Alexey Dmitrievich Tereshkov fought in the Spanish Civil War and was commander of the 413th Rifle division after an invasion of what country during World War II?
Alexey Tereshkov Alexey Dmitrievich Tereshkov (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Терешков ; Belarusian: Аляксей Дзмітрыевіч Церашкоў ; 17 March 189318 March 1960) was a Belarusian Soviet Army Lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Tereshkov fought in World War I as a non-commissioned officer and then as a platoon leader. After the February Revolution he joined the Bolshevik party and became a partisan fighting against German troops in Belarus. Tereshkov became a Red Army officer and fought in the Russian Civil War as a company commander. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and after Operation Barbarossa was commander of the 413th Rifle Division in the Far East. The division fought in the Battle of Moscow. In May 1943 Tereshkov was appointed commander of the 38th Rifle Corps, leading the corps during the Battle of Smolensk, Operation Bagration, Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership in the Vistula–Oder Offensive. Postwar, Tereshkov led the 113th and 5th Guards Rifle Corps. He retired in 1953 and died in 1960.
310th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 310th Rifle Division was a standard Red Army rifle division formed on July 15, 1941 in Kazakhstan before being sent to the vicinity of Leningrad, where it spent most of the war, sharing a similar combat path with its "sister", the 311th Rifle Division. The soldiers of the division fought until early 1944 to, first, hold open some sort of lifeline to the besieged city, then to break the siege and drive off the besieging German forces. They then participated in the offensive that drove Germany's Finnish allies out of the war. Finally, the division was redeployed to take the fight to the German heartland in the winter and spring of 1945. It ended the war north of Berlin with a very creditable combat record for any rifle division.