III Panzer Corps continued its rapid advance on October 27 - 28. 2nd Romanian captured Nalchik on the 28th, while also pressing the remnants of the 2nd Guards and 392nd back into the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. Despite the division's woes, on November 5 the German drive on Ordzhonikidze was stopped on the city's outskirts.Glantz, Armageddon, pp. 581, 584 It disappeared from the Soviet order of battle in November and December,Sharp, "Red Tide", p. 108 but reappeared near the end of December, now in 45th Army along the Turkish border.Combat Composition of the Soviet Army, 1943, p. 28
