Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

Index 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 139th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times during World War II, in 1939 and twice in 1941. [1]

23 relations: Battalion, Battle of Kursk, Battle of Tolvajärvi, Battle of Uman, Cheboksary, Division (military), Finland, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Infantry, Kaluga Oblast, Kozelsk, On the Nameless Height, On the Nameless Height (song), Red Army, Rifle corps (Soviet Union), Southwestern Front (Soviet Union), Winter War, World War II, Zamoskvorechye District, 2nd Belorussian Front, 6th Army (Soviet Union), 81st Rifle Division, 8th Army (Soviet Union).

Battalion

A battalion is a military unit.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Battalion · See more »

Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (south-west of Moscow) in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Battle of Kursk · See more »

Battle of Tolvajärvi

The Battle of Tolvajärvi (Tolvajärven–Ägläjärven taistelu, Битва при Толваярви) was fought on 12 December 1939 between Finland and the Soviet Union.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Battle of Tolvajärvi · See more »

Battle of Uman

The Battle of Uman (15 July – 8 August 1941) was the German and allied encirclement of the 6th and 12th Soviet Armies—under the command of Lieutenant General I. N. Muzyrchenko and Major General P. G. Ponedelin, respectively—south of the city of Uman during the initial offensive operations of German Army Group South, commanded by ''Generalfeldmarshall'' Gerd von Rundstedt, as part of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front during World War II.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Battle of Uman · See more »

Cheboksary

Cheboksary (p; Шупашкар, Šupaškar) is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia and a port on the Volga River.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Cheboksary · See more »

Division (military)

A division is a large military unit or formation, usually consisting of between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Division (military) · See more »

Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Finland · See more »

Group of Soviet Forces in Germany

The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1954–1988) (Группа советских войск в Германии, ГСВГ), also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (1945–1954) and the Western Group of Forces (1988–1994) were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Group of Soviet Forces in Germany · See more »

Infantry

Infantry is the branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot, distinguished from cavalry, artillery, and tank forces.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Infantry · See more »

Kaluga Oblast

Kaluga Oblast (Калу́жская о́бласть, Kaluzhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Kaluga Oblast · See more »

Kozelsk

Kozelsk (Козе́льск) is a town and the administrative center of Kozelsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Zhizdra River (Oka's tributary), southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Kozelsk · See more »

On the Nameless Height

On the Nameless Height (Na bezymyannoy vysote) also known in English as On an Unnamed Hill and Unidentified Heights, is a Russian-Belarusian 2004 television film in four parts, set in 1944 in the Second World War.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and On the Nameless Height · See more »

On the Nameless Height (song)

On The Nameless Height (На безымянной высоте, Na bezymyannoy vysote), also known as Nearby an Unfamilial Settlement (У незнакомого посёлка, U neznakomogo posyolka) is a Soviet World War II song.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and On the Nameless Height (song) · See more »

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Red Army · See more »

Rifle corps (Soviet Union)

A rifle corps (translit) was a Soviet corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Rifle corps (Soviet Union) · See more »

Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)

The Southwestern Front was a name given to a Front (or Army group sized military formation) by the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War, by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the Russian Civil War, and by the Red Army during the Second World War.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Southwestern Front (Soviet Union) · See more »

Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Winter War · See more »

World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and World War II · See more »

Zamoskvorechye District

Zamoskvorechye District (райо́н Замоскворе́чье) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and Zamoskvorechye District · See more »

2nd Belorussian Front

The 2nd Belorussian Front (2-і Беларускі фронт, alternative spellings are 2nd Byelorussian Front and 2nd Belarusian Front) (2BF) was a military formation of Army group size of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 2nd Belorussian Front · See more »

6th Army (Soviet Union)

The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces until 1998.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 6th Army (Soviet Union) · See more »

81st Rifle Division

The 81st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 81st Rifle Division · See more »

8th Army (Soviet Union)

The 8th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War.

New!!: 139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) and 8th Army (Soviet Union) · See more »

Redirects here:

139th Rifle Division.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/139th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »