4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

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8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
(November 1942 – 12 May 1944)

4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
(12 May 1944 – 20 March 1958)

140th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade
(20 March 1958 – 1961)

169th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
(1961 – 15 February 1993)

157th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
(15 February 1993 – 1994)

1490th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
(1994–present)
Insignia of the 1490th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
ActiveNovember 1942–present
Country
Branch
Type
Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Surface-to-air missile
unit from 1961)
Garrison/HQ
EngagementsWorld War II
Decorations
Battle honours
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Ivan Kamensky

The 4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Russian: 4-я гвардейская зенитная артиллерийская дивизия) was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II and the Soviet Army during the early years of the Cold War.

Formed in November 1942 as the 8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division, the division was sent to the front in late April 1943, serving with the

Vistula–Oder Offensive, receiving the honorific Łódź and the Order of Kutuzov and ending the war in the Battle of Berlin
.

Postwar, the division remained in eastern Germany with the army and was converted into the 140th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade in 1958. In 1961, it was withdrawn to the Leningrad Military District and reorganized as the 169th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment, equipped with surface-to-air missiles. In 1993 its lineage was transferred to another unit after disbandment and in 1994 it became the 1490th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment.

World War II

AA guns of the division in firing positions, November 1943

The 8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division RGK was formed at

1st Tank Army, but its 797th Regiment was left behind to cover airfields of the 2nd Air Army in Oboyansky and Solntsevsky Districts. The division was part of the 1st Tank Army (redesignated the 1st Guards Tank Army on 25 April 1944) for the rest of the war, except for a brief period with the 38th Army in September and October.[2]

During the

Belaya Tserkov area. On 9 February, the division received the Order of the Red Banner for "successful completion of combat missions" and "displaying courage and valor".[2]

It then fought in the

Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive in July and August, the division fought in the area of Stanislav, and defended the 1st Guards Tank Army from German air attack during the capture of Yaroslav and Peremyshl, the crossing of the Vistula, and the capture and expansion of the Sandomierz bridgehead.[2]

In the

Poznan, and Frankfurt-on-Oder after breaking out of the Sandomierz bridgehead. For its "courage and valor", the division received the honorific Łódź on 12 February. On 5 April, the division was awarded the Order of Kutuzov 2nd class for "exemplary completion of combat assignments" during the advance into Brandenburg. During the month it provided anti-aircraft defense on the Oder near Göritz, and for the army in the Battle of Berlin. During street fighting in Berlin, 256th Guards Anti-Aircraft Regiment gun commander Sergeant Daniil Guba received the title Hero of the Soviet Union for downing multiple German aircraft with his AA gun and killing numerous German soldiers in ground combat.[4] The division claimed 37 German aircraft in the latter, and the division's combat operations ended on 2 May in Berlin when the German garrison surrendered. During the war, the division claimed 338 enemy aircraft; it was thanked by Stavka eight times, and 3,500 soldiers of the division were decorated.[2]

Postwar

After the end of the war, the division was based at

S-300PS-equipped 86th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade[7] at Tosno-2. The 86th became the 157th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade upon the transfer, and in the summer of 1994 was redesignated the 1490th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment.[8][9]

In 2008, it was reported by

2nd Air Defense Division of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.[11]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, pp. 383, 395.
  2. ^ a b c d Sergeyev 1999, p. 37.
  3. ^ Gurkin et al. 1988, p. 135.
  4. ^ "Daniil Guba". Герои страны ("Heroes of the Country") (in Russian).
  5. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 288.
  6. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 433.
  7. ^ Holm, Michael. "169th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment". ww2.dk. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  8. ^ Holm, Michael. "86th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  9. ^ Lenskii & Tsybin 2013, pp. 91–92.
  10. ^ "6-я армия ВВС и ПВО" [6th Air and Air Defense Forces Army]. Kommersant (in Russian). 25 August 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Воздушно-Космические Силы" [Aerospace Forces]. warfare.be (in Russian). Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

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