- Grivnik brigade
The Grivnik Brigade was an independent
Soviet division duringWorld War II . This brigade fought alongside the Soviet 88th Rifle Division against the Finnish J-Group of the Finnish III Corps and the GermanSS North duringOperation Barbarossa . They beat back both forces, forcing the Finno-German troops to retire to the city ofKestenga in September 1941.Source
*Mann, Chris and Christer Jorgensen. "Hitler's Arctic War". New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002.
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