172nd Rifle Division

On 22 June 1941 it was part of the 61st Rifle Corps of the 20th Army in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command.

[2] By 10 July the division transferred to the 13th Army of the Western Front with the corps.

[1] It was formed on 10 October 1941 from the 3rd Crimean Motorized Division as part of the 51st Army.

[1] The division was reformed again on 9 September in the area of the Dorokhovo railway station, part of the Moscow Defense Zone, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kostitsyn.

In mid-1945 it was withdrawn to Korosten in the Carpathian Military District with the army's 27th Rifle Corps.