101st Rifle Division

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101st Rifle Division
Active	1938–1948
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry Mountain Infantry
Size	Division
Part of	2nd Red Banner Army
Engagements	World War II Invasion of the Kuril Islands Proposed Soviet invasion of Hokkaido
Decorations	Order of Lenin
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. Ivan Pavlovich Pichugin Maj. Gen. Semyon Fyodorovich Mozhaev Maj. Gen. Porfirii Ivanovich Dyakov

The 101st Rifle Division was a unit of the Soviet Red Army initially formed as a mountain rifle division on 28 August 1938 within the 2nd Separate Red Banner Army in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city.^[1]