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11th Rifle Division

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Active
  
1918-1945

Branch
  
Red Army

Country
  
Soviet Union

Type
  
Infantry

Engagements
  
Russian Civil War Kronstadt rebellion Polish-Soviet War Battle of Warsaw (1920) Winter War World War II Baltic Operation Leningrad Strategic Defensive Lyuban Offensive Operation Operation Iskra Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive Baltic Offensive Courland Pocket

Decorations
  
Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner

The 11th Rifle Division (11 RD) - was a military formation (Infantry Division) of the Red Army USSR. Its personnel were involved in the protection of the demarcation line in Pskov (March - May 1918), defensive battles against the Army of the Southern Front in Krasnov Novohopersk - Borisoglebsk (October - December 1918), against the army and the forces of Estonia, Bulaq Balakhovich in Marienburg (April 1919) in defense of Petrograd and as the offensive against Yudenich's troops in Pskov (August 1919) the Luga-Gdov, Yamburg, Narva, Dvina-Rezhitsk directions (October - December 1919 January - February 1920), the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 (in the July (4–23 July) and Warsaw (July 23 - August 25) operations (fighting in the area of the rivers Narew, Vistula)), in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising (March 1921) participated in the Soviet-Finnish War (January - March 1940) and World War II.

On 22 June 1941 it was part of 11th Rifle Corps, 8th Army, Baltic Special Military District, which rapidly became Northwestern Front.

During August 1945, the division moved to Dnipropetrovsk and disbanded there by February 1946.

References

11th Rifle Division Wikipedia