Postal Station ?th Field Ticket Office of the State Bank 30th Rifle Division 35th Rifle Regiment 71st Rifle Regiment 256th Rifle Regiment 59th Light Artillery Regiment 121st Howitzer Artillery Regiment (until 30 December 1941) 147th Separate Antitank Artillery Battalion (up to 19 January 1942) 436th Anti-Aircraft Battery (287th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion) 551st Mortar Division (from 27 November 1941 to 3 November 1942) 89th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion 101st Sapper Battalion 115th Separate Battalion 40th Divisional Artillery Park (until 6 April 1942) 57th Medical-Sanitary Battalion 66th Separate Company Chemical Protection 407th Trucking company 80th Field Bakery 94th Second Division Veterinary Hospital 81st Field Postal Station 1721st (341st) Field Ticket Office of the State Bank In March 1942, the 13th Rifle Brigade temporarily became part of the division. Commanders Sergey Gavrilovich Galaktionov (16 August 1939 – 25 August 1941) brigade commander to 5 June 1940 major general (shot "for negligence and inaction") Mikhail D. Goncharov (25 August 1941 – 4 December 1941) major general Sawa Kalistratovich Potekhin (5 December 1941 – 14 June 1942) colonel Boris Nikitich Arshintsev (15 June 1942 – 18 December 1942) colonel Hero of the Soviet Union Senior Sergeant Gerasimos Evseyevich Kucheryavyi, Hero of the Soviet Union — Gunner 256th Rifle Regiment. Posthumously awarded the title 31 March 1943, for fighting in Goryachy Kluch on 11 November 1942. He was left alone to defend a high location and was surrounded by German soldiers. They offered to let him surrender. He allowed them to come close to him and detonated a grenade, killing four German soldiers. Awards 13 December 1920 — Received the name Irkutsk 16 July 1921 — Named after the Central Executive Committee December 1938 — Name changed to "Named for the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR" ? – Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner 18 April 1920 — Order of the Red Banner 4 April 1921 — Order of Red Banner 8 May 1921 — Order of the Red Banner of the USSR 27 February 1934 — Order of Lenin 10 December 1942 — converted into a Guards unit References Sources and bibliography Кудрявцев, Ф. А. Иркутская гвардейская. Kudryavtsev, FA Irkutsk Guards. – 2 ed. — Иркутск: 1944. – Irkutsk: 1944. — 39 с. – 39. Богданов, Л. Г. В пламени и славе . Bogdanov, LG in flames and glory . — 2 ed., Corr. and add. — Иркутск: Восточно-Сибирское книжное издательство, 1988. – Irkutsk: East Siberian Publishing