List of guards units of Russia

The 4th Guards Tank Division at the 2019 Minsk Independence Day Parade.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.

Ground Forces

Guards Armies

Guards Divisions

Motor Rifle

  • 2nd Guards "Tamanskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская дивизия)
  • 18th Guards "Insterburgskaya" Motor Rifle Division
  • 20th Guards "Prikarpatsko-Berlinskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Прикарпатско-Берлинская бригада)
  • 42nd Guards "Evpatoriyskaya" Motor Rifle Division
  • 144th Guards "Yelnya" Motor Rifle Division

Tank

  • 4th Guards "Kantemirovskaya" Tank Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия)
  • 47th Guards "Nizhniydneprovskaya" Tank Division
  • 90th Guards "Vitebsko-Novgorodskaya" Tank Division

Guards Brigades

Motor Rifles

  • 15th Separate Guards "Alexandriyskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 21st Separate Guards "Novobug" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 25th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade "Latvian Riflemen"
  • 27th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 35th Separate Guards "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 36th Separate Guards "Lozovaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 37th Separate Guards "Budapest Don Cossack" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 38th Separate Guards "Vitebskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 57th Separate Guards "Krasnograd" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (received Guards status on April 18, 2022)[2]
  • 70th Separate Guards "Dukhovshchina-Khingan" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 74th Separate Guards "Zvenigorod-Berlin" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 136th "Umansko-Berlinskaya" Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade
  • 138th Separate Guards "Krasnoselskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade

Tank

  • 5th Separate Guards "Tatsinkaya" Tank Brigade
  • 10th Separate Guards "Uralsko-Lvovskaya Volunteers" Tank Brigade

Engineering

  • 1st Guards Brest-Berlin Engineering Brigade
  • 11th Separate Guards Kingisepp Engineering Brigade
  • 12th Separate Guards Koenigsberg-Gorodok Engineering Brigade
  • 14th Separate Guards Baranovichi Engineering Brigade
  • 45th Guards Berlin Engineering Brigade

Artillery

  • 9th Guards "Kielce-Berlin" Artillery Brigade
  • 79th Guards "Novozybkov" Rocket Artillery Brigade
  • 120th Guards Artillery Brigade
  • 338th Guards '''"Dvinskaya"''' Rocket Artillery Brigade
  • 385th Guards '''"Odesskaya"''' Artillery Brigade
  • 439th Guards '''"Perekop"''' Rocket Artillery Brigade

Other Guards units

  • 1st Guards "Orshanskaya" Missile Brigade
  • 20th Guards "Berlin" Missile Brigade
  • 112th Guards "Novorossiysk" Missile Brigade
  • 212th Guards District Training Center
  • 467th Guards "Moscow-Tartu" District Training Center
  • 9th Guards '''"Lvov-Berlin"''' Headquarters Brigade
  • 3rd Guards "Warsaw-Berlin" Spetsnaz Brigade
  • 4th Guards Military Base

Disbanded Guards units

  • 7th Separate Guards "Orenburg Cossack"' Tank Brigade
  • 8th Separate Guards "Kramatorsk" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 8th Guards "Chertkovsky" Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 17th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 18th Separate Guards "Yevpatoriya" Motor Rifle Brigade
  • 23rd Separate Guards "Petrokovskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade

Air Force

  • Guards formations of the Air Force
    • 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
    • 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
    • 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
    • 120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Domna, 27 km southwest of Chita (MiG-29)
    • 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
    • 98th Separate Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment
    • 42nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (42 Gv BAP) (Su-24) (Verino - Pereyaslavka, Khabarovsk Kray) (to disband(?))
    • 18th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 6950th Guards Air Base
    • 6980th Guards Air Base
    • 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division
    • 303rd Guards Mixed Aviation Division

Disbanded Guards units

  • 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 19th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 22nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (PVO)
  • 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 458th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 627th Guards Fighter Aviation Training Regiment
  • 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (VVS Baltic Fleet)
  • 2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
  • 899th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment[3]

Airborne Forces

Navy

Guards formations of the Coastal Troops and Naval Infantry

Guards ships of the Navy (Cyrillic: гвардейские корабли)

    • submarine D-3 (1929), NF, I series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • Soviet submarine K-22 (1938), NF, XIV series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • Soviet submarine M-171 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • submarine M-174 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • destroyer Stoykiy (1938), BF, project 7U. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • minelayer Marti, ex-Imperial yacht Shtandart (1895), BF. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • base minesweeper T-205 (Gafel`) (1938), BF, project 53U. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
    • submarine Shch-205 (1934), BSF, V-bis-2 series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • submarine Shch-303 (1931), BF, III series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • submarine Shch-309 (1935), BF, V-bis-2 series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • submarine minelayer L-3 (1931), BF, II series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • destroyer Gremiashchiy (1937), NF, project 7. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • destroyer Soobrazitel`nyi (1939), BSF, project 7U. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • base minesweeper T-411 (Zashchitnik) (1937), BSF, project 53. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
    • Soviet submarine M-35 (1940), BSF, XII series. Awarded on May 31, 1943.
    • submarine Shch-402 (1935), NF, X series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
    • submarine Shch-422, ex-Shch-314 (1935), NF, X series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
    • Soviet submarine M-172 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
    • patrol boat № 065 (1938), BSF, MO-IV class. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
    • Soviet submarine S-33 (1939), BSF, IX-bis series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
    • submarine Shch-215 (1937), BSF, X series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
    • Soviet submarine M-62 (1939), BSF, XII series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
    • Soviet submarine S-56 (1939), NF, IX-bis-2 series. Awarded on February 23, 1945.
    • patrol ship EK-2, ex-USS Long Beach (PF-34) (1943), PF, Tacoma-class. Awarded on August 22, 1945.
    • patrol ship Metel` (1934), PF, project 4. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
    • minelayer Okhotsk (1935), PF, Okean-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
    • minesweeper T-278, ex-USS Nucleus (AM-268) (1943), PF, Admirable-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
    • minesweeper T-281, ex-USS Peril (AM-272) (1943), PF, Admirable-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
    • Sverdlov, ex-Vyuga (1909), AMF, Shkval-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
    • monitor Sun Yat-sen, ex-Shkval (1909), AMF, Shkval-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
    • gunboat Krasnaya Zvezda, ex-Vogul (1907), AMF, Vogul-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
    • gunboat Proletariy, ex-Votyak (1907), AMF, Vogul-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
    • large guided missile ship Gremiashchiy (1959), NF, project 57bis. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1937).
    • large anti-submarine ship Soobrazitel`nyi (1961), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Soobrazitel`nyi (1939).
    • Kynda class cruiser Varyag, ex-Soobrazitel`nyi (1963), PF, project 58. Succeeded Soobrazitel`nyi (1939) too.
    • seagoing minesweeper MT-205 (Gafel`) (1964), BF, project 266. Succeeded T-205 Gafel` (1938).
    • Soviet submarine K-22 (Krasnogvardeets) (1964), NF, project 675. Succeeded K-22 (1938).
    • Kashin class destroyer Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1916).
    • Kashin class destroyer Krasnyi Krym (1969), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Krasnyi Krym (1915).
    • destroyer Gremiashchiy (1987), NF, project 956. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1959).
    • Russian cruiser Varyag, ex-Chervona Ukraina (1983), PF, project 1164. Succeeded Varyag (1963) in 1996.
    • guided missile cruiser Moskva, ex-Slava (1979), BSF, project 1164. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966) in 1998.
    • destroyer Gremiashchiy, ex-Bezuderzhnyi (1990), NF, project 956A. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1987) in 2007.
Soviet ships

Strategic Rocket Forces

Guards Rocket Armies

References

  1. ^ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 26, 2023".
  2. ^ "Командованию и личному составу 64 отдельной гвардейской мотострелковой бригады". 18 April 2022.
  3. ^ Holm, Michael. "899th Orshanskiy Red Banner order of Suvorov Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment im. F.E. Dzerzhinskiy". ww2.dk. Retrieved 11 February 2016.