List of guards units of Russia

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a large number of Guards units.

Ground Forces

Guards Armies

• 1st Guards Tank Army
• 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army
• 3rd Guards Combined Arms Army
• 5th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 6th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 8th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 20th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 29th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 36th Guards Combined Arms Army
• 41st Guards Combined Arms Army
• 51st Guards Donetsk Combined Arms Army
• 58th Guards Combined Arms Army

Guards Divisions

Motor Rifle

• 2nd Guards Taman Motor Rifle Division
• 18th Guards Insterburg Motor Rifle Division
• 20th Guards Carpathian-Berlin Motor Rifle Division
• 27th Guards Omsk-Novobug Motor Rifle Division
• 42nd Guards Yevpatoria Motor Rifle Division
• 68th Guards Sevastopol Motor Rifle Division named after Latvian Riflemen
• 69th Guards Krasnoe Selo Motor Rifle Division
• 71st Guards Pechenga Motor Rifle Division
• 144th Guards Yelnya Motor Rifle Division
• 150th Guards Idritsa-Berlin Motor Rifle Division

Tank

• 4th Guards Kantemirovka Tank Division
• 90th Guards Vitebsk-Novgorod Tank Division

Guards Brigades

Motor Rifle

• 1st Separate Guards Slavyansk Motor Rifle Brigade
• 4th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 5th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 7th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 9th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 15th Separate Guards Alexandria Motor Rifle Brigade
• 27th Separate Guards Sevastopol Motor Rifle Brigade
• 30th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 34th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 35th Separate Guards Stalingrad-Kiev Motor Rifle Brigade
• 36th Separate Guards Lozovaya Motor Rifle Brigade
• 37th Separate Guards Budapest Don Cossack Motor Rifle Brigade
• 38th Separate Guards Vitebsk Motor Rifle Brigade
• 39th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 55th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 57th Separate Guards Krasnograd Motor Rifle Brigade
• 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 74th Separate Guards Zvenigorod-Berlin Motor Rifle Brigade
• 110th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 114th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 123rd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 132nd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 136th Uman-Berlin Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
• 205th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

Tank

• 5th Separate Guards Tatsinskaya Tank Brigade

Engineer

• 1st Guards Brest-Berlin Engineer-Sapper Brigade
• 11th Separate Guards Kingisepp Engineer Brigade
• 12th Separate Guards Koenigsberg-Gorodok Engineer Brigade
• 14th Separate Guards Baranovichi Engineer Brigade
• 28th Guards Pontoon-Bridge Brigade
• 45th Guards Berlin Engineer Brigade

Artillery

• 9th Guards Kielce-Berlin Artillery Brigade
• 14th Separate Guards Artillery Brigade
• 17th Guards High Power Artillery Brigade
• 30th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 79th Guards Novozybkov Rocket Artillery Brigade
• 120th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 165th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 200th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 227th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 232nd Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade
• 236th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 238th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 244th Separate Guards Neman Artillery Brigade
• 288th Guards Warsaw Artillery Brigade
• 291st Guards Artillery Brigade
• 305th Guards Artillery Brigade
• 338th Guards Dvinsk Rocket Artillery Brigade
• 385th Guards Odessa Artillery Brigade
• 439th Guards Perekop Rocket Artillery Brigade

Anti-Aircraft Missile

• 8th Guards Å avli Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 35th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 38th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 49th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 53rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 61st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 71st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 77th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 78th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 140th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade
• 297th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

Missile

• 1st Guards Orsha Missile Brigade
• 12th Guards Missile Brigade
• 20th Guards Berlin Missile Brigade
• 92nd Guards Missile Brigade
• 107th Guards Mozyr Missile Brigade
• 112th Guards Novorossiysk Missile Brigade
• 119th Guards Missile Brigade
• 152nd Guards Brest-Warsaw Missile Brigade

NBC Protection

• 1st Mobile NBC Protection Brigade
• 16th Separate Guards Khingan NBC Protection Brigade
• 27th Separate Guards NBC Protection Brigade
• 29th Separate Guards NBC Protection Brigade

Signal Troops

• 9th Guards Lvov-Berlin Communications Brigade
• 35th Guards Tallin Communications Brigade
• 54th Guards Communications Brigade
• 59th Guards Syvash Communications Brigade
• 75th Guards Communications Brigade
• 175th Guards Luninets-Pinsk Communications Brigade

Guards Regiments

Motor Rifle

• 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 7th Separate Guards Proletarian Moscow-Minsk Motor Rifle Regiment
• 15th Guards Å avli Motor Rifle Regiment
• 33rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 57th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 70th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 71st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 102nd Guards Slonim-Pomerania Motor Rifle Regiment
• 103rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 114th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 143rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 228th Guards Leningrad-Pavlovsk Motor Rifle Regiment
• 242nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 245th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 252nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 255th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 291st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 394th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 433rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 488th Guards Simferopol Motor Rifle Regiment
• 752nd Guards Petrokov Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1307th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1429th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1430th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1442nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1466th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1472nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
• 1486th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

Tank

• 1st Guards Chertkov Tank Regiment
• 6th Guards Tank Regiment
• 10th Guards Tank Regiment
• 13th Guards Shepetovka Tank Regiment
• 80th Guards Tank Regiment
• 218th Guards Tank Regiment
• 239th Guards Orenburg Cossack Tank Regiment

Engineer

• 6th Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 30th Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 31st Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 32nd Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 39th Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 40th Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 44th Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment
• 89th Guards Sapper Regiment
• 91st Guards Sapper Regiment

Artillery

• 8th Guards Artillery Regiment
• 27th Guards Artillery Regiment
• 50th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
• 99th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
• 136th Guards Artillery Regiment
• 292nd Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
• 944th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment

Anti-Aircraft Missile

• 77th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
• 568th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
• 1488th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

NBC Protection

• 2nd Guards NBC Protection Regiment
• 10th Guards NBC Protection Regiment
• 25th Guards NBC Protection Regiment
• 26th Guards NBC Protection Regiment
• 35th Guards NBC Protection Regiment

Other Guards units

• 10th Separate Guards Tank Battalion
• 17th Separate Guards Electronic Warfare Brigade
• 60th Separate Guards Assault Motor Rifle Battalion
• 80th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion
• 100th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Brigade
• 127th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Brigade
• 212th Guards District Training Center
• 467th Guards Moscow-Tartu District Training Center
• 4th Guards Military Base
• 201st Guards Gatchina Military Base

Disbanded Guards units

• 8th Separate Guards Kramatorsk Motor Rifle Brigade
• 10th Separate Guards Ural-Lvov Volunteer Tank Division
• 47th Guards Lower Dnieper Tank Division

Aerospace Forces

Guards Armies

• 4th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army
• 6th Guards Leningrad Air and Air Defence Forces Army
• 11th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army

Guards Divisions

• 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division
• 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division
• 105th Guards Mixed Aviation Division
• 303rd Guards Mixed Aviation Division

Guards Brigades

• 16th Guards Army Aviation Brigade
• 17th Guards Army Aviation Brigade
• 18th Guards Army Aviation Brigade
• 39th Separate Guards Special Purpose Radio-technical Brigade

Guards Regiments

• 2nd Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment
• 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
• 22nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 39th Separate Guards Helicopter Regiment
• 43rd Separate Guards Sevastopol Naval Assault Aviation Regiment
• 47th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 55th Separate Guards Sevastopol Helicopter Regiment
• 98th Separate Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment
• 120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 266th Separate Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
• 277th Guards Mlawa Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 314th Separate Guards Special Purpose Radio-Technical Regiment
• 332nd Separate Guards Helicopter Regiment
• 337th Separate Guards Helicopter Regiment
• 368th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
• 440th Separate Guards Helicopter Regiment
• 559th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 960th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
• 999th Guards Air Base
• 6950th Guards Air Base

Disbanded Guards units

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 19th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 42nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
• 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 458th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 627th Guards Fighter Aviation Training Regiment
• 899th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment
• 6980th Guards Air Base

Airborne Forces

Guards Divisions

• 7th Guards Air Assault Division
• 76th Guards Air Assault Division
• 98th Guards Airborne Division
• 104th Guards Air Assault Division
• 106th Guards Airborne Division

Guards Brigades

• 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade
• 52nd Guards Artillery Brigade
• 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade
• 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade
• 38th Guards Separate Communications Brigade
• 45th Guards Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade

Guards Regiments

• 51st Guards Airborne Regiment
• 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment
• 104th Guards Air Assault Regiment
• 108th Guards Air Assault Regiment
• 137th Guards Ryazan Kuban Cossack Airborne Regiment
• 217th Guards Airborne Regiment
• 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment
• 237th Guards Torun Air Assault Regiment
• 247th Guards Caucasus Cossack Air Assault Regiment
• 299th Guards Airborne Regiment
• 328th Guards Air Assault Regiment
• 331st Guards Airborne Regiment
• 337th Guards Air Assault Regiment

Navy

Guards formations of the Coastal Troops and Naval Infantry

• 55th Guards Kursk Naval Infantry Division
• 120th Guards Belostok Naval Infantry Division
• 40th Separate Guards Kransodar-Harbin Naval Infantry Brigade
• 61st Separate Guards Kirkenes Naval Infantry Brigade
• 126th Separate Guards Coastal Defence Brigade
• 810th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade
• 15th Guards Coastal Missile Brigade
• 177th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Regiment
• 22nd Separate Guards Air Defence Missile Regiment
• 69th Separate Guards Mogilev Marine Engineering Regiment

Guards ships of the Navy

• Guards frigate Admiral Makarov
• Guards cruiser Varyag
• Guards corvette Soobrazitelny

Out of commission

• Guards destroyer Gremyashchy
• Guards destroyer Bezuderzhny
• Guards cruiser Moskva

Special Forces

Main Directorate of the General Staff

• 2nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
• 3rd Guards Warsaw-Berlin Special Purpose Brigade
• 10th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
• 14th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
• 22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
• 24th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
• 346th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
• 25th Separate Guards Special Purpose Regiment

Special Operations Forces

• Guards Special Operations Center "Kubinka-2"

Strategic Rocket Forces

Guards Rocket Armies

• 27th Guards Vitebsk Rocket Army
• 33rd Guards Berislav Khingan Rocket Army

Guards Rocket Divisions

• 7th Guards Rocket Division
• 28th Guards Rocket Division
• 29th Guards Rocket Division
• 39th Guards Rocket Division
• 54th Guards Rocket Division

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