56th Guards Air Assault Regiment
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56th Guards Air Assault Regiment (Dec 2021 – present) 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade 351st Guards Airborne Regiment 351st Guards Air Landing Regiment 351st Guards Rifle Regiment 7th Guards Airborne Brigade (1943 – Dec 1944) | |
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Russian: 56-й гвардейский десантно-штурмовой полк | |
Active | 1943–present |
Country | Soviet Union (1943–1991) Airborne Troops |
Type | Airborne forces |
Size | Brigade |
Garrison/HQ | Feodosia, Crimea, Ukraine |
Engagements | World War II
Don Cossack |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Vitaly Raevsky |
The 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment is an airborne regiment of the
History
The 56th Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade was formed on 1 October 1979 in
The brigade became the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade in 1989.
In January 2016, VDV commander
In 2021 it was indicated that the brigade would be redeployed to Crimea and reformed as a regiment. In mid-2021 it relocated from Kamyshin in Volgograd Oblast, Russia to Feodosia in Crimea. These circumstances explain a lot of the poor facilities, chaos, and undermanning described in Pavel Filatyev's memoir text.[10] In November, 2021 it was confirmed that the new regiment would become a component of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division effective as of December 2021.[11]
According to
Component units 2021
- Airborne battalion
- 2nd Air assault battalion
- 3rd Air assault battalion
- Tank battalion
- Reconnaissance battalion
- Artillery battalion
- Anti-aircraft battery
- Anti-tank battery
- Rifle (sniper) company
- Electronic warfare company
- Signals company
- Engineer company
- Landing support company
- Medical company
- Maintenance company
- Material support company
- RCB company
- Brigade command company
Commanders
- Alexander Petrovich Plokhikh (1980–1981)
- Mikhail Karpushkin (1981–1982)
- Viktor Arsentevich Sukhin (1982–1983)
- Viktor Matveevich Chizhikov (1983–1985)
- Vitaly Raevsky (1985–1987)
- Valery Evnevich (1987–1990)
- Alexander Sotnik (1990–1995)
- Sergei Mishanin (1995–1996)
- Rustam Aliev Stepanenko (1996–1997)
- Pavel Kirsi (2002–2007)
- Igor Timofeyev (2007–2012)
- Alexander Vitalievich Lebedev (2012–2014)
- Alexander Valitov (August 2014–March 2018)
- Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Tonkikh (March 2018–March 2020)
- Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Kondrashkin (March 2020–2022)
References
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- ^ "Шойгу сообщил о создании нового полка ВДВ в Крыму". 25 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d "56th independent Guards Landing-Assault Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
- ^ a b c d e "56-я отдельная гвардейская десантно-штурмовая ордена Отечественной войны Донская казачья бригада" [56th separate Guards Airborne Assault Order of the Patriotic War Don Cossack Brigade]. structure.mil.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-11-06.
- ISBN 9780199832651.
- ^ "56-ой гв. десантно-штурмовой полк (бригада) - История бригады (полка)" [56th Guards Air Assault Regiment (Brigade) - History Brigade (Regiment)]. polk56.my1.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ "История части". rsva-ural.ru. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
- ^ "РАСПЛЕСКАЛАСЬ СИНЕВА..." old.redstar.ru. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ "В Волгоградской области построят третий в России современный военный полигон" [In the Volgograd region to build a modern military training ground in the third Russian]. news.vdv-s.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- ^ Massicot, Dara. "This is an interesting account but as presented is missing context". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ "Россия к началу декабря усилит военную группировку в Крыму десантным полком -"., "Rondeli Russian Military Digest: Issue 114, 27 December – 2 January 2022".
- ^ 56-й гвардейский десантно-штурмовой полк