Russian Army - Divisions
The list does not include reserve tank divisions ( ZTD ). These formations in the period before and after 1989 were the Weapons and Equipment Storage Bases ( BKhVT ), without the personnel required by the state and were not full-fledged combat formations . In the USSR Armed Forces there were up to 13 ZTD. The list does not include cadre tank divisions. These divisions were compounds with the states "B" or "G" .
| Division (full name) | Dislocation, 1989 | Dislocation, 2006 |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Tank Insterburg Red Banner Division | 11th Guards Army , PribVO , Kaliningrad | During the Second World War - 1st shopping mall . In 1995 it was transformed into the 2nd Separate Guards Tank Brigade and transferred to the BF . In 1998 - transformed into the 385th BHVT . Disbanded in 2008 |
| 2nd Guards Tank Tatsinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 39th Army , ZabVO , Choibalsan ( Mongolia ) | During the Second World War - the 24th TC and the 2nd Guards TC . It was bred in 1990 and placed on the station. Bezrechnaya , Chita Region , ZabVO (in place of the 11th Guards Motor Rifle Division ). In 2001, it was reorganized into the 3742nd CBRT . Disbanded in 2005 , with the re -establishment of the 5th Guards in 2009. otbr , which is the successor of the 2nd Guards . now stationed in Ulan-Ude ( ZabVO ). |
| 3rd Guards Tank Kotelnikovskaya Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 7th Tank Army (USSR) BelVO n.p. Zaslonovo, Vitebsk region , Byelorussian SSR | During the Second World War - the 7th TC and the 3rd Guards TC . Converted to BHVT. Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Disbanded |
| 4th Guards Tank Kantemirovskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner Division named after Yu. V. Andropov | Moscow Military District , Naro-Fominsk , Moscow Oblast | During the Second World War - the 17th TC and the 4th Guards TC . In 2009 it was reorganized into the 4th Guards. otbr. Revived in 2013. |
| 5th Guards Tank Don Budapest Red Banner Order of the Red Star Division named after E. A. Shchadenko | ZabVO , Kyakhta of the Buryat ASSR of the RSFSR | During the Second World War - the 5th Guards. kk . From May 1946 to 1955 - 5th Guards Cavalry Division. From 1955 - the 1st Guards Heavy Tank Division, then the 18th Guards Heavy Tank Division from 1965, the 5th Guards Tank Division. In 2009, the 5th Guards Tank Division (f1965) was reorganized into the 37th Guards. Omsbr with deployment in the city of Kyakhta ( 36th Army of the VostVO ). [17] |
| 6th Guards Tank Kiev-Berlin Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Division. | 28th Army , BelVO , Grodno , Belorussian SSR | During the Second World War - 12 TC and 6 Guards TC . In 1979, it was withdrawn from the GSVG in the USSR . Entered the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus . In 1992, the 6th Guards was reorganized . omekhbr with the preservation of honorary regalia. Location has not changed |
| 7th Guards Tank Kiev-Berlin Order of Lenin, twice Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 3rd Shock Army , GSVG , Dessau - Roslau (Elbe) ( GDR ) | During the Second World War - the 15th TC and the 7th Guards TC . Disbanded in 1990 |
| 8th Guards Tank Red Banner Division | 5th Guards Tank Army , BelVO Osipovichi , Mogilev Oblast , Byelorussian SSR | During the Second World War - the 2nd TC and the 8th Guards TC . Disbanded in 1990 |
| 9th Tank Bobruisk-Berlin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 1st Guards Tank Army , GSVG , Riesa , Zeithain (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 9th shopping mall . Disbanded in 1991 |
| 10th Guards Tank Ural-Lvov Order of the October Revolution, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Volunteer Division named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky | 3rd Shock Army , GSVG , Altengrabow (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 30th TC and the 10th Guards TC . Bred in Boguchar , Voronezh Oblast , RSFSR , Moscow Military District . In 2009 it was reorganized into BHVT. Location has not changed |
| 11th Guards Tank Carpathian-Berlin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 1st Guards Tank Army , GSVG , Dresden (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 6th TC and the 11th Guards TC . Bred in Slonim , Grodno region , Byelorussian SSR . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Reorganized into the 11th Guards. omehbr |
| 12th Guards Tank Uman Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 3rd Shock Army , GSVG , Neuruppin (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 16th TC and the 12th Guards TC . Disbanded in 1991 |
| 13th Guards Tank Poltava Order of Lenin, twice Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division | JUGV , Veszprem ( Hungary ) | During the Second World War - the 13th Guards Rifle Division . Withdrawn and disbanded in 1989 |
| 14th Tank Division | North Caucasus Military District , Novocherkassk , Rostov Oblast , RSFSR | Postwar Formation 1974 . In 1974, the 51st Tank Division was redeployed to the MPR . In the same year, the 14th Tank Division was formed on the vacant site . In 1989, the 14th Tank Division was reorganized into the 100th Operational Division of the Soviet VV MVD . The location has not changed. |
| 15th Guards Tank Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | CGV , Milovice ( Czechoslovakia ) | During the Second World War - the 55th Guards Kd and the 15th Guards Kd . Disbanded in 1991 . Some parts of the 15th Guards Tank Division became part of the 34th Motor Rifle Division with deployment in Chebarkul , the rest was transformed into BKhVT in Chebarkul , Chelyabinsk Region |
| 16th Guards Tank Uman Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army , GSVG , Neustrelitz (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 9th Guards Corps . Bred to Chaikovsky , Perm Oblast , PUrVO , transformed into the 5967th BKhVT . Location has not changed |
| 17th Guards Tank Krivoy Rog Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 6th Guards Tank Army , KVO , Krivoy Rog , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - 20 Guards Rifle Division . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Reorganized into the 17th brig . Location has not changed |
| 19th Guards Tank Nicholas-Budapest Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | YUGV , Esztergom ( Hungary ) | During the Second World War - 2nd Guards Mk . Bred in n.p. Zaslonovo ( Gorsky s / s ) of the Vitebsk region of the Byelorussian SSR . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . It was reorganized into the 19th BKhVT , then it was reorganized into the 19th Guards. omehbr . |
| 20th Tank Zvenigorod Red Banner Division | Northern Group of Forces , Zagan ( Poland ) | During the Second World War - the 20th. Disbanded in 1991 |
| 21st Guards Tank Vitebsk Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 35th Army , Far East Military District , Belogorsk , Amur Oblast , RSFSR | During the Second World War - 31st Guards. sd . In the period from 1957 to 1977 - the 31st Guards Motorized Rifle Division stationed in Kaunas of the Lithuanian SSR . In 1977 it was reorganized into the 21st Guards Tank Division , with redeployment to the Far East . Reorganized into the 38th Guards. omsbr . |
| 23rd Training Tank Budapest Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 8th Tank Army , PrikVO , Ovruch , Zhytomyr Oblast , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - the 23rd shopping mall . Reorganized in 1987 as a training tank division . Transformed in 1989 into the 6065th BHVT . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Redesignated 129th BHVT . The location has not changed. |
| 24th training tank division | PribVO , Riga Latvian SSR | Postwar Formation 1957 . In 1987, it was reorganized into the 54th district training center . Bred in 1991 in N. p. Struga Krasnye , Pskov region , LVO . Converted to 42nd BKhVT |
| 25th Tank Red Banner Division | 20th Guards Combined Arms Army , GSVG , Vogelsang (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 25th shopping mall . Disbanded in 1989 |
| 26th Guards Training Tank Moscow-Tartu Red Banner Division | Moscow Military District , Kovrov , Vladimir Oblast , RSFSR | During the Second World War - the 130th Rifle Division (2f) and the 53rd Guards Rifle Division . It was transformed in 1987 and still exists today as the 467th Guards District Training Moscow-Tartu Red Banner Training Center for junior specialists (tank troops). Location has not changed |
| 27th tank training division | Far Eastern District , Zavitinsk , Amur Oblast , RSFSR | Postwar Formation 1969 . In 1987, it was reorganized into the 395th district training center . Location has not changed |
| 28th Tank Alexandria Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division | 28th Army , BelVO , Slonim , Grodno Oblast , BSSR | During the Second World War - 8th MK (2f) . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Transformed into the 28th BKhVT with redeployment to Baranovichi , Brest region . Location has not changed |
| 29th Tank Znamenskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 5th Guards Tank Army , BelVO , Slutsk , Minsk Oblast , BSSR | During the Second World War - the 29th shopping mall . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Transformed into 29th BKhVT . Location has not changed |
| 30th Guards Tank Rivne Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 8th Tank Army , PrikVO , Novograd-Volynsky , Zhytomyr Oblast , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - the 83rd cd and the 13th Guards cd . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . The 30th Guards Division existed in 2001 . Was subsequently disbanded |
| 31st Tank Vislenskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division | 28th Army Corps , TsGV , Bruntal ( Czechoslovakia ) | During the Second World War - the 100th brigade and the 31st shopping mall . Bred in 1991 in the Moscow Military District , n.p. Mulino , Gorky region . Together with units of the 47th Guards Division , it was reorganized into the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division . In 2009, the 3rd Motor Rifle Division was reorganized into the 174th BKhVT , the 6th brigade (the former 100th brigade) and the 9th brigade, the latter inherited the regalia of the 3rd motorized division. In 2016, the 3rd Motor Rifle Division was revived on the basis of the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 23rd Guards. omsbr with deployment in the city of Valuyki and the city of Boguchar. |
| 32nd Guards Tank Poltava Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division | 20th Guards Combined Arms Army , GSVG, Juteborg (GDR) | During the Second World War - 9th Guards Airborne Division Disbanded in 1991 |
| 34th Tank Dnieper Order of Suvorov Division | 7th Tank Army , BelVO , Borisov , Minsk Oblast , BSSR | During the Second World War - the 10th TC Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Transformed into 34th BKhVT . Disbanded. |
| 37th Guards Tank Rechitsa twice Red Banner, orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division | 7th Tank Army , BelVO , Polotsk , Vitebsk Oblast , BSSR | During the Second World War - 37th Rifle Division . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Transformed into the 37th Rechitsa BKhVT . Location has not changed |
| 40th Guards Pomeranian Red Banner Order of Suvorov Tank Division | 11th Guards Army , PribVO, Sovetsk , Kaliningrad Oblast | During the Second World War - 17th Guards . Transformed into the 10th separate tank brigade , then into the 196th BHVT . Disbanded in 2008 |
| 41st Guards Tank Korsun-Danube Order of Suvorov Division | 1st Guards Army , KVO , Uman , Cherkasy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - 41st Guards Rifle Division . Transformed in 1989 into the 5193rd BKhVT . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Disbanded |
| 42nd Guards Tank Prilukskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky Division | 6th Guards Tank Army , KVO , Dnepropetrovsk Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - the 42nd Guards Rifle Division . Transformed into the 5139th Guards. BHVT . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Location has not changed |
| 44th Training Tank Lisichanskaya Red Banner Division | PUrVO , Kamyshlov , Sverdlovsk Oblast , RSFSR | During the Second World War - 279th SD (2f) . Transformed in 1989 into the 473rd district training center . In 2004, it was merged with the 469th OTC ( 43rd training motorized rifle division ) under the general name - 473rd district training center Lisichansk Red Banner . Location has not changed |
| 45th Guards Training Tank Rivne Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | BelVO , Borisov (military town Pechi) of the Minsk region of the BSSR | During the Second World War - the 6th Guards Rifle Division . Transformed in 1989 into the 72nd District Training Center . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Location has not changed |
| 47th Guards Tank Nizhnedneprovskaya Red Banner, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division | 3rd Combined Arms Army , GSVG , Hillersleben (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 47th Guards Rifle Division . Bred in 1991 in the Moscow Military District , n.p. Mulino , Gorky region . 99th Guards. glanders and 245th Guards. SMEs went to form the 3rd Motor Rifle Division . In 2022, the 47th Guards Tank Division was revived. |
| 48th Guards Training Tank Zvenigorod Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | KVO, Desna , Chernihiv region , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - 5th Guards Airborne Division . Transformed in 1987 into the 169th Guards District Training Center . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Location has not changed |
| 49th training tank division named after L. I. Brezhnev | ZabVO , Chita (military camp Peschanka, and Antipikha ), Russian SFSR | Postwar Formation 1969 . It was transformed in 1987 into the 212th Guards District Training Vienna Order of Lenin and Kutuzov Training Center for Junior Specialists (tank troops) named after Colonel General I. N. Russiyanov . Honorary regalia and guards status were transferred to her from the 100th Guards disbanded in Georgia . umsd . |
| 51st Tank Division | 39th Army of ZabVO , Ulan-Orkhon ( Orkhon , Bulgan ), and Sayn-Shand ( MPR ) | Postwar Formation 1968 . Bred in 1989 in Naushki , Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the RSFSR and transformed into the 6063rd BKhVT . In 1991, she was relocated to Nizhneudinsk , where she was given honorary regalia from the 15th Motor Rifle Division , which was disbanded in the ZakVO . In 2009, it was reorganized into the 187th Sivash-Stettin Order of Lenin, twice Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and the Red Banner of Labor of the BHiRVT . |
| 60th Tank Sevsko-Varshavskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division | 13th Guards AK , MVO , Dzerzhinsk , Gorky Oblast , RSFSR | During the Second World War - 60th Rifle Division . In 1980, the 285th Tank Regiment was redeployed to Afghanistan as part of the 108th Motor Rifle Division . In 1989, the 60th TD was disbanded |
| 75th Guards Heavy Tank Bakhmach twice Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division | 6th Guards Tank Army , KVO , Chuguev , Kharkiv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - the 75th Guards Rifle Division . It was formed in 1954 on the basis of the 64th Guards.md as the 14th Guards.ttd . Renamed 75th Guards Tank Division in 1965 . In 1989 it was disbanded. At the time of disbandment, it was armed with T-10 heavy tanks . |
| 76th Tank Division | BelVO , Brest BSSR | Postwar Formation 1969 . In 1989 it was reorganized into the 5356th BHVT . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Disbanded |
| 78th Tank Nevelskaya Red Banner Division | 32nd Army , TurkVO Ayaguz , East Kazakhstan Oblast , KazSSR | During the Second World War - the 78th brigade . It became part of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan. It was disbanded in 2003 into 3 separate brigades . The 11th tank brigade named after Kabanbai-batyr is considered the successor . The deployment of the newly created brigades has not changed. |
| 79th Guards Tank Zaporozhye Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division | 8th Guards Army , GSVG , Jena ( GDR ) | During the Second World War - the 284th SD 2 (f) and the 79th Guards SD . Withdrawn to Samarkand In 1992, the 79th Guards Division was disbanded |
| 90th Guards Tank Lviv Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division (1985 formations) | 20th Guards Combined Arms Army GSVG , Bernau (GDR) | During the Second World War - the 6th Guards Mk . Until 1985 - 6th Guards Motor Rifle Lvov Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division . In 1985, it was reorganized into the 90th Guards. td [~ 2] . In 1993, it was bred in the settlement. Chernorechye , Samara Oblast , and became part of the 2nd Guards Army of the PriVO . In 1997 it was transformed into the 5968th Guards. BHVT . Disbanded in 2005 , 81st Guards. SME became part of the 27th Guards. msd . |
| 117th Guards Training Tank Berdichevskaya Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division | PrikVO Berdichev, Zhytomyr region , Ukrainian SSR | During the Second World War - 117th Guards Rifle Division . Transformed in 1987 into the 119th Guards District Training Center . Entered the Armed Forces of Ukraine . In 2000, on the basis of the 119th Guards. The OUC formed the 62nd separate mechanized brigade . In 2004, it was reorganized into the 26th Artillery Berdichev Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky Brigade , which is considered the successor to the 117th Guards . The dislocation has not changed . |
| 193rd Tank Dnieper Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division | BelVO , Bobruisk , Mogilev region , BSSR | During the Second World War - 193 sd (2f) . Entered the Armed Forces of Belarus . Transformed in 1991 into the 193rd BHVT . Airborne divisions |
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| Division (full name) | Location, Status as of 1989 | Location, Status as of 2006 |
| 7th Guards Airborne Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division | Kaunas of the Lithuanian SSR , PribVO | During the Second World War - the 322nd Guards PDP as part of the 8th Guards Airborne Command . In 1993 she was relocated to Novorossiysk , North Caucasian Military District . Transformed in 2006 into an air assault (mountain) division. |
| 44th Guards Airborne Training Ovruch Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Division | Gaijunai of the Lithuanian SSR , PribVO | During the Second World War - 4th Guards Airborne Division . Transformed in 1987 into the 242nd Training Center for the Training of Junior Specialists of the Airborne Forces . In 1993 he was relocated to Omsk . |
| 76th Guards Airborne Chernihiv Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division | Pskov Russian SFSR , LVO | During the Second World War - the 157th Rifle Division (1f) and the 76th Guards Rifle Division . Transformed in 2006 into the 76th Guards Air Assault Division . The location has not changed. |
| 98th Guards Airborne Svir Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division | Bolgrad , Ukrainian SSR and Chisinau , MSSR , OdVO | During the Second World War - the 13th Guards Airborne Division (1f) and the 98th Guards Rifle Division . In 1993 she was relocated to Ivanovo and Kostroma . |
| 103rd Guards Airborne Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov Division named after the 60th anniversary of the USSR | Vitebsk , BSSR BelVO | During the Second World War - the 13th Guards Airborne Division (2f) and the 103rd Guards Rifle Division . Withdrawn from Afghanistan in 1989 . Due to the difficult situation in Transcaucasia , from January 4, 1990 to August 28, 1991, it was reassigned from the USSR Ministry of Defense to the Border Troops of the KGB of the USSR . At the end of this period, she was relocated to her former place of deployment, which she occupied until 1980 - in the BSSR . At the same time, three parts of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division - the 1179th Guards Artillery Red Banner Regiment , The 105th separate guards anti-aircraft missile division and the 609th separate airborne support battalion were redeployed from BelVO to TurkVO in the city of Ferghana - to re-form the 105th Guards Airborne Division . In 1992, it went to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus . Reorganized into the 103rd separate mobile brigade |
| 104th Guards Airborne Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division | Kirovabad AzSSR , ZakVO | During the Second World War - the 104th Guards Rifle Division . In 1993 it was relocated to Ulyanovsk and in 1998 it was reorganized into the 31st separate guards air assault brigade. |
| 105th Guards Airborne Vienna Red Banner Division | Kapchagai KazSSR , Iolotan TurkSSR , Fergana UzbekSSR , TurkVO | During the Second World War - the 105th Guards Rifle Division . Disbanded in 1979 . As of the end of 1991, it was in the final stage of re-formation, with the actual presence of all military units of the divisional set and staffed personnel. In connection with the collapse of the USSR , parts of the division withdrew to the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , Russia and Turkmenistan . |
| 106th Guards Airborne Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division | Tula and Ryazan of the RSFSR , Moscow Military District | During the Second World War - the 16th Guards Airborne Division and the 106th Guards Rifle Division . The location has not changed. |
