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The 157th Rifle Division was first formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in August 1939 in the North Caucasus Military District, based on the shtat that would become official the following month. It was still in that District when the German invasion began in June 1941. It entered the fighting in September when it was shipped to reinforce the Separate Coastal Army defending the port of Odesa. After taking part in several actions it was evacuated to Sevastopol and soon went into battle again in a last-ditch effort to prevent German 11th Army from overrunning the Crimea. This failed, and the 157th was forced to trek through the Crimean Mountains to reach Sevastopol, from where it was evacuated back to the Caucasus. At the end of December its 633rd Rifle Regiment formed part of the assault landing force that retook the port of Feodosia and caused the local German corps commander to evacuate the Kerch Peninsula. A German counterattack recaptured the port within weeks, and the front line eventually settled along the Parpach Isthmus until May when a new offensive threw the 157th and the rest of its Front out of Crimea. After a brief rest back in the North Caucasus the division was ordered north to the Don River as the German summer offensive pushed into the Caucasus steppe. Retreating to the east it moved to 64th Army in Southeastern Front in August, fighting against 4th Panzer Army on the southern approaches to Stalingrad. It fell back to the so-called Beketovka bridgehead over the Volga south of the city and remained there until the start of the Red Army counteroffensive in November. As part of Stalingrad Front it advanced westward before coming up against German positions on the southern edge of what was now the Stalingrad Kessel (Pocket). In the last days of Operation Ring in January 1943 the 157th pushed into the southern part of the city where it recaptured the grain elevator that had been lost in September. Before the German surrender it was removed for redeployment elsewhere, and on March 1 it became the 76th Guards Rifle Division.
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