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10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division. 11th Guards Tank Division. 11th Tank Division (Soviet Union) 12th Guards Tank Division. 14th Guards Heavy Tank Division. 14th Tank Division (Soviet Union, 1974–1989) 15th Guards Tank Division. 16th Guards Tank Division. 16th Tank Division (Soviet Union)
Heavy tank divisions active 1957–60 include the 5th, [59] and the 17th (1956–60). Divisions active 1945–47 include the 5th (ex 5th Tank Corps), the 11th Tank Division (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast), the 18th (1945–47, Gaysin), and the 19th (Ploesti, Romania, and Odesa). Division. Location, Status 1990.
At the end of June 1945 this has happened to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th, which became respectively the 111, 112, 113, 115, and 116th Guards Rifle Divisions. In November, it happened to the 1st, 3rd, and 10th Airborne Divisions, which became the 124th, 125th, and 126th Guards Rifle Divisions.
In September 1993 the 1st Tank Division became the 2nd Tank Brigade; then a weapons and equipment storage base in 1998; and then, finally, was disbanded in 2008. [9] In the twenty-first century, a tank brigade is the second largest, after the tank division, of the formations of the Russian Tank Troops.
6th Guards Tank Corps – Raised in the Baltic MD, 1941, re-formed in Moscow MD, 1942. Formed as 12th Tank Corps and successively redesignated as 6th Guards Tank Corps (1943) and 6th Guards Tank Division (1946). Participated in fighting at Ostrogozhsk, Rossosh, Kharkov, Krasnograd, Orel and other operations and actions.
In 1928, the Soviet Union began the production of the MS-1 tanks (Малый Сопровождения -1, where M stands for "small" and S for "convoy"). In 1929, it established the Central Directorate for Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Tanks became a part of the mechanized corps at this point.
1st Tank Division (Soviet Union) 5th Guards Tank Division. 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division. 15th Guards Tank Division. 16th Guards Tank Division. 47th Tank Division (Russia) 90th Guards Lvov Tank Division (1985–1997) 90th Guards Tank Division (2016–present)
4th Guards Tank Division. The 4th Guards Tank Division[a] is a Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces. The division is named after Yuri Andropov. The division has the Military Unit Number 19612 and is one of the key formations of the Western Military District. All of the division's units, as well as headquarters, are based in ...