35th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

35th Rifle Division
Active	I Formation: 1919-1945 II Formation: 1955-1957
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	Russian Civil War Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) World War II Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Decorations	Order of the Red Star (1st formation)
Battle honours	Siberian (1st formation)

The 35th Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army, formed twice.

It was established in 1919.^[1] Served in Far East Military District during World War II and part of the 5th Rifle Corps there in May 1945. The division disbanded in the fall of 1945.^[2]

In 1955, it was reformed from the 255th Rifle Division at Ust-Bolsheretsk in the Far Eastern Military District. On 17 May 1957, it became the 125th Motor Rifle Division^[3] of the 43rd Army Corps. It was disbanded on 7 March 1958.^[4]

References

1. Russian wikipedia
2. Feskov et al 2013, p. 579
3. Feskov et al 2013, p. 151
4. "125th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

• Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
• Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner's The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Novato: Presidio Press, 1985