List of guards units of Russia

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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.

Ground Forces[edit]

Guards Armies[edit]

• 1st Guards Tank Army
• 2nd Guards Tank Army
• 20th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 58th Guards Army^[1]

Guards Divisions[edit]

Motor Rifle[edit]

• 2nd Guards "Tamanskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская дивизия)
• 18th Guards "Insterburgskaya" Motor Rifle Division
• 20th Guards "Prikarpatsko-Berlinskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Прикарпатско-Берлинская бригада)
• 42nd Guards "Evpatoriyskaya" Motor Rifle Division
• 144th Guards "Yelnya" Motor Rifle Division

Tank[edit]

• 4th Guards "Kantemirovskaya" Tank Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия)
• 47th Guards "Nizhniydneprovskaya" Tank Division
• 90th Guards "Vitebsko-Novgorodskaya" Tank Division

Guards Brigades[edit]

Motor Rifles[edit]

• 15th Separate Guards "Alexandriyskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 21st Separate Guards "Novobug" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 25th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade "Latvian Riflemen"
• 27th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 35th Separate Guards "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 36th Separate Guards "Lozovaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 37th Separate Guards "Budapest Don Cossack" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 38th Separate Guards "Vitebskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 57th Separate Guards "Krasnograd" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (received Guards status on April 18, 2022)^[2]
• 70th Separate Guards "Dukhovshchina-Khingan" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 74th Separate Guards "Zvenigorod-Berlin" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 136th "Umansko-Berlinskaya" Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade
• 138th Separate Guards "Krasnoselskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade

Tank[edit]

• 5th Separate Guards "Tatsinkaya" Tank Brigade
• 10th Separate Guards "Uralsko-Lvovskaya Volunteers" Tank Brigade

Engineering[edit]

• 1st Guards Brest-Berlin Engineering Brigade
• 11th Separate Guards Kingisepp Engineering Brigade
• 12th Separate Guards Koenigsberg-Gorodok Engineering Brigade
• 14th Separate Guards Baranovichi Engineering Brigade
• 45th Guards Berlin Engineering Brigade

Artillery[edit]

• 9th Guards "Kielce-Berlin" Artillery Brigade
• 79th Guards "Novozybkov" Rocket Artillery Brigade
• 120th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 338th Guards '''"Dvinskaya"''' Rocket Artillery Brigade
• 385th Guards '''"Odesskaya"''' Artillery Brigade
• 439th Guards '''"Perekop"''' Rocket Artillery Brigade

Other Guards units[edit]

• 1st Guards "Orshanskaya" Missile Brigade
• 20th Guards "Berlin" Missile Brigade
• 112th Guards "Novorossiysk" Missile Brigade
• 212th Guards District Training Center
• 467th Guards "Moscow-Tartu" District Training Center
• 9th Guards '''"Lvov-Berlin"''' Headquarters Brigade
• 3rd Guards "Warsaw-Berlin" Spetsnaz Brigade
• 4th Guards Military Base

Disbanded Guards units[edit]

• 7th Separate Guards "Orenburg Cossack"' Tank Brigade
• 8th Separate Guards "Kramatorsk" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 8th Guards "Chertkovsky" Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
• 17th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 18th Separate Guards "Yevpatoriya" Motor Rifle Brigade
• 23rd Separate Guards "Petrokovskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade

Air Force[edit]

• Guards formations of the Air Force
  • 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Domna, 27 km southwest of Chita (MiG-29)
  • 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
  • 98th Separate Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment
  • 42nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (42 Gv BAP) (Su-24) (Verino - Pereyaslavka, Khabarovsk Kray) (to disband(?))
  • 18th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment
  • 6950th Guards Air Base
  • 6980th Guards Air Base
  • 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division
  • 303rd Guards Mixed Aviation Division

Disbanded Guards units[edit]

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 19th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 22nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (PVO)
• 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 458th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 627th Guards Fighter Aviation Training Regiment
• 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (VVS Baltic Fleet)
• 2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 899th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment^[3]

Airborne Forces[edit]

• Guards formations of the Airborne Troops (Cyrillic: гвардейские соединения воздушно-десантных войск):
  • 7th Guards Airborne Division
  • 76th Guards Air Assault Division
  • 98th Guards Airborne Division
  • 106th Guards Airborne Division
  • 11th Guards Airborne Brigade
  • 31st Guards Airborne Brigade
  • 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade
  • 83rd Guards Airborne Brigade
  • 38th Guards Separate Communications Brigade
  • 45th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Brigade

Navy[edit]

Guards formations of the Coastal Troops and Naval Infantry[edit]

• 336th Separate Guards Bialystok Marine Brigade
• 79th Separate Guards Insterburg Motor Rifle Brigade
• 152nd Separate Guards Brest-Warsaw Missile Brigade
• 244th Separate Guards Neman Artillery Brigade
• 7th Separate Guards Proletarian Moscow-Minsk Motor Rifle Regiment
• 22nd Separate Guards Air Defense Missile Regiment
• 69th Separate Guards Mogilev Marine Engineering Regiment

Guards ships of the Navy (Cyrillic: гвардейские корабли)[edit]

• • submarine D-3 (1929), NF, I series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • Soviet submarine K-22 (1938), NF, XIV series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • Soviet submarine M-171 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • submarine M-174 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • destroyer Stoykiy (1938), BF, project 7U. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • minelayer Marti, ex-Imperial yacht Shtandart (1895), BF. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • base minesweeper T-205 (Gafel`) (1938), BF, project 53U. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
  • submarine Shch-205 (1934), BSF, V-bis-2 series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • submarine Shch-303 (1931), BF, III series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • submarine Shch-309 (1935), BF, V-bis-2 series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • submarine minelayer L-3 (1931), BF, II series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • destroyer Gremiashchiy (1937), NF, project 7. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • destroyer Soobrazitel`nyi (1939), BSF, project 7U. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • base minesweeper T-411 (Zashchitnik) (1937), BSF, project 53. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
  • Soviet submarine M-35 (1940), BSF, XII series. Awarded on May 31, 1943.
  • submarine Shch-402 (1935), NF, X series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
  • submarine Shch-422, ex-Shch-314 (1935), NF, X series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
  • Soviet submarine M-172 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
  • patrol boat № 065 (1938), BSF, MO-IV class. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
  • Soviet submarine S-33 (1939), BSF, IX-bis series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
  • submarine Shch-215 (1937), BSF, X series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
  • Soviet submarine M-62 (1939), BSF, XII series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
  • Soviet submarine S-56 (1939), NF, IX-bis-2 series. Awarded on February 23, 1945.
  • patrol ship EK-2, ex-USS Long Beach (PF-34) (1943), PF, Tacoma-class. Awarded on August 22, 1945.
  • patrol ship Metel` (1934), PF, project 4. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
  • minelayer Okhotsk (1935), PF, Okean-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
  • minesweeper T-278, ex-USS Nucleus (AM-268) (1943), PF, Admirable-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
  • minesweeper T-281, ex-USS Peril (AM-272) (1943), PF, Admirable-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
  • Sverdlov, ex-Vyuga (1909), AMF, Shkval-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
  • monitor Sun Yat-sen, ex-Shkval (1909), AMF, Shkval-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
  • gunboat Krasnaya Zvezda, ex-Vogul (1907), AMF, Vogul-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
  • gunboat Proletariy, ex-Votyak (1907), AMF, Vogul-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
  • large guided missile ship Gremiashchiy (1959), NF, project 57bis. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1937).
  • large anti-submarine ship Soobrazitel`nyi (1961), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Soobrazitel`nyi (1939).
  • Kynda class cruiser Varyag, ex-Soobrazitel`nyi (1963), PF, project 58. Succeeded Soobrazitel`nyi (1939) too.
  • seagoing minesweeper MT-205 (Gafel`) (1964), BF, project 266. Succeeded T-205 Gafel` (1938).
  • Soviet submarine K-22 (Krasnogvardeets) (1964), NF, project 675. Succeeded K-22 (1938).
  • Kashin class destroyer Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1916).
  • Kashin class destroyer Krasnyi Krym (1969), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Krasnyi Krym (1915).
  • destroyer Gremiashchiy (1987), NF, project 956. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1959).
  • Russian cruiser Varyag, ex-Chervona Ukraina (1983), PF, project 1164. Succeeded Varyag (1963) in 1996.
  • guided missile cruiser Moskva, ex-Slava (1979), BSF, project 1164. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966) in 1998.
  • destroyer Gremiashchiy, ex-Bezuderzhnyi (1990), NF, project 956A. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1987) in 2007.

Soviet ships

• • Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym (1915), BSF, Svetlana-class. Awarded on June 18, 1942.
  • Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz (1916), BSF, Svetlana-class. Awarded on April 3, 1942.

Strategic Rocket Forces[edit]

Guards Rocket Armies[edit]

• 27th Guards Vitebsk Rocket Army
• 33rd Guards Berislav Khingan Rocket Army

References[edit]