33rd Rifle Division

33rd Rifle Division
33rd Rifle Division
Active	1922–1947; 1955–1956
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	World War II Soviet invasion of Poland; Baltic Operation; Leningrad Strategic Defensive; Toropets–Kholm Offensive; Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive; Tartu Offensive; Riga Offensive (1944); East Pomeranian Offensive; Battle of Berlin;
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner; Order of Suvorov 2nd class;
Battle honours	Kholm (1st formation); Berlin (1st formation); Smolensk (2nd formation)
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Trifon Shevaldin; Ivan Gribov

The 33rd Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army and Soviet Army, formed twice. The division was formed in 1922 at Samara and moved to Belarus in the next year. It fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 and in the Occupation of Lithuania in June 1940. After Operation Barbarossa, the division fought in the Baltic Operation and Leningrad Strategic Defensive. In January 1942, it fought in the Toropets–Kholm Offensive. The division participated in the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive, the Pskov-Ostrov Offensive, the Tartu Offensive and the Riga Offensive. In 1945, the division fought in the East Pomeranian Offensive and the Battle of Berlin. The division remained in Germany postwar with the Soviet occupation forces and disbanded in 1947. In 1955, it was reformed from the 215th Rifle Division in the Far East and inherited that division's honorifics, but was disbanded in 1956.

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