Connection history:
It was originally formed as the 3rd Crimean Motorized Division. After the formation and knocking together of units, the division was engaged in the defense of the Crimean coast from Yevpatoria to Sevastopol. Soon the division received the name 172nd Rifle (Motorized). Accordingly, regiments and other units were assigned new numbers.
After the start of the German LIVAK offensive on Perekop on September 24, the division that made up the 9SK reserve received an order to move to the battlefields on Perekop. The division had to make a 150 km march to the battle area. By the night of September 25, the division reached the village of Aibary. There were about 60 km left to Armyansk.
Commander of the 51st Army, Colonel General F.I. Kuznetsov creates an operational group consisting of the 271st, 172nd and 42nd cavalry divisions under the command of his deputy General P.I. Batov with the task of launching a counterattack on the enemy who had broken through on September 26. But the developing situation forced General P.I. Batov, without expecting the full concentration of the divisions, launched a counterattack with the forces of only three approaching regiments.
The 383rd regiment of Major Erofeev with the attached artillery of the 340th artillery regiment of the 172nd division and the 865th regiment of the 271st division attacked the enemy on the move after a night march from the Zalivnoye-Budanovka line between the coast of the Perekop Bay and the railway in the direction of the northern outskirts of Armyansk. 2nd artillery division A.I. Galushkina supported the regiment's advance with fire. From this line, 122 mm howitzers hit the enemy even without changing the firing position from Armyansk to the Perekopsky shaft.
The coordinated strike of our units forced the enemy's 46th Infantry Division to retreat to mark 27.0 on the Perekopsky Val. The battle here continued until the evening. The Germans sent units of two more divisions here - the 73rd and 50th. Our crowd, they took possession mostly Armyansk, Suvorovo and Kullu. On this day, the chief of the division's operational department, Captain Andreev, was seriously wounded, and the chief of staff, Major Zhukovin, was killed on the battlefield by a direct hit of a shell on his armored car.
Defense of the Perekop Isthmus in the fall of 41.
The battle plan for the next day, September 27, remained the same: two attacks covering Armyansk, converging at the Perekop Wall. On the morning of September 27, the main forces of the 172nd Infantry Division under the command of Colonel Toroptsev began to operate - the 514th rifle regiment Lieutenant Colonel Ustinov, the 747th Rifle Regiment of the border guard Lieutenant Colonel Shashlo, as well as the 5th Tank Regiment, commanded by Major Baranov.
At dawn the division's attack began. The 5th Tank Regiment played an exceptional role. He confidently led our infantry. Tankers cleared Voloshino. With their help, the first counterattack from Suvorove was repulsed, and this settlement was taken. Together with tanks northwest of Armyansk, units of the division were entrenched in a cemetery and a brick factory. Here, in the area between Armyansk and Perekopsky rampart and directly on the rampart, intense fighting took place all day. After 17.30 the enemy launched counterattack after counterattack on Shchemilovka, Armyansk, Voloshino.
At night, an order was received from the commander of 51A F.I. Kuznetsov to withdraw to the Ishun positions. The division remaining as part of the task force was ordered to take up defensive positions along the Chatyrlyk River.
As of September 28, the division had nine thousand people and 4 artillery batteries: 152 mm howitzers -4, 122 mm howitzers -4, 76 mm guns -7 and 45 mm guns - 4 on a 40 km front.
After retreating to the Ishun positions, the division, which had lost most of the 5th tank (it still had 5 T-34 tanks) and the 383rd rifle regiments, was reorganized and replenished with other Crimean divisions to its full strength. In total, the division had almost 12 thousand soldiers, but there was an acute shortage of artillery. To support the division, the 2nd rocket artillery division (commander Mr. Chernyak), consisting of 12 Katyushas, arrived from the “Mainland”. In October, all Crimean divisions received new numbers in the all-Union classification. The 3rd Motorized Rifle Division became the 172nd Infantry Division. Colonel I.A. took command of the division. Laskin.
The commander of the 172nd division was forced to build a one-echelon defense west of the railway along the Chatyrlyk River and further along the southern shore of the Karkinitsky Bay on a front over 20 kilometers wide. Three divisions of the artillery regiment were distributed among rifle regiments. He left 10 tanks in reserve. This was the second line in the defensive zone system of the Ishun positions. The riverbed and swampy banks were littered with agricultural machinery and vehicles, and it served as an anti-tank obstacle.
During the twenty days of calm, the Germans seriously prepared for a decisive offensive. Waiting for him, on the cold night from October 17 to 18, our troops strengthened their defenses. At 5.00, groups of enemy bombers, one after another, from high altitudes began to bomb a narrow area of 3-4 km of the Ishun positions. A powerful artillery barrage began along the front line of our troops, in which 150 mm and 210 mm heavy enemy howitzers took part. Half an hour later, with the fire moving to depth, overcoming our engineering barriers and minefields, under the cover of machine guns and mortars, the enemy infantry went on the offensive. The 150 mm smoke mortar rockets used by the Germans for the first time laid a smoke screen in front of the attackers.
Defense of the Perekop Isthmus October 41
On the evening of October 19, the enemy's 46th Infantry Division broke through to the mouth of Chatyrlyk. October 20. By evening the enemy broke through the Ishun positions. The 170th German Infantry Division, which had over 30 StuG III assault mounts, rushed to the mouth of the Chatyrlyk River. October 21. In the morning, new attacks by German infantry began, supported by artillery and aviation, on the position of the 514th Infantry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Ustinov. The regiment's battalions held the defense.
On October 22, from 7.30, our troops were subjected to hurricane fire from mortars and artillery: aviation in large groups literally ironed out our infantry, especially hard in the Vorontsovka area. On October 23, in the morning the battle began along the entire front. By this time, three divisions of the Primorsky Army (25.95, 2kd) evacuated from Odessa were moving towards the battle area. The width of the front of the 172nd division reached 40 kilometers, passing along the river to its mouth and further along the southeastern shore of the Karkinitsky Bay. The battle formation was single-echelon, that is, all regiments were in direct contact with the enemy. However, the division's main efforts were concentrated on the right flank, in the Ishun-Pervomaiskoye direction. On October 22, the enemy launched an offensive at the division's front throughout the day. The attacks on the positions of the 514th regiment and at the junction with the neighboring cavalry division were especially fierce. The division commander brought into action all his modest reserves and carried out some regrouping of forces in a dangerous direction.
In the evening, units of the Primorsky Army of General I.E. began to approach from the direction of Sevastopol. Petrov, who arrived on fleet ships from abandoned Odessa. The last order of General Batov required the 172nd Rifle Division with a detachment Marine Corps and units of the 95th Infantry Division to restore lost positions on the southern bank of the Chatyrlyk River.
By this time, three divisions of the Primorsky Army (25.95, 2kd) evacuated from Odessa were moving towards the battle area. On October 22, Vice Admiral Levchenko arrived from Sevastopol to the operational group’s command post. The enemy has already practically broken through on the left flank of the 172nd infantry division in the area of the mouth of Chatarlyk, introducing here a fresh 50th infantry division. On the right flank of the defense, the enemy also managed to cross the river. Here it was decided to launch a counterattack with the 5th tank regiment and the 514th and 747th rifle regiments. The division commander decided to immediately, on the move, launch a counterattack in the direction of the open flank of the German strike force. He personally led this counterattack. A sudden attack, even by the strength of a company, threw the enemy into confusion. His advance was stopped.
On October 23, six-barreled mortars and German aircraft worked especially hard. Vorontsovka shook from bomb explosions. The Germans repeatedly attacked with tanks (most likely these were assault guns of the 190th self-propelled gun division) and infantry in the direction of Vorontsovka. The division commander skillfully maneuvered with his limited means, and therefore the enemy was unable to penetrate the division’s defenses.
On the morning of October 24, the troops of the task force made their last attempt to change the course of events in their favor. The regiment was removed from the defense of Karkinitsky Bay. In addition, the counterattack included a battalion of marines, which was greatly depleted, but fought selflessly in the most difficult areas, and cavalrymen of V.V. Glagolev (42kd). At the same time, the approaching troops of Primorskaya General I.E. Petrov (25, 95d and 2kd) began to attack Ishun in the general direction.
Attacks in the Vorontsovka area on October 25 by units of the 95th and 172nd divisions did not bring success. This was due to the hasty entry of 95th Infantry Division units on the move without reconnaissance, heavy losses in the 172nd Infantry Division, the dominance of enemy aircraft in the air and difficulties in supplying our troops with ammunition. Meanwhile, the enemy's 170pd approached, which Manstein threw into battle in the 172d division.
On October 26, after powerful air and artillery preparation, German troops attacked units of the 172nd Rifle Division on the right and left flanks, trying to cut it off from 51A. The division's communication with its neighbor and Batov's operational group was completely disrupted. It was clear that in the current situation the division no longer made sense to remain on the old line of the Chatyrlyk River, separated from the rest of the army. The commander of the Primorsky Army, Petrov I.E., who subordinated the division to himself. ordered a retreat to Sevastopol. The 172nd Division was assigned as a rearguard and was supposed to cover the movement of troops retreating through Simferopol.
On October 31, motorized units from the Ziegler brigade intercepted the Simferopol-Bakhchisarai road, thereby cutting off the direct route to Sevastopol. Units of the Primorsky Army had to retreat along the only road Simferopol - Alushta and further to Sevastopol.
From November 1, the division receives the task, moving in the rearguard, to cover the movement of the Primorsky Army troops retreating to Sevastopol in order to defend the city together with the forces of the Black Sea Fleet. On the morning of November 4, units of the division entered Yalta, and on November 6, the 172nd entered Sevastopol. The 383rd regiment of the division is part of the first sector of the defense of Sevastopol and, together with units of the 40th Cavalry Division, covers the Balaklava (seaside) direction. The remaining 514th and 747th regiments entered the second sector, where, together with units of the Marine Infantry and the 25th Chapaev Division, they cover the main direction of Yalta and Sevastopol.
In the battles at the Ishun positions, the division's regiments suffered heavy losses; the 383rd, 514th and 747th regiments had no more than 300 soldiers, the division's artillery regiment had only two 76-mm guns. The total strength of the 172nd Rifle Division, by the time it reached Sevastopol, was just over a thousand people. At the same time, the conscript contingent that previously had “armor” from conscription (valuable workers, specialists, as well as part of the autumn conscription of 1941) was withdrawn from the cities of Crimea to Sevastopol. Together with the rearguard units, another 1.8 thousand people went to Sevastopol (remains of the engineer battalion, 747th regiment, remnants of the communications battalion, etc.). The remaining units of the division were consolidated into one, the 514th Infantry Regiment of two battalions. The division was assigned to the 1st Sevastopol Marine Regiment (formed at the expense of the 1st Perekop battalion, battalion and 17th machine gun company of the Danube Military Flotilla, weapons school battalion) and the 2nd Black Sea Marine Regiment (formed at the expense of the 1st a separate Sevastopol guard battalion of coastal defense, a rifle battalion of the Nikolaev naval base, a combined battalion of the Ochakov base, which included personnel of the torpedo boat base and part of the NKVD marine border guard, a battalion of the 106th rifle division
On November 10, 1941, the 31st Infantry Regiment became part of the 172nd Infantry Division. From that moment on, the division was in defense of the 2nd sector of the Sevastopol defensive region, 18.5 kilometers long. On the morning of November 15, four German infantry divisions (72, 50, 132 and 22) and the 118th motorized detachment with tanks resumed the offensive. The Nazis launched the most powerful air strikes and artillery and mortar fire in the Yalta direction. They, of course, had a great superiority in strength, and although parts of the first sector resisted very steadfastly and courageously, the enemy again managed to push them back, occupy heights 440.8 and 386.6 and approach directly to height 212.1 at Balaklava.
On November 20, the 514th Rifle Division liberated Kamary with a bold night counterattack and captured many prisoners. On the morning of November 21, after artillery preparation, the enemy again went on the offensive on both flanks of the sector where the 172nd Division was defending. Particularly strong battles broke out in the area of height 440.8 and for Kamary. The Nazis managed to recapture the heights and penetrate the defenses of the 514th Regiment near the village. However, as a result of another counterattack, Komary again passed into the hands of the regiment.
By holding the village of Kamary and the heights with the Italian cemetery, the division regiments did not allow the enemy to break out onto Sapun Mountain and thereby, to a certain extent, prevented a threat to the entire defense of Sevastopol. During the November battles, the troops of the Primorsky Army accomplished a very important task - they defended Sevastopol and inflicted great damage on the enemy.
Early in the morning of December 17, the enemy began powerful fire preparations along the entire Sevastopol defense front, hoping to disguise the direction of the main attack. We did not have to wait long for the enemy to attack. Twenty-five minutes after the start of the artillery preparation, five German infantry divisions and one Romanian brigade with tanks went on the offensive. On the front of the second sector, the 50th German Infantry Division with tanks and the 1st Romanian Mountain Infantry Brigade were advancing.
Although the enemy suffered heavy losses, he was still stronger, since he had reserves and an unlimited amount of ammunition. Having reached the crest of the height with the Italian Cemetery, he seriously improved his position and weakened the defense of the division's units and its neighbors in the important Yalta direction. Thus, these days the enemy achieved success on both fronts.
On December 20, troops from the second sector carried out a counterattack. All regiments and the 7th Marine Brigade, with a swift rush, by 2:30 p.m., completely captured the ridge of the heights with the Italian Cemetery and improved their positions in the Kamar area. On December 21, the fighting continued with unrelenting tension. There was an intense struggle for height with the Italian Cemetery every day. The enemy persistently sought to capture it completely and threw reserves here.
On December 24–25, the fighting began to weaken in the Yalta direction. Late in the evening of December 25, units of the division delivered a strong and very successful blow to the area where enemy infantry was concentrated. On December 31, 1941, units of the second sector went on the offensive. The enemy did not expect this. Its advanced units were quickly defeated, and the Soviet soldiers completely captured the top of the height with the Italian cemetery, the village of Upper Chorgun and improved their positions in the area of the village of Kamary. Only after this the Nazis came to their senses. They brought down the full force of fire on parts of the sector and forced them to stop the advance. On the same day, a decision was made to replace the division in the defense in the Yalta direction with the one that had arrived, and send its two regiments, although tired, but hardened and battle-tested, to the northern sector to carry out an offensive in the direction of Mekenzievy Gory, Belbek.
On January 5, 1942, after powerful artillery bombardment, the 514th and 747th regiments of the division rushed forward. To the left, the regiments of the 95th division went on the offensive, and to the right - the 79th brigade. Three formations were supposed to recapture advantageous positions from the enemy and push him away from Sevastopol.
During the day, the division completed its immediate task - it drove the enemy back from the Mekenzi Mountains and reached the ridge of heights south of the village of Belbek. Success also accompanied the 79th Naval Rifle Brigade and the 95th Division. The line occupied by the formations was advantageous for conducting defense, and by order of the army commander, the soldiers began to gain a foothold and bury themselves in the frozen and rocky ground.
In January 1942, a balance of power arose near Sevastopol when neither side was able to carry out offensive actions with a decisive goal. There was a lull at the front that lasted until May.
During the 2nd assault Soviet troops in the sector, they largely maintained their positions. After repelling the assault, the division, consisting of two regiments, was transferred to the 4th defense sector, and it occupied positions on the right flank of the 95th Infantry Division. During the offensives of January-March 1942, the division suffered heavy losses. On March 7, 1942, the 31st Infantry Regiment was withdrawn from the division (transferred to the 25th Infantry Division), and within the 172nd Division, the formation of the second regiment of the division began in March 1942: the 747th. By May 1942, the regiment was almost completely formed, and the formation of the new 388th Infantry Regiment began. By the beginning of the 3rd assault, one rifle battalion and a number of auxiliary units had been formed in the regiment.
From mid-May, the situation near Sevastopol began to become more complicated. Partisan and aerial reconnaissance data indicated the approach of new German forces. The enemy immediately began preparing the decisive offensive. From May 20, small groups of bombers began to frequently bomb the city and port.
On June 7, 1942, Hitler's troops went on the offensive along the entire front of the army's defense. There were heavy battles everywhere. If on June 7 the enemy directed the greatest efforts to the right flank of the division - the 747th regiment and the left flank of the 79th brigade, then the next day he attacked the 514th regiment with enormous force. During the two days of the offensive, the enemy, in the direction of the main attack, managed to wedge into the defenses of the 79th brigade and the 172nd division to a depth of only one kilometer and encircle part of the forces of the 747th regiment (about a battalion). Breaking through the encirclement, they repeatedly engaged in heavy close combat. A significant part of the regiment's soldiers fell in battle, but many escaped the encirclement and took up new positions. Thus, the division's defense was not broken.
On June 9, fighting took place inside the defense itself. The weakened units of the division had to hold back the enemy's onslaught not only from the front, but also from the flanks, and even from the rear. There were Nazis everywhere. The 172nd Division now, of course, no longer had regiments and battalions! People got mixed up. As a result of three days of fierce fighting, many excellent military comrades were killed, including all regiment commanders, battalion commanders and military commissars, almost all company commanders and political instructors, and executive secretaries of the regiment party bureau. The majority of the division's rank and file also died. It is clear that the control of the remaining units was disrupted and the position of the soldiers was extremely difficult. And yet they did not leave their positions and fought to the last.
By noon on June 9, regiments of the 345th division began to arrive at the site to the right of the division, which were immediately introduced into battle in the direction of the Mekenzievy Gory stop. Despite the fact that the enemy transferred all the fire to the 345th division, it defeated the advanced units of the Nazis and immediately moved forward. The enemy's offensive in the northern direction was stopped.
With the arrival of the 345th Division, units of the 172nd immediately felt a weakening of the fire in their sector, and the defense here became more stable. After heavy and bloody battles, Divisional Commander Laskin reduced the remaining members of the division into a two-battalion regiment, which took up defense on a narrow but most dangerous section of the front near the Mekenzievy Gory stop.
On June 11, the Nazis resumed their offensive from the Mekenzievy Gory checkpoint area in the direction of Sukharnaya Balka, where the 345th regiment and the remnants of the 172nd division were defending. And again bloody battles broke out in this area. On June 11, the last manpower reserves of the division were brought into battle - the 57th reconnaissance company, in which 10–12 people remained. And this handful of fighters, together with other groups and units, repelled several German attacks.
On June 12, the Nazis, with the help of three divisions, went on the offensive and, after stubborn fighting, captured Kamary, the Procurator’s farm and reached the top of Mount Gosfortov. This significantly worsened the position of the defending troops.
On the morning of June 17, a new powerful artillery fire attack began on the northern sector of the front, and after it, units of the 54th Army Corps went on the offensive. The main spearhead of the attack was aimed at the 345th Division, at the junction between it and the 95th Division, where the remaining units of the 172nd operated in a small area. Due to heavy losses, the remnants of the division were no longer able to maintain a continuous defensive front. The enemy reached Budennovka, in the rear of the 95th Division, and pressed it to the sea. The division, after an advantageous operational position, which it occupied just a few days ago, found itself on the brink of disaster: on the left was the sea, behind was Severnaya Bay, and from the north and east were the Nazis.
The remnants of the 172nd were now consolidated into one battalion, which consisted of only about two hundred people. At dawn on June 19, active enemy operations began again in the Yalta and northern directions. In the following days, events near Sevastopol developed rapidly. Every hour brought drastic changes to the situation. Enemy tanks now penetrated into the depths of the defense of the defenders of Sevastopol with impunity and struck point-blank at the remaining handful of soldiers. The Sevastopol defensive bridgehead has now turned into a small piece of land, shot by the enemy far and wide.
On June 30, the enemy resumed air strikes and went on the offensive along the entire front, concentrating the main efforts in the southern sector, in the direction of the Yalta Highway and along the Balaklava Highway to the Kulikovo Field. The organized defense of Sevastopol was living its last hours.
Maria Karpovna Baida was born on February 1, 1922 in the village of Novoselskoye, Ak-Mechetsky district of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, RSFSR (now Chernomorsky district of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine), into a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1951. Graduated from incomplete high school No. 1 in the city of Dzhankoy in 1936. She worked on a state farm, in a hospital, then in a cooperative in the village of Voinka, Krasnoperekopsk district of Crimea.
In the Red Army since 1941. Graduated from nursing courses.
In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since September 1941. The medical instructor of the 514th Infantry Regiment (172nd Infantry Division, Primorsky Army, North Caucasus Front), senior sergeant Baida, in one of the battles for Sevastopol in May 1942, freed the Soviet commander and several soldiers from captivity, destroying 15 enemy soldiers with a machine gun and She crushed the skulls of four with the butt of a machine gun.
Once captured, she behaved courageously and steadfastly. Passed concentration camps Slavut, Ravensbrück. In Austria we managed to move to a camp for civilians. She worked in a logging camp in the Austrian Alps. Based on a denunciation, she was arrested by the Gestapo. Released from the Gestapo by American troops on May 8, 1945.
After the war she was demobilized.
She worked as the head of the civil registry office of the Sevastopol City Executive Committee, over 28 years of work she gave instructions and presented marriage registration certificates to approximately 60,000 young couples, and registered more than 70,000 newborns. She was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the city council.
Awards
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree
- Medal "For Courage"
- Medals.
Memory
- Her name is included on a memorial plaque dedicated to the defenders of Sevastopol, who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the defense of Sevastopol.
- Since 1976, Honorary Citizen of the city of Sevastopol.
- On September 20, 2005, it was decided to give the children's park in the area of Odesskaya Street the name “Komsomolsky Park named after Hero of the Soviet Union Maria Baida.”
Command of the 172nd Division:
commander: Colonel Laskin Ivan Andreevich (wounded 06/09/41)
Military Commissar Brigade Commissar Solontsov Petr Efimovich, Acting Military Commissar (after P.E. Solontsov was wounded on June 9, 1942) battalion commissar Neshin
Chief of Staff: Major Kokurin (moved to the 95th SD), Major (then Lieutenant Colonel) Mikhail Yulievich Lerner (arrived from the post of Chief of the Operations Department of the Primorsky Army),
Starts: Interim Major Krasnyukov (then chief of artillery staff of the 172nd SD), then Major Alexey Vasilyevich Zolotov (died in December 1941), Colonel Ivan Mikhailovich Rupasov.
Chief of Communications Captain Pyatak Maxim Andreevich
Head of the Chemical Service Major F. I. Moisa
commander of the commandant company Art. Lt. Stefankov Alexander Gerasimovich
514th Infantry Regiment
Formed as part of the 3rd Crimean People's Militia Division, 5th Motorized Regiment. On September 25th he received the all-Union number 514. He took part in the battles near Armyansk and suffered losses. Replenished by the personnel of the 321st division (2nd militia division) and the 184th NKVD division (4th militia division). Took up defensive positions on the river. Chatyrlyk suffered losses in the battles. During the retreat to Sevastopol on November 1-2, it moved in the rearguard of the column, then the regiment was withdrawn to the head of the column. I left for Sevastopol on November 3, 1941.
After reaching Sevastopol, the regiment was reorganized due to:
1st battalion - l/s 172nd SD,
2nd battalion - l / s Sevastopol fighter battalion
3rd battalion (formed later, at the expense of the personnel of the 778th regiment of the 388th division), but after the February offensive it was disbanded due to losses in personnel and the return of part of the l/s to the 388th SD.
Took positions in the area of the village of Komary and the Yalta Highway, led fighting on the border of the 1st and 2nd sectors, with the support of the 134th GAP. In January 1942 transferred to the 4th sector, participated in unsuccessful offensives in January and February 1942. suffered heavy losses
By the beginning of the 3rd assault, the regiment included two battalions and one mortar battalion.
The commander of the 514th regiment, Colonel I.F. Ustinov, was wounded on November 22, 1941, then Lieutenant Colonel V.V. Shashlo, then Ustinov again (after recovery), wounded on June 9, 1941, he was replaced by N.Sh. regiment Major Ostrovsky.
Military Commissar Art. battalion commissar Osman Asanovich Karaev
Chief of Staff of the 514th Regiment Captain (then Major) P. M. Ostrovsky
Chief of Staff Lieutenant Khitarov Sergey Artemyevich
Lieutenant Lintvarev Andrey Martynovich - head of the engineering service of the 514th regiment.
1st battalion battalion commander Major Shirkalin (wounded on November 22, 1941) Major Katanov (arrived from the 2nd battalion of the Local Rifle Regiment BO), senior lieutenant Fedor Makarovich Stogniy, then senior lieutenant Dotsenko
company commanders of the 1st battalion who died near the village of Kamary on November 22, 1941: Lt Levak Vladimir Emelyanovich, Tarasov Grigory Ivanovich, Lt Simonenko Ivan Maksimovich, Lt Kogan Naum Borisovich,
2nd battalion, in March 1942. commander of station l-King
NSh 2nd battalion senior lieutenant E. M. Ryashchenko
Commander of the mortar battalion Art. Lieutenant Menyailo Grigory Alekseevich.
As of March, company commanders:
Lieutenant Perepelitsyn Petr Stepanovich,
Lt Andryushin Vasily Vasilievich
Lt Perederiy Ivan Kirillovich
Lieutenant Gonchar Vladimir Pavlovich
Pulrot commander Lt Zagoraev Ivan Vasilievich
Pulrota commander Lt Georgian Ivan Ilyich
747th SP
Formed as part of the 3rd Crimean People's Militia Division, 5th Motorized Regiment. On September 25, it received the all-Union number 747. After losses incurred during the retreat, it was disbanded. Restored in March 1942. (Order for the Primarmia No. 087 dated March 3, 1942)
Commander Major, then Lieutenant Colonel V.V. Shashlo
military commissar V. T. Shvets
NS Major Shirkalin (returned after recovery)
Regimental Headquarters Captain Arutyunyants Leonid Stepanovich
Chief Lieutenant Chabanenko Vasily Ivanovich
commander of the 1st battalion of the 747th regiment, senior lieutenant Orlov Anatoly Prokofievich
Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Art. Lt Zavadovsky
commander of the 2nd battalion captain Magomet Terenty Vasilievich
commander of the mortar battalion Art. Lt Balychev Evgeniy Semenovich
383rd SP
The second formation began in May 1942. As of June 1942, one battalion, an anti-tank rifle company and a mortar company were formed.
134th GAP
The regiment was created in 1938 on the basis of the 3rd and 4th divisions of the 57th artillery regiment of the 95th SD (one division with 122mm howitzers, the second with 152mm howitzers). Regiment commander Captain Zhelezny, military commissar battalion commissar Oktyabrsky (until 1940). As part of the 95th SD, he participated in the Finnish War. He took part in the Bessarabian operation (1940). Regimental composition: two divisions of 122mm howitzers, one division of 152mm howitzers, 36 guns in total.
The regiment in its entirety (but without means of traction) was taken from Odessa. 26.10.41 the regiment was loaded into echelons, but due to the current situation it was unloaded at the station. Sarabuz (Ostryakovo). The commandant's platoon of the regiment requisitioned civilian transport, ensuring the transportation of guns. In total, 3 ChTZ tractors and 28 trucks were requisitioned.
The 3rd (152mm) division of the regiment arrived in Sevastopol on November 3-4, 1941, moving directly. The 1st and 2nd divisions moved in the rearguard of the Primorsky Army, covering the retreat, and arrived in Sevastopol on November 10.
During the retreat, the 1st Division in the Artek area suffered losses while covering the army's retreat. The commander of the 1st division, Mr. Manziy, the commander of the 1st battery of Art. Lieutenant Pavlenko. The regiment supported the 172nd SD in the Gasfort area. On November 11, 1941, the remnants of the 340th artillery regiment of the 172nd division were poured into the regiment. During the redeployment of the division in January 1942. took positions in the area of the 3rd and 4th sectors.
During the 3rd assault, two divisions (1 and 2) fired in support of the 172nd Division, the 3rd Division (152mm) was deployed to support units of the 3rd Sector.
June 26, 1942 The 1st division of Mr. Postoj occupied positions in the area of the Inkerman Monastery. After the ammunition was used up, the guns were rolled out by hand past Champanstroy to Kilen-balka. 3rd Division, due to the impossibility of rolling guns manually, 06/27/42. blew up the materiel and went to the 1st division. 2nd Division by June 28, 1942 occupied positions in the Victoria River area. 06/30/42 the guns were blown up and the remnants of the 2nd and 1st divisions retreated to Chersonese.
Regiment commander Major (then Lieutenant Colonel) Shmelkov, then Major Golubev
NS Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Chernyavsky. (died at altitude 137.4)
Military commissar battalion commissar Konovalov (shot by the Germans)
PNSh-1 captain Yashchenko (survived)
PNSh-2 captain Mayboroda (died at altitude 137.4)
1st Regimental Division
commanders: Captain Manziy (killed at Artek), Major Miroshnichenko (from the 340th regiment of the 172nd SD, killed during the 2nd assault), Captain Postoy (killed at Cossack Bay)
N.Sh. captain old man
batteries of the 1st division (122mm):
commanders of the 1st battery: captain Pavlovsky (died at Artek), captain Minaev, then lieutenant Umerkin Abdulhak Sagitovich.
gun commanders of the 1st battery:
Sergeants Vostrikov, Ismihan Iskanderov and Vagin.
commander of the 2nd battery, senior lieutenant G. S. Lukashev
commander of the 3rd battery Art. l-t Wheat
2nd division of the regiment (122mm, two-battery, no 4th battery)
Commander Major Mezentsev
5th Battery Lt Erofeev Mikhail Gerasimovich
6th Battery Lieutenant Yakovichev D.
3rd Division of the Regiment
commander Major M. Sharov, then from March 1942 Captain Halamendyk
9th battery commander ml. Lt. F. T. Sukhomlinov. (Died on June 10, 1942, causing fire on himself)
222nd Signal Battalion.
The battalion consists of three companies, with a total strength of 345 people.
247th Engineer Battalion
No data available
174th separate anti-tank division
division commander captain I. A. Sharov
Formed by order dated March 3, 1942, at the beginning of the assault the division had only anti-tank rifles.
The 341st anti-aircraft division, which was part of the division, was not formed.
Marine units assigned to the 172nd SD.
2nd Black Sea Marine Regiment
Formed on September 16, 1941. for the defense of the Tendrovsky combat area. 28.10.41 delivered to Sevastopol.
Regiment commander captain (then major, lieutenant colonel) Taran Nikolai Nikolaevich
NS Captain Papyrin Nikolai Vasilievich (wounded 12/14/41)
Pomnachtab st. Lt Torgashev Konstantin Fedorovich
Battalion commanders:
1st Mr Captain Bondarenko Anton Aleksandrovich, commander of the 1st company, Lt. Miropolsky, commander of the 2nd company, Lt. Zhulidov
2nd bn st. Lieutenant Isaev Nikolai Ivanovich, then captain Sleznikov Sergei Stepanovich (killed 12/21/41) commander of the 1st company Lt Stepanov Vasily Stepanovich (killed 12/17/41), 2nd company Lt. Cheretukhin Vasily Ivanovich (killed 12/17/41) 3rd company Lt. Gundar (killed 12/17/41)
3rd battalion captain Zaporozhchenko.
The regiment suffered heavy losses during the 1st and 2nd assaults. The remnants of the regiment were planned to be used as the 2nd echelon of the Evpatoria landing. The landing did not take place. The regiment was disbanded on January 14, 1942. The remnants of the personnel were included in the 7th MP Brigade. N.N. Taran was appointed commander of the 2nd Perekopsky MP Regiment
Know, Soviet people, that you are descendants of fearless warriors!
Know, Soviet people, that the blood of great heroes flows in you,
who gave their lives for their homeland without thinking about the benefits!
Know and honor, Soviet people, the exploits of our grandfathers and fathers!
BAYDA MARIA KARPOVNA - STAR OF THE HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION No. 6183
(Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 20, 1942)
(dates of life: born 02/01/1922 - died 08/30/2002)
Maria Karpovna Baida born in the Crimean village of Novoselskoye, Ak-Mechensky district (now the Black Sea region) on February 1, 1922. After completing the 7-year school, in 1936 she began her career as a nurse at the city hospital in Dzhankoy. In 1941, I was going to enter a medical college, but the war made its own adjustments...
At first, Maria, as part of a medical team from the city hospital, served ambulance trains stopping in Dzhankoy. Since the late autumn of 1941, Baida has been a fighter in the 35th battalion of the fighter battalion (the main task of the battalion was to fight German paratroopers-saboteurs, various kinds of provocateurs and alarmists, as well as to identify enemy infiltrators).
When the Nazis came close to Sevastopol, the 35th Destroyer Battalion became part of the Primorsky Army, defending the Black Sea “fortress”. Since May 1942, senior sergeant Maria Baida has been a fighter in a separate reconnaissance company of this regiment.
When our troops were retreating to Sevastopol in November 1941, a girl came to the 514th Infantry Regiment of the 172nd Infantry Division and asked to take her with her, as she wanted to fight for her Motherland. She said that she served in a cooperative and completed courses for orderlies. She was accepted into the regiment as a nurse. During the first assaults, Maria Baida showed herself to be a fearless fighter and saved the lives of many Red Army soldiers and commanders, carrying them from the battlefield under enemy fire.
Not only the 514th Infantry Regiment knew about her military deeds, courage and dedication. But Maria asked to be transferred to intelligence. The regiment commander, knowing about the girl’s exceptional courage, ingenuity and endurance, granted the request, and M.K. Bayda became a scout.
Her advantage was that she knew the Sevastopol area and its surroundings well. On the night before the third assault, she was part of the reconnaissance group of Sergeant Major 2nd Article Mosenko in combat security.
Description of the feat of Maria Karpovna Baida
On June 7, 1942, the Nazis launched another assault on Sevastopol. The reconnaissance company, in which Maria Baida fought, held the defense in the Mekenzi Mountains region. Despite their numerous superiority, the Nazis could not break the desperate resistance of the Soviet soldiers.
Maria was in the very epicenter of “combat hell,” but she showed herself to be a brave, sometimes even super-desperate fighter - when the machine gun ran out of cartridges, the girl fearlessly jumped over the parapet, returning to them with captured machine guns and magazines. During one of these attacks, a German grenade exploded not far from her - the girl, shell-shocked and wounded in the head, lost consciousness.
Baida came to her senses late in the evening - it was already getting dark. As it turned out later, the Nazis broke through the defense to the right of the scouts’ positions and went to their rear. Of the entire company, one officer and a dozen and a half soldiers survived - they were wounded and taken prisoner by the Nazis.
Quickly assessing the situation (there were no more than 20 Nazis in the scout trenches and they were all in one place - not far from the prisoners), Maria decided to attack. Thanks to the surprise and correct reaction of the captured scouts, who in turn attacked the Germans, as soon as Maria opened fire on the enemy with a machine gun, all the Nazis were destroyed.
Knowing perfectly well the layout of the minefields, under the cover of darkness, Maria Baida led the wounded soldiers to her own!
On July 12, 1942, the seriously wounded Maria was captured by the Nazis. She courageously withstood the whole hell of the fascist concentration camps of Slavuta and Ravensbrück. She was liberated by the Americans in May 1945.
She returned to Crimea in 1946. Since 1948 she lived permanently in Sevastopol. From 1961 to 1989 she headed the central Sevastopol city registry office.
Chapter 5 History of the formation of air defense units of army subordination
On initial stage the formation of units for the defense of Sevastopol, the SOR did not greatly distinguish army units from naval ones. In one formation, to carry out common tasks for the defense of the city, those other units could be combined. The divisions included naval regiments; the air defense command units had a mixed composition. So, for example, the 50th (aka 55th) anti-aircraft division was formed from Black Sea Fleet officers, had materiel from various sources, personnel from the NKVD Marine Border Guard School, and in December, was part of the army anti-aircraft artillery regiment. The 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment was formed from the guns and personnel of the army air defense units, and some naval batteries were also included in it.
A clear division into “naval” “army men” appeared only after the order of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet and the SOR F.S. Oktyabrsky dated March 9, 1942. At the same time, some of the former “sailors” became “army men”. March 6, 1942 The 2nd anti-aircraft artillery regiment was disbanded, the 114th and 55th divisions were returned to the Black Sea Fleet, and the 880th anti-aircraft artillery regiment (7 batteries) was formed from the 3rd and 19th divisions. By the beginning of the 3rd assault, the regiment had 9 batteries, 85mm caliber. Lieutenant Colonel Kukharenko remained the regiment commander. The chief of staff was Art. Lieutenant Nikolaenko, who was replaced by Major Berezhetsky on 05/26/42. The regiment's command post was the Victoria redoubt, then it was moved to Vorontsova Gora.
From the divisional anti-aircraft artillery and received materiel, the 26th separate anti-aircraft division (10 76mm guns), the 48th separate VNOS battalion, the 23rd separate searchlight company (5 searchlight stations), the 17th separate anti-aircraft machine gun battalion (7 M-4 machine guns). The air defense structure of the Primorsky Army and Navy changed quite dynamically, divisions changed their subordination, but the number of anti-aircraft batteries remained almost unchanged.
1. Air Defense Directorate of the Primorsky Army (as of January 1, 1942)
commander: Colonel Tarasov Nikolai Konstantinovich
military commissar: regimental commissar Samuil Lvovich Shparberg
1.1 61st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (attached to operational subordination from the Black Sea Fleet)
commander: Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Petrovich Gorsky, commander of the 61st Regiment, went missing on July 2-3, 1942
Chief of Staff: Major I.K. Semenov,
military commissar: Art. political instructor Georgy Stepanovich Zaitsev
1st Division of the 61st ZenAP:
commander captain Tumilovich Sergei Vsevolodovich, missing 07/2-3/1942
military commissar, political instructor Lebedev Andrey Titovich
78th battery (field mail 1003 post office box 320)
Battery Commander Art. Lieutenant Zernov (died on December 10, 1941), then Art. Lieutenant Vengerovsky Mark Abramovich, missing 07/2-3/1942
military commissar political instructor Leonid Ivanovich Tarasov
79th battery
commander of station Lieutenant Alyushin Grigory Efimovich, missing 07/2-3/1942
military commissar political instructor Lavrentiy Ivanovich Pashchenko
80th battery Art. Lieutenant Pyanzin Ivan S. (died at the 365th battery on June 13, 1942)
military commissar political instructor Lubyantsev Nikolai Vasilievich
2nd Division of the 61st ZenAP:
commander captain Mikhail Antonovich Khizhnyak, missing 07/2-3/1942
military commissar st. political instructor Gavriil Zeilikovich Shofler
75th battery
commander of station l-t Fastovets
military commissar, political instructor Davidenko Fedot Evseevich
229th battery
commander of station Lt Startsev Nikolai Ivanovich
military commissar ml. political instructor Gridnev Konstantin Dmitrievich
81st battery (aka 370th)
commander lieutenant Kalugin Nikolai Stepanovich
military commissar political instructor Pereverzev Larion Ivanovich
3rd Division of the 61st ZenAP:
commander captain Rebedailo Dmitry Maksimovich, missing 07/2-3/1942
military commissar, political instructor Fedor Ignatyevich Sakharov
54th battery
commander of station Lieutenant Ignatovich Evgeniy Andreevich (survived)
military commissar ml. political instructor Nikolai Kuzmich Korbut
926th battery
commander of station l-t White Anatoly Sidorovich (died on May 27, 1942 at battery positions)
military commissar ml. political instructor Pyotr Vasilievich Boroukhin
927th battery
commander of station Lieutenant Korzun Gavriil Vasilievich (survived)
military commissar ml. political instructor Nikolai Yakovlevich Vorozhun
