The 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was a mechanised

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of the

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. It was descended from

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World War II formations. It traces its history to the establishment of the 2nd Airborne Corps in May 1942.

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commanded both the 2nd Airborne Corps and the later 32nd Guards Rifle Division. The division fought at Krasnodar, on the Kuban, and in Crimea prior to fighting in Kurland. On 1 June 1942 it was part of

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(BSSA)
1 June 1942
The division was with the

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of the 3rd Belorussian Front in May 1945. After the war it was reduced for a time to the 5th Independent Guards Rifle Brigade. It then became the 66th Guards Mechanised Division and then the 114th Guards Motor Rifle Division in June 1957. The 114th Guards MRD became the 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division on 17 November 1964 at Kalinin.Michael Holm
32nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division
and V.I. Feskov, Golikov V.I., K.A. Kalashnikov, and S.A. Slugin, The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces). (В.И. Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)) Томск, 201

Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected. The division included the 416th, 418th, and 420th Guards MRRs and 378th Tank Regiment. It was based in the

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from 1957 to 1993. In October 1989 the division was renamed the 5210th Guards Weapons and Equipment Storage Base. The storage base was itself disbanded in 1993.

References

*Keith E. Bonn, Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA., 2005. {{Use dmy dates, date=June 2017 G032 Military units and formations established in 1965 Military units and formations disestablished in 1989