1st Rifle Division NKVD


The 1st NKVD Rifle Division was a Division sized of the NKVD and eventually Red Army of the Soviet Union that existed pre-war and during the war.

History

The 1st NKVD Rifle division was formed sometime before World War II where it remained on the Finnish/Soviet border around the area of Mga until the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. The actual division was formed in August of 1941 from the former 3rd and 102nd Border Guard Regiment and the 7th and 33rd NKVD Rifle Regiments. In December of 1941 the division was then assigned to the 8th Army where it remained until February of 1942 when it moved back to the "Neva Operations Group" as part of the Leningrad Front. Later that year in August the division was reformed as the new "46ya Strelkovaya Diviziya" in the soviet army.

Organization at beginning

Organization of the "division" before it was actually considered a division sized unit.:
When the war started the division was de-organized and re-organized as a rifle division within the army. It was then known as the "46th : see for further information. The structure when it entered the army: