155th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

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;

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 of 1939, it fought in the Winter War and attacked the town of Lieksa.[1] In October 1941, it was destroyed in Bryansk. It was later recreated at Moscow from the 4th Moscow Home Guard Rifle Division in January 1942. 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.[2]

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.
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.

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[1] Trotter, William R. (2002). The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940. Aurum Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 1-85410-881-6.

[2] 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.