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315th Rifle Division was formed on
12.02.1942. Assigned to the 1st Guards Army of the Stalingrad Front from 08.1942 - 12.1942.

On 08.12.1942, assigned to 5th Shock Army until 12.1946.

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Kononenko Alexey Andreevich
1912 - 04.09.1944

Company commander of the 362nd Rifle Regiment (315th Rifle Division, 2nd Guards Army, 4th Ukrainian Front), senior lieutenant.

In the Red Army since 1941. He graduated from courses for junior lieutenants. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War - since January 1942.

Alexey Kononenko distinguished himself in the battles for the liberation of Crimea. On the Perekop Isthmus, the enemy created a dense defensive network, a large number of pillboxes and bunkers. In preparation for the offensive in this sector, it was decided that the main task, with the support of regimental artillery and other units, would be performed by the company of senior lieutenant Kononenko. On April 9, 1944, commanding the assault detachment of the battalion near the village of Perekop, Kononenko roused the soldiers in a bayonet attack and captured an important height on the move. Bursting into enemy positions, the fighters destroyed 3 bunkers with hand and anti-tank gr***des and blocked the enemy's escape routes from the Shchemilovka farm. Having met with his detachment large enemy forces with three "Ferdinands", Senior Lieutenant Kononenko bravely entered the battle. At the critical moment of the battle, Kononenko rushed with an anti-tank gr***de at a self-propelled gun and blew it up. Killed in this battle.

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Alyoshin Nikolay Sergeevich
September 1st 1910 - February 17th 1944

Alyoshin was a Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War. He was the deputy commander of the 2nd rifle battalion for the combat unit of the 724th rifle regiment of the 315th Rifle Division of the 51st army Southern Front.

He served in the Red Army from 1932 to 1934 and from 1940. Completed training courses for junior lieutenants.

On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since 1941. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Kerch and the Kerch Peninsula. He was badly wounded. Upon recovery, he took a direct part in the battles at Stalingrad .

Since October 13th, 1943, Alyoshin has been participating in offensive battles to capture the city of Melitopol . He personally knocked out two enemy tanks with gr***des , and in total during the battles in the city of Melitopol, the soldiers of Captain Alyoshin's unit repulsed more than twenty counterattacks by N**i tanks and infantry, destroyed a large number of enemy manpower and four medium tanks.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 1st, 1943, Captain Nikolai Sergeevich Alyoshin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (Number 1294).

aptain Nikolai Sergeevich Alyoshin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

On the southern front (renamed the 4th Ukrainian ), the enemy began to retreat. In the course of the pursuit of the N**is, Soviet troops reached the coast of the Sivash , and by November 1st, 1943, they broke into the Perekop Isthmus . In November 1943, during the breakthrough of the Turkish Wall on the isthmus, the battalion commander of the 724th Infantry Regiment, Major Alyoshin, was seriously wounded and on February 17th, 1944, he died in hospital No. 2347, and was buried in the village of Askania-Nova, Kherson region.

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Karapetyan, Askanaz Georgievich
20.12.1899 - 01.11.1978

From May 14, 1943 - deputy commander for combat units of the 315th Infantry Division of the 5th Shock Army on the Southern Front .

Colonel Askanaz Karapetyan, deputy commander for combat units of the 315th Rifle Division ( 54th Rifle Corps , 51st Army , Southern Front, distinguished himself in a series of offensive operations in the summer and autumn of 1943. So, in the Miuss operation from July 17 to 1 August 1943, he organized a breakthrough of a powerful enemy defense ( Mius-front ) on the Mius river near the villages of Marinovka and Stepanovka, Donetsk region of the Ukrainian SSR , as a result, units of the division in this direction advanced 17-20 kilometers. When, a few days later, the German command launched a counteroffensive , then from July 30 to August 1, they organized a repulse of enemy counterattacks , with up to 30 tanks and up to 4,000 Wehrmacht soldiers and officers destroyed . During the Donbass offensive operation in September 1943, during the liberation of Donbass, he skillfully organized the division's offensive operations. In a battle on September 16, 1943, Colonel Karapetyan was seriously wounded in the head, but he did not leave his units and remained in the ranks. In this operation, he participated in the liberation of the cities of Voroshilovsk ,Dzerzhinsk , Almaznaya . During the Melitopol operation from 12 to 22 October 1943, in fierce battles for the city of Melitopol (Zaporozhye region of Ukraine ), he led the actions of assault groups. During this period, about 4,700 N**is, 42 tanks and a large number of other enemy equipment were destroyed. Colonel Karapetyan was nominated for the highest award of the Soviet Union for the skillful command of the regiment and the heroism shown in the battles for the city .

On November 1, 1943, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Colonel Karapetyan Askanaz Georgievich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ( No. 1295).

From November 1, 1943 - the commander of the 315th Infantry Division, which in February 1944 was transferred to the 2nd Shock Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front. At the head of the division he distinguished himself in the Crimean offensive operation (then the division received the honorary name "Sivash"). From May 1944 until the end of the war, the division remained in the Crimea and did not participate in hostilities anymore. On November 2, 1944, Colonel Karapetyan was awarded the military rank " Major General " by the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

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Kuropatenko, Dmitry Semyonovich
23.02.1902 - 08.05.1977

From February 1943 he commanded the 315th Rifle Division as part of the 5th Shock Army of the Southern (from October 20, 1943 - the 4th Ukrainian ) Front. Participated with her in the Rostov , Donbass and Melitopol offensive operations, in the liberation of the cities of Shakhty, Novoshakhtinsk, Voroshilovsk (Kommunarsk), Dzerzhinsk, Melitopoland others. For the successful completion of the command assignments in the battles during the liberation of the city of Melitopol, she was given the name "Melitopol" (23.10.1943).

In November 1943, Major General Kuropatenko was dismissed from office due to illness and sent for treatment to the Kislovodsk sanatorium.

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Knyazev Mikhail Semenovich
(11.1897, Kiev - 19.5.1973, Moscow)

From February 1942 he commanded the 315th Rifle Division of the Siberian Military District, which was being formed in the city of Barnaul, Altai Territory. In June, she was redeployed to the Volga Military District, where she joined the 8th Reserve Army. From August 13, 1942, it was part of the South-Eastern, and from August 19 - the Stalingrad fronts. In the second half of August, its units, being subordinate to the 1st Guards and 62nd armies, fought defensive battles north of Stalingrad. Since August 27, the army, acting as part of the operational group of the Stalingrad Front, participated in counterattacks against the main forces of the enemy's 14th Panzer Corps, which had broken through to the Volga. In early September 1942 the division became part of the 24th Army and fought heavy offensive battles with the enemy, who had broken through to the Volga north of Stalingrad. In December 1942, the division was subordinated to the 5th Shock Army and participated in the Kotelnikovsk offensive operation. From January 2, 1943, the division as part of the army came under the control of the Southern Front and took part in the North Caucasus and Rostov offensive operations. By order of the 5th Shock Army in February 1943, for the miscalculations in the command, Major General M.S. Knyazev was removed from command and placed at the disposal of the Military Council of the Southern Front.

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