335th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

335th Rifle Division (September 9, 1941 – November 28, 1942) 335th Rifle Division (May 25, 1944 - 1945)
Active	1941–1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	Barvenkovo–Lozovaya Offensive Operation Second Battle of Kharkov Case Blue Battle of the Caucasus Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. Ivan Grigorevich Fofanov Lt. Col. Pavel Mikhailovich Volosatykh Col. Ivan Afanasevich Shevchenko Col. Ivan Ivanovich Malinovskii

The 335th Rifle Division was first formed in September 1941, as a standard Red Army rifle division, at Stalingrad. It was a "sister" unit to the 341st Rifle Division, which was formed at about the same time and place and shared a very similar combat path in its first formation. The division was assigned to the southern sector of the Soviet-German front during the winter counteroffensive, but took severe losses during the German spring offensive that formed the Izium Pocket, and it was all but destroyed in the opening phase of Case Blue. The division was formed again nearly two years later, this time in the Far Eastern Front, and spent the rest of the war mainly on coastal defense duties. The 335th had one of the shortest and least distinguished careers of any Soviet rifle division.