121st Rifle Division

121st Rifle Division
121st Rifle Division
Active	September 1939 – June 1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	Soviet invasion of Poland; Soviet occupation of the Baltic states; Battle of Białystok–Minsk; Battle of Smolensk; Battle of Moscow; Battle of Voronezh; Voronezh–Kastornoye operation; Third Battle of Kharkov; Western Carpathian offensive; Moravska Ostrava offensive; Prague offensive;
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner; Order of Suvorov; Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky;
Battle honours	Rylsk; Kiev;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Pyotr Zykov; Daniil Bushtruk;

The 121st Rifle Division (Russian: 121-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II.

Formed in September 1939 in Belarus, the division participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland later that month and in the June 1940 occupation of Lithuania.

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