47th Guards Tank Division
47th Guards Tank Division (1965–1997, 2022–present) 26th Guards Tank Division 19th Guards Mechanized Division 47th Guards Rifle Division (1942–1945) | |
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47-я гвардейская танковая Нижнеднепровская Краснознамённая, ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия | |
Active | Soviet Union (1942–1991) Russia (2022–present) |
Branch | Russian Ground Forces |
Type | Infantry (later Armor) |
Part of | 1st Guards Tank Army |
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Battle honours | Lower Dnieper |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders |
The 47th Guards Nizhnedneprovskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Tank Division (Russian: 47-я гвардейская танковая Нижнеднепровская Краснознамённая, ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия, romanized: 47-ya gvardeyskaya tankovaya Nizhnedneprovskaya Krasnoznamonnaya, ordena Bogdana Khmel'nitskogo diviziya), is a tank division of the Russian Ground Forces.
It was formed in October 1942, during
World War II
The 47th Guards Rifle Division was formed on 20 October 1942 by the conversion of the first formation of the
On February 13, 1944, by Order No. 28, the honorary name "Nizhnedneprovskaya"- was granted to the division by the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
Postwar
In late May 1945, the division with the 8th Guards Army became part of the newly created
The division was renumbered as the 47th Guards to restore its World War II designation on 11 January 1965. The 49th Guards was subsequently renumbered as the 197th Guards in addition.[9] As the Cold War ended, the GSFG was reduced in size and renamed the Western Group of Forces. Following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the division became part of the Russian Ground Forces. In April 1993, the division began its withdrawal to Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, in the Moscow Military District.[10]
In 1995 in the village of Shatoy during the First Chechen War, a checkpoint of the division's 245th Motorized Rifle Regiment was captured by Chechen fighters. Aleksey Pulikovsky, an officer of the Ground Forces, and the eldest son of General-Lieutenant Konstantin Pulikovsky, died while while unblocking the checkpoint on 14 December 1995.
The division was disbanded by merging it with the 31st Tank Division of the Moscow Military District into the 3rd Motor Rifle Division at Nizhny Novgorod in 1997.
In 2022, the historical descendant of the 100th Tank Regiment, upgraded in 2009 to the 6th Tank Brigade, was again elevated in status to a division. Thus the
Composition in 1988
- Divisional HQ (1 PRP-3, 1 R-145BM, 1 R-156 BTR)
- 26th Tank Regiment (95 T-64, 12 BMP-2, 41 BMP-1, 2 BRM-1K, 1 BTR-70, 1 BTR-60, 18 2S1 Gvozdika, 6 2S12 Sani)
- 153rd Tank Regiment (96 T-64, 44 BMP-2, 10 BMP-1, 2 BRM-1K, 1 BTR-70, 1 BTR-60, 18 2S1 Gvozdika, 6 2S12 Sani)
- 197th Guards Tank Regiment (94 T-64, 12 BMP-2, 42 BMP-1, 2 BRM-1K, 18 2S1 Gvozdika, 6 2S12 Sani)
- 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment (27 T-64A, 46 BMP-2, 39 BMP-1, 2 BRM-1K, 2 BTR-60, 18 2S1 Gvozdika, 6 2S12 Sani)
- 99th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (36 2S3 Akatsia, 18 BM-21 Grad, 3 PRP-3)
- 1009th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (9K33 Osa SAM)
- 7th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (6 T-64, 10 BMP-1, 7 BRM-1K, 2 BTR-70, 3 BTR-60)
- 73rd Separate Guards Signal Battalion (8 R-145BM, R-137B, 1 R-2AM)
- 52nd Separate Engineer Battalion (1 IMR-2, 3 UR-67)
- 1077th Separate Transport Battalion
- 65th Separate Repair and Maintenance Battalion
- 63rd Separate Medical Battalion
Total: 322 tanks, 271 infantry fighting vehicles, 14 armored personnel carriers, 108 self-propelled guns, 30 mortars, 18 MLRS.[10]
References
Citations
- ^ Grylev 1970, p. 75.
- ^ Tsapayev & Goremykin 2014, pp. 788–790.
- ^ Grylev 1970, p. 180.
- ^ a b Feskov et al 2013, p. 209.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 221–222.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 397.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 204.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 219.
- ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2001, pp. 91–92.
- ^ a b Feskov et al 2013, p. 202.
- ^ "Ukraine's Armed Forces destroy detachment of Russian 47th tank division in Kharkiv region". Ukraine Ministry of Defense. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
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.
- Grylev, A. N. (1970). "Перечень № 5. Стрелковых, горнострелковых, мотострелковых и моторизованных дивизии, входивших в состав Действующей армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг" [List (Perechen) No. 5: Rifle, Mountain Rifle, Motor Rifle and Motorized divisions, part of the active army during the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Voenizdat. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- Lenskii, A.G.; Tsybin, M.M. (2001). Советские сухопутные войска в последний год Союза ССР [The Soviet Ground Forces in the Last Years of the USSR]. St Petersburg: B&K Publishers. ISBN 5-93414-063-9.
- Tsapayev, D.A.; et al. (2014). Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 5. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 978-5-9950-0457-8.