14th_Railway_Facilities_Protection_Division_NKVD
14th Railway Facilities Protection Division NKVD
Military unit
The 14th Division of the NKVD of the USSR for the Protection of Railway Facilities (Russian: 14-я дивизия войск НКВД СССР по охране железнодорожных сооружений, romanized: 14-ya diviziya voysk NKVD SSSR po okhrane zheleznodorozhnykh sooruzheniy, lit. '14th Division of the USSR NKVD Troops for the Protection of Railway Structures') was a Soviet military formation in World War II.[1] It was a component of the NKVD Internal Troops.
It was formed in accordance with the order of the NKVD number 00922 of 3 August 1944.
From 1944 to 1946 it was placed under the Headquarters, Internal Troops, NKVD-MVD, Baltic Military District (Russian: Управление ВВ НКВД-МВД Прибалтийского округа).[2]
Alongside the division in the Baltic MD VV forces at times from 1944 were the 4th, 5th and 63rd Rifle Divisions NKVD, along with detachments from the Dzerzhensky Division from Moscow.