The was an
Infantry Division that served during
The Great Patriotic War (World War II). Originally formed in
1919 from the 1st Ryazansk Rifle Division, the division was twice destroyed and reformed during the war. The division contained two or three rifle
Regiment s.
During the war there were four distinct formations that bore the title of '2nd Rifle Division'.
Formed in 1919, the division was part of the
Soviet Tenth Army . It was annihilated by the
German army in a pocket west of
Minsk on
September 19 1941 .
The full honorific title of the division was the ''2nd
Belorussian Red Banner Rifle Division in the name of
M.V. Frunze ''.
- 13th Rifle Regiment
- 200th Rifle Regiment
- 261st Rifle Regiment
Formed from a
Moscow Militia division on
September 26 1941, the second formation served in the
Soviet Thirty-Second Army . It was encircled and destroyed by the Germans in the
Vyazma pocket in October, 1941. This formation was disbanded on
December 27 1941.
- 1282nd Rifle Regiment
- 1284th Rifle Regiment
- 1286th Rifle Regiment
Formed in the
Crimea on
November 23 1941 from the 2nd
Cavalry Division, this formation served with the Coastal Army and was renamed the
109th Rifle Division on
January 29 1942 .
- 383rd Rifle Regiment
- 1330th Rifle Regiment
Commenced forming in
Arkhangelsk on
December 21 1941, this incarnation of the division served to the end of the war and earned the honorific title of ''2nd
Masurian Rifle Division''. It finished the war as part of the
Soviet LXXXI Rifle Corps in the
3rd Belorussian Front .
- 13th Rifle Regiment (II)
- 200th Rifle Regiment (II)
- 261st Rifle Regiment (II)
