11th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

11th Rifle Division
Active	1918–1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	Russian Civil War Kronstadt rebellion Polish-Soviet War Battle of Warsaw (1920) Winter War World War II Baltic Operation Leningrad Strategic Defensive Lyuban Offensive Operation Operation Iskra Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive Baltic Offensive Courland Pocket
Decorations	Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner
Battle honours	Leningrad Valga

The 11th Rifle Division (Russian: 11-я стрелковая дивизия; 11 RD) was a military formation (Infantry Division) of the Soviet Union's Red Army. Its personnel were involved in the protection of the demarcation line in Pskov (March – May 1918), defensive battles against the Army of the Southern Front in Krasnov Novohopersk - Borisoglebsk (October - December 1918), against the army and the forces of Estonia, Bulak Balakhovich in Marienburg (April 1919) in defense of Petrograd and as the offensive against Yudenich's troops in Pskov (August 1919) the Luga-Gdov, Yamburg, Narva, Dvina-Rezhitsk directions (October–December 1919 – January–February 1920), the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 (in the July (4–23 July) and Warsaw (July 23 – August 25) operations (fighting in the area of the rivers Narew, Vistula)), in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising (March 1921) participated in the Soviet-Finnish War (January – March 1940) and World War II.^[1]

On 22 June 1941 it was part of 11th Rifle Corps, 8th Army, Baltic Special Military District, which rapidly became Northwestern Front.

During August 1945, the division moved to Dnipropetrovsk and disbanded there by February 1946.^[2]