389th Rifle Division

The 389th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union during World War II.

389th Rifle Division
Active	October 1941 – 6 July 1945
Disbanded	6 July 1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Infantry
Type	Red Army
Engagements	The German-Soviet War
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Battle honours	Berdychiv Kielce
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel Sergei Bunyachenko; Major general Leonid Kolobov

The division was formed in October 1941 part of the 53rd Army of the Central Asian Military District, and was deployed for active field duty from May 1942 through to May 1945.

The 389th Rifle Division particularly distinguished itself in early January 1944 during the liberation of Berdychiv from the German military, for which it was awarded the honorary title of "Berdychevskaya".

For its actions in the Berlin Offensive, the 389th was awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class, on 4 June 1945.[1]

In a Stavka directive dated 29 May 1945, the 389th Rifle Division was listed among those to be disbanded in place.[2]

References

Citations

1. Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1967, p. 400.
2. Feskov et al 2013, p. 413.

Bibliography

• Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1967). Сборник приказов РВСР, РВС СССР, НКО и Указов Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о награждении орденами СССР частей, соединениий и учреждений ВС СССР. Часть II. 1945 - 1966 гг [Collection of orders of the RVSR, RVS USSR and NKO on awarding orders to units, formations and establishments of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Part II. 1945–1966] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow.
• 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.

Further reading

• Robert G. Poirier and Albert Z. Conner, The Red Army Order of Battle in the Great Patriotic War, Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. ISBN 0-89141-237-9. Poirer and Conner primarily used the wartime files of the German Foreign Armies East ('FHO') intelligence section, of which substantial sections are now held by the U.S. National Archives.