86th Guards Rifle Division

The 98th was redesignated as the 86th Guards on April 16 and received its Guards banner on May 10. Once the division completed its reorganization its order of battle was as follows:

• 260th Guards Rifle Regiment (from 4th Rifle Regiment)
• 263rd Guards Rifle Regiment (from 166th Rifle Regiment)
• 265th Guards Rifle Regiment (from 308th Rifle Regiment)
• 191st Guards Artillery Regiment (from 153rd Artillery Regiment)[1]
• 93rd Guards Antitank Battalion
• 89th Guards Reconnaissance Company
• 99th Guards Sapper Battalion
• 165th Guards Signal Battalion (later 119th Guards Signal Company)
• 91st Guards Medical/Sanitation Battalion
• 90th Guards Chemical Defense (Anti-gas) Company
• 92nd Guards Motor Transport Company
• 88th Guards Field Bakery
• 87th Guards Divisional Veterinary Hospital
• 1727th Field Postal Station
• 168th Field Office of the State Bank

Col. Ivan Fedotovich Seryogin, who had commanded the 98th since September, 1942 remained in command until May 27. He was then replaced by Col. Vasilii Pavlovich Sokolovskii who would remain in command for the duration of the war, being promoted to the rank of major general on September 13, 1944.

The division was quickly recommitted to action in the Soviet-German War ("Great Patriotic War"). In the area of Mius and to the River Molochna, the division marched more than 300-km in battle and occupied more than 50 settlements, destroying about 8000 German soldiers and officers, a much enemy weapons and equipment.

The division under the command of Colonel (c September 13 1944 Major General) Sokolovsky V.P. as part of the corps fought from the banks of the Dnieper River banks to Budapest. In the last combat operations after the encirclement of the enemy grouping in Budapest, the division's units covered the right flank of the corps from possible attempts by the enemy to break through to their surrounded troops.

In 1955 it was part of the 10th Guards Budapest Rifle Corps. The division was redesignated in 1957 as the 86th Guards Motor Rifle Division.[2]

• Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1967a). Сборник приказов РВСР, РВС СССР, НКО и Указов Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о награждении орденами СССР частей, соединениий и учреждений ВС СССР. Часть I. 1920 - 1944 гг [Collection of orders of the RVSR, RVS USSR and NKO on awarding orders to units, formations and establishments of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Part I. 1920–1944] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow.
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• Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1964). Командование корпусного и дивизионного звена советских вооруженных сил периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг [Commanders of Corps and Divisions in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Frunze Military Academy. pp. 326

• Ivan Fedotovich Seryogin
• Vasilii Pavlovich Sokolovskii

• Калашников К. А., Додонов И. Ю. Высший командный состав Вооружённых сил СССР в послевоенный период. Справочные материалы (1945—1975). Том 4. Командный состав Сухопутных войск (армейское и дивизионное звенья). Часть первая. — Усть-Каменогорск: «Медиа-Альянс», 2019. — 428 с. — ISBN 978-601-7887-31-5. — pp.231-233.