During the first Rzhev-Vyasma Offensive in January 1942 the 183rd advanced to the outskirts of Rzhev but failed to take it, before being partly and then fully encircled with its Army in early February and suffering heavy casualties.

It played a minor role in defending against the German offensive to retake Kyiv, and in late December it went over to the counterattack as part of 38th Army, reaching to just north of Vinnytsia.

[4] There was no source of mobilized reinforcements to bring the division up to full strength, and in fact the Soviet authorities quickly began to send home those Latvians who were judged to be politically unreliable.

[12] On September 28 Colonel Afanasev left the division to take over combat training in 34th Army; he would be promoted to major general on November 10, 1942, and would serve in many other roles during and after the war.

The following day the panzers, along with the 900th Lehr Brigade, began crossing the bridge they had seized over the Volga, as the first stage of a grandiose plan to link up with Army Group North through the Valdai Hills, which would encircle Northwestern Front.

It is time to finish with the cowardice!Later in the day, Maj. Dr. J. Eckinger, the commander of 1st Panzer's advance detachment, was killed while leading his troops in an effort to outflank Rotmistrov's tanks.

Although the 133rd Rifle Division's attack northeast of Kalinin cut the road at its base early on, the pressure of the 183rd's forward elements against 900th Lehr at Marino was described as "light".

These orders, which may have never actually been issued, called for the 185th and 8th Tanks to finish off all German forces in the Mednoye area before the entire Group advanced across the Volga all the way to the western tip of the Moscow Sea.

This was part of an impractical plan intended to fulfil Konev's earlier "large solution" of encircling all of XXXXI Corps, but it appears from the lack of an order number and time of issue that it was never implemented.

On October 27 the forces of Army Group North that were intending to meet up with XXXXI Corps to encircle Northwestern Front were compelled to withdraw across the Volkhov River.

The first Rzhev-Vyazma offensive began on January 8, based on a directive from the STAVKA of the previous day, which stated the objective "to encircle, and then capture or destroy the enemy's entire Mozhaysk–Gzhatsk–Viaz'ma grouping".

The 183rd worked its way around Sinie Lipiagi from the west during the afternoon and by the end of the day had reached a line from height 214 to Novaya Derevnya to Khvoshchevatovka but the 196th Regiment continued to hold.

Combat in the area of Novaya Derevnya and on height 214 went on into the afternoon and as a result the division barely advanced, reaching the Khvoshchevatovka State Farm with its left flank by day's end.

The 183rd and 129th Brigade remained fighting on a line from Gusevka to Yasenki on January 31 while the 303rd moved to relieve the 25th Guards, not soon enough to prevent a breakthrough by the 88th Infantry Division at Gorshechnoe in the direction of Stary Oskol.

Some 30,000-35,000 Axis troops remained encircled east of Gorshechnoe, and by the end of the day the 183rd and four other rifle divisions and one brigade of 38th and 40th Armies were attempting to eliminate them, an unequal task.

The division's headquarters filed an Extraordinary Combat Report regarding the confused fighting on July 8At 1600 8.07.43, the command post of 285th Rifle Regiment heard the noise of engines from Prokhorovka Station in the direction of Point 241.6.

At 2200 hours Kryuchyonkin was directed to redeploy elements of the 183rd's left flank from the Army's rear zone to the rail line from Komsomolets State Farm to Yasnaya Polyana to Teretevino, allowing units of 5th Guards Tank Corps to be relieved.

The positions of the 285th Regiment and the 11th Motorized Rifle Brigade lay in front of Das Reich and the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte on a sector from Vasilevka to the Molozhavaia gully to Komsomolets State Farm to Ivanovskii Vyselok to Storozhevoe.

The hostile aviation didn't show any particular activity over other areas, with the exception of solitary reconnaissance planes.Observing all indications, Kryuchyonkin concluded that the SS divisions were preparing for a drive to capture Prokhorovka Station.

Altogether by 1300, 250 sorties have been registered.According to reconnaissance reports, the adversary has set up a screen on the line Kalinin, Petrovskii with units of the Reich and Adolph Hitler divisions, facing east, and is trying to break through with his main forces in the direction of Prokhorovka.

[71] The main German attack struck the flanks of these positions; on the left the woods at Storozhevoe and the Stalinskoe Branch of the [Oktiabr'skii] State Farm, held by the 169th Tanks, the 58th Motorized Rifle Brigade, and the 227th Regiment.

Major Sazhinov recalled that the attack included Tigers as well as roughly 140 more armored vehicles, and that the advance was hesitant, with frequent halts to fire main armament, indicating that camouflage was effectively hiding the defenders' positions.

The intense fire from all weapons continued for about five minutes, leaving ten tanks burning, including several Tigers, plus more than two dozen other vehicles; the surviving infantry had gone to ground.

A. P. Sokolov, and other staff officers were able to quickly withdraw to a new post after dark, restore communications and control, pull units back where necessary, and make the regiment combat effective again despite significant losses.

At around 1500 the II Battalion of the 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Deutschland launched its own attack on Storozhevoe and cleared the defenders out of the southern part of the village as well as the wooded area to the south, while also taking the northern outskirts of Vinogradovka.

In preparation for the counteroffensive into Ukraine, Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev, Konev formed a shock group consisting of the 53rd Army and the 48th Corps to attack on August 3 on a 11km front from Glushinskii to Visloe.

The German forces had transformed the city into a powerful center of resistance with a ring-shaped defense line built during the winter of 1941–1942 and a large number of other engineering works including extensive minefields.

38th Army was on the left (south) flank of the Front and its initial objective was Vinnytsia, after which it was to continue to advance southwest toward Zhmerynka, which had been designated as a Festung (fortress) by Hitler.

Petrov, planned to attack with part of his forces toward Kraków to the northwest, which would assist 1st Ukrainian Front in taking this place, Meanwhile, 38th Army would break through the defense on a 6km-wide sector south of Jasło before advancing in the direction of Nowy Sącz and Krakow.

The troops who participated in the capture of Jasło and Gorlice, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 19 January 1945, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.