335th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

335th Rifle Division (September 9, 1941 – November 28, 1942) 335th Rifle Division (May 25, 1944 - 1945)
Active	1941–1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Division
Role	Infantry
Engagements	Second Battle of Kharkov Case Blue Battle of the Caucasus Soviet invasion of Manchuria

The 335th Rifle Division was first formed in September 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Stalingrad. It was a "sister" unit to the 341st Rifle Division, which was formed at about the same time and place and shared a very similar combat path in its first formation. The division was assigned to the southern sector of the Soviet-German front during the winter counteroffensive, but took severe losses during the German spring offensive that formed the Izium Pocket, and it was all but destroyed in the opening phase of Case Blue. The division was formed again nearly two years later, this time in the Far Eastern Front, and spent the rest of the war mainly on coastal defense duties. The 335th had one of the shortest and least distinguished careers of any Soviet rifle division.

The division first formed on September 9, 1941 in the North Caucasus Military District at Stalingrad. Its basic order of battle was as follows:

In October, while still barely formed, the division was assigned to 57th Army, which was also just in the process of forming-up in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command. In December the division and its Army moved to join Southwestern Front, taking part in the winter counter-offensive which led to the creation of the Izium salient south of Kharkov. By the end of January, 1942, the 335th was in 9th Army in Southern Front, on the southern flank of the salient. It was still holding this position in May, when the 1st Panzer Army overran most of 9th Army just west of the division's sector, on its way to forming the Izium Pocket. While the 335th was not encircled itself, it still suffered heavy casualties in the fighting.

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