36th Rifle Division

36th Motor Rifle Division (1940–1946) 36th Motorized Division (1937–1940) 36th Rifle Division (1919–1937) (1946–1956)
Active	1919–1956
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	Russian Civil War Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) Battles of Khalkhin Gol World War II Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
Decorations	Order of Lenin
Battle honours	Transbaikal Khingan

The 36th Rifle Division (Russian: 36-я стрелковая дивизия) was a division of the Red Army and then the Soviet Army. The division was formed in 1919 as the 36th Rifle Division and fought in the Russian Civil War and the Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929. In 1937 it became the 36th Motorized Division. The division fought in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. It was converted into a motor rifle division in 1940 and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in World War II. Postwar, it became a rifle division again before its disbandment in 1956. The division spent almost its entire service in the Soviet Far East.