Мы всюду там, где ждут победу! ("We are there, when victory is awaited!")
Anniversaries
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Engagements
World War II
Siege of Odessa (1941)
Defense of Sevastopol
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Battle of the Dnieper
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and many others
1990 Black January in Azerbaijan 1991 January Events in Lithuania
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
First Chechen War Second Chechen war
Battle for Height 776
Russo-Georgian War
Battle of Tskhinvali
Russo–Ukrainian War
Annexation of Crimea
War in Donbas
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 Chornobaivka attacks[3]
Battle of Bucha[4]
Bucha massacre[4]
2022 Kherson counteroffensive[5]
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive[6]
Decorations
Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov
Battle honours
Guards Chernigov
Commanders
Current commander
Guards Colonel Denis Shishov
Notable commanders
Gen. Vasily Margelov
Military unit
The 76th Guards Chernogov Red Banner Air Assault Division is a division of the Russian Airborne Troops based in Pskov. The division traces its lineage back to the 76th Guards Rifle Division, formed in March 1943 from the 157th Rifle Division for that division's actions during the Battle of Stalingrad. The division fought in the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of the Dnieper, Operation Bagration, the East Pomeranian Offensive, and the Berlin Offensive. Postwar, it was converted into an airborne division.[7]
The division moved to Pskov, its current base, in 1947. The division was involved in Black January and the January Events in Lithuania. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the division became part of the Russian Airborne Troops. The division fought in the First Chechen War, Second Chechen War, the Russo-Georgian War, and Donbas then 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,[8] including committing mass murder of civilians in Bucha.[9] The division became an air assault division in 2006.
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^"1 сентября свою 69 годовщину отметит 76-я десантно-штурмовая дивизия" [1st September will mark the 69th anniversary of the 76th Airborne Assault Division]. pskovgorod.ru (in Russian). 29 August 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
^"Пекло для рашистів на півдні України: вражаюча кількість знищених об'єктів та техніки армії РФ за одну добу | Defense Express".
^ ab"How Russian soldiers ran a 'cleansing' operation in Bucha". Associated Press. 3 November 2022.
^"Institute for the Study of War". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^"Institute for the Study of War".
^"76-я гвардейская десантно-штурмовая Черниговская Краснознамённая дивизия". structure.mil.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
^Stepanenko, Kateryna; Hird, Karolina; Clark, Mason; Barros, George (8 June 2022). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 8". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
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