101st Rifle Division

The 101st Rifle Division was a unit of the Soviet Red Army initially formed as a mountain rifle division on 28 August 1938 within the 2nd Separate Red Banner Army in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city.

101st Rifle Division
Active1938–1948
Country Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeInfantry
Mountain Infantry
SizeDivision
Part of2nd Red Banner Army
EngagementsWorld War II
Decorations Order of Lenin
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Col. Ivan Pavlovich Pichugin
Maj. Gen. Semyon Fyodorovich Mozhaev
Maj. Gen. Porfirii Ivanovich Dyakov
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