2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
2nd Guards M. I. Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division | |
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2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменная ордена Суворова дивизия имени М. И. Калинина | |
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | |
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Battle honours | Taman |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Colonel (Guards) Sergey Viktorovich Medvedev |
The 2nd Guards M. I. Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменная ордена Суворова дивизия имени М. И. Калинина, romanized: 2-ya gvardeyskaya motostrelkovaya Tamanskaya ordena Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii Krasnoznamennaya ordena Suvorova diviziya imeni M. I. Kalinina), commonly known as the Tamanians or Taman Division, is a Guards mechanised infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number is 23626.
The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed in 1941, seeing extensive combat during
The division took a small part in the
History
The 127th Rifle Division was formed 8 June 1940 in
The division was initially garrisoning Kharkiv, Chuhuiv and Bohodukhiv. It was transferred to Rzhyshchiv in May 1941. The 127th Rifle Division was with
As the 2nd Guards Rifle Division
For distinguished combat service, the division was renamed as the 2nd Guards Rifle Division on 18 September 1941, attaining
On 22 December 1941, the division started to advance during the
As the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya (Motor) Rifle Division
After participating in the
During the
In September 1945, while it was serving with the 11th Guards Rifle Corps, the division was moved back into the Moscow Military District.[6]
Postwar
On 2 July 1946, the division received the honorific "named after M. I. Kalinin."
The division was called to Moscow for security duties following the death of Joseph Stalin on 5 March 1953.
In December 1953, the division was renamed to 23rd Guards Tamanskaya Mechanised Division, and it joined the
On 4 May 1990 the 406th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment reverted to its
From 1991
The division has played a prominent role in two of the major political crises of recent Soviet and Russian history. In 1991, it was one of the divisions deployed in Moscow as part of the
Two years later, the division once again came to Yeltsin's rescue, during the
Valerii Yevnevich commanded the Taman division during the events of October 3-4, 1993 in Moscow. Many media outlets claim that he personally supervised the actions of tank units that conducted targeted fire at the White House building[1][2]. On October 7, 1993, Boris Yeltsin awarded him the title “Hero of the Russian Federation” for his participation in the storming of the White House[2].
Around 1998-2000, the division numbered around 12,000 soldiers.[8]
Since then, the division has seen service in
The division was located near
Rearmament in 2007
On 22 January 2007, the Russian
Furthermore, according to Interfax: "Bakin stated that the First Guards Regiment had already undergone training for operating new materiel. "The regiment was the first in the Russian army to successfully master new arms and materiel. Last year, the regimental personnel were graded highly on their performance, he said."[11]
This rearmament may represent the first publicly known deployment of the T-90 in the Russian Army outside of the 5th Guards 'Don' Tank Division, based at Kyakhta in the Siberian Military District, which has been entirely equipped with such tanks in recent years. There have been rumours in circulation for some time now that all the T-90s currently in service were to be accumulated in the Tamanskaya Division, but these rumours lack reliable sources. If any such move is to occur, it may take place in 2007, but January's partial rearmament of the division does not seem to signal the beginning of such a move, since the T-90s and other modern armoured vehicles now with the division are newly purchased ones.
The division has been slated for disbandment in 2009, with two brigades being created from its existing subunits.
As the 5th Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Brigade
The division was disbanded in mid-2009, being split into two new motor rifle brigades. After 2009, the main successor of the division was the 5th Guards Separate, Order of the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Brigade named after Kalinin, which inherited the traditions of the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division.
2nd formation (2013)
The division was re-formed in 2013 by order of Russian defence minister
As of June 2015, the Russian Armed Forces planned to rebuild the famous Soviet era
- Division HQ
- 47th Guards Signal Battalion
- 136th Guards Reconnaissance Battalion (в/ч 51387)[20]
- 211th Guards Engineer Sapper Battalion
- 370th Medical Battalion
- 1063rd Supply Battalion
- 1174th Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (в/ч 51381)
- UAV company
- NBC protection company
- EWcompany
- Evacuation company
- 1st Guards Tank Regiment (в/ч 58198)
- 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (returned to its Second World War numbering from previous number '73' in 1990) (в/ч 31135)
- 15th Guards Motor Rifle Shavlinsky Regiment (в/ч 31134)
- 147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (в/ч 73966)
- 1117th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (в/ч 51382)
- Invasion of Ukraine
The division formed part of
Subordinated units and fighting strength
Its principal vehicles were the T-90 and T-80 main battle tanks, BTR-80 armoured personnel carrier and the BMP-2 and BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles.
1st Guards Tank 'Chertkovsky' Regiment
From January 1992 until 2009, the 1st Guards Tank Chertkovsky Regiment was part of the 2nd Tamanskaya Guards Motor Rifle Division.[23] During the reforms of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, the 1st Guards Tank Regiment along with the Taman Division was disbanded.[23]
In 2020, the 1st Guards Tank Chertkovsky Regiment (formed late 2016
The 1st Guards Tank Chertkovsky Regiment has always been at the point of the spear taking on the most difficult situations. Many officers from the Chertkovsky Regiment subsequently take top positions in the Ministry of Defence.[23]
In popular culture
In Tom Clancy's 1986 novel Red Storm Rising, the division offers token resistance to a coup d'état by the Soviet Army and the KGB against the Politburo.
In Frederick Forsyth's 1996 novel Icon (novel), the tank division prevents success of a coup d'état by the main antagonist.
References
- This page incorporates material from the Russian Wikipedia pages 127-я стрелковая_дивизия (1-го формирования) and 2-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия, accessed 2 October 2016.
- ^ "Экипажи Т-72Б3 и БМП-2 Таманской мотострелковой дивизии выполнят упражнения учебных стрельб в Подмосковье". Пресс-служба Западного военного округа (in Russian). 2016-12-07. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ^ a b "Таманская дивизия отметила 75-ю годовщину со дня формирования". Пресс-служба Западного военного округа (in Russian). 2015-07-21. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ^ "Сдали без боя" (in Russian). lenta.ru. 2008-10-28. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ^ "Участник боевых действий в Сирии понес посильное наказание". 19 May 2017. p. 6. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018 – via Kommersant.
- ^ BSSA, June 22, 1941, http://www.tashv.nm.ru/BoevojSostavSA/1941/19410622.html Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, 499.
- ^ Michael Holm (2015). "2nd Guards Tamanskaya order of the October Revolution Red Banner order of Suvorov Motorised Rifle Division imeni M.I. Kalinin 2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменная ордена Суворова дивизия имени М.И. Калинина". Soviet Armed Forces Order of Battle.
- ^ Federation of American Scientists, Russian Military Districts Archived 2007-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Moscow MD". fas.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ "warfare.be". warfare.be. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ http://www.xignite.com/xWorldNews.aspx?articleid=CEP20070122950266[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Таманскую мотострелковую дивизию расформируют". lenta.ru. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ^ Ramm, Aleksey (27 September 2016). "Минобороны возрождает легендарную «чеченскую дивизию»" [Ministry of Defense revives legendary "Chechen Division"]. Izvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e "Taman Division" (in Russian). Golitsyno website. Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- Gazeta.ru(04 May 2013)
- ^ Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation(04 May 2013)
- ^ "Президент возродил Семёновский полк" Archived 2013-12-04 at the Wayback Machine (Russian), Komsomolskaya Pravda (16 April 2013)
- ^ "Russia has recreated the famous Soviet era Tank Army". Al-Masdar News. June 11, 2015. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
- ^ Khokhlov, Aleksandr (21 December 2016). "Танки маршала Катукова снова готовы к бою" [Marshal Katukov's tanks ready for battle again]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "RUSSIAN REGULAR GROUND FORCES ORDER OF BATTLE" (PDF). October 2023.
- ^ "Beaten Twice In Ukraine, Russia's Elite 1st Guards Tank Army Is Poised To Attack Yet Again". 28 January 2023.
- ^ "'It doesn't count as a war crime if you had fun'". 16 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Surkov, Nicolai (12 May 2017). "Первые «Арматы» получат таманцы: Танки нового поколения начнут поступать на вооружение после 2020 года" [The first "Armata" will be Taman: Tanks of the new generation will begin to enter service after 2020] (in Russian). Izvestia. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ a b "В Московской области сформирован новый танковый полк – преемник легендарного соединения времён Великой Отечественной войны" [In the Moscow region, a new tank regiment was formed – the successor to the legendary connection of the times of the Great Patriotic War] (in Russian). Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Defense of Russia). 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 9 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
Further reading
- How were Soviet blocking detachments employed? – lesser known historical incident of the 2 GRD