The Ministry of Defense is reviving the legendary “Chechen division. Deep reconnaissance (reconnaissance and landing companies) I motorized rifle division

Policeman-fighter

3rd operational company

special police detachment at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate

Nizhny Novgorod region,

police sergeant.

in the city of Gorky,

Alexey Yoshin graduated from the Ilyinsky secondary school in the Gorodetsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region in 1994. He was engaged in the construction of garages on a private contract, studied at the Gorodets DOSAAF driving school, and received the profession of category “C” driver.

On December 25, 1955, he was called up for military service, which he served in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny (Republic of Tatarstan) in the special motorized military unit No. 5489 of the Volga Military District of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, then he was sent to the city of Tolyatti to military unit No. 6622 of the same district , where from January 18 to May 20, 1996 he studied under the training program for commanders of patrol departments of internal troops. After completing these courses, he returned to his previous unit and, from February 3 to April 30, 1997, took part in carrying out counter-terrorism tasks in the Chechen Republic.

On December 26, 1997, Alexey retired from the Russian Armed Forces upon completion of his service in the military rank of "sergeant major". But already on February 25, 1998, he returned to military service again in his now native military unit No. 5489 to the position of deputy platoon commander. In connection with the disbandment of the unit, contract soldier Yoshin was dismissed from the Russian Armed Forces for the second time on September 23, 1998.

From October 1998 to September 1999, Alexey worked in Naberezhnye Chelny as a mechanic in a private auto repair shop, and from October 9, 1999 to March 9, 2000, as an inspector of the security department in the closed joint-stock company Security and Detective Agency LEGION.

April 1, 2000 Yoshin A.E. enters service under a contract in the 417 ORB 42 Motorized Rifle Division and serves as deputy commander of the 1st reconnaissance platoon of the 2nd reconnaissance company with a deployment in the village. Khankala, Chechen Republic. During his contract service, he completed courses for crew commanders of the BRM-1 (combat reconnaissance vehicle) and deputy commanders of reconnaissance and sabotage groups, and was trained in the use of special weapons, explosive devices and explosives. He took part in military operations against terrorist gangs. Contract soldier Ioshin resigned from the Russian Armed Forces of his own free will on February 15, 2001.

Alexey did not work for a long time, helping his mother with housework. On January 19, 2002, he began working at the VITYAZ-NN Security Agency LLC as an assistant on duty, but on April 23, 2002, he resigned of his own free will, realizing that such a quiet life was no longer for him.

On June 10, 2002, former soldier of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia A.E. Yoshin. was accepted into service in the internal affairs bodies as a policeman-soldier of the 3rd operational company of the special police detachment at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. This choice was not accidental - in fact, his entire military service was associated with the performance of similar duties. He only had to change his military uniform to a police uniform, and his military rank of “sergeant major” to “police sergeant major.”

Yoshin went on his third business trip to the territory of the Chechen Republic voluntarily on April 14, 2003, already as part of the Nizhny Novgorod riot police. The detachment served in the Staropromyslovsky district of the city of Grozny. During his business trip, police sergeant Yoshin established himself as a disciplined, efficient fighter, capable of freely and skillfully navigating a complex operational environment. In extreme conditions he showed great courage and bravery, and with his tactically competent actions he repeatedly set examples of exemplary performance of duty to other riot policemen.

On May 8, 2003, Ioshin served in the Staropromyslovsky district at the checkpoint checkpoint-19. At 11:15 a.m., he stopped a VAZ-2109 car to check documents and search. Yoshin noticed the suspiciously nervous behavior of the car driver and increased his vigilance. After conducting a thorough search of the car, Alexey found 400 grams of TNT, an F-1 live grenade, and subversive terrorist literature under the front seat. The driver was detained and transferred to the internal affairs department of the Staropromyslovsky district.

Riot policeman Yoshin fought his last battle on July 15, 2003. On this day, he performed service and combat missions at checkpoint-19, providing control over traffic in the Staropromyslovsky district. At about 6 p.m., intensive shelling of the checkpoint began from an RPG-18 hand-held grenade launcher and automatic weapons. At that moment, Yoshin was on the highway, inspecting a car, and took a shot from an RPG-18, the grenade of which exploded on his body, falling just one meter short of the checkpoint where other policemen were repelling the terrorist attack. The courageous riot policeman Ioshin died on the spot. He died, shielding several of his other brothers in arms from the inevitable death.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 7, 2004, for courage, bravery and dedication shown in the performance of official duty in the North Caucasus region, A.E. Yoshin. awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously).

Police sergeant Alexey Evgenievich Yoshin was buried at the Ikonnikovsky cemetery in the Gorodetsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

A military administrative unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Russian Armed Forces) in the southwest of the country, intended for the defense of southern Russia (primarily the North Caucasus). The headquarters is located in Rostov-on-Don.

150th Idritsa-Berlin Order of Kutuzov, second degree motorized rifle division, military unit 22265

102nd Motorized Rifle Regiment, military unit 91706 (Republic of Adygea, Maykop, redeployment to Rostov region, Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky village)

Nth Motorized Rifle Regiment (Rostov region, Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky village), deployment in 2017.

Nth Motorized Rifle Regiment (Rostov region, Kuzminki village)

68th Tank Regiment, military unit 91714 (Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky village)

N-th self-propelled artillery regiment

933rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Rostov region, Millerovo)

174th separate reconnaissance battalion (Rostov region, Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky village).

539th separate engineer battalion

Nth separate communications battalion (Rostov region, Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky village).

293rd separate logistics battalion, military unit 98591 (Rostov region, Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky village).

Nth separate medical battalion

Separate UAV company

Separate electronic warfare company

Separate company of the Russian Chemical Defense Plant

N-I anti-aircraft missile brigade on the 9K317M Buk-M3 air defense system (Rostov region)

49th Combined Arms Army, military unit 35181 (Stavropol):

20th Separate Guards Carpathian-Berlin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motorized Rifle Brigade, military unit 69670 (Volgograd)

205th separate motorized rifle brigade, military unit 74814 (Budennovsk, Stavropol Territory)

34th separate motorized rifle brigade (mountain), military unit 01485 (Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Zelenchuk district, Storozhevaya-2)

7th Krasnodar Red Banner Order of Kutuzov and Red Star military base, military unit 09332 (Georgia, Abkhazia, Gudauta)

In addition, in accordance with the “agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Abkhazia on the Joint Group of Troops (Forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Abkhazia” signed in Moscow on November 21, 2015, the 7th WB was assigned from the Armed Forces of Abkhazia two separate motorized rifle battalions, artillery and aviation groups, as well as a separate special forces detachment.

102nd Red Banner Military Base, military unit 04436 (Yerevan and Gyumri, Armenia)

3624th aviation base, military unit 63530 (Yerevan, Erebuni airport).

Rocket artillery battery MLRS 9K58 "Smerch" (439th REABr)

Reconnaissance control company (servicemen of the 10th and 22nd Special Forces brigades).

Military hospital (Yerevan).

Military hospital (Gyumri).

1st Guards Rocket Orsha Brigade of the Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov, military unit 31853 (Molkino village, Krasnodar Territory)

227th Artillery Tallinn Red Banner Order of Suvorov Brigade, military unit 21797 (Republic of Adygea, Maykop district, Krasnooktyabrsky village)

90th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, military unit 54821 (Relocation from Rostov-on-Don to Krasnodar Territory, Afipsky village)

25th separate special purpose regiment, military unit 05525 (Stavropol Territory, Stavropol).

66th command brigade, military unit 41600 (Stavropol, planned relocation to Krasnodar region, Afipsky village?).

32nd Engineer Regiment, military unit 23094

39th RKhBZ regiment, military unit 16390 (Volgograd region, Oktyabrsky)

58th Combined Arms Army, military unit 47084 (Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, Vladikavkaz):

42nd Guards Evpatoria Red Banner Motorized Rifle Division

291st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, military unit 65384 (Chechen Republic, Borzoi village)

70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, military unit 71718 (Chechen Republic, Shali village)

71st Guards Motorized Rifle Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov Regiment, military unit 16544 (Chechen Republic, Kalinovskaya village)

Nth separate tank battalion (Chechen Republic)

50th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (Chechen Republic, Shali)

1203(?) Anti-aircraft missile regiment on the 9K330 Tor air defense system (Chechen Republic)

417(?) separate reconnaissance battalion

Nth separate anti-tank artillery division

478(?) Separate Signal Battalion

539(?) Separate Engineer Battalion

474(?) Separate Logistics Battalion

106(?) Separate Medical Battalion

Separate UAV company

Separate electronic warfare company

Separate company of the Russian Chemical Defense Plant

19th separate Voronezh-Shumlinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Red Banner of Labor motorized rifle brigade, military unit 20634 (Sputnik village, Vladikavkaz)

136th Guards Uman-Berlin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky motorized rifle brigade, military unit 63354 (Buinaksk, Republic of Dagestan)

4th Guards Vapnyarsko-Berlin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky military base, military unit 66431 (Georgia, South Ossetia, Tskhinvali and Java)

40th Regiment of the Russian Chemical Defense Plant, military unit 16383 (Ingushetia, Troitskaya station)

34th control brigade, military unit 29202 (Vladikavkaz)

78th separate logistics brigade (MTO), military unit 11384 (Stavropol Territory, Budennovsk).

31st Engineer Regiment, military unit 31777 (Prokhladny)

Other parts, connections and associations of the district:

4th Red Banner Air Force and Air Defense Army, military unit 40911 (Southern Military District, Rostov-on-Don).

Red Banner Black Sea Fleet (Southern Military District, Sevastopol).

Caspian Flotilla (Southern Military District, Astrakhan).

7th Guards Red Banner Order of Kutuzov III degree Airborne Assault Division (mountain), military unit 61756 (Southern Military District, Novorossiysk).

56th Separate Guards Air Assault Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov and Order of the Patriotic War Don Cossack Brigade (light), military unit 74507 (Southern Military District, Kamyshin).

10th Separate Order of Zhukov Special Purpose Brigade, military unit 51532 (Molkino village, Krasnodar Territory)

22nd separate guards special purpose brigade, military unit 11659 (Bataysk and Stepnoy village, Rostov region)

346th separate special purpose brigade, military unit 31681 (Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, Prokhladnensky district, Prokhladny)

439th Guards Rocket Artillery Perekop Order of Kutuzov Brigade, military unit 48315

77th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade with S-300V4 air defense system, military unit 33742 (Krasnodar Territory, Korenovsk)

28th separate brigade of the Russian Chemical Defense Plant, military unit 65363 (Kamyshin)

11th Separate Guards Engineering Kingisepp Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevsky Brigade, military unit 45767 (Rostov region, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky)

175th Luninets-Pinsk Order of Alexander Nevsky and twice Red Star control brigade, military unit 01957 (Rostov region, Aksai).

176th separate communications brigade, military unit 71609 (Rostov region, Novocherkassk).

154th separate radio engineering brigade, military unit 13204 (Stavropol Territory, Izobilny).

74th separate radio engineering regiment of the Special Forces, military unit 68889 (Vladikavkaz).

305th separate radio engineering center, military unit 74315 (Republic of Dagestan, Kaspiysk).

903rd separate radio engineering center, military unit 30232 (Krasnodar region, Sochi).

Separate radio direction finding center, military unit 53058 (Rostov region, Taganrog).

Electronic intelligence center mobile, military unit 87530 (Stavropol Territory, Stavropol).

19th separate electronic warfare brigade, military unit 62829 (Rostov region, Aksai district, Rassvet village).

362nd Command Intelligence Center, military unit 47187 (Rostov-on-Don).

1020th Command Intelligence Center, military unit 30656 (Vladikavkaz).

Center for Information Warfare of the Southern Military District (Rostov Region, Novocherkassk)

2140th group of information and psychological operations, military unit 03128 (Rostov-on-Don).

1061st logistics center of the Southern Military District, military unit 57229 (Rostov region, Rostov-on-Don).

744th artillery weapons base, military unit 42286 (Novocherkassk).

719th artillery ammunition base, military unit 01704 (Krasnodar region, Tikhoretsk, actually the village of Tikhonky).

430th Central Small Arms Arsenal (Armavir).

1103rd engineering ammunition base, military unit 55453 (Stavropol Territory, Kirov district, Komsomolets village).

7024th military equipment storage and repair base, military unit 45278 (Rostov region, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky).

3791st integrated logistics base, military unit 96132 (Rostov region, Bataysk).

91st Base for Repair and Storage of Communication Equipment, military unit 69674 (Krasnodar Territory, Kropotkin).

7029th military equipment storage and repair base (Volzhsky, Volgograd).

2728th weapons and equipment storage base (RKhBZ), military unit 42751 (Volgograd region, Frolovo).

670th warehouse of armored equipment, military unit 52205 (Krasnodar region, Kushchevskaya station).

2699th automobile base, military unit 63652 (Rostov-on-Don).

54th Center for Training Intelligence Units, military unit 90091 (Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Vladikavkaz).

Railway Department (Volgograd).

37th separate railway brigade, military unit 51473 (Stavropol Territory, Nevinnomyssk and Georgievsk)

39th separate railway brigade, military unit 01228 (Krasnodar).

333rd separate pontoon-bridge railway battalion, military unit 21483 (Volgograd).

529th Special Purpose Medical Detachment, military unit 40880 (Rostov-on-Don).

6167th medical/military-technical equipment storage base, military unit 08376 (Krasnodar).

14th topographic and geodetic detachment, military unit 17908 (Krasnodar region, Korenovsk)

The 42nd Motorized Rifle Division will no longer fight terrorists, but will cover the state border

The Russian Ministry of Defense has decided to re-form the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division (42 MRD) in Chechnya. In 2009, the legendary military unit, once considered the “most belligerent” in the Russian Armed Forces, was disbanded by former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. Instead of 42 MRD, separate motorized rifle brigades were created in Chechnya, which will now again be united into a division and will cover the state border.

“At present, the decision has already been made and work on reorganizing the division has begun,” an informed source in the military department told Izvestia. - The division will be formed on the basis of three motorized rifle brigades, which are currently based in the Republic of Chechnya. These brigades will be reorganized into motorized rifle regiments of the division.

According to Izvestia, the Russian military department plans to finally form the division within the next year.

42 MSD originates from the 111th Infantry Division, formed in 1940 in the Kiev Special Military District. During the Great Patriotic War, for the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders, the unit was transformed into the 24th Guards Rifle Division. Later, for the liberation of the city of Evpatoria, the division received the honorary name “Evpatoria”, and for the capture of Sevastopol the unit was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

After the Second World War, the division changed its serial number, becoming the 42nd Guards MSD. The unit, relocated to the city of Grozny in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, became a training center where, until 1992, future tank crews, signalmen, anti-aircraft gunners, motorized riflemen and even doctors were trained. After the situation in the North Caucasus worsened, the training center was disbanded.

At the end of 1999, the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to revive 42 MSDs and deploy them on a permanent basis in the Republic of Chechnya. Four motorized rifle and one artillery regiment, reconnaissance and engineer battalions of the newly created division were fully staffed with contract soldiers. Despite the ongoing fighting, a unique social infrastructure was created in Chechnya, and the fighters of the formation lived not in barracks, but in dormitories.

In addition to participating in the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, units and subunits of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division played an important role during the fighting with Georgia in August 2008. Thus, the personnel of the 70th and 71st motorized rifle and 50th artillery regiments, as well as the 417th reconnaissance battalion, made a multi-kilometer march from Chechnya to South Ossetia, crossed the Roki tunnel and immediately entered into battle with the Georgian forces. Subsequently, the division’s fighters took part in the defeat of the enemy on Georgian territory.

The division covered more than 300 km along mountain serpentines in difficult conditions. “At the same time, the march took less than a day,” Anton Lavrov, one of the authors of the book “Tanks of August,” dedicated to the Russian-Georgian conflict of 2008, told Izvestia. - Soldiers of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division liberated Tskvinvali and then took part in the attack on Georgian Gori. Although the division's personnel did not enter the city itself and therefore were not captured by television cameras, they completed the most important task - they blocked Gori and held the approaches to the city.

In 2009, by decision of the Ministry of Defense, the division was disbanded, and separate motorized rifle brigades were created from its two regiments ( 17th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade (Shali), 18th Guards Motorized Rifle Evpatoriya Red Banner Brigade (Khankala and Kalinovskaya)), the remaining units and units were disbanded, and the personnel were dismissed or transferred to other positions.

Later, the 1st Guards Tank Regiment was transferred to the place of the 291st Regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division in the village of Borzoi from Alabino near Moscow. Already in Chechnya, the regiment surrendered its tanks and became the 8th Mountain Rifle Brigade. Until recently, the emblem of the new brigade, which does not have a single tank, featured a cuirass (a symbol of armored forces - Izvestia), as well as alpenstocks, indicating that the military unit belonged to the mountain infantry. The strange combination of symbols on the unit’s emblem gave rise to jokes about “mountain tank climbers” capable of “conquering Elbrus” with tanks.

Previously, three brigades in the Republic of Chechnya were intended primarily to assist local law enforcement agencies in conducting counter-terrorism operations, Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of the industry magazine Arsenal of the Fatherland, told Izvestia. - These military units had a largely unique staff and weapons, intended primarily to solve anti-terrorist tasks. But now the main task of the brigades has changed - they participate in covering the state border, and in the event of war they must hold the enemy’s advance, then defeat him with a counterattack. For such actions, a more heavily armed and numerous division is better suited, which, unlike brigades, can be more autonomous using its own resources and solve a fairly wide range of tasks both in defense and in the offensive.

Airborne troops. History of the Russian landing Alekhin Roman Viktorovich

DEEP RECOVERY (RECOUNTING AND LANDING COMPANIES)

Back in the mid-70s, reconnaissance and landing companies were created in separate reconnaissance battalions of motorized rifle and tank divisions, which in the first years of their existence were called “deep reconnaissance companies.” Since they were usually third in line ranking in battalions, they were unofficially called simply “third companies,” and those who were in the know knew what they were talking about. The servicemen of these reconnaissance and airborne companies wore the uniform of their divisions, but they were given a jump uniform for jumping. Often, soldiers and commanders in these companies wore blue berets. These companies did not have their own numbers, since they were not separate units.

Having been thrown behind enemy lines in the offensive zone of their division, these companies, as part of their activities in the front line, essentially carried out tasks similar to those assigned to special reconnaissance. With their own forces, the reconnaissance groups of the “third companies” behind enemy lines could organize the destruction of almost any rear object that they encountered along the way, and in any case they had to destroy the enemy’s nuclear weapons.

The training of personnel for these companies was mainly carried out by the 597th separate reconnaissance battalion, located in the village. Peschanny village, in the Leningrad Military District. There were also several more training battalions scattered throughout the vast country.

I will try to list these reconnaissance and landing companies as of the mid-80s, when Soviet military power was at its peak.

Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (Western Group of Forces):

RDR 5th Orb (military unit 60495) 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Halle;

RDR 6th Orb (military unit 83059) 207th Motorized Rifle Division, Stendal;

rdr 7th orb (military unit 47250) 47th guards TD, Burg;

rdr 9th orb (military unit 47596) 11th guards TD, Dresden;

rdr 10th orb (military unit 83083) 79th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Jena;

rdr 11th Orb (military unit 86881) 39th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Meiningen.

By the way, this division had one very interesting regiment - the 120th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, which was formed on the basis of the 201st Airborne Brigade during the Great Patriotic War, thus being the heir to the very first airborne unit , 3rd airborne brigade and airborne detachment of the Leningrad Military District. During the period of defeat of the remnants of the former Soviet power, in 1993, this regiment will be ingloriously disbanded;

RDR 12th Orb (military unit 83068) 94th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Schwerin;

rdr 13th orb 9th TD, Zeithain;

rdr 17th orb (military unit 35018) 16th TD, Neustrelitz;

RDR 17th Guards Orb (military unit 34161) 32nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Uteborg;

rdr 18th orb (military unit 60491) 12th TD, Manwinkel;

rdr 30th orb (military unit 60549) 90th TD, Bernau;

rdr 34th orb (military unit 58593) 21st motorized rifle division, Perleberg;

rdr 40th orb (military unit 47368) 7th TD, Quedlinburg;

rdr 53rd orb (military unit 34810) 25th TD, Vogelsand;

rdr 59th orb (military unit 58545) 35th motorized rifle division, Olympics Dorf;

RDR 68th Guards Orb (military unit 23562) 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Plauen;

RDR 107th Guards Orb (military unit 58447) 32nd Guards TD, Uteborg;

RDR 112th Guards Orb (military unit 35094) 10th Guards TD, Halberstadt;

RDR 113th Orb (military unit 60544) 57th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Rudolstadt.

Central group of troops:

RDR 20th Guards Orb 30th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Riečki;

RDR 31st Orb 48th Motorized Rifle Division Visoko Mito;

RDR 45th Guards Orb (military unit 67001) 18th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Decin;

rdr 81st Guards Orb (military unit 34965) 15th Guards TD, Milovice;

rdr 84th orb 31st TD Bruntal.

Northern Group of Forces:

RDR 96th Guards Orb (military unit 28348) 20th Guards TD, Svetoshchuv;

RDR 126th Guards Orb (military unit 74256) 6th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Bialogard.

Southern Group of Forces:

RDR 15th Guards Orb (military unit 75569) 254th Motorized Rifle Division, Szekesfehervar;

RDR 16th Guards Orb (military unit 64802) 93rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Kecskemet;

RDR 56th Guards Orb (military unit 30248) 13th Guards TD, Veszprem;

rdr 99th Guards Orb (military unit 81154) 19th Guards TD, Esztergom.

Leningrad Military District:

RDR 597th training orb (military unit 54052) 56th Guards Training Center, Pesochny;

RDR 789th Guards Orb 45th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Kharitonovo;

rdr 790th orb (military unit 15745) 54th motorized rifle division, Alakurti;

rdr 792nd orb (military unit 40335) 64th motorized rifle division, Sapernoye;

RDR 794th Orb 77th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Arkhangelsk;

rdr 795th orb 111th motorized rifle division, Lahdenpokhya;

rdr 796th orb 131st motorized rifle division, Luostari.

Baltic Military District:

RDR 19th Guards Orb (military unit 14044) 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Dolgorukovo;

rdr 79th orb (military unit 71677) 1st TD, Kornevo;

RDR 80th Guards Orb 40th Guards TD, Sovetsk;

RDR 86th Orb 3rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Klaipeda;

RDR 148-ro Guards Orb (military unit 48853) 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Klooga;

rdr 640th orb 107th motorized rifle division, Vilnius;

rdr 45th Guards Orb 18th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Gusev;

RDR Guards Orb 26th Guards Motor Rifle Division, Sovetsk;

Urdr 381st training orb (military unit 10940) 54th training center, Dobele.

Belarusian Military District:

RDR 3rd Guards Orb 6th Guards TD, Grodno;

RDR 6th Guards Orb 8th Guards TD, Pukhovichi;

RDR 46th Guards Orb (military unit 43194) 120th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Uruchye;

rdr 50th orb 29th TD, Slutsk;

rdr 52nd orb 193rd TD, Bobruisk;

RDR 53rd Guards Orb 37th Guards TD, Borovukha;

rdr 56th orb 19th guards TD, Zaslonovo;

rdr 90th orb 50th motorized rifle division, Brest;

rdr 97th orb 28th TD, Slonim;

rdr 134th orb 34th TD, Borisov;

rdr orb (military unit 12344) 76th TD, Brest.

Moscow Military District:

RDR 136th Guards Orb (military unit 33755) 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Kalininets;

rdr 137th Guards Orb 4th Guards TD, Naro-Fominsk;

RDR 39th Guards Orb 32nd Guards MSD, Tver;

Odessa Military District:

rdr 95th Guards Orb 28th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Chernomorskoe;

rdr 102nd Guards Orb (military unit 48383) 59th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Tiraspol;

rdr 103rd orb 126th motorized rifle division, Simferopol;

rdr 129th orb 180th motorized rifle division, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky;

Kyiv Military District:

RDR 15th Orb 254th Motorized Rifle Division, Artemoven;

RDR 74th Guards Orb 17th Guards TD, Krivoy Rog;

RDR 117th Orb 72nd Motorized Rifle Division, Bila Tserkva;

RDR 130th Guards Orb (military unit 24066) 25th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Lubny;

RDR 1377th training orb (military unit 54057) 169th training center (former 48th guards department), Oster.

Carpathian Military District:

rdr 21st Guards Orb (military unit 15727) 51st Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Vladimir-Volynsky;

RDR 29th Orb 24th Motorized Rifle Division, Rava-Russkaya;

rdr 47th Guards Orb 128th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Mukachevo;

rdr 54th Guards Orb 30th Guards TD, Novograd-Volynsky;

rdr 83rd orb (military unit 22356) 23rd TD, Ovruch;

rdr 91st Guards Orb 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Ivano-Frankovsk;

rdr 92nd orb (military unit 15331) 161st motorized rifle division, Izyaslav;

RDR 93rd Orb 17th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Khmelnitsky;

rdr 94th Guards Orb 97th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Slavuta;

RDR 1262nd Training Guards Orb 110th Guards Training Center, Chernivtsi.

Transcaucasian Military District:

RDR 766th Orb 10th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Akhaltsikhe;

RDR 767th Orb 15th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Kirovakan;

RDR 768th Orb 23rd Motorized Rifle Division, Ganja;

rdr 769th orb 60th motorized rifle division, Lenkoran;

rdr 770th orb (military unit 15729) 75th motorized rifle division, Nakhichevan;

rdr 772nd orb (military unit 15732) 127th motorized rifle division, Leninakan;

rdr 773rd orb 45th motorized rifle division, Gonio;

rdr 774th orb 147th motorized rifle division, Akhalkalaki;

RDR 776th Orb 164th Motorized Rifle Division, Sovetashen;

RDR 777th Orb 295th Motorized Rifle Division, Baku.

North Caucasus Military District:

RDR 107th Orb 9th Motorized Rifle Division, Maykop;

RDR 249th orb (military unit 12356) 19th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Vladikavkaz;

rdr 417th orb (military unit 55034) 173rd training center, Grozny;

RDR 347th orb 14th TD, Novocherkassk.

Volga Military District:

RDR 1378th training orb 43rd military division, Chernorechye.

Ural Military District:

RDR 206th Orb 213th Motorized Rifle Division, Totskoye;

RDR 907th Orb (military unit 35652) 34th Motorized Rifle Division, Sverdlovsk.

Turkestan Military District:

RDR 650th Orb 5th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Afghanistan;

rdr 781st orb 108th motorized rifle division, Afghanistan;

RDR Orb 4th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Termez;

rdr orb (military unit 61205) 88th motorized rifle division, Kushka;

Central Asian Military District:

rdr 85th orb 78th TD, Ayaguz;

RDR 105th Orb 8th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Panfilov;

rdr 106th orb 58th motorized rifle division, Saryozek;

rdr 236th orb 155th motorized rifle division, Ust-Kamenogorsk;

RDR 783rd Orb 201st Motorized Rifle Division, Afghanistan;

RDR ORB 167th Motorized Rifle Division, Semipalatinsk;

RDR ORB 203rd Motorized Rifle Division, Karaganda.

Siberian Military District:

RDR 121st Orb 85th Motorized Rifle Division, Novosibirsk;

RDR 172nd Orb 242nd Motorized Rifle Division, Abakan;

rdr 1263rd orb 62nd motorized rifle division, Itatka;

RDR ORB 13th Motorized Rifle Division, Biysk.

Trans-Baikal Military District:

RDR 109th Guards Orb (military unit 15349) 11th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Mirnaya;

RDR 128th Guards Orb (military unit 21757) 122nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Dauria;

rdr 186th orb 2nd guards TD, Choibalsan;

rdr 192nd orb 245th motorized rifle division, Gusinoozersk;

RDR ORB 110th Motorized Rifle Division, Bratsk;

rdr 1914 orb 49th TD, Chita;

RDR Guards Orb 5th Guards TD, Kyakhta;

RDR ORB 52nd Motorized Rifle Division, Nizhneudinsk;

rdr 110th Guards Orb (military unit 59335) 38th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Sretensk;

rdr 132nd orb 12th motorized rifle division, Mongolia;

RDR ORB 41st Motorized Rifle Division, Choiren, Mongolia;

rdr orb 51st TD, Nalaikh, Mongolia;

rdr orb (military unit 96599) 149th motorized rifle division, Erdenet, Mongolia.

Far Eastern Military District:

RDR 27th Orb 277th Motorized Rifle Division, Sergeevka;

rdr 88th Guards Orb 21st Guards TD, Belogorsk;

rdr 115th orb 265th motorized rifle division, Ekaterinivka;

RDR 118th Guards Orb 81st Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Bikin;

rdr 127th Guards Orb 123rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Barabash;

rdr 129th orb 121st motorized rifle division, Sibirtsevo;

rdr 131st orb 135th motorized rifle division, Grushevoye;

RDR 154th Orb 73rd Motorized Rifle Division, Komsomolsk-on-Amur;

RDR ORB 22nd Motorized Rifle Division, Yelizovo;

rdr orb 29th motorized rifle division, Kamen-Rybolov;

RDR ORB (military unit 20187) 33rd Motorized Rifle Division, Khomutovo;

RDR ORB 40th Motorized Rifle Division, Smolyaninovo;

RDR Orb 67th Motorized Rifle Division, Skovorodino;

RDR ORB 79th Motorized Rifle Division, Poronaysk;

RDR ORB 87th Motorized Rifle Division, Petropalovsk-Kamchatsky;

RDR ORB 192nd Motorized Rifle Division, Blagoveshchensk;

RDR Orb 199th Motorized Rifle Division, Krasny Kut;

rdr orb (military unit 48319) 262nd motorized rifle division, Vozzhaevka;

RDR ORB (military unit 04030) 266th Motorized Rifle Division, Raichikhinsk;

RDR orb 27th TD, Zavitinsk;

RDR ORB 270th MSD, Khabarovsk.

It is clear that this list is completely incomplete (and requires clarification), but even the companies listed are an impressive force. The vast majority of these companies existed in a cadre or folded state, but those that included personnel underwent full airborne training.

Usually, scouts went to jumps in units of the Airborne Forces or GRU special forces. Most of the “live” reconnaissance and landing companies in the second half of the 80s wore the uniform and symbols of the Airborne Forces.

From the book Great Soviet Encyclopedia (VO) by the author TSB

From the book Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GL) by the author TSB

From the book Great Soviet Encyclopedia (DE) by the author TSB

From the book Great Soviet Encyclopedia (OR) by the author TSB

From the book Great Soviet Encyclopedia (PE) by the author TSB

From the book "Afghan" Lexicon. Military jargon of veterans of the Afghan war 1979-1989. author Boyko B L

From the book GRU Spetsnaz: the most complete encyclopedia author Kolpakidi Alexander Ivanovich

From the book Japanese Manual for the Training of Tank Units, 1935. author Ministry of Defense of the USSR

airborne airborne troops, airborne forces And the combat traditions of the airborne forces live on, and still every soldier, officer, general proudly says: “We serve in the airborne forces!” )

 

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