27th Guards Motor Rifle Division

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27th Guards Omsk-Novoburgskaya Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Motorised Rifle Division
Active1964–2009
Country Soviet Union (1964–1991)
 Russia (1991–2009)

The 27th Guards Omsk-Novoburgskaya Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Motorised Rifle Division (

Soviet Ground Forces
motor rifle division.

In 2009, it was reformed into the

21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
.

History

The division draws its history from the 75th Naval Rifle Brigade formed in the end of 1941. As part of the

15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
.

In the late summer of 1942, it was rushed south to help stop the German offensive into the northern Caucasus and Stalingrad. It took part in the destruction of the German 6th Army during the winter of 1942/43. During World War II the division was part of the

58th Army, alongside 16th Guards Rifle Division and two other rifle divisions.[3] The division was back with the 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front
in May 1945.

The division participated in the

Poznań, Küstrin, Warsaw-Poznan and the Berlin offensive operation. For services in battle the division was awarded the honorific "Novobug" in March 1944,[4] then awarded the Order of the Red Banner and Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degrees. Over 10 thousand of its soldiers were awarded awards and medals, and 7 were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. Its commanders included Colonel Konstantin Vindushev (1942), and Viktor Glebov (1942–1945), Glebov was originally a colonel but was made a general-major in November 1942.[2]

Since 1945 the division remained as part of the

Volga-Ural Military District. It has contributed many personnel for peacekeeping operations.[1]

The division was renamed the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade on 1 June 2009, after the beginning of the 2008 Russian military reform.[1]

Composition in Germany, c1988

Source: Craig Crofoot, GSFG manuscript available at www.microarmormayhem.com, and Holm 2015.[1]

  • Division Headquarters – Halle, East Germany 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 68th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (BMP) – Halle 51° 26′ 30″ north, 11° 56′ 50″ east
  • 243rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
    (BTR) – Halle 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 244th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (BTR) – Schlotheim 51° 15′ 50″ north, 10° 38′ 30″ east
  • 28th Tank Regiment – Halle 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 54th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment – Halle 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 286th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment – Halle 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 488th Independent Anti-Tank Battalion – Halle 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 5th Independent Reconnaissance & Radio EW Battalion – Mühlhausen 51° 12′ 20″ north, 10° 27′ 00″ east
  • 35th Independent Guards Signals Battalion – Halle 51° 29′ 40″ north, 11° 55′ 40″ east
  • 29th Independent Guards Engineer-Sapper Battalion – Halle 51° 26′ 40″ north, 11° 57′ 10″ east
  • 44th Repair-Reconstruction Battalion
  • 367th Independent Chemical Defence Battalion
  • 21st Independent Medical-Sanitation Battalion
  • 1126th Independent Material Support Battalion
  • 327th independent Helicopter Squadron – Schlotheim

Composition c.2001

Source warfare.ru

  • HQ 27th Motor Rifle Division [2nd Combined-Arms Army]
    • 81st Motor Rifle Regiment, Samara [27th MRD](Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 5 Mar 01; 21 Jan 03).
    • 152nd Tank Regiment(Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 13 Sep 01).
    • 433rd Motor Rifle Regiment [27th MRD](Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 13 Sep 01).

Commanders

  • Colonel Konstantin Vindushev (28 May–15 July 1942)
  • Colonel Viktor Glebov (15 July 1942 – 26 October 1946; promoted major general 27 November 1942)[5]
  • Major General Dmitry Bakanov (acting, 26 October 1946 – 20 January 1947)[5]
  • Major General Boris Anisimov (11 January 1947 – 26 February 1948)[5]
  • Major General Ivan Burmakov (26 February 1948 – 2 August 1950)[5]
  • Colonel Aleksandr Klopov (2 August 1950 – 29 September 1952)[5]
  • Colonel Mikhail Frolenkov (29 September 1952 – 24 April 1956; promoted major general 31 May 1954)[5]
  • Colonel Georgy Ivanishchev (26 May 1956 – 24 July 1958)[5]
  • Colonel Ivan Katyshkin (24 July 1958 – 10 December 1960; promoted major general 7 May 1960)[5]
  • Colonel Aleksandr Mironov (10 December 1960 – 13 May 1965; promoted major general 27 April 1962)[5]
  • Colonel Nikolay Storch (13 May 1965 – 5 September 1968; promoted major general 16 June 1965)[5]
  • Colonel Boris Borodin (5 September 1968 – 19 July 1973; promoted major general 6 November 1970)[5]
  • Colonel Zhansen Kereyev (19 July 1973 – 17 July 1975; promoted major general 25 April 1975)[5]
  • Colonel Boris Krylov (17 July 1975 – 5 April 1978; promoted major general 14 February 1978)[5]
  • Colonel Mikhail Moiseyev (5 April 1978 – 21 June 1980; promoted major general 16 February 1979)[5]
  • Colonel Anatoly Ushakov (21 June 1980 – 15 June 1984; promoted major general 16 December 1982)[5]
  • Colonel Valery Nikitin (21 June 1984 – 1 May 1987)[5]
  • Colonel Aleksandr Zhurov (2 May 1987 – 5 December 1990; promoted major general 25 April 1990)[5]
  • Colonel Valery Gubarenko (6 December 1990 – 26 July 1991)[5]
  • Colonel Aleksandr Kosyakov (27 July 1991 – 23 June 1992; promoted major general 18 December 1991)[5]
  • Major General Anatoly Sidyakin (1992–1995)
  • Major General Averyanov (1995–1999)
  • Major General Aleksandr Protchenko (September 1999 – 2002)
  • Major General Vladimir Zarudnitsky (2002–2005)
  • Colonel Aleksey Salmin (2005–at least 2007)
  • Major General Dmitry Kovalenko (June 2008–June 2009)

Sources

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Michael Holm, 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division
  2. ^ a b "27-я гв. Омско – Новобугская стрелковая дивизия" [27th Omsk-Novobug Guards Rifle Division]. samsv.narod.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  3. Combat Composition of the Soviet Army
    , 1 July 1942
  4. ^ 19.03.1944 — почётное наименование «Новобугская»[18] — За отличие в боях при прорыве обороны противника на западном берегу р. Ингулец и освобождение города Новый Буг. Приказ Верховного главнокомандующего № 063 от 19.03.1944 года.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Feskov et al. 2013, p. 607.

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