List of guards units of Russia
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.
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The 4th Guards Tank Division at the 2019 Minsk Independence Day Parade.
Ground Forces
Guards Armies
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
Motor Rifle
- 15th Separate Guards "Alexandriyskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
- 21st Separate Guards "Novobug" Motor Rifle Brigade
- 25th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade "named after the 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
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
- Guards formations of the Airborne Troops (Cyrillic: гвардейские соединения воздушно-десантных войск):
- 7th Guards Airborne Division
- 76th Guards Air Assault Division
- 98th Guards Airborne Division
- 106th Guards Airborne Division
- 11th Guards Airborne Brigade
- 31st Guards Airborne Brigade
- 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade
- 83rd Guards Airborne Brigade
- 38th Guards Separate Communications Brigade
- 45th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Brigade
Navy
Guards formations of the Coastal Troops and Naval Infantry
- 336th Separate Guards Bialystok Marine Brigade
- 79th Separate Guards Insterburg Motor Rifle Brigade
- 152nd Separate Guards Brest-Warsaw Missile Brigade
- 244th Separate Guards Neman Artillery Brigade
- 7th Separate Guards Proletarian Moscow-Minsk Motor Rifle Regiment
- 22nd Separate Guards Air Defense Missile Regiment
- 69th Separate Guards Mogilev Marine Engineering Regiment
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
- Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym (1915), BSF, Svetlana-class. Awarded on June 18, 1942.
- Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz (1916), BSF, Svetlana-class. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
Strategic Rocket Forces
Guards Rocket Armies
References
- https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-26-2023
- "Командованию и личному составу 64 отдельной гвардейской мотострелковой бригады".
- Holm, Michael. "899th Orshanskiy Red Banner order of Suvorov Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment im. F.E. Dzerzhinskiy". ww2.dk. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
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