70th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Soviet Union)

The division began forming around 3 October 1943, when Colonel Ivan Kurenkov was appointed commander.^[1] It was part of the Volga Military District, and included the 1997th, 2001st, 2005th, and 2009th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiments.^[2] In May 1944, the division was relocated to Zhitomir in the Kiev Military District.^[3][4] From 2 September, Colonel Konstantin Popov served as division commander, leading it for the rest of the war.^[1] The division remained at Zhitomir for the rest of the war.^[5][6]

In late 1945, the division relocated to Transcaucasia. The 2005th Regiment, the first echelon of the division, arrived at Kutaisi in late November.^[7] Popov commanded it until March 1948, when he was transferred to command a brigade.^[5] The division was among those anti-aircraft artillery divisions disbanded without being converted into another unit by the end of the 1950s.^[8]

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• Mikheyev, Lieutenant Colonel; Dezhkov, Lieutenant (1945). "Доношу о численном и боевом составе 1 эшелона 70 зенад РГК" [Report on the numerical and combat composition of the 1st echelon of the 70th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division RGK]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. (Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence, fond 371, opus 6367, file 894)