35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
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The 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Military Unit Number 41659) traces its history back to the formation of the 4th Tank Corps during the Great Patriotic War/Second World War. It forms part of the 41st Combined Arms Army (CAA), and has its headquarters in a former Strategic Rocket Forces installation at Aleysk in Siberia.[1]
History
In accordance with State Committee of Defence (NKO) Order No. 724218сс оf 31 March 1942, the 4th Tank Corps was established in the Voronezh area in April 1942. By order of the NKO of the USSR No. 57 dated February 7, 1943, in recognition of the courage and heroism of its personnel, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the "Guards" honorary title, and transformed into the 5th Guards Tank Corps.
In the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the honorary title "Stalingrad" by NKO Order No. 42 of 27 January 1943.
The corps participated in the following operations:
- the Kursk strategic defensive operation (Battle of Kursk, from 5 July 1943 - 23 July 1943.
- Belogorod-Kharkov offensive operation (Operation Rumyantsev) 3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943. On 6 November 1943 the 5th Guards Tank Corps was awarded the honorary title "Kiev" by a Prikaz of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
- Chernigov-Poltava Offensive [08/26/1943 - 09/30/1944]
- Sumsko-Priluki Operation [08/26/1943 - 09/30/1943]
- Kyiv Strategic Offensive Operation (Battle of Kiev (1943))
- Kyiv defensive operation, (1943), 13 November - 22 December 1943
- Dnieper–Carpathian offensive (Seizure of Right-Bank Ukraine), 12 December 1943 - 17 April 1944.
- Zhytomyr-Berdichev operation [12/24/1943 - 01/14/1944]
- Korsun-Shevchenko operation [01/24/1944 - 02/17/1944]
- Umansko-Botoshanskaya operation
- Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive, 20 August 1944 - 29 August 1944.
- Debrecen Offensive (Battle of Debrecen), 6 October 1944 - 28 October 1944.
- Budapest Offensive
- Vienna Offensive [03/16/1945 - 04/15/1945]
- Bratislava–Brno offensive (at its final stage)
- Prague Offensive [05/06/1945 - 05/11/1945]
- Soviet invasion of Manchuria [08/09/1945 - 09/02/1945]
- Khingano-Mukden offensive operation [08/09/1945 - 09/02/1945]
On 14 September 1945, on the basis of the order of the NKO of the USSR No. 0013 dated June 10, 1945, the corps, within the overall demobilization process, was reorganised as the 5th "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov" Guards Tank Division (First Formation). On 29 June 1957 the 5th Guards Tank Division became the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division.[2] From 1976 to 1989 it formed part of the 36th Army. It became a Machine-Gun Artillery Division in 1989, a Motor Rifle Division in 2001; and then the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in June 2009.
Notes
- ^ Robinson, Colin. “The Russian Ground Forces Today: A Structural Status Examination.” The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 202–203.
- ^ Michael Holm, 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, c2015.
References
- Приказ Верховного Главнокомандующего № 37, от 6 ноября 1943 года, «Об овладении столицей Советской Украины городом Киев».
- Завизион, Гавриил Тимофеевич, Корнюшин П. А. И на Тихом океане… — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1967.
- Краснознамённый Киевский. Очерки истории Краснознамённого Киевского военного округа (1919—1979). Издание второе, исправленное и дополненное. Киев, издательство политической литературы Украины, 1979. С. 249—253 «Освобождение Киева».
- Герои Советского Союза. Краткий биографический словарь в двух томах — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1987.