155th Rifle Division

Former Soviet military formation

155th Rifle Division
Active	1939-1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	World War II Battle of Bryansk (1941) Battle of Moscow Siege of Budapest

Military unit

The 155th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. It was established in Opotschka in 1939. In December 1939, it fought in the Winter War and attacked the town of Lieksa.^[1] In October 1941, it was destroyed in Bryansk.

On October 28, 1941 the 1st and 2nd Moscow Worker's Brigades were in Moscow formed using Destroyer Battalions' troops, similar to the earlier People's Militia formations. On November 14, 1941, they were upgraded in status to the 4th and 5th Moscow Rifle Divisions respectively. On January 20, 1942 the 4th Moscow Rifle Division was redesignated the 155th Rifle Division (Second Formation).^[2]

During the rest of the Second World War, it fought in Kalinin, Kursk, the Carpathians, and Budapest. By May 1945, it served with the 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. In the summer of 1945, the division was disbanded and the soldiers then served with the Southern Group of Forces.^[3]

References

^ Trotter, William R. (2002). The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940. Aurum Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 1-85410-881-6.
^ Irregular Units of the RKKA, January 5, 2004.
^ Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. p. 422. ISBN 9785895035306.