210th Rifle Division
military unit
The 210th Rifle Division was formed as an infantry division of the Red Army after a motorized division of that same number was badly damaged and then redesignated as a cavalry division in the first weeks of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It served through nearly the remainder of the war on a quiet sector in Transbaikal Front, entirely as part of 36th Army. During July 1945, in the leadup to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, it was transferred to the 86th Rifle Corps, still in 36th Army. This Army was in the second echelon of the invading forces and saw very little, if any, actual combat, but the division was nevertheless given a battle honor. It was transferred to 17th Army and was disbanded with it by mid-1946.
210th Motorized Division
The division began forming in March 1941 as part of the prewar buildup of Soviet mechanized forces in the Western Special Military District as part of the 20th Mechanized Corps. Based on the 4th Cavalry Division at Asipovichy, it was still located there on June 22. Once formed its order of battle was as follows:
644th Motorized Rifle Regiment
649th Motorized Rifle Regiment
130th Tank Regiment
678th Artillery Regiment
35th Antitank Battalion
199th Antiaircraft Battalion
285th Reconnaissance Battalion
385th Light Engineering Battalion
580th Signal Battalion
208th Artillery Park Battalion
365th Medical/Sanitation Battalion
680th Motor Transport Battalion
123rd Repair and Restoration Battalion
42nd Regulatory Company
480th Chemical Defense (Anti-gas) Company
62nd Field Postal Station
381st Field Office of the State Bank
Kombrig Feofan Agopovich Parkhomenko was appointed to command on March 11. As indicated by his obsolete rank he had been arrested late during the Great Purge in October 1938 before being released in December 1939. He had served as deputy commander of the 4th Cavalry for a year before taking command of the 210th.
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