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The '''74th Guards Rifle Division'''' was an [[Guards unit|Guards]] infantry division of the [[Red Army]] during the [[Second World War]]. Its full formal name was the 74-я Guards Nizhnedneprovskiy [[Order of Lenin]] twice Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division. It was formed from the [[45th Rifle Division]] on March 1, 1943. The division's entire World War II service was with the 62nd Army, later the [[8th Guards Army]]. ▼
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▲The '''74th Guards Rifle Division
==World War II Service==
===1943===
In July 1943, the Division participated in the battles on the outskirts of [[Izium]], [[Izyum-Barvenkovo Offensive]], in August 1943 in the [[Barvenkov-Pavlograd Offensive]], as part of the [[Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943)|Donbass Strategic Offensive]] Operation . In the [[Lower Dnieper Offensive]] Operation crossed the Dnieper south of [[Dnipropetrovsk]]. During Nizhnedneprovskiy offensive forced the Dnieper to the south of Dnipropetrovsk. Then took part in the [[Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive]].
===1944===
During the Winter Spring campaign of 1944 the division participated in the [[Bereznegovatoye-Snigirevka Offensive]] and the follow on [[Odessa Offensive]].
In July 1944 the division participated in the [[Lublin-Brest Offensive]] as part of the [[Operation Bagration]] and the beginning of the liberation of Poland.
===1945===
In January 1945 the division was part of the [[Vistula–Oder Offensive]] and the liberation of Poland.
It participated in the liberation of the cities Изюм/Raisins, Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih , Odessa , Poznan , Lodz , taking Kustrin.▼
In April 1945 it broke through enemy defenses at the [[Battle of the Seelow Heights]], taking part in the [[Berlin Strategic Offensive]].
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=== Postwar ===
The division became part of the [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]] along with its corps and army, and was disbanded in the summer of 1946.{{Sfn|Feskov et al|2013|p=401}}
== Subordination ==
* South-Western Front, [[62nd Army (Soviet Union)|62nd Army]] -
* South-Western Front, 8th Guards Army, [[29th Guards Rifle Corps]] - from
* [[3rd Ukrainian Front]], 8th Guards Army,
* [[1st Belorussian Front]], [[8th Guards Army]], 29th Guards Rifle Corps —
* With 8th Guards Army of the [[1st Belorussian Front]] May 1945.
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== Commanders ==
* Colonel [[Vasily Pavlovich Sokolov]] (1 March 1942 - 1 September 1943), 1943 promoted to major general
* Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Yugatov (2 September 1943 - 29 November 1943)
* Colonel Adrian T. Kuzin (30 November 1943 - 31 January 1944)
* Colonel Dmitry Yevstigneyevich Bakanov (1 February 1944 - 1 May 1944)
* Colonel Karl Karlovich Mazheika (11 May 1944 - 3 June 1944)
* Major General Dmitry Yevstigneyevich Bakanov (4 June 1944 - 5 August 1945)
==Awards==
* Awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2 degrees Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree
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== References ==
=== Citations ===
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{Cite book|title=Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской|last=Feskov|first=V.I.|last2=Golikov|first2=V.I.|last3=Kalashnikov|first3=K.A.|last4=Slugin|first4=S.A.|publisher=Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing|year=2013|isbn=9785895035306|location=Tomsk|language=Russian|trans-title=The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces|ref={{sfnRef|Feskov et al|2013}}}}
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* Vladimir Abyzov, ''The Final Assault, 1945'', Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, Moscow, 1985. A short memoir of a rifleman of the 236th Guards Rifle Regiment.
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