Guards units (Russian: Гвардия, romanized: Gvardiya) were elite units and formations in the Soviet Armed Forces that continue to exist in the Russian Armed...

border guards of many other countries, Soviet Border Troops also included the maritime border guarding units, and aviation units (i.e., a coast guard). The...

its forces the 72nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, and the 25th Guards Motor Rifle Division. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Army leadership...

The 5th Guards Tank Army (Russian: 5-я гварде́йская та́нковая а́рмия) was a Soviet Guards armored formation which fought in many notable actions during...

of the chronologically first army of the Soviet Union to reach 'Guards' status. It commands the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle and the 4th Tank Divisions, which...

the 16th Guards Tank Division (the former 9th Guards Tank Corps). Although up to the 1970s it had retained of its wartime units – 12th Guards Tank Division...

The 5th Guards Zimovnikovskaya order Kutuzov II degree Motor Rifle Division, (Military Unit Number (V/Ch) 51852 from 1979) named on the 60th anniversary...

33702) is a unit of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) and regiment of the 104th Guards Air Assault Division. Before 1992, it was part of the Soviet Airborne...

1917–18. The designation of Guards was subsequently adopted as a distinction for various units and formations of the Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation...

The 810th Separate Guards Orders of Zhukov and Ushakov Naval Infantry Brigade named for the 60th Anniversary of the Soviet Union (810 gv. obrmp) (Russian:...

included: 1st Guards Tank Army (HQ Radebeul) 8th Guards Mechanised Corps 11th Guards Tank Corps 2nd Guards Tank Army (HQ Fürstenberg) Soviet 1st Mechanized...

The 3rd Guards Tank Army (Russian: 3-я гвардейская танковая армия) was a tank army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. The...

and the 20th Guards Army in 1960 within the Soviet Ground Forces) is a field army. In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the army became...

The 4th Guards Tank Army was an operational military unit within the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War and in the post–war...

The 12th Guards Uman Orders of Lenin Red Banner and Suvorov Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Ground Forces. It drew its history from the...

Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (abbreviated 8th GCAA) was an army of the Soviet Army, as a successor to the 62nd Army of the Soviet Union's...

Red Guards (Russian: Красная гвардия) were paramilitary volunteer formations for the "protection of the soviet power", as part of the Bolshevik Military...

1st Guards Cavalry Zhytomyr Red Banner Corps (Russian: 1-й гвардейский кавалерийский Житомирский Краснознаменный корпус) was a military unit of the Soviet...

The 2nd Guards M. I. Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division is a Guards mechanised infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number...

later became the 44th Guards Tank Brigade, then after the war the 44th Guards Tank Regiment. In 1993, it became the 44th Guards Tank Training Regiment...

Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary...

Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen...

known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Red Banner and Order of Suvorov Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces. Major Marina Raskova...

The 6th Guards Army was a Soviet Guards formation which fought against Nazi Germany during World War II under the command of General Ivan Chistyakov....

1941, converted to 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, January 1943 8th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) - January 1942, converted to 7th Guards Cavalry Corps, 14 February...

The 3rd Guards Army (Russian: 3-я гвардейская армия) was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The army...

to the Soviet Union as the 111th Guards Airborne Regiment, formed in 1948 as part of the 11th Guards Airborne Division. After the 11th Guards Airborne...

Offensive. The unit became 30th Guards Mechanised Division in 1945 as part of the 11th Guards Army. In 1965 it was renumbered as 18th Guards Motor Rifle...

officially awarded Guards status and was re-designated as the 13th Guards Rifle Division. In May 1942, the 13th Division was involved in the Soviet counter-offensive...

dissolution of the Soviet Union, in 1992, he was appointed commander of the Russian 14th Guards Army in Moldova. The 119th Guards Airborne Regiment joined...