On June 22, 1941. the division was in the KhVO in the Svyatogorsk camp. It was formed from residents of the northern part of Donbass, as well as residents of the Kharkov region (Izyumsky and Chuguevsky regiments). Was subordinate to the Kharkov Military District (HVO). The 777 rifle regiment, which was part of the 227th rifle division (about 4 thousand people), consisted entirely of the inhabitants of Slavyansk. Here, with the beginning of the war, the division carried out mobilization.

On July 1, at the direction of the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army G.K. Zhukov's division, heading for Shepetovka, was redirected to Zhmerinka, southwest of Vinnitsa, and included in the Southern Front.

From July 7, the division unloaded at the Bar station (30 km east of Zhmerinka), but already on July 9, an order was received to transfer the division to the Kanev area to the location of the South-Western Front.

On July 7, the German 1Tgr, having broken through the line of fortified areas on the old border, captured Berdichev and Zhitomir. On July 12, the enemy launched an offensive from Zhitomir in the eastern and southeastern directions and on July 16 captured Belaya Tserkov. On July 15, the administration of the 26th Army of the South-Western Front was withdrawn to the Kanev area and the troops operating in this area were subordinated to it. On July 19, the 26th army launched a counteroffensive in the direction of Fastov and Belaya Tserkov. 227rd, together with other reserve divisions transferred from the southern front from July 19, only disembarked in the Kanev-Korsun Shevchenkovsky area.

July 19 227 RD after unloading to concentrate in the district of Guli, Boguslav, Olkhovets, having one joint venture in the south-west. env. forests in. Boguslav.

On July 23, 1941, the 227th and 196th SD received an order to advance to the Tarashcha-Medvin front, where units of the 5th KK fought with the Viking SS motorized division. On July 24, the division advanced on Tarashcha, but as a result of a surprise night attack by the enemy, Dubnitsa withdrew.

The documents provide disappointing information about the combat effectiveness of a non-fired division: one joint venture of the 227th SD is occupied by Boguslav, the rest of the units put themselves in order. The enemy operating at Tarashch shifted his main efforts against units of the 199th and 227th, which turned out to be extremely unstable. The latter fled yesterday evening from the attack of one battalion of tanks. Today two regiments assembled it and put it in order all day.

From July 25, the division fought in the Boguslav area, and by July 28 withdrew to the Yakhny-Olkhovets-Moskalenki line. Until the beginning of August, she fought in the Taganch area (north of Korsun Shevchenkovsky) at the Kanevsky bridgehead.

On August 8, the 26th Army launched a counteroffensive in the direction of Boguslav. An offensive to the north in the direction of the Rzhishchevsky bridgehead was also planned. On these days, the 6th German army stormed the KIUR and the offensive from the Kanev bridgehead in the northern direction to connect with the Rzhishchev bridgehead, according to the plan, was to divert the German command from Kiev.

8 August 26 A has the task, having covered from the south-west and reserves with the defense of the left wing, in the morning of 9.8.41 with the main forces (5 kk, 12 td, 227 and 159 sd) to strike in the direction of Andreevka, Potok, metro Rzhishchev with the aim of encircling and the destruction of the enemy in the region (claim.) of the Rzhishchev, Potok, Bobritsa, Khodorov metro stations, with the subsequent task, together with the troops of the Kiev UR, to destroy the enemy in the area of ​​the s.-z. m. Rzhishchev.

On August 10, the strike group launched an offensive in the direction of Rzhishchev. 227th RD attacked in the direction of Kovali, Kurilovka. During August 10-12, units of the division tried unsuccessfully to break through the enemy's defenses. At noon on August 13, the Nazis, pulling up their reserves, after a strong artillery barrage, launched an offensive on Litvinets and Kovali. The division could not withstand the onslaught of the enemy and began to retreat to the south. At the same time, up to two battalions of German infantry, supported by artillery and mortar fire, attacked the 584th rifle division of the 199th rifle division from the forest south of Maslovka. On August 14, the offensive was stopped, and on August 15 it was decided to leave the Kanevsky bridgehead and withdraw parts of the army beyond the Dnieper. The crossing was completed on August 16.

From August 16 to early September, 227th Infantry Division defended the banks of the Dnieper and improved its defense in engineering terms. On September 3, due to the threatening situation in the area of ​​the breakthrough from the north of the 2nd Panzer Group of Guderian, the division was loaded into echelons and sent to the Konotop area in the front reserve.

On September 6, Guderian's tank divisions crossed the Seim sowing. Konotop. At this time, the 227th Rifle Division unloaded from the echelons and was brought into battle together with the 3VDK and 10td. From 9.09 the 227th SD with two AP PTO advances in the direction of Vyrovka, Popovka. By the end of 9.9, the 227th SD was holding Konotop with its front to the west.

On September 10, 3td units made a breakthrough from the Konotop area in a southerly direction. Until September 18, gradually pushing back to the southeast, the 227rd and the remnants of the 2nd and 3rd airborne battalions operated in the area south of Konotop. On September 13, the 227th rifle division numbered no more than 1650 people, 23 guns and 738pap RGK defended the Bondari, Berezhnaya line.

On September 15, the ring around the main forces of the SWF closed. The division was on the outer front of the encirclement as part of the 40A remnant of the South-Western Front. Until September 26, German troops did not undertake active offensive actions on the front of the army, engaged in the defeat of the encircled front and the redeployment of troops. 40th Army operated on the Tetkino-Vorozhba-Olshan front. Due to the lack of reserves at the front and in view of the start of an offensive on Moscow by German troops, the 40th Army, due to the enemy's superiority in forces, could only conduct deterrent battles. On October 8, 1941, army units withdrew at the Sudzha-Zamostye-Makhnovka line. On October 9, units of the 227th rifle division took part in a counterattack near Sumy against the 75th infantry division of the Wehrmacht. On October 15, units of the division fought in the Slavgorodok area. But soon they continued their further retreat to the east - through Oboyan, Solntsevo to Tim and Skorodny.

In early January 1942. The division took part in the 21st Army's offensive on Oboyan. The operation began on January 1 from the Rzhava Plot, Vikhrovka line. By January 3, the right-flank 169th Rifle Division captured the village of Kuliga 4 kilometers north of Oboyan and began to bypass the city from the northwest. At the same time, the 227th Infantry Division blocked the Nazi garrison in Nizhnyaya Olshanka and partially advanced to the line of the Psel River. One of its battalions cut the Belgorod-Oboyan-Kursk highway in the Zorskiye Dvory area, but the main forces of the division, like the rest of the 21st Army, were shackled by stubborn enemy resistance on the Prokhorovka, Leski, Savinino line. This forced the 227th division to scatter its units and slow down the pace of advance, as a result of which the left flank of the 169th division was exposed. Moreover, its right flank was exposed at the same time. The neighboring units of the 40th Army lagged behind, which had the task of capturing Kursk and encountered stubborn enemy opposition. Despite all efforts, it was not possible to master Oboyan. Our units were forced to withdraw.

In mid-February 1942, the division is part of the 38th Army, occupies a defensive line in the Kharkov region.

At the beginning of March 1942, units of the division, being a neighbor on the left of the 226th Rifle Division as part of the 38th Army, attacked Kharkov, breaking through the enemy's defenses in a 22-kilometer strip and reaching the border of the settlement. Ternova-Uncovered-Sandy-Big Babka.

On March 9, units of the division with the regiments of the 226th Rifle Division struck a joint blow at Rubezhnoye. Their initial success was not very encouraging: they occupied only 15 houses. However, by noon on March 10, most of Rubezhnoye was already in the hands of the fighters, including the church, which the enemy had turned into a particularly dangerous center of resistance. The offensive was generally unsuccessful. It was possible to capture only a bridgehead in the North. Donets near Old Saltov. From this bridgehead in May, the armies of the northern wing of the South-Western Front will launch an unsuccessful attack on Kharkov.

On May 12, the Kharkov operation of the Southwestern Front began. 227d was part of the 21st Army, which delivered an auxiliary strike on the right flank of the northern strike group of the front. However, it was the 21st Army that managed to achieve the greatest success in the first days of the operation. The 293rd and 227th shifts have moved 10 kilometers northward and 6-8 kilometers northwestward. By May 15, units of the division advanced to the village of Ustintsy, wedging 30 km into the depth of the German defense. But soon the enemy pulled up reserves and struck a counterattack on both flanks of our penetration. Parts of the division were forced to retreat on May 16 to Pylnaya, and by May 20, almost to the positions from which our attack on the Murom-Ternovaya line began.

On June 30, 1942, units of the 6th German army began an offensive from the south, in the Belgorod region, and 8, 134, 227, 279 rifle divisions of the 21st army were surrounded. In the battles of Korochi and Stary Oskol in the summer of 1942, she was surrounded. On the morning of July 3, 1942, the advance units of the enemy entered Stary Oskol. The encircled troops continued to resist, fettering the enemy infantry offensive with their actions. In the course of fierce battles, the 227th division suffered heavy losses, unable to retain the command, headquarters, main personnel and rear services. Therefore, the division was soon disbanded.

According to the operational report No. 191 of the General Staff of the Red Army, at 8:00 on July 10, 1942, the remnants of the 227th rifle division were concentrated in the area of ​​the village of Zemledelets (4 km north-west of the city of Buturlinovka).

According to the operational report No. 194 of the General Staff of the Red Army at 8.00 13.07.1942 293, 343, 226, 76 SD, 8 MSD, 1 MSBR, the remnants of 227 and 301 SD, 10 tbr were in the area of ​​concentration Kozlovka - Chibisovka - Losevo - Vorontsovka, where they brought yourself in order.

These roads cannot be forgotten.

In May 1980, veterans of the 227th Temryuk Red Banner Rifle Division gathered in Crimea to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Victory. The first to meet with the veterans were the high school military glory scouts, who corresponded with them. And so the guys, together with all the students, joyfully receive their dear guests and ask them to tell about the division's combat path. Lieutenant Colonel P.K. Kozikov, Major Seregin S.A., Captain Solodky A.P., scouts Vlasenko, Bronik, Savenkov, snipers Galifastova (Seryogina) and Koshman, signalman Kapustina, nurses Khizhnyak and Yazichan, Komsomol organizer take turns approaching the podium. battalion of Kazions.

The history of the Red Banner formation began in the difficult year of 1941, when the enemy threatened Moscow. The 19th cadet rifle brigade arrived here. In December, together with other units, she broke through the enemy's defenses and drove him west. The brigade liberated the Kaluga, Kalinin and Bryansk regions.

Then the brigade was transferred to the North Caucasus. As part of the 9th Army, she defended the approaches to Grozny and Ordzhonikidze. Here in January 1943 he took part in the liberation of Armavir. At the same time, it joins the 227th Infantry Division being formed and forms its basis. The battles at Temryuk, the breakthrough of the so-called "Blue Line" of the Germans, which they considered an impregnable defensive line, the liberation of Vyselkovsky, Korenovsky, Timashevsky and Slavyansky regions of the Territory. After the complete liberation of the Kuban land, the division, along with other distinguished units, was named Temryuk.

Young scouts especially remembered the meeting with former snipers Rosalia Ivanovna Koshman and Zinaida Georgievna Galifastova. As 17-year-old girls, they went to the front, received a sniper rifle among 47 Kuban Komsomol members, were enrolled in a sniper platoon under the command of a former student Nina Kovalenko. The girls received their baptism of fire on the Blue Line, and here they suffered the first losses, Galya Bushchik, Raya Tereshchenko, Nina Babai were killed. But they (female snipers) destroyed 600 German soldiers and officers.

After the liberation of the Kuban, the 227th rifle Temryuk division as part of the Separate Primorsky Army began to prepare for the liberation of the Crimea. At 21.00 on April 10, 1944, the commander of the army, A.I. Eremenko, gave the order to launch a swift offensive. By 4 o'clock on April 11, the soldiers captured the first and second lines of the main defense zone, and by 6 o'clock they liberated Kerch.

After the liberation of Kerch, the Army Command created a mobile group of the Separate Primorskaya Army consisting of the 227th Infantry Division, the 257th Separate Tank Regiment and other reinforcement units. The group was commanded by the commander of the 227th division, Colonel G. N. Preobrazhensky. The group was given the task: after breaking through the enemy's defenses in the Kerch region, enter the breakthrough and, without engaging in battle with the enemy, move forward and forward, sow panic and confusion in the ranks of the Germans.

In the group itself, an assault detachment was created, then renamed into an army mobile detachment. It consisted of the 2nd rifle battalion of the 777th rifle regiment, an artillery anti-tank fighter division, 30 tanks and a sapper platoon. The commander of the 2nd battalion of the 777th regiment, Major Pyotr Kuzmich Kozikov, was appointed commander of the detachment.

From the story of PK Kozikov: “At 7.00 on April 11, the mobile detachment began to fulfill the assigned task. , took the village of Marfovka. Then moved to the Ak-Monai positions along the southern field road of the Kerch Peninsula. On the way, the 6th Romanian cavalry regiment was defeated. By 7 pm the detachment occupied the first line of the Ak-Monai positions in the area of ​​the state farm, fierce resistance On April 12, in the afternoon, when the artillery and some divisions of the division approached, the mobile detachment seized the second line of positions by storm and moved in the direction of Feodosia on the heels of the retreating enemy. destroyed enemy guns, Lieutenant Basalaev and Sergeant Bondar distinguished themselves in this battle. he became free on Feodosia, and on the evening of April 12, a mobile detachment captured the city. At night, other units of the 227th rifle division entered the city. "In the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief dated April 13, 1944, Colonel Preobrazhensky's division was named among those who distinguished themselves in the battles for the capture of the city and the port of Feodosia, and gratitude was announced to her.

In the liberated Feodosia on the evening of April 12, 1944, the commander of the 16th Rifle Corps, Major General Privalov, convened a meeting of the commanders of the corps units. At the meeting, he said that, according to intelligence, a large number of enemy troops had accumulated in Karasubazar. There is information that the highway going through the mountainous and wooded area is saturated with artillery, in some places it is mined. Therefore, it was ordered: the advanced army tank-landing detachment to move parallel to this road along open rugged terrain, without entering the city of Staryi Crimea.

“When the detachment was moving,” recalls Major Kozikov, “reconnaissance reported that German units with tanks and artillery were located north of the Old Crimea, on the edge of a hollow. battalion captain Borodin, the tank commander and the driver, who became famous in the battle in Dalnye Kamyshi on the outskirts of Feodosia, were killed. "

Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Pavlovich Solodky, the commander of the 5th rifle company, which was considered a breakthrough company in the mobile detachment, as it was moving at the head of it, recalls: On the slopes of the ravine. Over the past two days, the personnel were very tired. As soon as they settled down, the company was on duty, the rest were resting. I was woken up with the message that there was some movement in the ravine ahead. Soon we saw an approaching group of people, it became clear that in front and on the sides were escorts with machine guns, and behind - an escort with a dog and an officer. At my command, the escorts and the dog were eliminated by submachine gunners Devyatkin, Kurochka and Dyachenko. 23 women were released, who were led to be shot. They said, that they were suspected of being connected with the partisans, held in basements, tortured, and then taken to a ravine, beaten with rifle butts along the way. hugged the fighters with words of gratitude.

In the morning there was a command to prepare for the offensive, in accordance with the previously established order. The tanks stretched out in a long column, their engines hummed, as if talking among themselves. The April morning poured its freshness on the faces of the soldiers, who, turning to the tankmen, joked: "Well, give us a ride with the breeze." Everyone was in good spirits, the infantrymen sitting on the tanks were spinning cigarettes. At the signal of the rocket, the tanks, roaring with motors, moved forward. Before reaching the Old Crimea, we went to the right, leaving the city aside.

Suddenly, an elderly woman ran out from behind the fence of the outer houses. She ran trying to cut our way, shouted something loudly, waving her handkerchief, and then fell to her knees, pointing towards the city. Our entire column stopped. Infantrymen jumped off the tanks, surrounded the crying woman. I went up to her too. The crying woman said: "Oh, my sons, my dear children, let's go and see what these monsters have done tonight. Catch them up and take revenge for our torment, suffering, for our blood, for our children."

I agreed to watch. The soldiers grabbed the woman in their arms, put her on the tank and we all drove up to her house. The following picture appeared to our eyes: not far from the house in the courtyard lay a young woman with a ripped belly, next to him lay a dead child with an uncircumcised umbilical cord stretching from the mother's belly. It was the third year of the war, the soldiers standing around the corpse of the woman saw many terrible pictures of the war, but this was the first time they saw such. Many could not stand it, turned away, their eyes filled with tears. One soldier took off his raincoat and covered the corpse of a woman with it. Only monsters could really do this. The hatch in the commander's tank opened, the tankman stuck his head out, shouted: "Commander, the major swears that we have deviated from our course, orders us to go out on our course immediately." Without a command, everyone jumped on the tanks, the engines roared, and we went on our course. Roaring engines, tanks carried us across the vast Crimean steppes, bringing us closer to Karasubazar, a place of reckoning with the fascists and their traitors. Every paratrooper had a burning desire to meet these monsters as soon as possible and pay them in full. "

The mobile detachment reached Karasubazar from the northern side of the city, at about two o'clock in the afternoon on April 13. The commander of the detachment, Kozikov, decided to deliver a surprise strike with all the forces of the detachment, since the Germans did not expect Soviet troops from this direction. The detachment rushed into the city at high speed, fire was opened from all types of weapons, a terrible commotion arose among the Germans and Romanians, and they fled in all directions. Many prisoners were taken.

In the Zuya area, the mobile detachment met with the troops of the Fourth Ukrainian Front. The further journey to Simferopol was already together, and then to Bakhchisarai. On the night of April 16, the units of the mobile detachment approached Ai-Petri. The task was to capture the city of Yalta, to cut off the path of retreating German troops to Balaklava. Due to the fact that the bridges were destroyed, the tanks returned in the direction of Bakhchisarai. "A mobile detachment," writes Dnepr in his book. Carpathians. Crimea. "Major General A. N. Grylev, - went through the Ai-Petri pass to the city. Having overcome enormous difficulties, paving the way through the mountains, a detachment under the command of Major Kozikov descended on foot from the mountains and suddenly struck the rear of the enemy's Yalta garrison This decided his fate. The enemy began a hasty retreat, after the artillery of the 227th division struck from the Ai-Petri pass, the retreat turned into an indiscriminate flight. on the ships, but the artillery of the 227th division fired at them. They were destroyed by the aircraft of the Fourth Air Army, which sank two barges. "

For skillful military operations during the liberation of Yalta, the troops of the Primorsky Army, including the 227th division of Colonel Preobrazhensky, received gratitude in the Order of the Supreme Commander of April 16, 1944.

The Crimean partisans provided assistance to the Soviet troops in defeating the enemy along the entire length of their combat path. Before the Old Crimea - the Eastern formation under the command of V.S. Kuznetsov, during the defeat of the Germans in Karasubazar - the 5th partisan brigade (commander F.S.Solovey) from the Northern formation, during the liberation of Alushta - the 4th partisan brigade (commander Kh. Chussi) from the Southern compound, from the Southern compound the 7th brigade under the command of L.A. Vikman during the liberation of Yalta and, finally, the 1st brigade of the Northern compound (commander F.I. Fedorenko), which together with the advancing Soviet troops entered Simferopol.

And then the fulfillment of important combat missions assigned by the 227th division by the command of the Primorsky Army during the assault on Sapun Mountain in the Balaklava area. The battalion commander of the 570th Infantry Regiment Sergei Aleksandrovich Seregin later recalled: "The regiment was supposed to strike at one of the heights that blocked the way to the settlement of Karan." During the battle, Seregin received an order: to start an attack as soon as the bombing of enemy positions is over, not to miss the moment. When the last group of "ILov" turned to the east, Seregin raised a battalion. Together with his battalion, the neighboring battalions of the regiment rose, also moving up. Despite the fact that the enemy, as if waking up, snapped harder and harder, the height was taken. By nightfall, the regiment approached the sea and took the direction to the southern outskirts of Sevastopol. Having broken the enemy's resistance, Soviet troops, including the 227th Infantry Division, by the evening of May 9, 1944, liberated the city of Russian naval glory - Sevastopol.

In the Order of the Supreme Commander, among the distinguished Soviet troops during the liberation of Sevastopol, 570, 777, 779 rifle regiments of the 227th division were named. They were named Sevastopol.

In battles with the hated enemy on the Crimean land, the soldiers of the 227th division showed massive heroism, showed unlimited devotion to their homeland. PK Kozikov recalls - Senior Lieutenant Vasiliev. He was wounded, but, having learned about the offensive, escaped from the hospital, arrived at his battalion and two hours before the offensive took over his company on April 11, acted as part of a mobile detachment, died heroically near Sevastopol. Lieutenant Basalaev, who arrived in the battalion in 1943, he was only 18 years old, also the wounded escaped from the hospital and took part in the battles on the Crimean land. And on the territory of Czechoslovakia in 1945 he was mortally wounded. Excellent soldiers, according to the battalion commander, were sergeants Danilov and Bondarev, privates Lebedinsky, Demchenko, radio operator Morozov.

Girls-snipers performed excellently in battles with the enemy, on their account hundreds of destroyed enemy soldiers and officers. But they themselves suffered losses. In the battles for Kerch, Lida Efanova, Anya Pechenkina, Lucy Rasina, Nadya Krivulyak died. Nadya Koldeeva was seriously wounded. Liza Vasilenko and Lilya Vilks did not reach Sevastopol. 13 girls were left to lie in mass graves, 25 were seriously injured.

A sniper platoon nurse Zhenya Grunskaya performed a feat in battle on the outskirts of Sapun-Gora. "She walked ahead," recalls the platoon commander Nina Kovalenko. Bullets and shrapnel whistled in the air. As soon as she finished dressing, she heard the call: “The company commander is wounded!” After helping the seriously wounded, Zhenya heard a suspicious rustle. Zhenya shouted and, jumping up, covered the wounded with her. The fascist fired. Grunskaya swayed, but managed to grab and hold the barrel of the enemy machine gun with her hands. "

Zhenya died. She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Thousands of soldiers of the 227th division were awarded. Among them: the commander of the 5th rifle company, the breakthrough company of the mobile detachment, senior lieutenant A.P. Solodkiy - with the Order of the Red Banner, he was awarded the rank of captain, the commander of the 2nd battalion of the 777th regiment - the commander of the army mobile detachment of the division, Major PK Kozikov with the Order of Lenin, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, the commander of the 227th division - the commander of the army mobile group, Colonel G.N. Preobrazhensky. was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, he was promoted to major general.

The division itself was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for successful military operations on the Crimean land, and the 227th Infantry Temryuk Red Banner Division was named.

Crimeans honor the memory of the soldiers of the division who died a heroic death on their land. In the city of Balaklava near Sevastopol, a monument is erected on which the words are engraved in gold: "Eternal memory to the heroes of the 227th Infantry Temryuk Red Banner Division, who died in the battles for the liberation of Balaklava in April-May 1944"

The Great Patriotic War was still going on. The 227th STKD fought the enemy far from home, fought for the liberation of Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia.

The outstanding victory of the Soviet troops in the Crimea is one of the most glorious pages of the heroic chronicle of the Great Patriotic War. It was a testament to the great strength and indestructible might of the Soviet people and their armed forces, led by the Communist Party.

Song of the Temryuk Red Banner Division.

Words by B.B. Bykov Music by L.B. Grigorieva

In battles for the Motherland

Born in the lights.

Covered in combat glory

There is Temryukskaya

Red Banner,

Division is coming

Into a victorious battle.
In Taman floodplains took

Fierce battle

And the blue line

Torn apart by you
A landing poured into the Crimea

Such one gave a blow

That the Germans overturned

And took the bridgehead.
To the city of Feodosia

Send your arrows

And they threw away for a hundred miles

Fascist regiments.
Let's go to Yalta steeply

Over rocks and snows

And a thundercloud

They rolled onto the enemy.

Will forever be remembered

The legend of

Like the Germans in Sevastopol

Arranged a rout.
Returned to our Motherland

The land of wondrous beauty

Created for the glory of the Russian

You were born in battles.
I was marching through Romania,

By a military thunderstorm

Hungarian divisions

Trembled before you.
The fire flies over the Tissa,

The fight is hot and cruel

Temryuk division

Bursts into Szolnok.
And in the defense of the enemy

You made a hole

Unbreakable strength

You go to Budapest.
In the mountains of Czechoslovakia

You started to fight

And showed the glorious

The art of winning.
From the gallant division

Enemies take damage

Run from Banska Stiavnica

Enemies are running for Hron.
Proud of high glory

And by the power of pride,

Division is coming forward

cities flash by.
And now the war is over

Enemies are defeated.

Celebrate their victory

Mighty shelves.

Temryuk division

On a battle watch,

For the beloved homeland

Always ready to fight.

Veteran.

Even if there is no obelisk in his honor,

Bow low to him

He is a great war veteran!
He did not hide from the bullets of enemies,

He fought fearlessly and evil,

And what remained alive -

He was just lucky.
Someone has to come home

Not everyone lies in the ground ...

And he could also be embodied in granite

Become a spark in the Eternal Flame.
Often at night he moans in his sleep,

Frontal scars ache.

He goes into hand-to-hand combat again,

And again the soldiers are falling, dying.
He recalls how the reality of the war,

And the time of the first peaceful minutes

As over a mass grave on a victory day

The first last one thundered fireworks.
He looks several years older

He lived hard, but he knew

What he died for, what he fought for,

When he retreated in an unequal battle.
When a machine gun went to the enemy,

When I froze in the snow

He drowned in the swamps, walked with Sivashi,

He fought in the Carpathian Mountains.
He didn't ask for anything in return

Fearing neither death nor misfortune.

Life, youth, blood and love

He put on the altar of victories.
And although there is no obelisk in his honor

And the eternal flame doesn't burn

Youth! Bow down to him,

Before you The great war the veteran is standing.

Literature.

1. 
   Memories of the guard lieutenant colonel Kozikov Pyotr Kuzmich about the military actions of the mobile detachment of the Separate Primorsky Army during the liberation of the Crimea in 1944 on November 15, 1973.
2. 
   Memoirs of the retired captain Alexei Pavlovich Solodkoy from December 1, 1979 "The second night of the army detachment".
3. 
   A. Kostenkov. "Temryuk Red Banner". The newspaper "Komsomolets Kubani" May 6, 1975
4. 
   AN Grylev, Major General "Dnepr. Carpathians. Crimea". Publishing house "Science". Moscow. 1970, pp. 239-242.
5. 
   "Crimea during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (Collection of documents and materials). Publishing house "Tavria", Simferopol. 1973, pp. 353-354, 359-360.
6. 
   A. Kostenkov. The girls were walking the front-line road. Krasnodar Book Publishing House. 1978 year

ORDER OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER
Colonel General Petrov

The troops of the North Caucasian Front, by strikes from land and landing from the sea as a result of many days of stubborn battles, completed the defeat of the Taman group of the enemy and today, on October 9, completely cleared the Taman Peninsula of the German invaders.

Thus, the operationally important bridgehead of the Germans in the Kuban, which provided them with the defense of the Crimea and the possibility of offensive actions towards the Caucasus, was finally eliminated.

In the battles for the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, the troops of Lieutenant General Leselidze, Lieutenant General Grechko, Major General Grechkin, Major General Khizhnyak, Major General Provalov, Major General Sergatskov, Major General Luchinsky, pilots of Lieutenant General Vershinin, sailors of Vice Admiral Vladimirsky and Rear Admiral Gorshkov.

Especially distinguished themselves:

83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division of Colonel Koldubov, 176th Rifle Division of Major General Bushev, 383rd Rifle Division of Colonel Gorbachev, 89th Rifle Division of Colonel Safaryan, 242nd Mountain Rifle Division of Colonel Lisinov, 2nd Red Guards Rifle Division Major General Zakharov, 32nd Guards Red Banner Rifle Division of Colonel Vasilenko, 339th Rifle Division of Colonel Kulakov, 395th Rifle Division of Major General Turchinsky, 255th Red Banner Marine Rifle Brigade of Colonel Kharichev, 62nd Colonel Artillery Efimov, 103rd Fighter Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment of Colonel Zasekin, 44th Guards Mortar Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Zakharov, 35th Separate Pontoon Bridge Battalion of Major Ivanov, 63rd Tank Brigade of Lieutenant Colonel Melnichuk, 229th Fighter Aviation Division 46 1st Guards Night Light Bomber Aviation Regiment Major Bershanskaya, 502nd Assault Aviation Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Smirnov, 276th Infantry Division of Major General Sevastyanov, 227th Infantry Division of Colonel Preobrazhensky, 316th Infantry Division of Colonel Okhman, 174th Engineering Battalion of Major Popov, 50th Guards mortar regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Zharikov, 414th Infantry Division of Colonel Kurashvili, 230th Assault Aviation Division of Colonel Getman, 125th Red Banner Independent Howitzer Artillery Brigade of high power, Major General of Artillery Pareshin.

In commemoration of the victory won, the formations and units that distinguished themselves in the battles for the liberation of the Taman Peninsula should be named “Tamansky”, “Temryuk”, “Anapsky” and “Kuban”.

Henceforth, these compounds and parts will be called:

89th Taman Rifle Division,

242nd Taman Mountain Rifle Division,

2nd Guards Red Banner Taman Rifle Division,

32nd Guards Red Banner Taman Rifle Division,

339th Taman Rifle Division,

395th Taman Rifle Division,

255th Taman Red Banner Naval Rifle Brigade,

62nd Taman Cannon Artillery Brigade,

103rd Taman Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment,

44th Guards Taman Mortar Regiment,

35th Taman separate pontoon bridge battalion,

63rd Taman Tank Brigade,

229th Taman Fighter Aviation Division,

46th Guards Taman Night Light Bomber Aviation Regiment,

502nd Taman Attack Aviation Regiment,

276th Temryuk Rifle Division,

227th Temryuk Rifle Division,

316th Temryuk Rifle Division,

174th Temryuk Engineering Battalion,

50th Guards Temryuk Mortar Regiment,

414th Anapa Rifle Division,

230th Kuban Assault Aviation Division,

125th Red Banner Kuban Independent Howitzer Artillery Brigade of high power.

To transform the 83rd Turkestan mountain rifle division into the 128th guards Turkestan mountain rifle division;

To transform the 176th rifle division into the 129th guards rifle division.

To present the reformed guards divisions with the flags of the Guards.

383rd Infantry Division for especially skillful and decisive actions to present for awarding the Order of the Red Banner.

Today, on October 9, at 10 pm, the capital of our Motherland, Moscow, on behalf of the Motherland, salutes our valiant troops that liberated the Taman Peninsula with twenty artillery volleys from two hundred and twenty-four guns.

For excellent military operations, I would like to express my gratitude to all the troops under your command that took part in the battles for the liberation of the Taman Peninsula.

Eternal glory to the heroes who fell in the struggle for the freedom and independence of our Motherland!

Death to the German invaders!

Supreme Commander-in-Chief

Marshal of the Soviet Union I. STALIN

"I was killed near Rzhev." The tragedy of the Monchalovsky "cauldron" Gerasimova Svetlana Alexandrovna

183rd Infantry Division

183rd Infantry Division

The division entered the Rzhev-Vyazemskaya offensive operation 1942 as part of the 39th Army. Its commander was Major General K. V. Komissarov, the military commissar - Hero of the Soviet Union, regimental commissar V. R. Boyko. In mid-January 1942, the division was located west of Rzhev and on January 15 (according to other sources, January 14) was transferred to the 29th Army. During the hostilities, its units and subunits occupied individual structures of the Rzhev-Vyazma defensive line on the eastern side of the army position, the construction of which was carried out in the summer and autumn of 1941 and was not completed. Even in spite of those remarks in the defense, which were recorded by the inspectors, and as discussed above, the division staunchly defended its lines and successfully repelled enemy attacks. The division headquarters was located in the area of ​​the military town 1 km east of the Monchalovo station. On January 29, communication with the army headquarters, neighbors on the left - the 246th, on the right - the 369th rifle divisions was maintained by radio, telephone, with the help of liaison officers. During the exit from the encirclement, the means of communication were lost. At different times, the divisions' actions were "supported" by separate units: faulty tanks of the 159th OT, the 71st ski battalion.

Some veterans of the division recalled the funeral on January 24 of a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, commissar of the 285th rifle regiment, senior political instructor Shopan Konuspayev, one of the leaders of Alma-Ata in 1937-1938. He died the day before in the battle for the village of Shchukino, replacing one of the unit commanders. They buried him in a deep crater from an aerial bomb near the Monchalovo station. A plaque was placed over the grave with the inscription: "The Bolshevik commissar Shopan Konuspayev, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, who heroically died in the battles for the village of Shchukino on 21.01.1942, was buried here." When Monchalovo was occupied by the Nazis, the grave with a sign was destroyed. In 1956 the remains of Shopan Konuspayev were transferred to a mass grave at the Monchalovo station. An obelisk has been erected there, where the name of the senior political instructor Konuspayev is inscribed among the names of the dead soldiers.

Major General K.V. Komissarov - Commander of the 183rd Infantry Division. 1941 g.

Hero of the Soviet Union, regimental commissar V.R. Boyko - military commissar of the 183rd rifle division. 1941-1942

Shopan Konuspayev

The first document of the division after leaving the encirclement was the report of the commander of the 227th Infantry Regiment, Art. battalion commissar DK Kasyanenko to the commander of the 29th army: “I am reporting that on 21.II.42 I left the enemy's rear and temporarily assumed the duties of the commander of the 183rd rifle division until the division commander, Major General Komissarov, left the enemy's rear. I am forming the interim management of the division and the regiment. The available composition of the division is on the defensive - 285 joint ventures in the area of ​​high. 232, 9, echeloned to a depth of 227 bn, 295 bn, 623 ap ... in the area of ​​the village of Vysokoe. " By the evening of that day, the division headquarters was located in the village of Klyuchi, communication with the army headquarters and neighbors was carried out by "foot messengers".

It has already been said above that the division commander, Major General Komissarov, when leaving the encirclement, died in the area of ​​the village of Lebzino. He is currently buried in the village of Kokoshkino. The military commissar of the division V.R.Boyko went to his own on February 23, later was a member of the Military Council of the 39th Army. After the war, he wrote his memoirs "With a thought for the Motherland." The division fighters who escaped from the encirclement were few, since, as mentioned above, they were ordered to be brought together into one rifle regiment and subordinate it to the commander of the 185th rifle division.

After completing the formation, the division remained in the 29th Army. Its commander for a short time in March 1942 was the chief of staff, Major P.K. Ruban, who left the encirclement, then, from March 19, Lieutenant Colonel A.S. Kostitsyn. In October 1942, the division was withdrawn to the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters, and from February 1943 it fought in the south.