5th Guards Tank Division information

The 5th Guards Tank Division was an armored division of the Soviet Ground Forces and Russian Ground Forces, active from 1945 to 2009, in two different...

The 5th Guards Tank Army (Russian: 5-я гварде́йская та́нковая а́рмия) was a Soviet Guards armored formation which fought in many notable actions during...

Army (briefly 6th Guards Mechanised Army). On 29 June 1957 the 5th Guards Tank Division became the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division. From 1976 to 1989...

Kwantung Army on 9 August 1945. The 6th Guards Tank Army consisted of the 5th Guards Tank Corps, and 7th and 9th Guards Mechanised Corps, and many smaller...

of the Guards units, the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards, and the Household Cavalry. The division remained...

converted to the 26th Guards Tank Division in 1957 and renumbered to restore its original number in 1965. The 47th Guards Rifle Division was formed on 20 October...

Guards Motorized Rifle Division. In 1982, it became the 32nd Guards Tank Division, which was disbanded in June 1989. The 9th Guards Airborne Division...

16th Guards Tank Division (the former 9th Guards Tank Corps). Although up to the 1970s it had retained of its wartime units – 12th Guards Tank Division (the...

187 tanks at Prokohorovka): 25th Guards Tank Brigade 26th Guards Tank Brigade 4th Guards Tank Brigade 4th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 47th Guards Breakthrough...

"Guards" status and became the 5th Guards Mechanized Corps. It was renamed the 5th Guards Mechanized Division in 1945, and subsequently the 5th Guards...

The 1st Guards Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Army from 1945 to 1947, stationed in Neuruppin. It was formed in the spring of 1942 as the...

the 5th Guards Tank Division became the 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, as part of the 2008 Russian military reforms. The 5th Guards Tank Division (Second...

The 42nd Guards Priluki Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Tank Division (Military Unit Number 29410) was an armoured division of the...

was converted into the 21st Guards Tank Division in 1957 and returned to its wartime number as the 13th Guards Tank Division in 1965. As the Cold War drew...

occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Waffen-SS in one of the largest tank battles in history...

as the 5th Guards Tank Division. In 1957, the 5th Guards Tank Division (first formation) was reorganised as the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division.) 74th...

7th Guards Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War. The division traced its heritage back to the 7th Guards Tank Corps...

part of the division, inheriting the traditions of the old 1st Guards Tank Regiment. Division HQ 47th Guards Signal Battalion 136th Guards Reconnaissance...

1st Tank Division (Kaliningrad), the 4th Guards Tank Division; the 5th Guards Tank Division; the 21st Guards Tank Division; and the 40th Guards Tank Division...

20th Guards Mechanized Division in 1945, 27th Guards Tank Division in 1957, and the 79th Guards Tank Division in 1965. It served with the 8th Guards Army...

The 5th Guards Army was a Soviet Guards formation which fought in many critical actions during World War II under the command of General Aleksey Semenovich...

included the Directorate, the 6th Guards Lvov Mechanized Corps, the 10th Guards Volunteer Tank Corps, the 68th Guards Tank Brigade and a number of separate...

Mechanized Corps, from 57th Army; 4th Guards Rifle Division 258th Rifle Division 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps, all from 5th Tank Army; Additional artillery and support...

The 22nd Guards Tank Division (Russian: 22-я гвардейская танковая дивизия) was a tank division of the Soviet Army. The division traced its lineage back...

consisted of the 5th and 6th Guards Mechanised Corps and the 10th Guards Tank Corps. From 1946 to 1957 the Army was named 4th Guards Mechanised Army....

the 3rd Cavalry Division was transformed into the 5th Guards Cavalry Division. The division successfully fought as part of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps...