370th Rifle Division

rdf:langString 370th Rifle Division

rdf:langString 370th Rifle Division

rdf:langString Brandenburg

rdf:langString Red Army

rdf:langString Col. Filipp Nikolaevich Romashin

rdf:langString Col. Fyodor Ivanovich Chirkov

rdf:langString Col. Matvey Mikhailovich Korsun

rdf:langString Maj. Gen. Pyotr Savvich Gavilevsky

rdf:langString Maj. Gen. Yevgeny Mikhailovich Andreev

rdf:langString Infantry

rdf:langString Division

rdf:langString The 370th Rifle Division was raised in 1941 as a standard Red Army rifle division, and served for the duration of the Great Patriotic War in that role. It began forming in August 1941 in the Siberian Military District. After forming, it was initially assigned to the 58th (Reserve) Army, but was soon reassigned to 34th Army in Northwestern Front, and until March 1943, was involved in the dismal fighting around the Demyansk salient. After this was evacuated the division took part in equally difficult combat for the city of Staraya Russa. Near the end of that year the division was reassigned to 2nd Baltic Front, and spent several months in operations near Nevel and north of Vitebsk. In the spring of 1944 its combat path shifted southwards when it was moved to 69th Army in 1st Belorussian Front, south of the Pripet Marshes. In August it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for its part in the liberation of Kovel. It went on to help form and hold the bridgehead over the Vistula at Puławy, and in January 1945, joined the drive of 1st Belorussian Front across Poland and into eastern Germany, earning the battle honor "Brandenburg". It was disbanded later that year.