364th Rifle Division

rdf:langString 364th Rifle Division

rdf:langString 15th Mechanized Division (1945–1947)

rdf:langString 364th Rifle Division (August 10, 1941 – 1945)

rdf:langString Tosno

rdf:langString Col. Ivan Andreevich Vorobev

rdf:langString Col. Viktor Antonovich Vershbitsky

rdf:langString Maj. Gen. Filipp Yakovlevich Solovyov

rdf:langString Infantry

rdf:langString Division

rdf:langString The 364th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It began forming on August 10, 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division at Omsk. It did not reach the front until March 1942, assigned to the 1st Shock Army in Northwestern Front. It served under these commands until September, then was pulled out of the line for rebuilding before being moved north to 8th Army of Volkhov Front. The division remained in Volkhov Front until the Front was disbanded in February 1944, fighting in Operation Iskra, which partly broke the siege of Leningrad, and then in the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, which completed the task, and won a battle honor. During the spring-summer 1944 it advanced through the Baltic States, being so worn down in the process that in September it was again moved to the reserves to be returned to a viable strength. In October it was reassigned to the 3rd Shock Army, and would advance with that Army through Poland and into Germany in 1945. The 364th ended the war in the Battle of Berlin with 1st Belorussian Front, and went on to serve postwar in the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. It was converted into the 15th Mechanized Division in late 1945; the latter was disbanded in the Moscow Military District in early 1947.