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For their actions, 19 members of the brigade received distinctions as Hero of Soviet Union. Since 11 September 1945 a place of a constant disposition of a regiment - Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region. On 5 May 1957 the regiment was renamed as the 423rd Guards Yampolsky Motor Rifle of Suvorov and Kutuzov's awards of II degree a regiment.
Motor Rifle Troops of the USSR (Russian: Мотострелковые войска СССР) were a main branch of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.They were mechanised infantry formations using combined arms doctrine, based around infantry operating closely with armoured personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, aided by organic armour and artillery.
The 2nd Guards M. I. Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division [a] is a Guards mechanised infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces.Its Military Unit Number is 23626.. The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed in 1941, seeing extensive combat during World War II for which it became one of the most famous and decorated formations in the Soviet military.
The 144th Guards Yelnya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 144-я гвардейская мотострелковая Ельнинская Краснознамённая, ордена Суворова дивизия) is a motorized infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces, reestablished in 2016 with its headquarters at Yelnya, Smolensk Oblast.
The predecessor of the brigade is the 76th Guards Rifle Regiment, which was repeatedly renamed and reorganized. The regiment traces its history back to the 75th Naval Rifle Brigade, formed during the Great Patriotic War from 29 October 1941 [3] to December 1941, [4] in Novokazalinsk in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 2024, the division was formed once again from the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade having 3 regiments: the 433rd Regiment, the 506th Regiment and the 589th Regiment. In April–May 2024, the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division fought on the Ocheretyne ledge in the area of the villages Berdychi , Semyonovka , Orlovka and northwest of Avdeyevka as ...
0–9. 1st Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division; 4th Guards Motor Rifle Division; 4th Motor Rifle Division; 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division
In 1985, the regiment was awarded the pennant of the Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union "For courage and military prowess." In May 1990, the 73rd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment was returned to its Second World War numbering, "1", and thus became the 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment. [3] [4]