List of guards units of Russia

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The 4th Guards Tank Division at the 2019 Minsk Independence Day Parade.

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

Ground Forces[]

Guards Armies[]

Guards Divisions[]

Motor Rifle[]

  • 2nd "Tamanskaya" Guards Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская дивизия)

Tank[]

  • 4th "Kantemirovskaya" Guards Tank Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия)

Guards Brigades[]

Motor Rifle[]

Tank[]

Engineering[]

Artillery[]

Other Guards units[]

Disbanded Guards units[]

Air Force[]

  • Guards formations of the Air Force
    • 3rd 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(?))
    • 6950th Guards Air Base
    • 6980th Guards Air Base
    • 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division
    • 303rd Guards Mixed Aviation Division

Disbanded Guards units[]

Airborne[]

Navy[]

Guards formations of the Coastal Troops and Naval Infantry[]

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

    • 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.
    • (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.
    • (1939), BSF, IX-bis series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
    • submarine Shch-215 (1937), BSF, X series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
    • (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.
    • (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[]

Guards Rocket Armies[]

References[]

  1. ^ Holm, Michael. "899th Orshanskiy Red Banner order of Suvorov Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment im. F.E. Dzerzhinskiy". ww2.dk. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
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