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List Of Guards Units Of Russia
The Russian Armed Forces, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards unit (Soviet Union), Guards units. Ground Forces Guards Armies * 1st Guards Tank Army (Soviet Union), 1st Guards Tank Army * 2nd Guards Tank Army * 3rd Guards Combined Arms Army * 20th Guards Army, 20th Guards Combined Arms Army * 51st Guards Combined Arms Army * 58th Combined Arms Army, 58th Guards Army Guards Divisions Motor Rifle * 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division, 2nd Guards "Tamanskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: ''гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская дивизия'') * 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 18th Guards "Insterburgskaya" Motor Rifle Division * 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 20th Guards "Prikarpatsko-Berlinskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: ''гвардейская мотострелковая Прикарпатско-Берлинская бригада'') * 42nd Guards M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
90th Guards Tank Division (2016–present)
90th Guards Tank Vitebsk-Novgorod Twice Red Banner Division (; Military Unit Number 86274) is a Russian armoured division. The division was formed by December 2016 in the Central Military District. History Establishment The 90th Guards Tank Division was reformed by December 2016 in the Central Military District, carrying on the lineage of the 90th Guards Rifle Division. The division inherited the awards and history of the 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division, the former 90th Guards Rifle Division. The division was formed in accordance with an order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces and decree of the Russian Defence Minister dated 13 September 2016. The division is based in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Oblasts. The division was formed form the 7th Separate Guards Tank Brigade, whose traditions were continued by the 239th Guards Tank Regiment, and the 32nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, perpetuated by the 228th Motor Rifle Regiment. To continue the he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 136th Separate Guards Uman-Berlin, Apsheron Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor Rifle Brigade is a mechanised infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces. On December 1, 1993, the 136th Motor Rifle Brigade was established at Buynaksk, Dagestan. In 1996-97, the brigade was merged with the 204th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment "Uman-Berlin" as the 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. The 204th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was transferred to the North Caucasus Military District at some point during the transformation of the 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division, returning from the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, to become the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in the Siberian Military District. Plans from 2018 to upgrade the brigade to division status had apparently not completed by 2022, unlike the 19th Motor Rifle Brigade which was reestablished as a division in 2020. War in Ukraine The 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade conducted combat operations in Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 74th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Zvenigorod-Berlin Orders of Kutuzov and Suvorov Brigade (; MUN 21005) is a military formation of the Russian Ground Forces's 41st Combined Arms Army, part of the Central Military District, stationed in Yurga, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The brigade was created by reforming the 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division withdrawn from the GDR in the early 1990s. History Early years and WWII The 74th Motor Rifle Brigade was created from the disbanded 94th Guards Zvenigorod-Berlin Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division, formerly called the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. The 94th Guards Rifle Division was formed on 23 April 1943 in the eastern Ukraine as a consolidation of the 14th Guards and 96th Rifle Brigades. It took part in the liberation of southern Ukraine through the remainder of 1943 and into 1944 as part of the 5th Shock Army. It remained with the Army through the remainder of the war and ended in the streets of Berlin. Post-war, it rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th Guards Rifle Division
The 17th Guards Rifle Division (Russian: 17-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. It was created on March 17, 1942, from the first formation of the 119th Rifle Division, in recognition of that division's stalwart defense against German Army Group Center in the Battle of Moscow, and in the subsequent strategic offensive that threw the German forces back from the capital. It became the 123rd Guards Motor Rifle Division in 1957 and converted into the 129th Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division in 1989. In 2001, it was converted to the 17th Guards Motor Rifle Division and became the 70th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in 2009. The brigade was reorganized as the 114th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment of the reformed 127th Motor Rifle Division (Russia), 127th Motor Rifle Division in 2018. The regiment is currently based in Ussuriysk. Formation The 17th Guards was one of four Guards rifle divisions created in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Military Unit Number 51460) is a motorized infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces. Based at Knyaze-Volkonskoye, near Khabarovsk, the brigade is part of the Eastern Military District's 35th Army. The brigade's acting commander in May 2022 was Lt. Colonel Vasiliy Shcherbakov. The brigade was formed as the 882nd Motor Rifle Regiment, which transferred to the Far East in 1967, and which was converted into a brigade in 2009. The brigade was among the units that perpetrated the Bucha massacre during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the Russian retreat from Kyiv Oblast, the brigade was elevated to a guards unit, before being redeployed to fight in the battle of Donbas in the beginning of April, attempting to advance in the Izium sector. While attempting to do so it engaged in near constant attacks, resulting in it being rendered combat ineffective by the end of June, and completely obliterated during the Kharkiv countero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
81st Guards Rifle Division
The 81st Guards Rifle Division is an infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces, previously serving in the Red Army and the Soviet Army. It was formed after the Battle of Stalingrad from the 422nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 422nd Rifle Division in recognition of that division's actions during the battle, specifically the Operation Uranus, encirclement and the Operation Koltso, siege of the German forces in the city. The 81st Guards continued a record of distinguished service through the rest of the Great Patriotic War, and continued to serve postwar, as a rifle division and later a motor rifle division, until being reorganized as the 57th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade in 2009 in the Russian Ground Forces. Most of its postwar service was in the Soviet (Russian) far east, where it was originally formed as the 422nd. Formation The 81st Guards was one of nineteen Guards rifle divisions created during and in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Stalingrad. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
38th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 38th Separate Guards Vitebskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Brigade is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, part of the Eastern Military District. Military Unit в/ч 21720. The brigade was formed during the 2009 Russian military reforms from the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division of the Far East Military District, formed from the Red Army 31st Guards Rifle Division, an infantry division (military), division of World War II which subsequently became a motor-rifle, a tank division and then back to a motor-rifle division. The division was disbanded in 2009 and its traditions inherited by the 38th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, formed from at least one of its regiments. World War II The division traced its origin to the 328th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 328th Rifle Division, which was formed in the Yaroslavl area in August – September 1941. The division initially consisted of the 1103rd, 1105th and 1107th Rifle Regiments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Don Cossack Budapest Red Banner Order of the Red Star Brigade named after Ye. A. Shchadenko is a motor rifle brigade of the Russian Ground Forces (Military Unit Number 69647). It is stationed at Kyakhta in Buryatia, part of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District. The brigade fought in the war in Donbas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Components Due to its location in Kiakhta in Buryatia, this brigade has a high percentage of Buryat and other ethnic minority servicemen, many of whom adhere to Tibetan Buddhism. As a result, by 2021 it was the only Russian military unit with a Buddhist lama serving as a military chaplain. The brigade included more than 200 tracked vehicles and more than 100 wheeled vehicles in 2013. According to 2015 data, the brigade was equipped with 40 T-72B3, 1 T-72BK, 120 BMP-2, 15 MT-LB, 18 BM 2B17-1 Tornado-G, 36 2S3M Akatsiya 152 mm howitzers, 18 × 120 mm mortar 2S12 Sani, 6 × 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 36th Separate Guards Lozovskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade (; MUN 06705) is an infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, which traces its heritage to the creation of the 38th Guards Rifle Division from the 4th Airborne Corps during World War II. The division gained its honorific on 23 September 1943 for its part in the seizure of Lozovaya in Ukraine. History The historical predecessor of the military unit is the 47th Special Purpose Airborne Brigade, formed in 1932, on the basis of which the 214th Airborne Brigade was formed in 1938. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the brigade was deployed into the 4th Airborne Corps, which took an active part in the Operation Barbarossa. In August 1942, the corps was reformed into the 38th Guards Rifle Division, which went through the entire war, meeting its end on the territory of Germany. In 1957, the division was reorganized into a motorized rifle division, becoming the 38th Guards Motorized Rifle Lozovskaya Red Bann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 35th Separate Guards Volgograd-Kiev Orders of Lenin, Suvorov and Kuzov Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade (; Military Unit Number 41659) is a unit of the Russian Ground Forces. It traces its history back to the formation of the Soviet 4th Tank Corps (later: 5th Guards Tank Corps) during the Second World War. It forms part of the 41st Combined Arms Army (CAA), and has its headquarters in a former Strategic Rocket Forces installation at Aleysk in Altai Krai. History 4th Tank Corps In accordance with State Committee of Defence (NKO) Order No. 724218сс оf 31 March 1942, the 4th Tank Corps was established in the Voronezh area in April 1942. By order of the NKO of the USSR No. 57 dated February 7, 1943, in recognition of the courage and heroism of its personnel, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the "Guards" honorary title, and transformed into the 5th Guards Tank Corps. 5th Guards Tank Corps In the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 27th Separate Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade "60th Anniversary of the USSR" () is a tactical formation of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number (V/Ch) is 61899. It is part of 1st Guards Tank Army of the Moscow Military District, stationed in Mosrentgen, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug of Moscow. History The brigade traces its origins to the 535th Rifle Regiment, formed in Chuguev, Kharkov Oblast, Ukraine, in July 1940. From August 8, 1941 to September 14, 1941, the regiment, part of the 127th Rifle Division, participated in battles near Yelnya. On September 18, 1941, for the courage and valor of its personnel, the regiment and the remainder of the division became a Guards unit, the division becoming the 2nd Guards Rifle Division. Atamyrat Niyazov, the father of the first post-Soviet President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, reportedly volunteered to go to the front with the 535th Rifle Regiment during World War II. According to post-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
