15th Guards Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Tank Division
Active
1945–1999
Country
Soviet Union (until 1991)
Russia (from 1992)
Branch
Soviet Ground Forces
Russian Ground Forces
Type
Armor and mechanized infantry
Part of
28th Combined Arms Army (to 1968)
Central Group of Forces (1968–1991)
Volga-Ural Military District (1990–1999)
Garrison/HQ
Brest (1945–1968)
Milovice (1968–1991)
Chebarkul (1990–1999)
Engagements
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (Operation Danube)
Decorations
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Suvorov 2nd class
Battle honours
Mozyr
Military unit
The 15th Guards Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Tank Division (15 gv. td) (Russian: 15-я гвардейская танковая Мозырская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия (15 гв. тд)) was a tank division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War that became part of the Russian Ground Forces after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The division was initially stationed in Belarus postwar, but remained as part of the permanent Soviet garrison in Czechoslovakia after its participation in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The division was withdrawn to Chebarkul when Soviet forces departed Czechoslovakia and disbanded the during force reductions of the 1990s.
From 1968 the division headquarters Military Unit Number (V/Ch) was 58539.[1]
^Feskov et al. 2013, pp. 417–419.
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