298th Rifle Division

298th Rifle Division
Active
  • 1st formation: July–December 1941
  • 2nd formation: December 1941 – March 1943
  • 3rd formation: July 1943 – 1946
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army
TypeRifle division
EngagementsWorld War II
Battle honours
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Nikolay Vasilyev

The 298th Rifle Division (Russian: 298-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, formed three times.

The division was first formed in the summer of 1941 and was destroyed in the Bryansk pocket in the fall of that year. Reformed in December 1941 in Siberia, the division became a guards unit for its actions in the Battle of Stalingrad in March 1943. It was reformed in July 1943 in the Soviet Far East, and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, before being disbanded in 1946.


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