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Formed in March 1941 on the basis of the 5th Light Tank Brigade in the Ural Military District.
In the active army from June 1941 to July 1941.
The division's management was stationed in Bryansk by June 22. With the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the unit was subordinated to the corps of the 24th Army, but as of 01.07.1941 it was re-subordinated to the 19th Army. At the same time, most of the division's units remained in peacetime states, as the division was undersupplied. For this reason, it remained under completion in the area of Rzhev, with the exception of the 102nd Tank Regiment, which was sent to Vitebsk by the command of the 23rd Mechanized Corps, where on July 10, 1941, it participated in several attempts to knock the enemy out the bridgehead in the eastern part of the city together with the 220th Motorized Division. She took part in the preparation of defensive lines (Selizharovo, Olenino, Vasilyevo).
On July 13, 1941, it was renamed the 110th Tank Division and in July 15 it was transferred to the 31st Army.
Composition
101st Tank Regiment: Commander Lieutenant Colonel P. A. Yudin
102nd Tank Regiment: commander - Major N. And. Smirnov, Chief of Staff - Captain V. F. Svetlov
Arman, Pol Matisovich (11.03.1941 - 07.1941), Colonel
from May 9, 1941 - deputy commander of the division Massarygin, Georgy Semyonovich Colonel.
Military commissar of the division
Viktor Prokofyevich Shirokov (20.03.1941 - 12.07.1941), regimental commissar
Chief of Division Staff
Kopienko Vladimir Emelyanovich (12.03.1941 - 12.07.1941), lieutenant colonel
References
Drig, E. F. (2005). Mechanized corps of the Red Army in battle. History of the armored troops of the Red Army in 1940-1941. Unknown Wars (in Russian). Moscow: AST. ISBN5-17-024760-5.
Literature
Drig, E. F. (2005). Mechanized corps of the Red Army in battle. History of the armored troops of the Red Army in 1940-1941. Unknown Wars (in Russian). Moscow: AST. ISBN5-17-024760-5.
The first officer of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Command of the corps and divisional unit of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / selection and design. A. And. Kalabin. - Moscow: Military Academy named after M. B. Frunze, 1964. - 572 p. - (annex to the book "Military cadres of the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945").
The leading political composition of the departments of fronts, fleets, armies, flotillas, corps, divisions, units of the Navy and tank brigades of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / selection and design. A. С. Zherzdev. - Moscow: Publication of the Military Academy named after M. B. Frunze, 1968. - p. 786.
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Red Army
Divisions of the Soviet Union 1957–1989