Second World War Combat History
Before the war the division consisted of the following units:
- 36th infantry regiment (later, as the 36th Motor Rifle Regiment, a Georgian national unit. Originally 309th Caucasian infantry regiment.)
- 121st infantry regiment
- 93rd infantry regiment
- 256th artillery regiment
- 1448th self-propelled gun regiment
- 55th separate anti-tank destroyer divizion (battalion)
- 26th reconnaissance company
- 140th self-propelled artillery gun battalion
- 232nd separate communications battalion (and 1432nd separate communications company)
- 123rd medical-sanitary battalion
- 553rd separate company of chemical defence
- 161st auto-transportation company
- 104th field bread bakery
- 156th divisional veterinary treatment station
- 203rd field post station
- 216th field pay branch of the State Bank
The division begun the war in the Transcaucasian Military District with the 40th Rifle Corps alongside the 31st Rifle Division. During the war the division was at various times serving as part of the 46th, 37th, 56th, Separate Coastal, 69th, 18th, 5th Guards and 60th Armies. The division took part in the Battle of the Caucasus. The division participated in the fighting for Feodosiya, Tuapse, in the Kuban and Taman Peninsula, and Krakow.
On September 3, 1943 for liberation of Kuban region and the capitol of the region, Krasnodar, the division was awarded the honorary name “Krasnodarskaya”, and the division was reformed again and became known as the 9th Plastunskaya Krasnodar Red Banner, Order of Red Star Rifle Division (Russian: 9-я пластунская стрелковая Краснодарская Краснознамённая, ордена Красной Звезды дивизия). Its enlisted and non-commissioned personnel came largely from the cossacks of the Kuban region.
During the period 1944 - 1945 the division participated in the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive (13.07-29.08.1944 also known as the 6th Stalin's Shock), and the liberation of Poland and Czechoslovakia for which in April 1945 the division was awarded the Order of Kutuzov 2nd class. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front in May 1945.
Its full title in 1945 was Кrasnodar Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov, Red Star им ВС Georgian SSR.
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