216th Rifle Division
A new division was formed in Kharkov as the 216th Rifle Division which became the skeleton of the garrison of the city. The Front staff directed that the defenders of Kharkov should abandon the city on the night of 25 October 1941. However, the city garrison staff, under General I.I. Marshalkov, and the efforts of the 38th Army, also present, were not well coordinated. Thus the division received orders simultaneously from the city defense staff, and from the 38th army staff. As a result of the confusion, the Germans managed to seize one of the bridges into the city.
In April and May 1944 the division fought with the 10th Rifle Corps, 51st Army, in the Battle of the Crimea (1944). 51st Army was subsequently moved to 1st Baltic Front. Later on, on 6 April 1945 the 216th Rifle Division was one of the divisions in the encirclement around Königsberg, located at the northwest sector and part of the 124th Rifle Corps of the 43rd Army. The division to the right was the 208th Rifle Division, and to the left was the 153rd Rifle Division. They attacked German positions and broke through the second defense line. By May 1945 the division was with the 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front.
The division was part of the Fourth Army in the Transcaucasian Military District until 1955, until it became the 34th Rifle Division at Baku. However under its new designation it disbanded on 7 July 1956. [9]
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