17th Guards Rifle Division
17th Guards Rifle Division (17 Mar 1942 – 17 May 1957) 123rd Guards Motor Rifle Division (17 May 1957 – 1 Oct 1989) 129th Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division (1 Oct 1989 – Sep 2001) 17th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Sep 2001 – Jun 2009) 70th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Jun 2009 – 2018) | |
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Active | 1942–2018 |
Country | Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation ]Khingan–Mukden Offensive Operation |
Decorations |
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Battle honours | Dukhovshchina Khingan |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Dimitrievich Berezin Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Petrovich Kvashnin |
The 17th Guards Rifle Division (Russian: 17-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the
Formation
The 17th Guards was one of four Guards rifle divisions created in
- 45th Guards Rifle Regiment from 421st Rifle Regiment
- 48th Guards Rifle Regiment from 634rd Rifle Regiment
- 52nd Guards Rifle Regiment from 920th Rifle Regiment
- 26th Guards Artillery Regiment from 349th Artillery Regiment
- 22nd Guards Antitank Battalion from 230th Antitank Battalion
- 16th Guards Sapper Battalion from 224th Sapper Battalion.[1]
The division was part of
In late 1943 the division, along with the rest of 39th Army, was transferred to
During
When the war ended the division honorifics were – Russian: Духовщинско-Хинганская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия (English: Dukhovshchina, Khingan, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov), and five of its men had been named as Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Postwar
Postwar, the division moved to
On 1 October 1989, it became the 129th Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division. The 45th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment disbanded and was replaced by the 290th Machine-Gun Artillery Regiment, the former 20th Fortified Area. The 52nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was disbanded and replaced by the 196th Machine-Gun Artillery Regiment, the former 4th Fortified Area. The 1170th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment was disbanded and replaced by the 1133rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment. The 48th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment and 1133rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment transferred to the
The brigade relocated to Ussuriysk in 2012, taking over the barracks of the former Ussuriysk Higher Military Automotive Command School of the Automotive Troops, disbanded in June 2007.[7]
The 70th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade was reorganized as the 114th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment in 2018, becoming part of the reformed 127th Motor Rifle Division.[8] The regiment inherited the honors of the brigade.[9][10]
References
Citations
- ^ Charles C. Sharp, "Red Guards", Soviet Guards Rifle and Airborne Units 1941 to 1945, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, Vol. IV, 1995, pp 49 – 51. Note that Sharp gives "249th" as the number of the artillery regiment from the 119th Rifle Div., but is given as "349th" in his other works.
- ^ a b Sharp, "Red Guards, p 49
- ^ Robert Forczyk, Smolensk 1943: The Red Army's Relentless Advance, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2019, Kindle ed.
- ^ http://www.soldat.ru/spravka/freedom/1-ssr-2.html. In Russian. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 151
- ^ a b Holm, Michael. "123rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ "Надпись "УВВАКУ" заменили на имя 70 мотострелковой бригады в Уссурийске" [The inscription "UVVAKU" was replaced with the name of the 70 Motor Rifle Brigade in Ussuriysk]. ussur.net (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-03-19.
- ^ Khramchikhin, Aleksandr (11 October 2019). "Неполноценная оборона Приморья" [Inferior defenses of Primorye]. Nezavisimaya gazeta (in Russian).
- ^ "Митинг-концерт ко Дню мотострелковых войск России пройдет 19 августа в Уссурийске" [Rally and concert in honor of the Day of Motor Rifle Troops of Russia will take place 19 August in Ussuriysk]. PrimaMedia (in Russian). 16 August 2022.
- ^ Парад Победы. Уссурийск. 2019 [Victory Parade, Ussuriysk, 2019] (Television production) (in Russian). 12 May 2019.
Bibliography
- 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 [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.