15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

15th Guards Motorized Rifle Shavlinsky Order of Lenin, Red Banner Regiment
Banner of the regiment
Active1990-present
Garrison/HQKalininets, Moscow Oblast
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Kharitonov
Military unit

The 15th Guards Motorized Rifle Shavlinsky Order of Lenin, Red Banner Regiment (15 Guards MSP), (Russian: 15-й гвардейский мотострелковый Шавлинский ордена Ленина, Краснознамённый полк, romanized: 15-y gvardeyskiy motostrelkovyy Shavlinskiy ordena Lenina, Krasnoznamonnyy polk) is a motor rifle regiment of the Russian Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Its Military Unit Number is 31134. It is based in Kalininets (Moscow Oblast). It is part of the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division of the Western Military District.

Over the entire history of the regiment, more than 600 personnel have been awarded orders and medals, of which more than 250 - Order of Courage.[1]

History

The regiment was created in 1918.[1]

World War II

By the beginning of the war, it was called the 875th Infantry Regiment of the 127th Rifle Division (1st Formation).[2] The regiment fought in the Eastern front battles of Smolensk and Kursk, as well as the Novorossiysk-Taman operation [ru]. The regiment took part in the occupation of Ukraine and Lithuania. For its wartime actions, the regiment was raised to "Guards" status as the 15th Guards Rifle Regiment. For the occupation of the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai during the Šiauliai offensive the regiment received the honorary title "Shavlinsky."[1][3]

Cold War

In 1953, the 15th Guards Rifle Regiment was reorganized into the 130th Guards Mechanised Regiment (military unit 73881) of the 23rd Guards Mechanised Division.[4] In 1957, the regiment became the 406th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, with the creation of motor rifle units and formations.

On 4 May 1990 the regiment reverted to its Second World War number as the 15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment.[5]

Post–Cold War era

On May 15, 2009, during a military reorganisation, the regiment was disbanded. The regiment was revived in 2013 as part of the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division.[6]

110th Anniversary celebrations of the regiment

In March 2022, after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the soldiers of the regiment refused to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.[7] After the launch of the invasion it was reported that the regimental commander Colonel Kharitonov was seriously wounded.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "The 15th Motorized Rifle Regiment located in the Naro-Fominsk District celebrated its centenary". Osnova. 2018-06-18. Archived from the original on 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  2. ^ "Memory of the people: Journal of combat operations of the 2nd Guards RD, p. 165". pamyat-naroda.ru. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  3. ^ "On the anniversary of 100 anniversary of the Shavlinsky Motorized Rifle Regiment". Press Service of the Western Military District. 2018-06-16. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  4. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 214, Table 5.2.6 "Mechanised regiments created in 1953-1956".
  5. ^ Michael Holm (2015). "2nd Guards Tamanskaya order of the October Revolution Red Banner order of Suvorov Motorised Rifle Division imeni M.I. Kalinin 2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменная ордена Суворова дивизия имени М.И. Калинина". Soviet Armed Forces Order of Battle.
  6. ^ Andrey Yashlavsky (2013-05-04). "Tamanskaya and Kantemirovskaya divisions were restored in Russia". Moskovsky Komsomolets. Archived from the original on 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  7. ^ Unian.net, Russian military refuse to fight in Sumy region — General Staff
  8. ^ "The Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region "decapitated" the occupiers' division". Retrieved 21 April 2022.

References

  • Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска) [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
  • Ленский А. Г., Цыбин М. М. (2001). "Московский военный округ (ГК СВ)". Советские сухопутные войска в последний год Союза ССР. Справочник. СПб.: B&K. pp. 174, 294. ISBN 5-93414-063-9.
  • Трошев Г. Н. (2001). Моя война. Чеченский дневник окопного генерала (Single ed.). Moscow: Вагриус. p. 382. ISBN 5-264-00657-1.