216th Rifle Division

216th Motorized Division (11 March 1941 – 19 September 1941)
216th Rifle Division (29 September 1941 – 7 July 1956)
Active1941–1956
Disbanded7 July 1956
Country Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
TypeInfantry
SizeDivision
EngagementsBattle of Uman

The 216th Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army and Soviet Ground Forces. It was the successor to a motorized division of that same number that was destroyed during the Battle of Uman in August 1941. It fought at Kharkov and in Karelia, Crimea, and Kurland.