53rd Rifle Division

53rd Rifle Division
53rd Rifle Division
Active	I Formation: 1931–1946; II Formation: 1955
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	World War II Battle of Smolensk (1941); Battle of Moscow; Battle of the Dnieper; Uman–Botosani Offensive; Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive; Budapest Offensive; Prague Offensive;
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner (1st formation); Order of Suvorov 2nd class (1st and 2nd formations);
Battle honours	Novoukrainka (1st formation); named for Friedrich Engels (1st formation; Novorossiysk (2nd formation)

The 53rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army that served from the early 1930s to the immediate postwar period following World War II.

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