2nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

2nd Rifle Division
Active	I Formation: 1919–19 September 1941 II Formation: 26 September–23 November 1941 III Formation: 23 November 1941–29 January 1942 IV Formation: 21 December 1941–30 December 1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	Russian Civil War Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War Defense of Petrograd Latvian War of Independence Polish-Soviet War Battle of Warsaw (1920) Soviet invasion of Poland World War II Battle of Białystok–Minsk Battle of Moscow Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42) Sinyavino Offensive (1942) Mga Offensive Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive Baltic Offensive Riga Offensive (1944) Courland Pocket
Decorations	Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner (1st formation)  Order of Kutuzov (3rd formation)
Battle honours	Belorussian (1st formation) named for M.V. Frunze (1st formation) Masurian (3rd formation)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Aleksandr Loktionov Ivan Konev Vladimir Vashkevich

The 2nd Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army that served from the Russian Civil War to the Second World War. Originally formed in 1919 from the 1st Ryazansk Rifle Division, the division was twice destroyed and reformed during the war. The division contained two or three rifle regiments.