10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division
30th Urals Volunteer Tank Corps (1943) 10th Guards Tank Corps (1943–1945) 10th Guards Tank Division (1945–2009) 10th Separate Guards Tank Brigade (2009-) | |
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Active | 1943–2009 |
Country | Russia |
Branch | Regular Army |
Type | Tank |
Size | Around 3-4,000 personnel (1990s) |
Garrison/HQ | Boguchar, Voronezh Oblast |
Nickname(s) | Ural Volunteer, Lvov |
Engagements | World War II East German uprising of 1953 |
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The 10th
Its complete formal designation is: "The 10th Guards Tank Ural-
Reports indicate that the Division has been reduced in status to a mobilisable base for the storage of weapons and equipment, (which in wartime would become a tank brigade), during the 2009 Russian Ground Forces reorganisation.
World War II
The people of the
The first action for the Urals Volunteer Tank Corps was at Oryol, the counterattack (
On 25 October 1943 it was honoured and renamed the 10th Guards Uralsky Voluntary Tank Corps. The corps then fought in battles at
The corps finished the war in what is now Poland, and briefly became part of the Northern Group of Forces.
Cold War
On 28 June 1945, the corps became a division at
For good results in combat training on 16 June 1967 the division was named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky and on 21 February 1978 it was awarded the Order of the October Revolution.
The 697th Separate Missile Battalion became part of the
Composition in the late 1980s
- 10th Guards Tank Ural-L'vov Volunteer Division (HQ Altengrabow)[1]
- 61st Guards Sverdlovsk-L'vov Tank Regiment (Altengrabow)
- 62nd Guards Permian-Keletskiy Tank Regiment (Altengrabow)
- 63rd Guards Chelyabinsk-Petrokovskiy Tank Regiment (Altengrabow)
- 248th Guards Unechskiy Motor Rifle Regiment (Schönebeck)
- 744th Guards Ternopol' Artillery Regiment (Altengrabow)
- 359th Guards L'vov Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Altengrabow)
- 112th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (Halberstadt, later Altengrabow)
- 152nd Separate Guards Communications Battalion (Altengrabow)
- 131st Separate Guards Engineer Battalion (Magdeburg)
- 127th Separate Chemical Defence Battalion (Altengrabow)
- 1072nd Separate Material Supply Battalion (Altengrabow)
- 60th Separate Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Altengrabow)
- 188th Separate Medical Battalion (Altengrabow)
Service in the Russian Ground Forces
The division was moved back to Boguchar in the Moscow Military District. The 6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was withdrawn from Berlin, reorganised as a motor rifle regiment and was garrisoned at Kursk. The 63rd Guards Tank Regiment was combined with the 6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade combining with the tank regiment to form the 6th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment in 1997.[6]
In 2009-2010 the division was reduced to a weapons and equipment storage site and mobilization tank brigade. Most recently the new formation has been named as the 262nd Guards Ural-Lvov Order of the October Revolution Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Weapons and Equipment Storage Base named for Marshal of the Soviet Union R.I. Malinovsky (Russian: 262-я гвардейская Уральско-Львовская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменная орденов Суворова и Кутузова база хранения и ремонта вооружения и техники named for Marshal of the Soviet Union Р.Я. Малиновского (отбр) (п. Богучар Воронежской области, 1-я отбр).[8][9]
In 2015 the Russian Ministry of Defence announced that the traditions of the division would be continued by a reformed 1st Separate Ural-Lvov Tank Brigade as part of the
Subordinate units in 2006
- 61st Guards Tank Regiment "Sverdlovsko-Lvovskiy"
- 62nd Guards Tank Regiment
- 6th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Kursk)
- 248th Motor Rifle Regiment
- 744th Artillery Regiment
- 359th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
- 112th Separate Intelligence Battalion
- 152nd Separate Communications Battalion
- 127th Separate Chemical Defence Battalion
- 131st Separate Engineer Battalion
- 60th Repair Battalion
- 1072nd Separate Logistics Battalion
- 188th Separate Medical Battalion
- 689th Separate Electronic Warfare Battalion
Sources and references
- ^ a b "Состав соединений и частей 3я Общевойсковая армия" [The composition of the formations and units of 3rd Combined Arms Army]. www.gsvg.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-06-29. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ "30-й Уральский добровольческий танковый корпус" [30th Ural Volunteer Tank Corps]. tankfront.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ Erickson, John, Road to Berlin, 1982, p.115
- ^ "10-й гвардейский Уральский добровольческий танковый корпус" [10th Guards Ural Volunteer Tank Corps]. tankfront.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ "62-я гвардейская Молотовская танковая бригада" [62nd Guards Tank Brigade]. tankfront.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ a b c Holm, Michael. "10th Guards Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ legacy.wilsoncenter.org Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine - note the document from Grechko to Bulganin incorrectly identifies the unit as the "10th Tank Division" vice "10th Guards Tank Division" (the 10th Tank Division was part of the Belorussian Military District in 1953 while the 10th Guards Tank Division was part of the Group of Soviet Forces Germany. These deployments can be verified in Feskov, pp. 74-75.)
- ^ "Смена концепции применения танков в российской армии" [Changing the concept of using tanks in Russian army]. Forums RusArmy.com (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2014-07-12. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ a b "Новая танковая бригада пополнила состав войск Западного военного округа" [New Tank Brigade has expanded the composition of the Western Military District]. Interfax.ru (in Russian). 14 September 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
- ^ "Сценарий наступления войск РФ на северо-восточном направлении. Анализ операционной ситуации". InformNapalm (in Russian). 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
- Keith Bonn (ed.), Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA, 2005
- Feskov et al., Советская Армия в годы «холодной войны» (1945-1991), Tomsk: Tomsk University Press, 2004
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