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Did you know... that the Soviet 16th 'Lithuanian' Rifle Division had more enlisted Jews than any other division in the Red Army?

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1941

The area of deployment of the division in 1941 as part of the 65 Corps is very close to where another source reports is, so I would propose the division was redeployed during the early part of fighting, but further research is required.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 01:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Graduates

The article currently states that The officers of the division were by and large graduates from the Vilnius infantry academy ^{[citation needed]}, who had been evacuated after the invasion to Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast.. This seems rather fishy, as the Soviets owned the city for roughly a year prior to the Barbarossa, which doesn't seem enough to establish an infantry academy, let alone produce any graduates. Same for Lithuanian period - the Lithuanian occupation of the town lasted less than a year. Are there any sources for that? //Halibu tt 02:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.russian-bazaar.com/cgi-bin/rb.cgi/f=vlul&auth=1&n=27&y=2002&id=vlul.2002.6.28.16.34.10.27.khronos.81.72&back=1
- In 16th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) on 2011-05-25 01:55:00, 404 Not Found
- In 16th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) on 2011-06-01 19:26:56, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 19:27, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done Unscintillating (talk) 00:01, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

48th Army?

The 16th Rifle Corps fought at Kursk, Central Front while the 48th Army fought at Leningrad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:5882:8201:C101:609E:7F79:A57E (talk) 11:56, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]