1st Guards Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)

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1st Guards Mechanized Corps
Active1942–1946
CountrySoviet Union
BranchArmoured Forces
Type
Prague Offensive
Battle honoursVienna

The 1st Guards 'Vienna'

Armoured Division
during World War II.

It was under the command of General Lieutenant Ivan Russiyanov, and gained the honorifics "Vienna, Voronezh".

In its final form, as the 171st Guards District Training Centre, it was disbanded while being stationed in Tbilisi in 1992.

History

The 1st Guards Mechanized Corps was formed in November 1942 in the

Operation Saturn, which was undertaken during the Battle of Stalingrad
.

The corps consisted of the following units:

Combat Units

Support Units

  • 54th Guards Signalling Battalion
  • Corps Train

Changes to unit organization

  • The 116th Guards Artillery Regiment had been replaced by the 382nd Guards, 1453rd, and 1821st self-propelled gun regiments by 1945.
  • The 1504th Guards Anti-Tank Regiment was no longer with the corps in 1945.
  • The 11th Guards Motorcycle Battalion and 1699th Anti-Aircraft Regiment had been added to the corps by 1945.

In 1942, the corps fought in

Vienna Offensive
.

Depending on the specific tasks allotted, units from the

M4A2 Sherman Lend-Lease
tanks.

The Corps had been re-designated the 1st Guards Mechanised Division by March 1946 while at Maragheh in Iran. In April 1946 it moved to Tbilisi in Georgia, in the Transcaucasian Military District. It was then reorganised as the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division in 1957, 2nd Guards MR Training in 1960, and then the 16th Guards MRD on 17 November 1964 (Military Unit Number 35695). On 18 August 1968 renamed 100th Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division.[1]

On September 7, 1985, the division was named after Lieutenant General I.N. Russiyanov. On 14 September 1987, the division began to be called the 171st Guards District Training Center (Military Unit Number 30105).[1] In June 1992, after the collapse of the USSR, it was disbanded. Remaining Russian units in Vaziani in Tblisi gained the designation of the 137th Military Base.

Yet that same month, the battle banner of the division, its honours and awards were transferred to the 212th District Training Centre in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Far Eastern Military District (Military Unit 30672). Up until 1987 the 212th DTC had been the 49th Tank Training Division. With the change, the centre in Chita became the 212th Guards District Training Center "Vienna of the Orders of Lenin and Kutuzov," for junior specialists named after Lieutenant General I.N. Russiyanov.[2]

Assignment

1942

  • Southwestern Front
    • 3rd Guards Army

1943

  • Southwestern Front

1944

  • STAVKA Reserve
    , later part of the Kharkov Military District

1945

Bibliography

  • Bonn, K.E. 'Slaughterhouse - The Handbook of the Eastern Front', Aberjona Press
  • Erickson, J. 'The Road to Stalingrad'
  • Glantz, D.
    'From the Don to the Dnepr'

References

  1. ^ a b Holm 2015.
  2. ^ V.I. Feskov et al 2013, Chapter 26.
  • Holm, Michael (2015-01-01). "100th Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division".

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