venture on the night from 23.3 to 24.3. In 1942, he regrouped, occupying the area on the northern edge of the grove 1.5 km north of Sokolovo. It was established by reconnaissance and combat that up to 2 infantry regiments with a sufficient number of mortar batteries and machine guns operate in front of the front of the 1216th joint venture, from the Podtsepochya - an SS officer school.
On March 24, the enemy launched a heavy fire on the battle formations in the morning. Up to 50 enemy aircraft carried out bombardment and machine-gun fire. After the fire preparation, the enemy went on the offensive. In front of the front of the 1216th Infantry Regiment, up to an infantry regiment, separate groups of machine gunners and up to a company of an SS officer school advanced. The regiment had well prepared fire weapons, the enemy was allowed to close range, after which a hurricane of fire from machine gun mortars and attached artillery was opened. The enemy, suffering heavy losses in confusion, began to roll back, at that moment the units of the regiment launched a counterattack, destroying the Nazis with fire and bayonet. After this battle, the enemy retreated to their original position to the southern outskirts of Podtsepochya and the village of Zubakino. In this battle, the enemy lost up to 500 people killed and wounded, and the officer school was completely destroyed.
The 1212th Rifle Regiment began at 20.00 the transition to the V. Selo area on the orders of the staff. The 2nd Rifle Battalion and the battery were left at the disposal of the commander of the 1216th Rifle Regiment. The 7th rifle company was left at the disposal of the commander of the 201st rifle division. The 8th rifle company, which remained to cover the 1st artillery division of the 937th artillery regiment, marched from the Belebelka area and arrived in the Sokolovo area on the 25th.

25.3.1942. During the night, the enemy did not detect activity, continuously illuminated the area with rockets. From dawn until the infantry battalion tries to advance along the road from Novo-Svinukhovo to Sokolovo. The 364th Rifle Division regrouped at night and occupies the following position:

The 1212th rifle regiment with a battery of the Mindivision moved from the forest area north and northwest of Sokolovo to the Velikoye Selo area and from there launched an offensive against Kolyshkino. By 07:00, one battalion reached the line 100-150 meters south of Kolyshkino, where it was stopped by rifle and machine-gun fire from Kozlovo-Kolyshkino. On the southern outskirts of Kolyshkino, up to 4 machine guns. Another battalion has captured a grove 800 m southwest of Kolyshkino and is organizing defense along its northern side. The 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 1212th Rifle Regiment in a grove 2 km west of Velikoye Selo in the reserve of the army command. Losses: the second battalion sent to support Frolov lost 136 people killed and wounded.
The 1214th Rifle Regiment stubbornly defends the grove line 500m east of Voskresenskoye. In the morning, he began an offensive in the direction of Zubakino. It has the task of keeping the occupied line at all costs. Losses on 24.3 inclusive: killed deputy. division commander Major Zaichenko, deputy. commander of the 1214th Infantry Regiment, Major Abramov S.V. , partisan period civil war, killed in the Voskresenskoye area, 14 middle command personnel were killed, junior and private 92. Wounded: average command personnel 25, private and junior 201 people. Losses are specified.
The 1216th rifle regiment with a battery of the Mindivision stubbornly defends a line 500 m northwest of Voskresenskoye - the northern edges of the forest north of Sokolovo, the road from Novo-Svinukhovo to Sokolovo. In the morning he is fighting the enemy with a force of up to a battalion advancing from Novo-Svinukhovo. Losses up to 23.3.1942 inclusive: killed junior command staff - 5, wounded middle command staff - 10 people, junior - 4 people, private - 157 people.

937th artillery regiment - 4th battery in the forest west of Sokolovo, 5th battery one km west of Baynov, 6th battery - 1.5 km northeast of Baynov, 1st and 2nd batteries in the Ustye area, 3rd battery - Podsosonye.
The division during the day of 25.3.1942 performs the task of capturing Kolyshkino and stubbornly defending the remaining lines of Kolyshkino-Voskresenskoye - the northern edge of the forest north of Sokolovo. The heavy losses in the division were caused almost exclusively by bombardment and machine-gun fire on enemy aircraft. Our aviation is not in the air.
As of 20.00, after a three-time air raid with the support of four tanks, more than 2 enemy battalions captured Voskresenskoye.

The 1214th Rifle Regiment, putting up stubborn resistance, withdrew: the regiment commander with the remnants of the first and third battalions retreated to Sokolovo with the task of organizing the defense of Sokolovo from the east. The chief of staff with the remnants of the second battalion withdrew to Ozhedovo 1st, where he organized the defense. To help him, a company of the 1212th sp.

The 1216th Rifle Regiment drove the enemy out of the forest north of Sokolovo and restored the situation by destroying over 200 Germans in a bayonet attack. The regiment organizes defenses to the north and northeast together with units of the 1214th Rifle Regiment that retreated to Sokolovo.

The 1212th Rifle Regiment (4 companies) and all other special forces, after an unsuccessful attack by Kolyshkino, lay down at the turn of 400 m south of Kolyshkino and a road junction one and a half kilometers southwest of Kolyshkino. Neighboring parts of Balabukha did not take action during the day. The weather continues to be warm, the temperature is above zero day and night.

26.3.1942. During the day, the ground enemy tried to advance in different directions, delivering heavy mortar fire. During the day, the air enemy carried out bombing and machine-gun fire from the air, inflicting heavy losses, especially on the 1212th Rifle Regiment. The 364th Rifle Division was actively defending at the line: the crossroads 2.5 km southeast of Voskresenskoye, the northern edge of the grove 600 m east of Voskresenskoye, Ozhedovo, the 1st junction of roads from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhedovo, the 1st to Sokolovo and the northern edge of the grove to the north Sokolovo.

The 1212th Rifle Regiment (4 companies) and all units defending 200 m south of Kolyshkino and the road junction 1.5 km southwest of Kolyshkino were subjected to fierce bombing and machine-gun fire throughout the day. At 15.30, the regiment was attacked from the direction of Klimkovo-Velikoye Selo, with a force of up to 2 companies with the support of mortar fire and aviation, the remnants of the companies were somewhat pushed back. But then, with a bayonet counterattack, together with skiers from Velikoye Selo, the enemy attack was repulsed. In order to throw the skiers into the attack, a lot of work had to be done to bring their units in order. At 17.00, units of the 1212th Infantry Regiment again attacked over the enemy battalion with 6 tanks under the cover of mortar fire and aviation. The skiers who were in the Great Village began to retreat in a panic. Partially, Velikoye Selo was abandoned, later the units were put in order, a counterattack was organized and Velikoye Selo was occupied by the 1212th Infantry Regiment. By 24.00 the battle continued with submachine gunners seated in separate houses on the northern outskirts. One enemy tank destroyed. The regiment suffered heavy losses, mainly from aviation, and at present there are about 200 people in this sector, in some companies there are 10-15 bayonets left. The regiment commander, Major Volkov, was removed from command of the regiment for inaction and temporarily replaced by Captain Karnaukhov.

The 1214th Rifle Regiment with a company of the 1212th Rifle Regiment, with a company of the 15th Rifle Regiment, held the Ozhedovo 1st junction of roads from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhedovo 1st to Sokolovo during the day. Part of the fighters of the regiment during the day remained surrounded on the northern outskirts of the grove 600 m east of Voskresenskoye continued to fight surrounded and during the attack, Voskresenskoye would provide an attack from the east. The losses of the 1214th regiment from the 22nd to the 26th inclusive are 628 people. Of these, 102 were killed, 228 were injured.

The 1216th Rifle Regiment with the 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 1212th Rifle Regiment continued to hold the line at the crossroads from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhegovo 1st, to Sokolovo and north of the edge of the grove north of Sokolovo, repelling enemy attacks to advance from Podtsepoche along the road and from Voskresenskoye on the road to Sokolovo, up to a company in each direction. Losses from 20 to 25.3: command staff - 52; junior officer - 108; ordinary composition - 1069 people. At 18.00 in the Velikoye Selo area, a German bomber dropped bombs on its transport plane flying below, which exploded and burned down.

27.3.1942. As of 08:00, the 1212th Rifle Regiment and the rest of the special forces from Velikoye Selo are slowly advancing north with more than 150 submachine gunners and 6 tanks in front of them. At 12.00, the attached ski battalion is fixed at the level of the northern edges of the groves southwest of Kolyshkino and cuts the road from Kolyshkino to Velikoye Selo. Two companies 300 m north-west of Velikoye Selo (both companies were attached). Mortar fire is being fired at the enemy convoy moving from Klimkovo to Velikoye Selo. A combined battalion of the remnants of 4 rifle companies and special forces on the western outskirts and west of Velikoye Selo provides an offensive from the east.

The 1214th joint venture advances on Voskresenskoye, occupies a grove east of Voskresenskoye with the second battalion, and is subjected to heavy mortar fire and bombing. The RS division has not yet opened fire on Voskresenskoye. By order of Major Zyrin, the division was reassigned to another formation.

The 1216th joint venture occupies the same position, at 8.00 there is no connection.

As of 21.00, the 1212th Infantry Regiment is conducting a firefight with the enemy (200 m north of Velikoye Selo) who has stopped on the road from Klimkovo to Velikoye Selo. Together with the convoy there are 4 tanks. The battalion of skiers withdrew to Onufrievo.

The 1214th Rifle Regiment is engaged in a heavy battle for Voskresenskoye, which is surrounded from the east, southwest, and northwest. The grove to the east of Voskresenskoye was captured except for the northern edge. The grove to the west of Voskresenskoye is completely occupied by the regiment.

At 19:00, the 1216th Rifle Regiment repulsed an attempt by an enemy battalion to advance from Podtsepoche to the forest north of Sokolovo with artillery mortar and machine-gun fire. The enemy battalion was scattered and fled to the grove south of the 51.7 mark, where it was doing trench work. Enemy aviation is bombing and machine-gunning the combat formations of our units and rear areas.

28.3.1942. The enemy seeks to develop his strike along the Mavrino-Velikoye Selo road to connect with the Demyansk grouping and expand the breakthrough zone by putting pressure on units of the 201st Rifle Division (neighbor on the left). But our resistance does not make it possible to carry out the task. The main blow falls on parts of the 364th rifle division. By order of March 26, the commander of the 1212th joint venture, Major Volkov, was removed from his post, Karnaukhov Stepan Afanasyevich, head of the 2nd department of the division headquarters, was temporarily appointed commander of the regiment.

Starting from 8.00 28.3 massive enemy air raids on the battle formations of our units. 9.00 - 50-70 aircraft bombed the 1212th joint venture, at 9.30 the second raid in the same number, at 10.20 the 3rd fierce raid on the 1212th joint venture by 60-70 aircraft, as a result of which the ski battalion supporting the right flank withdrew. The remnants of the 1212th joint venture, having lost command, withdrew, leaving V. Selo. In the battle on the morning of March 28, captain S.A. Karnaukhov died a heroic death. wonderful comrade, faithful son of the party of Lenin-Stalin, commander of the 1212th joint venture. Staff commanders and political workers of the regiment also died. By 12.00 communication with the regiment was lost.

On the site of the 1214th joint venture, a fierce battle was going on for Ozhedovo 1st, the enemy advancing by force to the battalion from three parties seeping along the eastern bank of the river and the western bank, covering their offensive with the movement of three tanks and bombing from the air, as well as mortar fire from Voskresenskoye. By the end of the day, the 1214th joint venture left Ozhedovo 1st and retreated to Sushchevo. On Sokolovo, on the battle formations of the 1216th joint venture, more than an enemy battalion advanced, 3 enemy attacks were repulsed. The enemy retreated to the previously occupied line, having suffered heavy losses. Up to 2 companies advanced in front of the front of the 3rd rifle battalion, 2 companies advanced in front of the front of the 2nd rifle battalion. During the daytime battle, 31 people were killed, 46 people were wounded. During the second half of the day, the movement of individual groups of infantry was observed. After class V. The village in this locality there was a telephone operator who from 17.00 to 19.00 informed about the situation before the approach of the 2nd echelon of fascist troops. A platoon of divisional troops was sent to the village later, due to the uninterrupted influence of aviation.

Division commander major general Solovyov, after the remnants of the 1212th Rifle Regiment retreated east through the forest, small units (special) divisions (a divisional school of junior commanders, part of a motor reconnaissance company, a chemical defense company, an anti-tank division) were thrown to Chernyshev’s defense, which stubbornly repelled all German attacks (with a force of up to 2 -x mouth). The commander of the motor company was asked to establish contact with the remnants of the 1212th sp.

2 captured prisoners in the battle near Ozhedovo 1st, showed that the 8th was operating against our division German division(the prisoners were from the 28th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Battalion) which arrived from France in the Staraya Russa region on March 3, 1942.

29.3.1942. From 0500 hours the enemy aviation began its activity, bombarding the combat formations of our units. Intensified bombardment of the Sokolovo, Velikoye Selo, Chernyshevo areas is definitely the direction of the main attacks today. Fierce battles unfolded throughout the day in the Sokolovo region for the possession of a grove north of Sokolovo and Sokolovo itself. The 1216th joint venture, which had significant losses in the days of previous battles, supported by 2 companies arriving from the front, held back the stubborn offensive of the 2 battalions. At strong impact bomber aviation, strong mortar fire, only by the end of the day did the enemy manage to push the 1216th joint venture and capture Sokolovo.

The 1216th Rifle Regiment went on the defensive at the Leushina line. The 1st Rifle Battalion of the 1216th Rifle Regiment was surrounded in a grove north of Sokolovo. On the night of 30.3.42, he left the encirclement in the direction of Ratcha (up to 200 people).

The remnants of the 1212th Infantry Regiment are gathering: the convoy and rear - in Ivan Berezka, combat units - to the south.

In the direction of Chernyshevo, the enemy exerted great pressure. On the night of March 29, having received reinforcements, he lit the village with mortar fire and incendiary bullets and went on the offensive under the cover of mortar fire at night (which is an exception for enemy operations. At night, the enemy usually avoids active hostilities). On the 29th day, the village continued to burn, it was heroically defended by a handful of people left from the small units of the division. In the battle near Chernyshevo, the commander of the chemical protection company Krotkov was killed. By the end of the day, our units withdrew from Chernyshevo.

1214th joint venture led a firefight with the enemy at the same line. The weather continues to be warm, thaw day and night. The army commander ordered the task force to return to Losytino.

30.3.1942. Throughout the day, the enemy is very active on the right flank, in the Chernyshevo region. Continuous air bombardment of the combat formations of our units, at night mortar, rifle and machine gun fire.

The 1212th joint venture continued to collect units scattered as a result of bombardments and battles. To strengthen the right flank, all special forces of the division were used. The consolidated group, led by the commissar of the headquarters, senior political instructor Ustinov, waged an uninterrupted fierce battle for the capture of Chernyshevo, repelled the enemy’s fierce counterattacks, and by the end of the day occupied the southern half of Chernyshevo.

The 1214th Rifle Regiment and the 1216th Rifle Regiment occupied the former defensive line, they did not conduct active operations in the first half of the day. Sappers mined separate sections of roads in the direction: Velikoye Selo-Losytino, Chernyshevo-Losytino. A sapper company was sent to the Ustye-Vekshino region to build a bridge across the Lyutaya River.

By the end of the day, the accumulation of the enemy is observed: Ozhedovo 1st in the direction of Sokolovo and Velikoye Selo. Separate enemy groups tried to attack along the entire front but had no success.

For the mastery of Chernyshovo, the attached battalion of Averin (skiers) was used.

The army commander ordered the 1216th Rifle Regiment, saddling the Kholm highway south of Sokolovo on the night of 31.3, to be taken into reserve and placed in the forest southeast of Sushchevo. Transfer the site to the 201st Infantry Division.

On March 31, 1942, the Division continued fighting with the enemy on the occupied lines:

The 1214th Rifle Regiment - on the front, on the right, is the edge of the forest, which is 100-150 m east of Sushchevo, on the left, a bush up to 400 m. By the end of the day, several enemy attacks were repulsed, knocking out 2 enemy light tanks from anti-tank rifles that supported the infantry offensive. The consolidated group repelled enemy attacks in the Chernyshev area. Enemy aviation is constantly bombing the combat formations of our units and the rear. The clearing of the Zhukovo-Glukhaya Gorushka highway has been completed.

1.4.1942. The division continued fighting especially active on the right flank. By the strength of the consolidated battalion (divisional school, chemical protection company, anti-aircraft battery), the stubbornly resisting enemy was driven out of Chernyshovo by the end of the day. The enemy in this area used mortar machine-gun fire and the fire of groups of submachine gunners who had settled in the surviving houses of the village.

The 1214th Rifle Regiment fought at the previous line, mortar, artillery fire and machine-gun fire were conducted.

The actual composition of the division as a result of losses from combat operations, mainly from enemy aircraft, by 1.4 is:

1212th joint venture - 350; 1214th joint venture - 740; 1216th joint venture - 513; 937th ap-756; 398th anti-tank division - 125; 203rd anti-aircraft battery - 7; 436th motor reconnaissance - 77; 684th engineer battalion - 199; 825th communications battalion - 169; 766th mortar division - 194; 452nd company of chemical protection - 24; 489th delivery driver -135; 459th medical battalion - 100; 228th field bakery - 101; vetlazaret - 12; headquarters battery NAD-53; division control - 244.

For the period from 21.3 to 1.4.1942, the loss of the division: 634 people were killed, 1388 people were wounded, 625 people fell ill, 3924 went missing.

A high percentage of missing people due to the fact that in the 1212th joint venture it is currently not possible to distinguish between losses due to the complete loss of command and headquarters of the regiment and headquarters of battalions. The commander of this regiment, Major Volkov, and the commissar of the regiment, Sazonov, were out of action. The temporary commander of the regiment, captain Drobotenko, was wounded on March 27, the newly appointed regiment commander, captain Karnaukhov, was also killed, on the 1.4th division, in fact, did not have the 1212th joint venture. In the same area, the personnel of the anti-aircraft battery were almost completely lost.

On April 1, 1942, the division received a replenishment in the amount of 960 people.

The armament of the replenishment personnel was made with weapons collected after the battles (rifles mostly without bayonets). Replenishment arrived from Altai Territory, military training is low.

Aviation throughout the day continued to bombard combat formations and rear areas, but on a smaller scale. General situation on Northwestern front and the tasks assigned to the division are characterized by combat order No. 073 of the 1st Shock Army of the 1st Shock Army dated 1.4.1942.

The 8th and 329th infantry divisions of the enemy continue their offensive on the front of Kozlovo, Chernyshevo, Sokolovo, trying to break through the front of the army in the direction of Cherenchitsy.

On the right, the 11th Army is advancing on the Mikhalkovo, Gorushka, Kozlovo front, and will demarcate the Kalitkino, Korovitino, Kudrovo line with it. On the left, the 379th Rifle Division of the Kalinin Front is located in the area: Peski, Burakova, Meglets.

The 1st Shock Army has the task of defeating the enemy's 8th and 329th infantry divisions and capturing Velikoye Selo, Ozhedovo 1st, Voskresenskoye, Novo-Svinukhovo.

On April 1, 1942, the 364th Rifle Division firmly held the Sushchevo line, with the right flank, together with the cadet battalion, captured Chernyshovo.

2/4/1942. In the morning, fighting continued on the occupied lines:

1216th joint venture - (out.) Chernyshevo, Sushchevo, (out.) Leushino;

1214th sp-district Losytino, Ratcha, Pupysheva;

The 1212th sp- is being formed in the area of ​​Karkachev, Krivavitsa Losytino.

Small subdivisions of the division, together with the assigned school of cadets, continued to advance in battle north of Chernyshevo (direction Velikoye Selo). The weather is cloudy, there were no mass flights of enemy aircraft.

In the development of order No. 074, combat order No. 06 was issued, which set the task for the 1214th detachment - to advance in the direction of Ozhedovo 1st, Voskresenskoye. Capture Ozhedovo 1st, then advance on Voskresenskoye, secure your right flank by capturing a grove 600 m southeast of Ozhedovo 1st. Starting position for the advance of the grove 600 m southeast, shrub 700 m south of Ozhedovo 1st. Demarcation line: on the left (out) Kamenka, Sushchevo, a separate courtyard 600 m northwest of Ozhedovo 1st. Supported by the 2nd Artillery Battalion of the 937th Ap and the 3rd Battery of the Mindivision.

1216th joint venture to advance in the direction: a ravine with a stream 200 m west of Ozhedovo 1st. Capture the border of this ravine and the southern edge of the "Sapog" grove west of Voskresenskoye and secure the capture of Ozhedovo 1st from the side of Sokolovo, then advance on the northern edge of the "Sapog" grove.

The 1212th cn- to settle in Bor and be ready to develop success on Voskresenskoye. The time of the start of the attack by telegram was determined as 17.00. By this time, the units occupied the initial lines for the offensive indicated in the order.

The strength of the division and weapons on 2.4.1942:

In total, there are 4743 people in the division. For 1 km of the front there are 186 rifles (serviceable), PPSh - 12, light machine guns - 4, easel - 0.7; PTR - 1.1; P.A. - 4; mortars - 9.

3/4/1942. The offensive continued throughout the night, with stubborn resistance from the enemy. Mortar and artillery fire was carried out at firing points and enemy manpower, 2 RS batteries participated.

The 1216th Rifle Regiment advanced to a hollow to the west of Ozhedovo 1st, where it lay under devastating mortar fire from the southern part of the Sapog grove southwest of Voskresenskoye, and under machine-gun fire from the southwestern outskirts of Ozhedovo 1- e. Throughout the day, artillery fired at enemy firing points, suppressing them, and by the end of the day made it possible to advance along the hollow along the western outskirts of Ozhedovo 1st, by 20.00 the 1216th joint venture was fighting for the southwestern outskirts of Ozhedovo 1st, the rest of the forces lay 1 km west of Ozhedovo 1st.

By 0800, the 1214th joint venture occupied a rectangular grove that was southeast of Ozhedovo 1st, but under strong mortar and machine-gun fire and enemy counterattacks, it moved away from the grove. By the end of the day, the 1214th Rifle Regiment launched a new offensive along the eastern outskirts of Ozhedovo 1st in order to envelop it. By 22.00, as a result of infiltration of small groups, the eastern and southeastern outskirts of Ozhedovo 1st were occupied and a battle was being fought for the center.

1212th joint venture - in the area of ​​Bor, Ratcha, losses are being specified.

Enemy aircraft did not make mass sorties, limiting themselves to reconnaissance. Transport planes did not fly. In connection with the melting of snow, the roads are deteriorating, the conditions of transportation are deteriorating. The results and experience of the division's battles are summed up in the commander's order dated 3.4.42:

"Combat operations of the division for last days showed that partial failures are determined by a number of shortcomings, the main of which are: Being located on the defensive, units often do not build defensive structures, do not burrow into the ground, do not build fire systems, do not use the full power of their fire weapons, do not use local items and materials for strengthening the defense.

During an offensive, captured lines are not always consolidated, a system of fire is not organized, and they are not equipped as initial lines for further offensive and for defense, as well as for repulsing enemy counterattacks. For the most part there is no organized observation of the enemy, the actions of friendly troops and artillery.

Often there is no interaction between rifle units and artillery and within rifle units.

Commanders and staffs often give orders on the map, do not target subunits on the ground, do not lead them, do not have live communication with them, limiting themselves to waiting for reports by telephone. Not enough attention is paid to the collection of documents after the battle, as well as the capture of prisoners.

The division commander categorically demands:

1. Settling down for defense, burrow into the ground, build bunkers, make extensive use of local funnel structures for defense.
2. The fire system must be built taking into account the use of all available fire weapons and mandatory interaction with each other.
3. Strengthen the entire defense system in every possible way? ... with means (mines, land mines).
4. When attacking, it is imperative to consolidate at the achieved line, to organize a system of fire.
5. When advancing in depth at the reached line, leave a small reserve to take the blow or reflect attempts to bypass and encircle the enemy.
6. To have constantly organized observation of the actions of the enemy.
7. All firing points hindering advancement ... observe and immediately notify the art chiefs.
8. Maintain strong fire ties with neighbors.
9. Combat missions must be set on the ground. After the battle, appoint specialists to collect documents.

A neighbor on the left (201st Rifle Division) describing the enemy notes that the enemy, having fortified at a height of 60.2 southeast of the village of Sokolovo and on hillocks west of the indicated height, fired heavy machine-gun and mortar fire at the advancing parts of the division.

During the day, the enemy in small groups in the area north of the village of Mu ... went over to the counteroffensive, but had no success. During the day, an enemy company was thrown into the Sokolovo area, at 17.00 the enemy, with a force of up to a company, went on the offensive from the village of Sokolovo to the area of ​​​​the Sokolovo-Borodino road.

The commander of the 364th Rifle Division, noting the failure of the night offensive, demanded that the commanders of the 1214th and 1216th Rifle Divisions fulfill order 06 on the offensive.

4/4/1942. During the night, the units carried out offensive operations on Ozhedovo 1st with strong enemy fire resistance. As a result of the battle on the southern and southwestern outskirts of Ozhedovo, the 1st units by 8.00 occupied a position: 150-200 m south of Ozhedovo 1st, being under direct machine-gun fire and machine gun fire from the side of Ozhedovo 1st and mortar fire from the side of Voskresenskoye and Sokolovo.

During the day, the units occupied their previous position, reconnaissance was carried out, mortar and machine-gun fire from the enemy. At 14.15 and 17.00 the enemy launched attacks on the sector of the 1216th sp. By 20.00 the situation was restored. Enemy aviation bombed combat formations and rear areas, more than 200 transport aircraft passed over the location of the division. Army order No. 050 was received to remove senior battalion commissar Maksimov from the post of commissar of the division for failure to comply with the combat order of the Army Military Council (for not leaving the Chernyshevo region to ensure successful actions of our units).

During the fighting from 03/22/1942 to 04/10/1942, the division in stubborn battles defeated the enemy's 8th infantry division, completely destroyed the officer's school in hand-to-hand combat and inflicted significant damage on the enemy's 329th infantry division. In these battles, the enemy lost: 5370 people were killed, 10 soldiers and officers were taken prisoner. Destroyed: 13 tanks, 3 aircraft were shot down from infantry weapons, 50 bunkers and dugouts were destroyed, a lot of equipment, weapons and military equipment of the enemy were destroyed and destroyed. The division accomplished its mission. The enemy was stopped.

Until June 11, 1942, units of the division held the line. By order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army, on 06/11/1942, the division withdrew to the right bank of the Lovat River.

At 8.00 on 12.6.1942, parts of the division arrived in the forest area
northeast of Astratovo, where they settled down to rest, hiding behind four companies at the turn of Olkha-Galuzino, Pogorelovo, Ryabinka. At 21.00 the movement to the crossings resumed. By 1.00

On June 13, 1942, the 1212th Rifle Regiment, the 1216th Rifle Regiment of the Special Forces and the remaining artillery of the 937th Artillery Regiment crossed to the right bank of the Lovat River. Crossing at Kolomna.
By crossing at Peregino by 4.30 13.6. moved to the right bank of the river Lovat
1214 sp. By 10:00 13/6/1942, all units reached their defensive areas.

At 14.00 on 12.6.1942, the enemy led a company of submachine gunners and 4 tanks
offensive from Bainov to Ratch and further from Ratch to Losytin, cutting off
rear cover detachments. At 14.30, the enemy, with a strength of up to a company, began an offensive from Ozhedovo 1st on the right flank of detachment No.
tanks and mortar fire, the head of the detachments, Captain Shustin, with his
On the other hand, he ordered the withdrawal of cover detachment No. 2 across the Porusya River to the defense sector of detachment No. 1. During the withdrawal of detachment No. 2, artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire from “ square" of the grove and the fire of tanks from Losytin. By the decision of the head of detachment No. 1, comrade Pavlov, cover detachments No. 1 and No. 2 were assigned to the defense sector of the 129th SD, from where they were withdrawn to Krasnoye Efremovo.

The night from 12 to 13.6.42 passed quietly, the detachments equipped the occupied line. Intelligence established the presence of the enemy in the area of ​​the village of Bor.

On the morning of June 13, 1942, the enemy continued to advance along the Kholmskoye Highway.
on the neighbor's cover detachment on the left, at the same time the force began to act
reconnaissance of 70 people from the direction of Bor, Ishchino. A group of divisional scouts consisting of 7 people under the leadership of senior lieutenant Baranov from an ambush made it possible for the enemy to approach a distance of 100-150 m, opened a hurricane of automatic fire. The enemy, bearing losses, began to pick up the dead and wounded. The scouts, without ceasing fire, supported by a company from the BO in the area of ​​​​the village of Zui, took advantage of this, rifle and machine-gun fire and guns from the Kr. Efremovo area destroyed 40-50 fascists from the enemy intelligence. The rest of it went to Ishchino. At 18.45, on the road from Sevrikovo to Kr. Efremovo, the movement of 5 enemy tanks and up to an infantry company was noticed on the left flank of the division's covering detachment.
At 18.45 fire was opened by our artillery on this enemy group,
as a result of which the enemy, having advanced 700-800 m southeast
Sevrikovo, suspended its progress. At 18.50, the same company was spotted on the move from Ishchino to Zuya, the company was dispersed by artillery and machine-gun fire. At 20.20 on 13.6.42, 800 m northeast of Sevrikov, 3 tractors were seen in the bushes, which were doing some work. Subsequently, it turned out that the enemy had installed mortars in the area. At 23.00, a volley of 4
installations of the RS division, direct hits and good results were noted
shooting.

At 7.00-7.30 on 14.6.1942, the enemy simultaneously launched an offensive from the direction of Glukhaya Gorushka to Kr. Efremovo with a force of up to an infantry company, 3 tanks and from Ishchino to Zuya with a force of up to a company. On 7.30-8.30, the covering detachment was engaged in a firefight with the enemy, after which, under the threat of being cut off, it was decided to withdraw to the line of Kr. Efremovo, starting from the right flank. The withdrawal was carried out in an organized manner, and at 9.30 a cover detachment took up the defense of a new line on the eastern bank of the Porusya River in Kr. Efremovo from BO to the western bank of this river. At 10.00 14.6. the enemy pulled Kr. Efremovo 3 tanks and up to a company of submachine gunners, a strong firefight ensued, which did not stop throughout the day. The actions of the enemy group in the region of Kr. Efremovo was supported by a battery of long-range artillery from the direction of Glukhaya Gorushka, a battery from the direction of Bor, Ishchino and 5 bombers, who bombed mainly the area east of Kozlovo. The main enemy fire was fired from the Zuya direction from the eastern and western banks of the Porusya River. The detachment fought a fierce firefight with the enemy throughout the day. The losses of both sides were significant, and only by the end of the day did the fire of both sides subside. Having calculated the forces and means, it was decided at nightfall to withdraw the cover detachment to the next line - Olkha. At 21.00, an order was given in connection with the fulfillment of the task by the cover detachment to take him across the Lovat River. The detachment from the enemy was organized and was not noticed until the detachment reached the village of Kozlov. In the process of withdrawal, barriers and destruction were widely used. All villages in the detachment's zone of operations were burned, the bridges near Kamenka, Ratcha, Bor, Krasnoe Efremovo were destroyed. mined major roads. During the withdrawal of units of the 364th Rifle Division, the sappers destroyed: a pedestrian bridge and a ferry crossing in Losytino, a bridge across the Belka River near Ratch was blown up, which delayed the advance of enemy tanks, northwest of Kamenka to the southern bank of the stream. As a result of hostilities, the detachments have the following losses in their personnel: 40 killed, 101 wounded and 30 missing. During this period, the enemy suffered the following losses: up to 150 people killed and wounded.

16/6/1942. The enemy in front of the defensive line of the division
discovered. Reconnaissance aviation flew over the location of the division's units. At 15.30, the cover detachment crossed the Lovat River to the eastern bank and joined the main forces. Defensive work was carried out at the occupied line and bridgehead (Peregino).

17.6.1942. The enemy was not detected in front of the defensive line. Parts of the division occupy the defensive zone: Bol. Stekhnovo, (claim) Gubino, Yazvischi, Purses. The most densely occupied area: Bol. Stekhnovo, Podol, Saleeva, (suit.) Gubino, Nizh. Wasteland. In the Peregino area, a bridgehead is being created along the western bank of the Lovat River. On the right, along the eastern bank of the Lovat River, the 129th Rifle Division is defending, the demarcation line with it: (claim) mark 67.3 (2.5 km north of Koshel), Seredka. On the left, the 26th brigade of the 2nd Guards Corps is defending along the eastern bank of the Lovat River, the line with it: (claim) Mashugin Gora, (claim) Gubino, (claim) Lopari.
1st echelon of a shtadiva - Bol.Yazvischi, 2nd echelon - Small.Yazvischi. Subdivisions
engineering work was carried out throughout the day.

6/18/1942. The division, occupying the former lines of defense, produces
defensive work.

19.6-24.6.1942. The division occupies the former line of defense.

25.6.1942. By combat order No. 092 of the headquarters of the 1st Shock Army of 23.6.1942, 23.50, during 25-26.6.1942, it transfers the defense line to the 129th rifle division and by the morning of 27.6. concentrate in the area of ​​​​Fomino, Sotino 1st, Khmeli, passing into the reserve of the 1st Shock Army. The task is to prepare the location area for defense and be ready to launch counterattacks in the direction: Zaluchye, Kozlovo, Peregino and on the left flank of the army along the Robya and Zarobskaya Robya rivers. By 22.00 on 24.6.42, the 1212th joint venture completed the surrender and shift in its defensive sector to the unit of the 129th rifle division. At 24.00 25.6.42, they set out along the route: Sukhoi Bor, Bolshoi Yazvischi, Kirkovo and settled down by 7.00 25.6 for a day's rest in the forest near Kosheli.
1214th joint venture by 7.00 25.6. completed the surrender of the defensive sector and after
arrived shift from the 129th rifle division began to concentrate in the area of ​​​​Molchanov, which was the starting point for movement.
1216 joint venture at 10.00 25.6 began the surrender of its defensive sector
units of the 129th sd.
Reconnaissance from infantry and artillery regiments carried out reconnaissance
path along the route to new district division concentration.
The 937th Artillery Regiment and the Mindivision surrender their OPs and OPs to the 129th Infantry Division and partially began to move along the designated route.

26.6.1942. Parts of the division, having finished by the end of the day on 25.6.1942, the surrender of defensive sectors of 129th rifle division, 1214th joint venture and 1264th joint venture, set out from the starting areas at the time of 22.00 specified in the combat order for division No. 022. During the night and morning, the units were on the march, by 7.00 rifle
The units settled down for the day.

27.6.1942. Parts of the division continued the march, leaving at 22.00 on 26.6.1942 from the places of the day and 9.00 27.6 concentrated:
1212th joint venture - in the Khmeli-Gar area;
1214th joint venture - in the region of Fomino and Chirikovshchina;
1216th joint venture - in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bSotino and Sotino 2nd.

28.6.1942. The 364th Rifle Division has concentrated in the area of ​​Khmeli, Fomino, Sotino 1st, is preparing defenses and is in the army reserve.

29.6.1942. Parts of the division over the past day carried out a partial grouping in accordance with the order of the headquarters No. 1237 and 1238 of

28-29.6.1942. They continued to build fortifications and repair roads.

30.6.1942. Parts of the 364th Rifle Division are preparing defenses on the former lines and
maintain contact with the 7th Guards Rifle Division, 42nd and 45th Rifle Brigades. Of the allocated battalion of the 1212th joint venture on the western bank of the Starovskaya Rebya River at the line of Starovsky barracks-Saray (8931), only one company remains for defense with the task of serving, patrolling and observing at the line of Starovsky barracks-"Der", behind roads and paths, leading to the east bank of the river from the east and northeast. Two companies of this battalion are located for defense: one - the area of ​​\u200b\u200bmark 68.8 and the other company - Gar.

1.7.1942. Parts of the division occupy the former defensive lines, carry out defensive work, continue to repair roads in their areas and, by order No. 083, the Shubino-Bol. Ostrov and Ryto-Sotino roads.

2/7/1942. The enemy fired infrequent mortar and machine-gun fire at the defense areas occupying the 42nd and 45th battalions ahead of our units. Heavy mortar fire at 5.30 am from the northwestern outskirts of Glukhoe Demidovo hit mark 87.5 and the trail to the west. Parts of the division continue defensive work and repair roads. Anti-tank and anti-personnel obstacles are being set up on the Glukhoye Demidovo-Shubino trail in order to prevent the enemy from advancing.

3/7/1942 Parts of the division continue to strengthen on the same lines
structures and conduct reconnaissance of the enemy.

On 07/04/1942, on the front of 12 km, the defensive line with the built engineering structures was completed.

6.07.1942 years - division received a new combat mission - to capture a heavily fortified enemy resistance point in the village of Korovitchino, Zaluchsky District, Leningrad Region, to which the enemy attached great importance as a bridgehead, covering the isthmus, connecting it with the semi-encircled 16th Army.

The 1212th, 1214th rifle regiments and the 937th artillery regiment took up defense in the area: the villages of Rechitsa-Zaluchye-Glukhoe-Demidovo. The 1216th rifle regiment, after a 15-minute artillery raid, together with a platoon of tanks, broke into the village of Korovitchino and occupied it. The blow was swift and unexpected for the enemy. As a result of the battle, the following were destroyed: 2 anti-tank guns, 13 bunkers with heavy and light machine guns. Destroyed: 8 carts, 5 horses; over 200 soldiers and officers were killed and wounded. Trophies were captured: 3 serviceable tanks, 6 heavy and 3 light machine guns, 82 rifles, 25 thousand rifle cartridges, etc. The division accomplished its mission.

08/17/1942, the division received a combat order to destroy the enemy in the forest area west of the village of Sutoki, Zaluchsky district, cut the Byakovo-Omychkino road and capture the village of Byakovo. The site was defended by the enemy forces of the 5th Infantry Division and the SS division "Dead Head". In the first days of the fighting, units of the division successfully moved forward, occupied the edges of the forest, two enemy defense lines with numerous fortifications. The enemy pulled up reserves from the depths of his defense, launched a counteroffensive and stopped the offensive of our units.

From the combat log for 17-18.08.1942:

“August 17, 1942. The advancing units of the division, with difficulty overcoming
the resistance of the enemy, creating a dense line, machine-gun, mortar, artillery fire, slowly move forward, the advance is marked by tens of meters. The commanders of the headquarters of the division and the headquarters of the regiments personally clarify the position of the units. In past battles, the division suffered heavy losses. At 22.00 on 17.8.1942, after a short heavy artillery and mortar raid, the enemy launched a counterattack on the left flank of the division against the 1216th and 1214th rifle regiments. The attack was repulsed, according to our request, one volley of RS was fired. During the night, the enemy fired rifle-machine-gun and mortar fire. Parts of the division continued to evacuate the wounded, bury the dead, and preparations were made for the offensive on 18.8.42. During the day, the enemy launched two counterattacks.
The 1214th joint venture at 15.00 counterattacked to a platoon, the attack was repulsed.
The 1216th joint venture, after strong artillery preparation at 19.00, also counterattacked until
enemy platoon, the attack was repulsed.
Parts of the division in interaction with each other and neighbors on the left daily
preparing an offensive, slowly moving forward. During the previous days of fighting, the 1212th Rifle Regiment would advance from its initial position by 400 m on the right flank and 500 m on the left flank; The losses of the regiment for 7 days are: a total of 737 people, of which 266 people were killed, 461 people were wounded, 10 people were missing. Up to 350 Germans were destroyed, 3 people were taken prisoner.
The 1216th joint venture, fulfilling the assigned task, advanced by 5.00 on 18.8.1942
from the starting position by 500 m and from the edge of the grove to a depth of 250 meters.
The loss of the regiment during the period of battles from 10 to 17 is 822 people, of which 277 were killed, 487 were wounded, and 68 were missing.
1214th joint venture - performing the task, advanced from the original
positions at 500 meters and along the grove 250 meters. Losses: in total - 753 people, including 264 killed, 458 wounded, 31 missing.

As a result of the fighting from 08/17/1942 to 09/13/1942, the enemy lost 2850 soldiers and officers killed and wounded. Destroyed: rifles - 275, machine guns - 85, guns of various calibers - 28, firing points - 55, mortars - 52, ammunition supply - 105, vehicles with cargo and infantry - 39, bunkers - 23, dugouts - 31, aircraft shot down - 1, tanks destroyed - 2.

On September 17, 1942, by order of the High Command of the Red Army, the division was withdrawn for reorganization and withdrew from the troops of the North-Western Front. The Military Council of the 1st Shock Army by order No. 0191 dated 09/17/1942 noted the combat path of the division, which says: “The 364th rifle division is leaving the 1st Shock Army. For six months, the division fought in various sectors of the army front, showing examples and ability to fight, courage and selfless devotion to our Motherland. The activities of the division on the Volkhov front.

After the reorganization, the division arrived on the Volkhov Front on December 10, 1942 and was included in the 8th Army. having received a combat mission in breaking the blockade of the city of Leningrad, the regiments of the division entered the battle in the Gaitolovo region of the Mginsky district of the Leningrad region on 01/14/1943. In front of the division's front was a heavily fortified area of ​​the enemy. It was defended by elite units of the 223rd Infantry Division, saturated with artillery and large-caliber mortars. Parts of the division, operating in small groups and direct-fire artillery, crushed the enemy's manpower.

As a result of the fighting on January 14-28, 1943, the division destroyed up to two thousand soldiers and officers, knocked out and burned 10 tanks, smashed and blocked 25 bunkers, destroyed 21 firing points, 2 six-barreled mortars, suppressed 7 mortar and artillery batteries of the enemy. Losses of the division for the same period: killed - 781 people. There were no technical losses.

By order of the Military Council of the Volkhov Front (cipher telegram No. 227 / OP of 01/29/1943), the division was transferred to the 2nd Shock Army.

On January 30, 1943, the division received the task of changing units of the 18th Infantry Division in front of the village of Sinyavino, Mginsky District, Leningrad Region, to capture and firmly hold the height of 43.3. Height 43.3 is of great importance in the defense system of the Sinyavino knot. She commands directly over Sinyavino and the surrounding area. Units of the 22nd and 64th infantry divisions of the enemy acted against the division.

On the night of January 30-31, 1943, height 43.3 was occupied by parts of the division in a fierce battle with the enemy. After our units occupied the height, the enemy, in the period from 01/30/1943 to 02/12/1943, launched 14 counterattacks with a force from a company to two battalions, supported by up to 5 tanks, trying to return the height of 43.3. All counterattacks were repulsed with heavy losses for the enemy. Destroyed: 3940 soldiers and officers, 103 horses, 14 light and 46 heavy machine guns, 14 guns, 2 six-barreled mortars, 5 mortars, 6 tanks, 4 vehicles with ammunition and food. 35 soldiers and officers were taken prisoner. Trophies were captured: rifles - 140, machine guns - 25, guns - 1, medium tank - 1. The losses of the division during the same period are 1252 people killed.

From 03/15/1943 to 07/20/1943, the division was in the second echelon of the troops of the 8th Army, using this time for training and replenishment with personnel.

On the night of July 20-21, 1943, by order of the Military Council of the Army, the division changed units of the 382nd Rifle Division and the 1st Separate Rifle Brigade, which occupied the defense at the line of mark 54.1 and 500 m east of mark 64.0 with the task of breaking through the defense the enemy in the area of ​​​​the villages of Karbusel - Voronovo, Mginsky district of the Leningrad region and develop an offensive in the direction of the Mga-Maluks railway.

On July 22, 1943, at 03:00, after 2:35 hours of artillery preparation, parts of the division went on the offensive. The enemy offered stubborn fire resistance.

From 07/22/1943 to 08/20/1943, after offensive battles, the division regrouped forces 5 times, pulling shock detachments to separate sections, with the task of breaking through the enemy defenses. Artillery during this time carried out powerful fire raids on the enemy's defenses, but could not suppress his fire system. In all offensive attempts, our infantry encountered powerful barrage and artillery-mortar fire from the enemy and retreated to their original position. Due to the swampy terrain, there was no tank support in the offensive zone. Despite the offensive impulse, combined with the courage and courage of our troops, the division was not successful.
Reasons for failure. Prior to the start of the offensive, the enemy had not been studied by the previous units, especially his defenses and fire system. The enemy's defense took place along the heights dominating the initial line of our troops, which made it possible for him to effectively use fire on our battle formations.
The terrain at the line of attack is marshy, impassable for infantry and artillery, and completely impassable for tanks. Artillery, poorly knowing the enemy's fire system, firing mainly on areas, did not have the proper effect on the enemy's battle formations. The infantry was not sufficiently prepared for trench fighting with the enemy.

As a result of offensive battles from 07/22/1943 to 08/22/1943, the division destroyed: 3950 enemy soldiers and officers. Destroyed and suppressed: machine guns - 87, six-barreled mortars - 15, guns of all calibers - 48, firing points - 28; destroyed bunkers - 18, dugouts - 24, trenches - 830 linear meters. Destroyed by snipers of soldiers and officers of the pr-ka - 231 people. At the same time, our losses: killed - 1113 people, wounded - 3326 people.

Since 08/20/1943, the division has been on the defensive in the same area

On August 21, 1943, the division goes on the defensive at the line: Rest House (3603b), mark 54.1, mark 59.8, mark 64.0, the northern shore of the Gladkoye swamp (on the front 12 km) and defends until 01/21/1944, carrying out engineering work on the equipment of the occupied positions.

On January 21, 1944, the enemy began to retreat in the western and northwestern direction to the city of Tosno in the division's sector. Parts of the division went into pursuit and, overcoming the resistance of small (rearguard) detachments and engineering obstacles in the 30 km zone, advanced 60-70 km by 27.1.1944, while freeing 150 settlements, including 26.1.1944 after a stubborn After a daily battle, the city of Tosno was liberated, for which the division was given the name "Tosnenskaya". The 1216th Infantry Regiment, the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1212th Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1214th Infantry Regiment especially distinguished themselves.

During this period, the division lost: 78 people were killed, 378 people were wounded. The enemy lost: captured - 31 people, killed - 223 people, while the 1st, 2nd and fuselage battalions of the 423rd grenadier regiment of the 212th infantry regiment, the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 316th grenadier regiment were completely defeated regiment of the 212th Infantry Regiment.

Trophies captured:
ammunition depots - 51
fuel depots - 1
machine guns - 58
warehouses with medical equipment - 1
radio stations - 9
guns of all calibers - 20
cars - 6
railway wagons - 42

From January 27 to February 3, 1944, the division was marched by rail to the Bolshevodnoye, Chechulino, Vitka area and became part of the 119th Rifle Corps.

In the area of ​​​​the village of Voronovo, the sappers of the division dug under the height of 59.8, where the heavily fortified stronghold of the Nazis was located. An explosion of 10 tons of explosives destroyed up to 70 Nazis, destroyed 25 meters of trenches and communications, an ammunition depot and several firing points. After the explosion, the unanimously raised infantry captured this commanding height with minimal losses.

In the battles that began to completely lift the blockade of Leningrad, the division's scouts on the night of January 21, 1944 discovered the withdrawal of enemy units from the occupied lines. The scouts entered into battle with the enemy cover group, defeated it and moved in pursuit of the retreating enemy. The division commander ordered all regiments to go on the offensive. Parts of the division, overcoming minefields and barbed wire, went forward in the direction of the villages of Sigalovo, Turyshkino and by the end of the day advanced 8-12 kilometers.

On the night of January 26, 1944, units of the 364th Infantry Division broke into the streets of the city of Tosno, and by morning the city and the railway station were liberated from the Nazis. For the courage and bravery of the personnel shown in these battles, the 364th Rifle Division received the honorary name of Tosnenskaya.

The movement of trains on the Oktyabrskaya railway, connecting Moscow with Leningrad, was restored.

On the morning of January 27, the regiments of the division marched to the Zhi-Kharevo station and departed for the area southwest of Novgorod, where the division became part of the 54th Army of the Leningrad Front.

On February 13, the division, having made a march, concentrated in the area of ​​​​the villages of Sharok and Otradnoye. Three days later, parts of the division launched an offensive, joining the final stage of the Leningrad-Novgorod offensive operation. Having broken through the heavily fortified defenses of the enemy, they advanced 24 kilometers and liberated many settlements of the Soletsky district of the Novgorod region, including the villages of Veshki, Lyubach, Donets and the city of Soltsy, cut the Utorgosh-Dno railway. at

On February 24, the 364th Rifle Division concentrated in the area of ​​the village of Vesna, Novgorod Region, and on February 29 entered the battle. Having overcome minefields, barbed wire and anti-tank ditches, the soldiers took the Nazis by surprise in bunkers and houses at night. Having broken through the enemy defenses near Vesna and cut the Pskov-Ostrov railway, the division went on the defensive at the captured lines and fought local battles until May 4, 1944. A fierce battle flared up for one of the villages of the Ostrovsky district of the Pskov region. When breaking through the enemy defenses, Corporal V. Agafonov was the first to raise the fighters on the attack and captured valuable documents in the enemy dugout. And wounded, he did not leave the battle. In May 1944, the division was withdrawn for replenishment and reorganization to the rear of the front.

At the end of June, the division started fighting for the villages of Zuevo, Pogostishche, Vashineno in the Pskov region, liberated them in a four-day battle, repulsing strong enemy counterattacks accompanied by tanks. On July 12, units of the division, having defeated two regiments of the German infantry division and breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses, crossed the Sinya, Utroya, Lzha rivers, cut the Ostrov-Opochka highway and the Ostrov-Pytalovo railway.

On July 22, having broken the resistance of the Nazi troops, the 1214th Infantry Regiment liberated the city of Pytalovo, the regional center of the Pskov Region.

Pursuing the retreating enemy, units of the 364th Tosno Rifle Division entered the territory of Latvia, captured the settlements of Vilyaka and Liepna, and on August 19 liberated the city of Aluksne from the fascist invaders.

On August 25, the division was withdrawn to the rear of the 54th Army to replenish, regroup and prepare for new battles.

On October 12, the 364th Rifle Division as part of the 54th Army crossed the Gauja River in its upper reaches and developed an offensive in the general direction of Riga. When approaching the city of Tsassis, the army formations met a powerful defensive line, which was part of the Riga defense system on the distant approaches, and stopped the attack.

A few days later, this line was broken through by all the armies participating in the Riga Offensive. On September 27, the advancing troops approached the next, more powerful enemy defensive line of Sigulda, where they were forced to stop.

Early October Soviet troops they also broke through this defensive line and on October 9 approached the outskirts of Riga, and on October 13, 1944, the capital of Latvia was completely liberated from the Nazi invaders. By order of the command, the 364th Rifle Division was stopped on the near approaches to the city and did not take a direct part in its liberation.

On October 13, the division became part of the 3rd Shock Army, moved to the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe city of Dobele and began fighting with the enemy's Courland grouping. The division continued fighting in Courland until November 25, 1944. The 364th Rifle Division as part of the 3rd Shock Army was withdrawn to the Headquarters reserve and transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front.

In the Vistula-Oder offensive operation that began on January 14, 1945, the division, included in the 69th Army, crossed the Vistula River on January 15 and liberated the city of Kozienice in the middle of the day. Further, having entered the second echelon of the front, the division through the settlements of Glovachuv, Varka, Piasechno entered the already liberated capital of Poland - the city of Warsaw.

Returning again to the 3rd Shock Army, the 364th Infantry Division, liberating the lands of Poland, fought through Lovich, Kutno, Inowroclaw, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Nakel (Naklo) and, having driven the Nazis from Eastern Pomerania, went ashore Baltic Sea in the area of ​​Kolberg (Kołobrzeg) and Cammin (Kamen-Primorskie).

At the end of the fighting in Pomerania, the division as part of the 3rd Shock Army was transferred to Berlin.

On April 22, after stubborn fighting, parts of the division captured the suburbs of Berlin Hohenshenhuasen, Wilhelmsberg, the northern outskirts of Liebtenberg and started a battle on the northeastern outskirts of the capital of the German Reich.

After many days of round-the-clock street fighting on May 2, 1945, Berlin fell. In these battles, units of the division destroyed 1,700 enemy soldiers and officers, 38 tanks, 60 guns and mortars, captured 2,209 enemy soldiers and officers and one enemy general, captured 490 vehicles, 10 locomotives and 28 warehouses with various property.

For the exemplary performance of command assignments in the battles during the capture of Berlin and the valor and courage shown at the same time, the 364th Tosno Rifle Division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The combat path of the division ended in Berlin.

In October 1945, the division was reorganized into a mechanized division and received the name: 15th Mechanized Tosno Red Banner Division.

Division commanders:

Colonel F. A. Makulkin - May - July 1944.

Having scouted the river and having chosen a ford, they began to return back. The Germans discovered the daredevils and opened fire. Despite the fact that fellow soldiers covered their retreat, Corporal Dergunov was still killed. The comrades buried him in the village of Babino, and they themselves went further into battle.

The 7th Rifle Corps of the 54th Army advanced to the right of the 111th Corps in the direction of Vyshgorodok-Pytalovo. Here the soldiers of the 56th Pushkin Red Banner Rifle Division were actively advancing in the direction of Empty Sunday-Primaki-Gorbatitsa-Vyshgorodok. From the area of ​​the village of Empty Sunday, the fresh 364th Rifle Division (commander I. A. Vorobyov) of the 123rd Rifle Corps under the command of Major General V. A. Verzhbitsky was brought into battle. According to the memoirs of the division commander and the data of the archive of the Ministry of Defense, the division was tasked to reach the line of the villages of Tarakanovo - Berdyshi by the end of July 18 - the morning of July 19 with the main forces of the 1212th and 1214th regiments, starting the pursuit of the enemy at Novoselye. In heavy, stubborn battles, this task was completed, the pursuit of the enemy began in the direction of Augshpils (Vyshgorodok) - Vaskino. Stubborn battles unfolded again, during which one of the battalions of the 1214th regiment, as well as companies of the 184th and 213th regiments of the 56th Pushkin Rifle Division, suffered heavy losses.

The fierceness of the fighting is evidenced by the facts of significant losses in these battles and the introduction into battle of the 307th penal company, transferred from the 52nd guards division. In these battles, the following were killed: in the area of ​​​​the Suvorov farm - the commander of the firing platoon of the 4th battery of the 113th artillery regiment, Lieutenant Fedor Moiseevich Vasilets from the Gorky region; in the area of ​​​​Ignashkovo-Augshpils (Vyshgorodok) - Komitenko Petr Stepanovich Komitenko, many other officers, now famous, who came from obscurity lieutenants and seniors lieutenants, privates and sergeants (in total, according to archival data, more than 40 people).

After the capture of Vyshgorodok on July 21, 1944, the 1214th regiment began to prepare for the assault on the city and Abrene station. On this day, the 1st battalion of the 1212th regiment went to the Stashi area with tanks to force the Lada River, the 2nd battalion of the same regiment, breaking the enemy’s resistance, went to the Danilovo area, cut the Ostrov-Pytalovo railway, developed success along railway from the north to the city. The first and second battalions of the 1214th regiment crossed the Lada and Utroya rivers and reached the northwestern and southwestern outskirts of Vaskov, meeting strong resistance north of Lyavzino. Interacting, the battalions, with the support of tanks, managed to break the resistance of the German units, which began to retreat to Pytalovo.

Pytalovo, the junction station, was turned by the German command into a strong stronghold, so the 1214th regiment was given tanks, a Katyusha battery and several attack aircraft. This is how the honorary citizen of the city recalls this battle, former commander S. E. Polyakov of the 1214th regiment: “According to the order for the regiment, all attached units concentrated on the edge of the forest north-east of the city and, after artillery preparation, at three hours and thirty-three minutes began the assault.

364th Rifle Tosno Red Banner Division.
In the active army three times:
- from March 1 to September 23, 1942;
- from December 14, 1942 to December 14, 1944;
- from December 31, 1944 to May 9, 1945 ...
IN post-war period- 15th Mechanized Tosno Red Banner Division ...

Combat line-up:
1212th Rifle Regiment
1214th Rifle Regiment
1216th Rifle Regiment
937th Artillery Regiment
398th separate anti-tank battalion
223rd anti-aircraft battery - until 03/15/1943
766th mortar division (until 09/20/1942)
278th machine gun battalion (12/14/1942-03/15/1943)
436th reconnaissance company
654th engineer battalion
825th separate communications battalion (313th separate communications company)
459th Medical Battalion
452nd separate company of chemical protection
157th (489th) motor transport company
228th field bakery
797th (687th) Divisional Veterinary Infirmary
1422nd Field Post Station
709th field cash desk of the State Bank

March 28, 1942
Pr-k seeks to develop its strike along the road Mavrino - Velikoye Selo to connect with the Demyansk grouping and expand the breakthrough zone by putting pressure on units of the 201st rifle division (neighbor on the left). But our resistance does not make it possible to carry out the task. The main blow falls on parts of the 364th division. By order of March 26, the commander of the 1212th joint venture, Major Volkov, was removed from his post, Karnaukhov Stepan Afanasyevich, head of the 2nd division of the staff, was temporarily appointed commander of the regiment.
Starting from 8.00 28.3 massive enemy air raids on the battle formations of our units. At 0900 50-70 aircraft bombed 1212 rep, at 0930 the second raid in the same number, at 1020 the 3rd fierce raid on 1212 rep 60-70 aircraft, as a result of which the ski battalion supporting the right flank withdrew. The remnants of 1212 joint ventures, having lost command, withdrew, leaving V. Selo.
In the battle on the morning of March 28, captain S.A. Karnaukhov died a heroic death. wonderful comrade-in-arms, faithful son of the party of Lenin-Stalin, commander of the 1212 joint venture. Staff commanders and political workers of the regiment also died. By 12.00 communication with the regiment was lost.
In section 1214, a fierce battle was going on for Ozhedovo 1st, the enemy advancing by force up to a battalion from three sides, infiltrating along the eastern bank of the river and the western bank, covering his offensive with the movement of three tanks and bombing from the air, as well as mortar fire from Voskresenskoye.

On Sokolovo, on the battle formations of 1216 joint ventures, more than a battalion of the pr-ka advanced, 3 enemy attacks were repulsed. The enemy retreated to the previously occupied line, having suffered heavy losses. Up to 2 companies advanced in front of the 3rd Sat front, 2 companies advanced in front of the 2nd Sat front. During the daytime battle, 31 people were killed, 46 people were wounded.
During the second half of the day, the movement of individual groups of infantry was observed.
After the occupation of V. Selo, a telephone operator remained in this settlement, who from 17.00 to 19.00 informed about the situation before the approach of the 2nd echelon of fascist troops. A platoon of divisional troops was sent to the village later, due to the uninterrupted influence of aviation.
The division commander ... Major Solovyov, after the remnants of 1212 joint ventures retreated east through the forest, small units (special) divisions (divine school of junior commanders, part of the motor reconnaissance company, chemical protection company, anti-tank division) were thrown to Chernyshev's defense, which stubbornly repelled all attacks of the Germans (by force up to 2 mouths). The commander of the motor company was asked to establish contact with the remnants of 1212 sp.
2 captured prisoners in the battle near Ozhedovo 1st showed that the 8th German division was operating against our division (the prisoners were from the 28th infantry regiment of the 1st battalion), which arrived from France in the Staraya Russa region on March 3, 1942.

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From the journal of military operations 364 sd

The division entered the active army on March 1, 1942 as part of the 1st Shock Army of the North-Western Front.
In March 1942, the enemy, having concentrated significant forces in the Staraya Russa region of the Leningrad Region, launched an offensive in the direction of Demyansk to join the encircled 16th Army. With the breakthrough of our front line south of Staraya Russa, the division, by order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army, was transferred from the Ust-Bolshiye Yasny district to the Sokolovo - Podtsepochye - Velikoye Selo - Ozhedovo-1 section with the task of stopping and disrupting the enemy offensive.
From 03/22/42 to 04/10/42, the division fought stubborn battles on the Velikoye Selo-Sokolovo front, with a total length of 11 km.

- 1212 SSP - Kolyshkino - Velikoye Selo and Klimkovo - Velikoye Selo;



During the fighting from 03/22/42 to 04/10/42, the division in stubborn battles defeated 8 infantry divisions, completely destroyed the officer school in hand-to-hand combat and inflicted significant damage on 329 infantry divisions of the enemy. In these battles, the enemy lost: 5370 people were killed, 10 soldiers and officers were taken prisoner. 13 tanks were destroyed, 3 aircraft were shot down from infantry weapons, 50 bunkers and dugouts were destroyed, a lot of equipment, weapons and military equipment of the enemy were destroyed and destroyed.

1216 joint venture is fighting for Klimkovo, with a group of machine gunners in front of it. 1214 joint venture is fighting for Zubakino and on the southern outskirts of Podshchepochie.
1212 joint ventures at the occupied line.
The action of the 1216th Rifle Regiment and the battalion of the 1214th Rifle Regiment on Klimkovo and Zubakino and of the two battalions of the 1214th Rifle Regiment on Podshchepochie were delayed by heavy bombardment from
air. One battalion of 1216 joint ventures suffered heavy losses.
On March 24, 1942, the 364th Rifle Division continued to carry out defensive work on the line it occupied during the day.
On March 25, 1942, at 20:00, after a three-time air raid, with the support of four tanks, more than two enemy battalions captured Voskresenskoye.
1214 joint venture, putting up stubborn resistance, withdrew: the regiment commander with the remnants of the 1st and 3rd battalions retreated to Sokolovo with the task of organizing the defense of Sokolovo from the east, the chief of staff with the remnants of the 2nd battalion withdrew to Ozhedovo 1st, where he organized the defense . To help him, a company of 1212 joint ventures was attached.
1216 joint venture drove the enemy out of the forest north of Sokolov and restored the situation, destroying more than two hundred Germans in a bayonet attack. The regiment organizes defenses to the north and northeast together with units of the 1214th Rifle Regiment that have retreated from Sokolov.
1212 joint ventures (four companies) and all other special. units after an unsuccessful attack Kolyshkino lay down at the turn of 400 m south of Kolyshkino and the junction of roads 1.5 km southwest of Kolyshkino.
The 1216th Rifle Regiment from the 2/1212nd Rifle Regiment continued to hold the line at the crossroads of the road from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhedova 1st to Sokolovo (1001) and north of the edge of the grove north of Sokolovo, repelling enemy attempts to advance from Podshchepoche along the road and from Voskresenskoye along the Sokolovo road.
Losses from 20 to 25.3.42: killed / wounded / missing
chief of staff 7/ 13 / 32
junior staff 11 / 12 / 85
enlisted personnel 212 / 328 / 1069
On March 28-29, 1942, there were no hostilities. ""Form 364 of the rifle brigade", a photocopy sent by an employee of the NWF Museum (Staraya Russa), sheet 2 says: "... In addition to enemy aircraft, long-range artillery was supported, big number mortars, tanks /from 2 to 10 vehicles/.
/Sheet 2/
During the fighting from March 22 to April 10, 1942. division
in stubborn battles, she defeated 8 infantry divisions, completely destroyed the officer school in hand-to-hand combat and inflicted significant damage on 329 infantry divisions.
The enemy suffered heavy losses. Only 5370 soldiers and officers were left on the battlefield killed, 10 soldiers and officers were taken prisoner.
12 tanks were destroyed, 3 aircraft were shot down from infantry weapons,
destroyed 50 bunkers and dugouts, destroyed and
a lot of equipment and military property of the enemy was destroyed.
The division accomplished its mission. At these lines, the enemy was stopped. Until June 11, 1942, units of the division held the line. By order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army, the division retreated to the right bank of the river on June 11, 1942. catching up and up
On July 4, 1942, she was engaged in the creation and construction of a new
defensive line along the Lovat River at the front: 12 km.
By July 4, 1942, the defensive line with the constructed engineering structures was completed.
2. Korovitchino-Sutok battles (Zaluchsky district of the Leningrad region).
On July 6, 1942, the division received a new combat mission: 1216 joint ventures to take possession of the heavily fortified enemy resistance center of the village of Korovitchino,
significance as a bridgehead node of fortifications covering the isthmus connecting with the semi-encircled 16th German army, ...
Asya Fedorovna Ivanova, a senior researcher at the NWF Museum, added: “By order of the High Command, the division was withdrawn from September 17 for reorganization and left the NWF.”
On March 1, 1942, the division entered the active army as part of the 1st Shock Army of the North-Western Front.
In March 1942, the enemy, having concentrated significant forces in the Staraya Russa region at that time in the Leningrad Region, launched an offensive in the direction of Demyansk to join up with the encircled 16th Army. With the breakthrough of our front line south of Staraya Russa, the division, by order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army, was transferred from the Ust-Bolshiye Yasny district to the Sokolovo - Podtsepochye - Velikoye Selo - Ozhedovo-1 section with the task of stopping and disrupting the enemy offensive.
From 03/22/42 to 04/10/42, the division fought stubborn battles on the Velikoye Selo-Sokolovo front, with a total length of 11 km.
The regiments of the division covered the directions:
- 1212 joint ventures - Kolyshkino - Velikoye Selo and Klimkovo - Velikoye Selo;
- 1214 joint venture - Zubakino - Voskresenskoye - Ozhedovo-1;
- 1216 joint venture - Podtsepochye - Sokolovo.
During this period, units of the division were subjected to enemy air operations throughout the daylight hours (from 20 to 60 aircraft at the same time) and repulsed numerous attacks by infantry supported by tanks and artillery of all systems.
During the fighting from 03/22/42 to 04/10/42, the division in stubborn battles defeated 8 infantry divisions, completely destroyed the officer school in hand-to-hand combat and inflicted significant damage on 329 enemy infantry divisions. In these battles, the enemy lost: 5370 people were killed, 10 soldiers and officers were taken prisoner. 13 tanks were destroyed, 3 aircraft were shot down from infantry weapons, 50 bunkers and dugouts were destroyed, a lot of equipment, weapons and military equipment of the enemy were destroyed and destroyed.
The division accomplished its mission. The enemy was stopped.

Military journal 364 sd
(extracts) (TsAMO: f. 1684, op. 1, d. 9)

From the moment of unloading from the echelons, on the basis of combat order No. 0741 of the North-Western Front from 6.00 1.3.42, the division came under the control of the 1st Shock Army.
By combat order No. 0691 of February 20, 1942, the NWF headquarters determined the area of ​​concentration: Antipovo, Schekotets, Lukino, Schechkovo. Division headquarters in Manuylovo. The division's exit to the concentration area was carried out by regiments and separate units.
On the way, an order was received in which the commander of the NWF ordered, without waiting for the concentration of the division in Antipovo, Shchekotets, Manuylovo, Shchechkovo, to go through regiments in forced marches to the Andronovo, Kruglaya, Gorbovastitsa, Sanakovshchina regions.
The route has changed from 75km to 125km.
Headquarters of the 1st Shock Army - Borisovo.
The lack of transport did not allow providing the necessary amount of forage and food. Power shortages began, which caused the weakening of the fighters and the horse composition and led to significant deaths of people and the fall of the horse composition during the march.

6.3.42
364th Rifle Division concentrated in the area of ​​Andronovo, Kuznetsovo, Bainovo, Sanakovshchina. The staging area is under continuous surveillance by enemy aircraft.

1212 joint ventures, by order of the headquarters of the front, are concentrated in the area: the forest, west of Sokolovo. By 10.00 concentrated: 1st rifle battalion, mortar battery, anti-tank rifle company, battery of 45mm guns (both batteries without means of traction and ammunition) 2nd and 3rd rifle battalions in Shchechkovo.
Losses for the march: 5 people were killed, 2 commanders and 13 soldiers were wounded, 2 people died on the way.
1214 joint ventures concentrated in the forest area, east of Kruglaya. Losses: 7 killed, 2 medium commanders, 3 junior commanders, 15 soldiers were wounded, 13 people died on the way.
1216 joint ventures without the 3rd rifle battalion and a battery of 76mm guns - a forest, east of Andronovo, Kornylyevo. 3rd rifle battalion and a battery of 76-mm guns on the march from Shchechkovo to the Kudrovo area. Losses: 7 soldiers killed and wounded.
937 artillery regiment 2nd division - forest, west of Sokolovo; 1st division on the march from the Bolshiye Gorby area. Losses: 11 soldiers and 1 junior commander were killed, 1 person died, 1 was wounded, 1 was shell-shocked.
766 separate mortar battalion concentrated with 2 batteries in the forest east of Kuznetsovo, one battery in the forest east of Andronovo. Losses: 1 person died.
The sapper battalion lagged behind due to lack of fodder, is on the march from Shchechkovo.
Division Headquarters - Sanakovshchina.

7.3.42
1212 joint ventures concentrated in the forest, west of Sokolovo, without a sanitary company and a transport company - all without wagons, horses, fodder. Products are missing for 2 days. During transportation by road during the day, 9 people died, 1 was killed, 1 was injured.
1214 cn - forest, east of Kruglaya, Kuznetsovo. Losses per day: 8 people died.
1216 joint ventures (without the 3rd rifle battalion and a battery of 76-mm guns) - a forest, east of Andronovo, Kornylyevo. 3rd rifle battalion on the march from Kudrovo in the forest area west of Sokolovo, where it will enter the reserve of the 1st Shock Army.
937 artillery regiment 1st division - forest east of 2 km of Andronovo, 2nd division - 2 km east of Kruglaya.
From the side of the enemy, they were fired upon from the direction of Minino-Strushino, the western part of the forest east of Andronovo. Parts of the division are engaged in the separation of cracks and camouflage.

9.3.42
The division occupies the area of ​​concentration of Andronovo, Kuznetsovo, Bainovo, Sanakovshchina. Parts are engaged in extracting dugouts and preparing defenses. Food and fodder are missing for the 2nd day, in a number of parts they are completely absent. Losses: 13 soldiers died, 4 died of wounds, 4 wounded.
2/1212 joint venture is moving to the Trokhino line, Views, according to the order of the army headquarters.

10.3.42
The division occupies the former area of ​​concentration.
1216 joint ventures were advanced to the forest area 1.5 km west of Novo-Svinukhovo.
1212 joint venture occupied the location of 3/1216 joint venture - a forest northwest of Sokolovo. 1212 joint ventures moved forward and occupied Trokhovo with one company, one with Views, one company in the second echelon - the edge of the forest east of Views.
1212 bn - in the forest southwest of Sokolovo, 3/1212 bn - forest northwest of Sokolovo, 2/1212 bn - at the turn of Trokhovo-Vzglyady.
1216 sp - 3/1216 - forest, 1 km west of Kolkh. Krasno-Svinukhovo. The regiment is on the march to the Novo-Svinukhovo area.
1214 cn - forest, east of Kruglaya, Kuznetsovo.
937th Artillery Regiment at the former OP, except for 2 batteries, on the march to the Novo-Svinukhovo area.
Losses: 1 soldier died.

11.3.42
The enemy dropped troops into the Astratovo area. A company of submachine gunners 1214 joint venture and otd. motostr. reconnaissance companies set out for the Slugino-Galuzino area to destroy the enemy.
1212 joint venture - forest, west of Andronovo, 1214 joint venture - forest east and southeast of Novo-Svinukhovo, 1214 joint venture on the march in the forest area, southeast of Kolyshkino, east of Ozhedovo 1st, northeast of Velikoye Selo.

13.3.42
The division began to carry out defensive work and strengthen the line: 1216 joint ventures - along the eastern bank of the Porusya River at the Chernyshovo, Mavrino front, 1214 joint ventures - Klimkovo, Ozhedovo 1st, 1212 joint ventures - with one battalion along the western edge of the forest from mark 51.5 to mark 52.8 and one battalion along the eastern bank of the Porusya River at the line of Views, Andronovo.
A double norm for the issuance of products, one and a half norm of fodder for horses has been established.

15.3.42
The division received an order to relocate to the area of ​​​​B. Yasny, Podsosonye, ​​Sushitsa, Gorodok, Grivy, where to concentrate by the morning of 16.3.42.
The enemy, using units of 30, 290, and 5 infantry divisions, stubbornly holds the lines of Fast Coast, Transitions, Chernaya, Zyulema. The ski group under the command of Colonel Subbotin, consisting of 7, 18, 17, 8, 4, 269, 268 ski battalions, destroys the enemy and subsequently organizes defense at the turn of Fast Coast, Lubnovo, Vashkovo, Priluzhye, Gudki. The task was set: 364th rifle division with one division to support the actions of the ski group from the Skopino area.

16.3.42
Parts of the division (without the 2nd division of the artillery regiment) concentrated in the Ustye-Vekshino area. We began preparations for an offensive front to the west.

17.3.42
Parts of the division continue to conduct defensive work. The enemy is firing. Leaflets were dropped over the location of 1212 bn, which were collected and destroyed. Losses for 15-16.3.42: 10 people died, 22 horses fell.

19.3.42
According to the report of the 26th separate rifle brigade, 3 downed German transport aircraft fell in the Mintsevo-Mikhailovo area.

20.3.42
1212 SP shot down the Yu-52 - 4053 aircraft. Members of the aircraft crew were taken prisoner.
Parts of the division carried out defensive work, which was delayed by an acute shortage of entrenching tools and great permafrost.
The artillery regiment concentrated: 1st division in the Skopino area, 2nd division - in the B. Sheludkovo area, the headquarters of the regiment - Lipovka, the headquarters of the division - Manes.
The 2nd Rifle Company of the 1216th Rifle Regiment was sent to Meglets to develop this line and establish contact with the outposts of the 12th Border Regiment.
Losses: 1 Red Army soldier was killed by machine-gun fire from an aircraft, 3 were wounded, 3 horses were killed, 1 horse fell, one pillbox burned down, 3 light machine guns burned down during the fire.

21.3.42
Trench defensive work was carried out, enemy aircraft conducted reconnaissance, bombing and machine-gun fire at the division's concentration area.
At 14-00 on March 21, 1942, the operational department of the army reported that enemy units from the Staraya Russa region, using the forces of the 8th, 5th, 329th infantry divisions on the right flank of 1 UA, organized an offensive at the Derevkovo-Rogashevo line and by the end of the day on March 21, captured Rogashevo, Krasno-Svinukhovo, Novo-Svinukhovo (Uchno) further along the western bank of the Porusya River to the north.
364 SD received the task - with one regiment (1216 joint ventures) with a mortar battalion battery to leave the occupied area at 21-00 21.3.42 and following the route B. Yasny, Dolgaya, Vidzha by 6.00 22.3.42 concentrate in the forest to the north-west Sokolovo.
One company was ordered to be urgently transferred by motor vehicles, all other parts of the division were to be concentrated in a marching order in a new area. For the transfer of one company, 9 vehicles were involved.
At 20.00, an order was received to transfer the entire division to the same area: 1214 joint ventures are concentrated in the forest area, northwest and northeast of Sokolovo, 1212 joint ventures with a battery of a mortar division are concentrated in the forest east of Andronovo.
Division concentration area: forest, 1 km west of Zubakino, forest, 1.5 km southwest of the Krasny Mayak (Podtsepoche) collective farm, forest, northeast of Sokolovo, forest, east of Andronovo.

22.3.42
Parts of the division by the morning of 22.3.42 concentrated in the area:
1216 joint venture in the groves north of Sokolovo.
1214 SP two companies in the forest west of Baynovo.
1212 SP forest west of Sokolovo.

Combat report 1216 joint venture No. 034 22.3.42 to 13-00 Sokolovo
Regiment north of Sokolovo in a grove. KP north of Sokolovo.
To the left of us in the forest, a ski battalion is concentrated, the numbering of which is being specified.
During the day, enemy aircraft carried out continuous bombing of the areas where the units were located and the approach routes.
By the end of the day, the 1216th Rifle Regiment received the task of reaching the Zubatkino area and eliminating the enemy in the Zubakino-Mavrino area. After destroying the enemy, go to the Podtsepochye road, blocking the road in the northern and southern directions.
1214 joint venture received the task of concentrating the forest, northeast of Sokolovo, where to build a defense, block the road going from Podtsepochie to Sokolovo, Baynovo, at nightfall, go to the forest area, north and northwest of Sokolovo, take up defense along the northern edge of the forest to the northeast and northwest of Sokolovo (1.5 km to the right and 1.5 km to the left of the road). The task is to prevent the enemy on the road to the south.
Mavrino, Vasilevshchina, Klimkovo are in the hands of the enemy, for the elimination of which 1216 joint ventures are advanced with which to keep constant contact and conduct reconnaissance in Mavrino and the forest 3.5 km east of Borodino.
1212 joint ventures with a mortar battery with the onset of darkness advance into the forest area east of Andronovo, in readiness to move to the Sokolovo area.

23.3.42
Order 1 UA 1214 cn set the task: to take the initial position of Klimkovo, mark 31.7, at 7.00 23.3 attack the enemy occupying Vasilevshchina, Mavrino and capture Podtsepochye. To the left, establish a connection with 201 sd, reliably ensure a junction with it. In the Klimkovo area, have one or two battalions.
1216 SP with the second battalion concentrated in the forest, one battalion in Kudrovo, having the task of preventing the enemy from breaking through to Shapkino.
To the right, the 62nd and 44th rifle brigades are advancing on Novo-Svinukhovo;
At 0400, the attack began, the enemy put up stubborn resistance, counterattacking in small groups. Enemy aviation is constantly bombing and machine-gunning the areas where our troops are concentrated and the routes of approach. 10 paratroopers landed in Klimkovo.
1216 joint venture is fighting for Klimkovo, with a group of machine gunners in front of him
1214 joint venture is fighting for Zubakino and on the southern outskirts of Podtsepochie.
1212 joint ventures at the occupied line.
As of 16.00, the enemy, in separate groups of 150-200 people, is putting up stubborn resistance with the support of their aviation, which continues uninterrupted bombardment and machine-gun fire from 50-60 aircraft. The enemy throws out small groups of paratroopers up to 10 people.
The actions of the 1216th Rifle Regiment and the battalion of the 1214th Rifle Regiment on Klimkovo and Zubakino and of the two battalions of the 1214th Rifle Regiment on the Podtsepochie were delayed by heavy bombardment from the air. One battalion of 1216 joint ventures suffered heavy losses.
Enemy aviation operations are taking place without the influence of our aviation, therefore enemy aviation operates with complete impunity, flying at low altitudes and in close formations, covering the areas where the units are located with a large number of bombs, shooting through all the villages with machine-gun fire, individual houses are burning from incendiary bullets.
By the end of the day, the combat mission was not completed for the indicated reasons, and our units lay down in front of the settlements.

24.3.42
1216 sleep on the night from 23 to 24.3. regrouped, occupied the defense area on the northern edge of the grove, which is 1.5 km north of Sokolovo .. By reconnaissance and combat, it was possible to establish that up to 2 infantry regiments with a sufficient number of mortar batteries and machine guns operate in front of the front of the 1216 joint venture, from the Podtsepochya side SS officer school.
On March 24, the enemy launched a heavy artillery-mortar and machine-gun fire on the battle formations in the morning. Up to 50 enemy planes carry out bombardment and machine-gun fire. After fire preparation, the enemy goes on the offensive.
In front of the 1216 front, the joint venture advances up to an infantry regiment, separate large groups of machine gunners and up to a company of an SS officer school.
The regiment had well prepared fire weapons, the enemy was allowed to close range, after which heavy fire was opened from mortars, machine guns and attached artillery. The enemy, suffering heavy losses, began to roll back in confusion. At this moment, the units of the regiment launched a counterattack, destroying the Nazis with fire and bayonet.
After this battle, the enemy was driven back to their original positions to the southern outskirts of Podtsepochie and Zubatkino. In this battle, the enemy lost up to 500 people killed and wounded, and the SS officer school was completely destroyed.
1212 joint venture at 21.00, by order of the headquarters, began the transition to the Velikoye Selo area. The 2nd rifle battalion and the battery were placed at the disposal of the commander of the 1216th joint venture.
The 7th rifle company was placed at the disposal of the commander of the 201st rifle division. The 18th rifle company, which remained to cover 1/937 ap, marched from the Belebelka area and arrived in the Sokolovo area by 25.4.

25.3.42
During the night, the enemy did not detect activity, continuously illuminated the surrounding area with rockets. From dawn until the infantry battalion tries to advance along the road from Novo-Svinukhovo to Sokolovo.
The 364th Rifle Division regrouped during the night from 24 to 25.3 and by the morning the units of the division occupy the following position:
During the night, the 1212th Rifle Regiment, with a mortar battalion battery, moved from the forest area north and northwest of Sokolovo to the Velikoye Selo area and from here was preparing an attack on Koloshkino. By 07:00, one battalion reached the line 150-200 meters south of Koloshkino, where they were stopped by organized rifle and machine-gun fire. From Kozlovo, Koloshkino, on the southern outskirts of Koloshkino up to 4 heavy machine guns. The suppression of the detected firing points and the attack of Koloshkino are organized.
Another battalion has captured a grove 800 meters southwest of Koloshkino and is organizing defense along its northern edge.
2/1212 joint venture in a grove 2 km west of Velikoye Selo in the reserve of the army command.
Losses: The 2nd battalion, sent to support Frolov, lost 135 people killed and wounded.
1214 joint venture stubbornly defends the grove line 500m east of Voskresenskoye. In the morning, he began an offensive in the direction of Zubakino. The regiment has the task, by all means, to hold the occupied lines.
Losses on 24.3 inclusive: killed deputy. division commander, Major Zaichenko, the deputy died a heroic death. commander of 1214 joint venture major Abramov S.V. Abramov S.V. was killed. on the battlefield in the Voskresenskoye area by a mine explosion. 14 middle command personnel were killed, junior and private - 92. Wounded: average command staff - 25, private and junior - 201 people. Losses are specified.
1216 joint ventures with a mortar battalion battery stubbornly defend the line 500 m northwest of Voskresenskoye - the northern edge of the forest north of Sokolovo, the road from Novo-Svinukhovo to Sokolovo. In the morning, he is fighting the enemy with forces up to a battalion advancing from Novo-Svinukhovo.
Losses on 23.3.42 inclusive: middle commanders were killed - no, ml. the beginning of the composition, the rank and file - 5, the wounded of the middle command staff - 10 people, the junior - 4 people, the private 157 people. Horse composition - 36 horses were killed.
937 AP: 4th battery - in the forest west of Sokolovo, 5th battery - one kilometer west of Bainovo, 6th battery - 1.5 km northeast of Bainovo, 1st and 2nd batteries in the Ustye area, 3- I am a battery - Podtsepochye.
Losses are specified.
During 25.3.42, the division fulfills its assigned task: to capture Kolyshkino and stubbornly defend the main line occupied by parts of the Kolyshkino division - Voskresenskoye - the northern edge of the forest north of Sokolovo.
The heavy losses in the division were caused almost exclusively by bombardment and machine-gun fire on enemy aircraft. Our aviation is not in the air.
As of 20.00.
After a three-time air raid supported by four tanks, more than two enemy battalions captured Voskresenskoye.
1214 joint venture, putting up stubborn resistance, withdrew: the regiment commander with the remnants of the 1st and 3rd battalions retreated to Sokolovo with the task of organizing the defense of Sokolov from the east, the chief of staff with the remnants of the 2nd battalion withdrew to Ozhedovo 1st, where he organized the defense . To help him, a company of 1212 joint ventures was attached.
1216 joint venture drove the enemy out of the forest north of Sokolov and restored the situation, destroying over 200 Germans in a bayonet attack. The regiment organizes defenses to the north and northeast together with units of the 1214th Rifle Regiment that have retreated from Sokolov.
1212 joint ventures (four companies) and all other special. units after the unsuccessful attack of Koloshkino lay down at the turn of 400 m south of Koloshkino and the junction of roads 1.5 km southwest of Koloshkino.
Neighboring units (15th brigade) did not take action during the day. The weather is warm, the temperature is above zero day and night, the snow is melting together.

26.3.42
During the day, the ground enemy tries to attack in different directions, delivering heavy mortar fire. The air enemy throughout the day carries out continuous bombardment and machine-gun fire from the air, inflicting heavy losses, especially 1212 rp.
The 364th Rifle Division was actively defending at the turn: the crossroads 2.5 km southeast of Voskresenskoye, the northern edge of the grove 600 meters east of Voskresenskoye, Ozhedovo 1st, the junction of roads from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhedovo 1st to Sokolovo and the northern edge of the grove north of Sokolovo.
1212 joint ventures (4 rifle companies) and all units are defending 200 meters south of Koloshkino and a road junction 1.5 kilometers southwest of Koloshkino. Throughout the day, the regiment was subjected to fierce bombardment and machine-gun fire from aviation.
At 15-30 the regiment was attacked by the enemy with a force of up to 2 companies with the support of mortar fire and aviation from the direction of Klimkovo - Velikoye Selo. The remnants of our companies were somewhat pushed back. But then, with a bayonet counterattack, together with skiers from Velikoye Selo, the enemy attack was repulsed. In order to throw the skiers into the attack, a lot of work had to be done to bring their units in order.
At 17:00, more than an enemy battalion with 6 tanks, under the cover of mortar fire and aviation, again attacked units of 1212 rep. The skiers who were in Velikoye Selo began to retreat in a panic. Partially, Velikoye Selo was abandoned, later the units were put in order, a counterattack was organized and Velikoye Selo was occupied by 1212 joint ventures.
By 24.00, the battle continued with submachine gunners who had settled in separate houses on the northern outskirts. One enemy tank destroyed. The regiment suffered heavy losses, mainly from aviation, and at present there are about 200 people in this sector, in some companies there are 10-15 bayonets left.
The regiment commander, Major Volkov, was removed from command of the regiment for inaction and temporarily replaced by Captain Karnaukhov.
1214 Rifle Rifle Regiments with a company of 1212 Rifle Rifle Regiments, a company of 15 Rifle Regiments during the day held the Ozhedovo 1st line, the junction of the roads from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhedovo 1st to Sokolovo, and prepared to recapture Voskresenskoye with a night attack. Part of the fighters almost during the day remained surrounded on the northern outskirts of the grove 600 meters east of Voskresenskoye and during the attack, Voskresenskoye will provide an attack from the east.
Losses of 1214 joint ventures from the 22nd to the 25th inclusive amount to 628 people, of which 102 were killed, 228 people were wounded.
1216 bn from 2/1212 bn continued to hold the line: the crossroads of the road from Voskresenskoye to Sokolovo and Ozhedov 1st to Sokolovo, and north of the edge of the grove north of Sokolovo, repelling enemy attempts to advance from Podshchepoche along the road and from Voskresenskoye along the Sokolovo road, to the company in every direction.
Casualties 20 to 25 killed/wounded/missing/total
commanding staff 7 13 32 52
junior commanding staff 11 12 85 108
enlisted personnel 212 328 1069 1609 total 1769
At 18.00 in the Velikoye Selo area, a German bomber dropped bombs on its transport plane flying below. The plane (transport) exploded and burned in the air.

27.3.42
As of 08:00 on March 27, 1942, 1212 joint ventures (4 companies) and the rest of the special forces from Velikoye Selo are slowly advancing north, with more than 150 submachine gunners and 6 tanks in front of them.
As of 12.00, the attached ski battalion is fixed at the level of the northern edges of the grove southwest of Koloshkino and cuts the road from Koloshkino to Velikoye Selo.
Two companies 300 meters north-west of Velikoye Selo (both companies were attached).
Mortar fire is being fired at the enemy convoy moving from Klimkovo to Velikoye Selo. The enemy convoy has heavy losses.
A consolidated battalion of the remnants of 4 rifle companies and special forces on the western outskirts and west of Velikoye Selo, provides an offensive from the east. In 1212 joint ventures, 2 companies returned from those assigned to other regiments.
The 1214th Rifle Regiment advances on Voskresenskoye, occupies a grove east of Voskresenskoye with the second battalion, and is subjected to heavy mortar fire and air bombing. The RS division has not yet opened fire on Voskresenskoye. major's order
Larina (?) Division was reassigned to another division.
1216 bn occupies the same position, at 8.00 there is no connection, measures have been taken to restore communication.
As of 21:00, 1212th Rifle Regiment is engaged in a firefight with the enemy (to the north of 200 meters from Velikoye Selo) who has stopped on the road from Klimkovo to Velikoye Selo. Together with the convoy there are four tanks, the battalions of skiers withdrew to Anufrievo.
1214th joint venture is engaged in a heavy battle for Voskresenskoye, which is surrounded from the east, southwest and northwest. The grove to the east of Voskresenskoye was captured, with the exception of the northern edge. The grove to the west of Voskresenskoye is completely occupied by the regiment.
1216 joint venture at 12.00 beat off an attempt by an enemy battalion to advance from Podtsepoche to the forest north of Sokolovo with artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire. The enemy battalion is dispersed and runs into the grove south of the 51.7 mark, where it is doing trench work.
Enemy aviation is bombing and machine-gunning the combat formations of our units and tanks.

28.3.42
The enemy seeks to develop his attack along the road Mavrino - Velikoye Selo to connect with the Demyansk grouping and expand the zone of his breakthrough by putting pressure on units of the 201st Rifle Division (neighbor on the left). But the stubborn resistance of our units does not allow us to complete this task. The main blow falls on parts of 364th division.
By order of March 26, the commander of the 1212th joint venture, Major Volkov, was removed from command, Karnaukhov Stepan Afanasyevich, head of the 2nd department of headquarters, was temporarily appointed commander of the regiment.
Starting from 8.00 28.3 massive enemy air raids on the battle formations of our units.
9.00 50-70 aircraft bomb 1212 sp.
9.30 the second raid in the same number.
10.20 3rd air raid on 1212 cn 60-70 aircraft, as a result of which the ski battalion, supporting the right flank, withdrew.
The remnants of 1212 joint ventures, having lost command, withdrew, leaving Velikoye Selo.
In the battle on the morning of March 28, captain S.A. Karnaukhov, a wonderful comrade-in-arms, a faithful son of the Lenin-Stalin party, commander of the 1212 joint venture, died a heroic death. Staff commanders and political workers of the regiment also died. By 12.00 communication with the regiment was lost.
In section 1214, a fierce battle was going on for Ozhedovo 1st. The enemy, advancing with forces up to a battalion from 3 sides, infiltrating along the eastern bank of the river and the western bank, supporting his offensive with the movement of 3 tanks and air bombing, as well as mortar fire from Voskresenskoye.
By the end of the day in 1214, the joint venture left Ozhedovo 1st and retreated to Sushchevo.
More than an enemy battalion advanced on Sokolovo, on the battle formations of 1216 joint ventures, 3 enemy attacks were repulsed by artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire. The enemy withdrew to the previously occupied lines, having suffered heavy losses. Before the front of the 3rd rifle battalion, up to 2 companies advanced, in front of the front of the 2nd rifle battalion, the 2nd company. During the daytime battle, 31 people were killed, 46 people were wounded. Throughout the day, the regiment was heavily bombarded by enemy aircraft.
During the second half of the day, the movement of individual groups of infantry was observed.
After the occupation of Velikoye Selo, a telephone operator remained in this settlement, who from 17.00 to 18.00 telephoned about the situation before the approach of the second echelon of fascist troops. The expelled platoon reached the village later, due to the continuous influence of aviation.
The commander of the division, Major General Solovyov, after the remnants of 1212 joint ventures retreated east through the forest, to protect Chernyshevo, abandoned the personal units (special) of the division (divisional school of junior commanders, part of the motor reconnaissance company, chemical defense company, anti-tank division, anti-aircraft battery), which stubbornly repelled all the attacks of the Germans (up to 2 companies).
The commander of the motor company was ordered to establish contact with the remnants of 1212 sp.
2 captured prisoners in the battle near Ozhedovo 1st showed that the 8th German division was operating against our division (the prisoners were from the 28th infantry regiment, 1st battalion), which arrived from France in the Staraya Russa region on March 3, 1942 . The ranks of the captured non-commissioned officer and corporal. Documents taken from the dead show the presence of the following parts:

29.3.42
From 0500 hours the enemy aviation began its activity, bombarding the combat formations of our units. The intensified bombardment of the Sokolovo, Velikoye Selo, Chernyshevo areas determined the direction of the main attacks today.
Fierce battles unfolded throughout the day in the Sokolovo region for the possession of a grove north of Sokolovo and Sokolovo itself.
1216 cn, which had significant losses in the days of previous battles, supported by two companies that arrived from Doronov, held back the stubborn offensive of the 2 enemy battalions from the north and from the direction of Voskresenskoye and Ozhedovo, the 1st also 2 battalions.
With the strong influence of bomber aircraft and strong mortar fire, only by the end of the day did the enemy manage to push out 1216 joint ventures and capture Sokolovo. 1216 joint venture went on the defensive at the turn of Leushino.
During the onslaught of the enemy, the 1st battalion of 1216 rp was surrounded in a grove north of Sokolovo and on the night of 30.3 left the encirclement in the direction of Ratcha (up to 200 people).
The remnants of 1212 joint ventures are assembled: the convoy and rear in the village of Ivanova Berezka, combat units - to the south.
In the direction of Chernyshevo, the enemy exerts great pressure. On the night of March 29, having received reinforcements, he lit the village with mortar fire and incendiary bullets and went on the offensive under cover of mortar fire at night (which is an exception for enemy operations. At night, the enemy usually avoids active hostilities).
On the 29th day, the village continued to burn, it was heroically defended by a handful of people left from the personal divisions of the division. In the battle near Chernyshevo, the commander of the chemical protection company Krytnov fell heroically?
By the end of the day, our units, under pressure from superior enemy forces, retreated from Chernyshevo.
1214 joint venture led a firefight with the enemy at the same line. The weather continues to be warm, thaw day and night. The army commander ordered to quickly relocate to Losytino.

30.3.42
Throughout the day, the enemy is very active on the right flank - in the Chernyshevo area. Continuous bombardment from the air of the battle formations of our units, at night mortar and rifle-machine-gun firefight.
1212 joint venture continued to collect units scattered as a result of bombardments and battles. All special forces of the division were used to reinforce the right flank.
The consolidated group, led by the commissar of the headquarters, senior political officer Ustinov, waged an uninterrupted fierce battle for the capture of Chernyshevo, repelled the enemy’s fierce counterattacks, and by the end of the day occupied the southern half of Chernyshevo.
1214 joint ventures and 1216 joint ventures occupied the former defensive line, they did not conduct active operations in the first half of the day.
Sappers mined separate sections of roads in the direction: Velikoye Selo - Losytino, Chernyshevo - Losytino. A company of sappers was sent in the direction of Ustye-Vekshino to build a bridge across the Lyutaya River.
By the end of the day, there is an accumulation of the enemy Ozhedovo 1st, in the direction of Sokolovo and Velikoye Selo. Separate enemy groups tried to attack along the entire front, but had no success.
To capture Chernyshovo, Averin's attached battalion (skiers) was used.
The army commander ordered the 1216th Rifle Regiment saddling the Kholm highway south of Sokolovo on the night of 31.3.42 to be put into reserve and located in the forest southeast of Sushchevo. Transfer the plot to 201 sd.

31.3.42
The division continued to fight with the enemy on the occupied lines:
1214 SP at the front: on the right is the edge of the forest, which is 100-150 meters east of Sushchevo, on the left is a bush up to 400 meters. In Ozhedovo, the 1st enemy fortifies, builds trenches and insulated dugouts, and fires mortars at advanced units.
By the end of the day, they repulsed several enemy attacks, knocking out 2 enemy light tanks from anti-tank rifles, which supported the infantry offensive.
The consolidated group repelled enemy attacks in the Chernyshevo area.
Enemy aviation is continuously bombarding the combat formations of our units and the rear. The clearing of the Zhukovo - Glukhaya Gorushka highway has been completed.

1.4.42
The division continued to fight, especially active on the right flank. By the forces of the consolidated battalion (divisional chemical defense company, anti-aircraft battery), the stubbornly defending enemy was driven out of Chernyshevo by the end of 1.4.42. The enemy in this area used mortar, machine-gun fire and the fire of groups of submachine gunners who had settled in the surviving houses of the village.
1214 joint ventures were fighting at the same line, mortar, artillery fire and machine-gun fire were conducted.
The actual composition of the division as a result of losses from combat operations, mainly from enemy aircraft, for 1.4 42 is:
Division By state By list Horses by list
1212 cn 2962 350 150
1214 cn 2962 740 207
1216 cn 2962 513 198
937 an 838 756 458
398 anti-tank division 151 125 8
223 anti-aircraft battery 80 7 -
436 motor reconnaissance 121 77 11
654th sanitary battalion 241 199 34
825 communications battalion 185 169 42
766 mortar division 213 194 66
452 chemical protection company 58 24 10
489 autorote 138 135 -
459 medical battalion 113 100 3
228 field bakery 102 101 49
Veterinary infirmary 12 12 4
Headquarters bat. OVER 68 53 16
Division management 245 244 36

Division total: 11453 3793 1338
Losses of the division in the human composition from 21.3 to 1.4.42 i.e. for the period of hostilities is:
of them
Unit Killed and died of wounds Wounded Sick Missing in action Total casualties Initial. comp. ml. early comp. Row. comp.
1212 cn - - - 2227 2227 166 423 1638
1214 cn 315 709 586 421 2031 120 345 1566
1216 cn 285 604 - 1205 2094 79 366 1649
937 an 14 14 22 9 61 3 8 50
398 anti-tank division - 5 - - 5 - - 5
223 anti-aircraft artillery. battery 5 11 - 52 68 5 11 52
436 motor reconnaissance 9 17 4 3 33 2 4 27
654th sanitary battalion 1 6 - - 10 2 1 7
825 communications battalion 1 3 7 - 11 - 4 7
766 mortar division
452 Chemical Protection Company 4 13 4 3 24 5 4 15
489 delivery driver - - - - - - - -
459 medical battalion - 3 - - 3 1 1 1
228 field bakery - - - - - - - -
Vetzazareth - - - - - - - -
Headquarters Battalion NAD - 3 2 4 9 - 2 7
Total 634 1388 625 3924 6576 383 1169 5024
There is no information about losses for the Mindivision.
A high percentage of total number losses are accounted for by the “missing”, due to the fact that in 1212 joint venture it is currently not possible due to the lack of command, regimental headquarters and battalion headquarters.
The commander of this regiment, Major Volkov, and the commissar of the regiment, Sazonov, were out of action, the deputy commander of the regiment, Captain Drobotenko, was wounded on March 27, and the newly appointed commander of the regiment, Captain Karnaukhov, was also killed. On 1.04, the division actually did not have 1212 joint ventures. The same fate befell the personnel of the anti-aircraft battery.
On April 1, 1942, the division received a replenishment in the amount of 960 people, which was distributed: motor reconnaissance - 25 people.
1212 joint ventures - 463 people.
1214 joint ventures - 242 people
1216 joint ventures - 230 people.
The armament of the replenishment personnel was made with weapons collected after the battles (rifles mostly without bayonets). Replenishment arrived from the Altai Territory, the military training of the replenishment is low.
Aviation throughout the day carried out the bombardment of combat formations and rear areas. Up to 25 transport aircraft flew in the division's sector per day.
The general situation in the north Western front and the tasks assigned to the division are characterized by combat order No. 073 of the 1st shock army dated April 1, 1942.
1. “The 8th and 329th Infantry Divisions continue their offensive on the front of Kozlovo, Sokolovo, Chernyshovo, trying to break through the front of the army in the direction of Cherenchitsy.
2. On the right, the 11th army is advancing on the front of Mikhailovo, Gorushka, Kozlovo - the dividing line with it is Kalitkino, Korovitchino, Kudrovo, on the left, 379th rifle division of the Kalinin Front, is located in the area of ​​Peski, Buranovo, Megleu.
3. The 1st shock army has the task of defeating the 8th and 329th infantry divisions of the enemy and capturing Velikoye Selo, Ozhedovo-1e, Voskresenskoye, Novo-Svinukhovo.
6. 364 Rifle Division 1.4.1942 firmly hold the line of Sushchevo, with the right flank, together with the battalion of cadets, capture Chernyshovo.
On April 2, 1942, accept and arm replenishment, pour it into units, organize the interaction of artillery with infantry in readiness for the outcome of April 2, 1942, go on the offensive in the direction of Ozhedovo-1e, Voskresenskoye, with the task of capturing Ozhedovo-1e.
Razgran line on the left - Ratcha, height 51.7 "
Documents of the murdered lieutenant, found in the forest north of Sokolov from the 43rd reserve infantry battalion, 3rd company, were sent to the headquarters.