THE 75TH GUARDS RIFLE DIVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200300001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 27, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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1. Location: HepAgtzrters ~? ? l,a (Lat. 5 12 if. Long. 37(239t .)
2. Sj:bo 'aifi.aa.ts to; eaoud Guards Rifle Corps, Headquarters in VlMiir
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Personalities; Guards Major General Ya~-,aily Akihovich Cori>I r - C.G.
Chief of St 'fg Garda Ool. Sl pikhin
o tty Co i.v der for Pt;lttic l Affairs: Guards Lt. Col.
Grigoryevich Piz;
Arsist t Chief of the Politic , Soc :ionT: Guards Lt. CAL
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,~J_Fief 1N.irst Section (Operations): Guards Lt. Col.
J ief Third act{ on (Ci-aher) 4 Guwsde M . Debri?
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tier of Rear ServiceE Guards Lt. Col. loch3rj a
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Location: 3arracks in 'ula
Personalities: De-out r Commander for Political Affairs: Guards
Lt. Col. Tolcieiush
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Location: Plavsk (37 miles SS'W of Tula)
Personalities: Cor.uaendin , Officer .. Guards Col. Bulatov
Deputy Commander for Political Affairs ? Guards
Lt. Col. Goduxiov
Compouents? 159th aritillery itei-;iment
606th mortar :iegpisnent
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AA :3attalion
Comments Previously a rifle division had three Infantry
hegitnent9 and one Artillery Re imoent. An AT Battalion and an
AA Battalion were attached to the division liq. A recent tendency,
as illustrated in the present division, has been to unite these
forxintions into an artillery brigade.)
6. history: The Division, under the 9th Guards Rifle Corns, was engaged
against the Germans from :italingrad until the Ca ture of 3erlin. After
the enci o ' the wvr the Division was stationed in Nordhausen and Bleicherode
in ` iuringia. When the 17th army (Hp Halle a.(, Saale) was deactivated
In thaluary m February 1946, some of its units remained in Germany, and
others, including the 9th Guards Rifle Corps and its components, among,
them the 75th Guards Rifle Division, were returned to the Zone of the
Intg ior.
j'. rattle honors: Order of Suvorov
Order of the Red.:43enner (twice)
Title ")3akhmach", for 'participation in the capture of that
town.
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