24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

The 24th Samaro-Ulyanovsk Division was a rifle, then a motor-rifle division of the Red Army of the USSR. It is now a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based at Yavoriv in the west of Ukraine.

The full name of the division was 24th Samaro-Ulyanovsk Motor-Rifle Berdychivska, Iron, Awards of October Revolution, three times Red Banner, Suvorov's, Bogdan Khmelnytsky division.

Read more about 24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union):  Loss of Its Banner, Awards, Well-known People That Served With The Division, Past Commanders

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