Armed Forces Airborne troops of Russia: history, structure, armament of the Airborne Forces

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(abbr. 103rd Guards. vdd) - a unit that was part of the Airborne Troops of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the Armed Forces of Belarus.

History of formation

The Great Patriotic War

The division was formed in 1946 as a result of the reorganization of the 103rd Guards. rifle division.

On December 18, 1944, on the basis of the order of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, the 103rd Guards Rifle Division began to form on the basis of the 13th Guards Airborne Division.

The formation of the division took place in the city of Bykhov, Mogilev region of the Byelorussian SSR. The division arrived here from its former location - the city of Teikovo, Ivanovo region of the RSFSR. Almost all of the division's officers had significant combat experience. Many of them landed behind German lines in September 1943 as part of the 3rd Guards Airborne Brigade, providing our troops with a crossing of the Dnieper.

By the beginning of January 1945, units of the division were fully equipped with personnel, weapons, military equipment (January 1, 1945 is considered to be the birthday of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division).

Participated in hostilities in the area of ​​Lake Balaton during the Vienna offensive operation.

On May 1, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 26, 1945 on awarding the division with the Orders of the Red Banner and Kutuzov of the 2nd degree was read to the personnel. 317th and 324th Guards Rifle Regiments divisions were awarded the orders of Alexander Nevsky, and 322nd Guards Rifle Regiment- Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree.

On May 12, units of the division entered the Czechoslovak city of Trebon, in the vicinity of which they camped, starting planned combat training. On this, the participation of the division in the battles against fascism was completed. During the entire period of hostilities, the division destroyed more than 10 thousand Nazis, captured about 6 thousand soldiers and officers.

For their heroism, 3521 servicemen of the division were awarded orders and medals, and five guardsmen were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

post-war period

By May 9, 1945, the division concentrated near the city of Szeged (Hungary), where it remained until the end of the year. By February 10, 1946, she arrived at the place of her new deployment in the Seltsy camp in the Ryazan region.

On June 3, 1946, in accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the division was reorganized into 103rd Guards Red Banner Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Airborne and had the following composition:

• Divisional Command and Headquarters
• 317th Guards Order of Alexander Nevsky Airborne Regiment
• 322nd Guards Order of Kutuzov Airborne Regiment
• 39th Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Airborne Regiment
• 15th Guards Artillery Regiment
• 116th separate guards anti-tank artillery battalion
• 105th Separate Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
• 572nd Separate Kielce Red Banner Self-Propelled Division
• separate guards training battalion
• 130th separate engineer battalion
• 112th separate guards reconnaissance company
• 13th Separate Guards Signal Company
• 274th transport autorote
• 245th field bakery
• 6th separate airborne support company
• 175th separate medical and sanitary company

On August 5, 1946, the personnel began combat training according to the plan of the Airborne Forces. Soon the division was redeployed to the city of Polotsk.

In 1955-1956, the 114th Guards Vienna Red Banner Airborne Division was disbanded, which was stationed near the Borovukha station of the Polotsk region. Two of its regiments - the 350th Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov 3rd Class Airborne Regiment and the 357th Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov 3rd Class Airborne Regiment - became part of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division. The 322nd Guards Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Airborne Regiment and the 39th Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Airborne Regiment, which had previously been part of the 103rd Airborne Division, were also disbanded.

In accordance with the directive of the General Staff of January 21, 1955 No. org / 2/462396, in order to improve the organization of the Airborne Troops, by April 25, 1955, in the 103rd Guards. VDD left 2 regiments. The 322nd Guards was disbanded. pdp.

In connection with the translation Guards Airborne Divisions to a new organizational structure and an increase in their numbers were formed as part of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division:

• 133rd separate anti-tank artillery battalion (numbering 165 people) - one of the battalions of the 1185th artillery regiment of the 11th Guards Airborne Division was used. The point of deployment is the city of Vitebsk.
• 50th Separate Aeronautical Detachment (numbering 73 people) - Aeronautical units of the regiments of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division were used. The point of deployment is the city of Vitebsk.

On March 4, 1955, the Directive of the General Staff was issued, on streamlining the numbering of military units. According to it, on April 30, 1955, the serial number of 572nd separate self-propelled artillery battalion 103rd Guards. vdd on 62nd.

December 29, 1958 on the basis of the order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR No. 0228 7 individual military transport aviation squadrons (ovtae) An-2 VTA aircraft (100 people each) were transferred to the Airborne Forces. According to this order, on January 6, 1959, by the Directive of the Commander of the Airborne Forces in the 103rd Guards. vdd transferred 210th Separate Military Transport Aviation Squadron (210th ovtae) .

From August 21 to October 20, 1968, the 103rd Guards. The airborne division, by order of the government, was on the territory of Czechoslovakia and participated in the armed suppression of the Prague Spring.

Participation in major military exercises

103rd Guards. VDD participated in the following major exercises:

Participation in the Afghan war

Combat activities of the division

On December 25, 1979, units of the division crossed the Soviet-Afghan border by air and became part of the Limited Contingent of Soviet Troops in Afghanistan.

Throughout the entire period of stay on Afghan soil, the division took an active part in military operations of various scales.

For the successful completion of the assigned combat missions in the Republic of Afghanistan, the 103rd division was awarded the highest state award of the USSR - the Order of Lenin.

The first combat mission assigned to the 103rd division was Operation Baikal-79 to capture important facilities in Kabul. The operation plan provided for the capture of 17 key facilities in the Afghan capital. Among them are the buildings of ministries, headquarters, a prison for political prisoners, a radio center and a television center, a post office and a telegraph. At the same time, it was planned to block the headquarters, military units and formations of the Armed Forces of the DRA located in the Afghan capital by paratroopers and units of the 108th motorized rifle division arriving in Kabul.

Parts of the division were among the last to leave Afghanistan. February 7, 1989 crossed the State border of the USSR: 317th Guards Airborne Regiment - February 5, Division Command, 357th Guards Airborne Regiment and 1179th Artillery Regiment. The 350th Guards Airborne Regiment was withdrawn on February 12, 1989.

The grouping under the command of the guard Lieutenant Colonel V. M. Voitko, which was based on a reinforced 3rd Airborne Battalion 357th regiment (guard commander Major Boltikov V.V.), from the end of January to February 14, she was guarding the Kabul airport.

At the beginning of March 1989, the entire personnel of the division returned to their former location in the Byelorussian SSR.

Awards for participation in the Afghan war

During the Afghan war, 11 thousand officers, ensigns, soldiers and sergeants who served in the division were awarded orders and medals:

On the battle banner of the division, the Order of Lenin was added to the orders of the Red Banner and Kutuzov 2nd degree in 1980.

Heroes of the Soviet Union of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division

For courage and heroism shown in providing international assistance to the Republic of Afghanistan, by Decrees of the Presidium Supreme Soviet USSR, the following servicemen of the 103rd Guards were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. vdd:

• Chepik Nikolai Petrovich. Site "Heroes country".
• Mironenko Alexander Grigorievich. Site "Heroes country".- April 28, 1980 (posthumously)
• Israfilov Abas Islamovich. Site "Heroes country".- December 26, 1990 (posthumously)
• Slyusar Albert Evdokimovich. Site "Heroes country".- November 15, 1983
• Soluyanov Alexander Petrovich . Site "Heroes country".- November 23, 1984
• Koryavin Alexander Vladimirovich. Site "Heroes country".
• Zadorozhny Vladimir Vladimirovich Site "Heroes country".- October 25, 1985 (posthumously)
• Grachev, Pavel Sergeevich. Site "Heroes country".- May 5, 1988

Composition of the 103rd Guards. vdd

• Division management
• 317th Guards Airborne Regiment
• 357th Guards Airborne Regiment
• 1179th Guards Red Banner Artillery Regiment
• 62nd separate tank battalion
• 742nd Separate Guards Communications Battalion
• 105th Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 20th separate repair battalion
• 130th Separate Guards Engineer Battalion
• 1388th Separate Logistics Battalion
• 115th separate medical and sanitary battalion
• 80th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Company

Note :

1. Due to the need to strengthen parts of the division 62nd separate self-propelled artillery battalion which was armed with obsolete self-propelled artillery mounts ASU-85, in 1985 it was reorganized into 62nd separate tank battalion and received the T-55AM tanks. With the withdrawal of troops, this military unit was disbanded.
2. Since 1982, in the line regiments of the division, all BMD-1s have been replaced with more protected and powerful weapons BMP-2s, which have a large motor resource
3. As unnecessary, all regiments were disbanded airborne support companies
4. The 609th separate airborne support battalion was not sent to Afghanistan in December 1979

Division in the period after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and before the collapse of the USSR

Business trip to Transcaucasia

In January 1990, due to the difficult situation in the Transcaucasus, they were reassigned from the Soviet Army to the Border Troops of the KGB of the USSR 103rd Guards Airborne Division and the 75th motorized rifle division. The combat mission of these formations was to strengthen the detachments of the border troops guarding the State border of the USSR with Iran and Turkey. The formations were subordinated to the KGB PV of the USSR from January 4, 1990 to August 28, 1991. .
At the same time, from the 103rd Guards. vdd were excluded 1179th artillery regiment of the division, 609th Separate Airborne Support Battalion and 105th Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion.

It should be noted that the reassignment of the division to another department caused ambiguous assessments in the leadership of the Armed Forces of the USSR:

I must say that the 103rd division is one of the most honored in the airborne troops. It has a glorious history dating back to the times of the Great Patriotic War. Never and nowhere did the division drop its dignity even in the post-war period. Glorious fighting traditions steadfastly lived in it. This is probably why in December 1979 the division c. among the first to enter Afghanistan and among the last to leave it in February 1989. The officers and soldiers of the division clearly fulfilled their duty to the Motherland. During these nine years, the division fought almost continuously. Hundreds and thousands of its servicemen were awarded government awards, more than ten people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, including generals: A. E. Slyusar, P. S. Grachev, Lieutenant Colonel A. N. Siluyanov. It was a normal, cool airborne division, which does not put a finger in its mouth. At the end of the war in Afghanistan, the division returned to its native Vitebsk, in fact, to nothing. In almost ten years, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. The barracks housing stock was transferred to other parts. The landfills were looted and seriously dilapidated. The division was met on its native side by a picture reminiscent, in the apt expression of General D.S. Sukhorukov, "an old village cemetery with rickety crosses." An impenetrable wall of social problems stood before the division (just out of combat). There were "smart heads" who, using the growing tension in society, proposed a non-standard move - to transfer the division to the State Security Committee. No division - no problem. And ... they handed it over, creating a situation where the division was no longer "VED", but also not "KGB". That is, no one needs it at all. "You ate two rabbits, I ate none, but on average one each." Combat officers have been turned into clowns. Green caps, green shoulder straps, blue vests, symbols on caps, shoulder straps and chest - paratrooper. Among the people, such a wild mixture of forms was aptly dubbed the “conductor”.

Airborne troops are one of the strongest components of the army of the Russian Federation. In recent years, due to the tense international situation, the importance of the Airborne Forces has been growing. The size of the territory of the Russian Federation, its landscape diversity, as well as the borders with almost all conflict states, indicate that it is necessary to have a large supply of special groupings of troops that can provide the necessary protection in all directions, which is the air force.

Because air force structure extensive, the question often arises of the Airborne Forces and the DSB are the same troops? The article analyzes the differences between them, the history, goals and military training of both organizations, the composition.

Differences between troops

The differences lie in the names themselves. The DShB is an air assault brigade organized and specializing in attacks on the enemy's close rear in the event of large-scale military operations. Air assault brigades subordinate to the Airborne Forces - airborne troops, as one of their divisions and specialize only in assault seizures.

Airborne Forces are landing troops, whose tasks are the capture of the enemy, as well as the capture and destruction of enemy weapons and other air operations. The functionality of the Airborne Forces is much wider - reconnaissance, sabotage, assault. For a better understanding of the differences, consider the history of the creation of the Airborne Forces and the Airborne Forces separately.

History of the Airborne Forces

The Airborne Forces began its history in 1930, when an operation was carried out near the city of Voronezh on August 2, where 12 people parachuted from the air as part of a special unit. This operation then opened the eyes of the leadership to new opportunities for paratroopers. The following year, based Leningrad Military District, a detachment is being formed, which received a long name - airborne and consisted of about 150 people.

The effectiveness of the paratroopers was obvious and the Revolutionary Military Council decides to expand it by creating airborne troops. The order saw the light at the end of 1932. In parallel, in Leningrad, instructors were trained, and later they were distributed to the districts by special-purpose aviation battalions.

In 1935, the military district of Kyiv demonstrated to foreign delegations the full power of the Airborne Forces, arranging an impressive landing of 1200 paratroopers, who quickly captured the airfield. Later, similar exercises were held in Belarus, as a result of which the German delegation, impressed by the landing of 1,800 people, decided to organize their own airborne detachment, and then a regiment. In this way, The Soviet Union is rightfully the birthplace of the Airborne Forces.

In 1939, our landing troops there is an opportunity to show themselves in practice. In Japan, the 212th brigade was landed on the Khalkin Gol River, and a year later the 201st, 204th and 214th brigades will be involved in the war with Finland. Knowing that the Second World War would no longer pass us by, 5 air corps of 10 thousand people each were formed and the Airborne Forces acquired a new status - guards troops.

The year 1942 was marked by the largest airborne operation during the war years, which took place near Moscow, where about 10 thousand paratroopers were dropped into the German rear. After the war, it was decided to attach the Airborne Forces to the Supreme High Command and appoint the commander of the Airborne Forces of the USSR SV, this honor falls to Colonel General V.V. Glagolev.

Big innovations in airborne troops came with "Uncle Vasya". In 1954 V.V. Glagolev is replaced by V.F. Margelov and holds the post of commander of the Airborne Forces until 1979. Under Margelov, the Airborne Forces are supplied with new military equipment, including artillery mounts, combat vehicles, and special attention is paid to work under the conditions of a surprise attack by nuclear weapons.

Airborne units took part in all the most significant conflicts - the events of Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, North and South Ossetia. Several of our battalions carried out UN peacekeeping missions in Yugoslavia.

In our time, the ranks of the Airborne Forces include about 40 thousand fighters, when conducting special operations - paratroopers form its basis, since the Airborne Forces are a highly qualified component of our army.

The history of the formation of the DShB

Air assault brigades began their history after it was decided to rework the tactics of the Airborne Forces in the context of the unleashing of large-scale hostilities. The purpose of such air defenses was to disorganize opponents by mass landings close to the enemy, such operations were most often carried out from helicopters in small groups.

Toward the end of the 60s in the Far East, it was decided to form the 11th and 13th brigades with helicopter regiments. These regiments were involved mainly in hard-to-reach areas, the first attempts at landings took place in the northern cities of Magdachi and Zavitinsk. Therefore, in order to become a paratrooper of this brigade, strength and special endurance were needed, since the weather conditions were almost unpredictable, for example, in winter the temperature reached -40 degrees, and in summer there was abnormal heat.

The location of the first DShB not just because the Far East was chosen. It was a time of difficult relations with China, which became even more aggravated after the clash of interests on the island of Damascus. The brigades were ordered to prepare to repel an attack from China, which could attack at any time.

The high level and significance of the DSB was demonstrated during exercises in the late 80s on the island of Iturup, where 2 battalions and artillery landed on MI-6 and MI-8 helicopters. The garrison, due to weather conditions, was not warned about the exercises, as a result of which they opened fire on the landings, but thanks to the highly qualified training of the paratroopers, none of the participants in the operation was injured.

In the same years, the DSB consisted of 2 regiments, 14 brigades, about 20 battalions. One brigade attached to one military district, but only to those who had access to the border by land. Kyiv also had its own brigade, 2 more brigades were given to our units located abroad. Each brigade had an artillery battalion, rear and combat units.

After the USSR ceased to exist, the country's budget did not allow the mass maintenance of the army, so there was nothing left to do but to disband some parts of the DSHB and the Airborne Forces. The beginning of the 90s was marked by the withdrawal of the DSB from the subordination of the Far East and the transfer to full subordination to Moscow. Air assault brigades are being transformed into separate airborne brigades - 13 OVDbr. In the mid-90s, the plan to reduce the Airborne Forces disbanded the composition of the 13th Airborne Brigade.

Thus, from the foregoing, it can be seen that the DSB was created as one of the structural divisions of the Airborne Forces.

Composition of the Airborne Forces

The composition of the Airborne Forces includes the following units:

• airborne;
• air assault;
• mountain (which operate exclusively on mountain hills).

These are the three main components of the Airborne Forces. In addition, they consist of a division (76.98, 7, 106 Guards Air Assault), brigades and regiments (45, 56, 31, 11, 83, 38 Guards Airborne). In Voronezh, a brigade was created in 2013, which received the number 345.

Personnel of the Airborne Forces prepared in educational institutions of the military reserve of Ryazan, Novosibirsk, Kamenetz-Podolsk, in Kolomenskoye. The training was conducted in the areas of paratrooper (airborne assault) platoon, commanders of reconnaissance platoons.

The school produced about three hundred graduates annually - this was not enough to satisfy the personnel requirements of the airborne troops. Consequently, it was possible to get into the military personnel of the Airborne Forces by graduating from the landing faculties in special areas of such schools as combined arms and military departments.

Training

The commanders of the DShB were most often selected from the Airborne Forces, and the battalion commanders, deputy battalion commanders, company commanders from the nearest military districts. In the 70s, due to the fact that the leadership decided to repeat their experience - to create and staff the DShB, the planned enrollment in educational institutions is expanding who trained future officers of the Airborne Forces. The mid-80s were marked by the fact that officers were issued for service in the Airborne Troops, having been trained according to the educational program for the Airborne Forces. Also in these years, a complete rearrangement of officers was underway, it was decided to replace almost all of them in the DShV. At the same time, excellent students went to serve mainly in the Airborne Forces.

To get into the service in the Airborne Forces, as in the DSB, you must meet specific criteria:

• height 173 and above;
• average physical development;
• secondary education;
• without medical restrictions.

If everything matches, then the future fighter begins training.

Particular attention is paid, of course, to the physical training of airborne paratroopers, which is carried out constantly, starting with a daily rise at 6 in the morning, hand-to-hand combat (a special training program) and ending with long forced marches of 30–50 km. Therefore, each fighter has a huge endurance and endurance, besides, guys who were engaged in any kind of sport that develops that very endurance are selected into their ranks. To check it, they pass an endurance test - in 12 minutes a fighter must run 2.4-2.8 km, otherwise there is no point in the Airborne Forces service.

It is worth noting that it is not for nothing that they are called universal fighters. These people can operate on various terrains in any weather conditions absolutely silently, can disguise themselves, own all types of weapons of both their own and the enemy, manage any type of transport, means of communication. In addition to excellent physical fitness, psychological training is also required, since the fighters have to overcome not only long distances, but also “work with their heads” to get ahead of the enemy throughout the entire operation.

Intellectual fitness is determined using tests compiled by experts. It is mandatory to take into account psychological compatibility in the team, the guys are included in a certain detachment for 2-3 days, after which the old-timers evaluate their behavior.

Psychophysical training is being carried out, which implies tasks with increased risk, where there is both physical and mental stress. Such tasks are aimed at overcoming fear. At the same time, if it turns out that the future paratrooper does not experience, in general, a feeling of fear, then he is not accepted for further training, since this feeling is quite naturally taught to control him, and not completely eradicated. The training of the Airborne Forces gives our country a huge advantage in the face of fighters over any enemy. Most of the VDVeshnikov lead an already familiar lifestyle even after retirement.

Armament of the Airborne Forces

As for the technical equipment, combined arms equipment and specially designed for the nature of this type of troops are involved in the Airborne Forces. Some of the samples were created during the USSR, but the bulk was developed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The machines of the Soviet period include:

• landing combat vehicle - 1 (the number reaches - 100 units);
• BMD-2M (about 1 thousand units), they are used both in ground and in parachute landing methods.

These techniques were tested over many years and took part in multiple armed conflicts that took place on the territory of our country and abroad. In our time, in conditions of rapid progress, these models are outdated both morally and physically. A little later, the BMD-3 model came out, and today the number of such equipment is only 10 units, since production has been discontinued, they plan to gradually replace it with the BMD-4.

The Airborne Forces are also armed with BTR-82A, BTR-82AM and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers and the most numerous tracked armored personnel carrier - 700 units, and it is also the most outdated (mid-70s), it is gradually being replaced by an armored personnel carrier - MDM "Rakushka". There are also anti-tank guns 2S25 "Sprut-SD", an armored personnel carrier - RD "Robot", and anti-tank systems: "Competition", "Metis", "Fagot", and "Cornet". air defense represented by missile systems, but a special place is given to the novelty, which not so long ago appeared in service with the Airborne Forces - the Verba MANPADS.

Not so long ago, new models of technology appeared:

• armored car "Tiger";
• Snowmobile A-1;
• truck KAMAZ - 43501.

As for communication systems, they are represented by locally developed electronic warfare systems Leer-2 and 3, Infauna, system control is represented by air defense Barnaul, Andromeda and Polet-K - automation of command and control.

Weapon represented by samples, for example, the Yarygin pistol, the PMM and the PSS silent pistol. The Soviet Ak-74 assault rifle is still the personal weapon of the paratroopers, but is gradually being replaced by the latest AK-74M, and the silent Val assault rifle is also used in special operations. There are both Soviet and post-Soviet parachute systems that can parachute large batches of soldiers and all the military equipment described above. Heavier equipment includes automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 "Flame" and AGS-30, SPG-9.

Armament DShB

DShB had transport and helicopter regiments which included:

• about twenty mi-24s, forty mi-8s and forty mi-6s;
• the anti-tank battery was armed with a mounted anti-tank grenade launcher 9 MD;
• the mortar battery included eight 82mm BM-37s;
• in the anti-aircraft missile platoon, there were nine Strela-2M MANPADS;
• also included several BMD-1s, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers for each airborne assault battalion.

The armament of the brigade-artillery group consisted of GD-30 howitzers, PM-38 mortars, GP 2A2 cannons, the Malyutka anti-tank missile system, SPG-9MD, and the ZU-23 anti-aircraft gun.

Heavier equipment includes automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 "Flame" and AGS-30, SPG-9 "Spear". Aerial reconnaissance is carried out using the domestic Orlan-10 drone.

One interesting fact took place in the history of the Airborne Forces, for quite a long time, thanks to erroneous information from the media, special forces soldiers (SpN) were not rightfully called paratroopers. The fact, what is in the Air Force of our country in the Soviet Union, as well as in the post-Soviet Union, there were no special forces troops and there are no special forces, but there are units and units of the Special Forces of the GRU of the General Staff, which arose in the 50s. Until the 1980s, the command was forced to completely deny their existence in our country. Therefore, those who were appointed to these troops learned about them only after they were accepted into service. For the media, they were disguised as motorized rifle battalions.

Airborne Forces Day

Paratroopers celebrate the birthday of the Airborne Forces, like the DSB since August 2, 2006. This kind of gratitude for the effectiveness of the air units, the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation was signed in May of the same year. Despite the fact that the holiday was declared by our government, the birthday is celebrated not only in our country, but also in Belarus, Ukraine and most of the CIS countries.

Every year, veterans of the Airborne Forces and active soldiers meet in the so-called "meeting place", in each city it has its own, for example, in Astrakhan "Brotherly Garden", in Kazan "Victory Square", in Kyiv "Hydropark", in Moscow "Poklonnaya Gora", Novosibirsk Central Park. Demonstrations, concerts and fairs are organized in large cities.

Guards Air Assault Red Banner Regiment 104, Airborne Division, in other words, military unit 32515, is stationed in the village of Cheryokha, not far from Pskov. The unit performs combat missions, destroys and captures the enemy from the air, deprives him of ground weapons, cover, and destroys his defenses. Also, this regiment acts as a rapid response unit.

Story

The regiment was formed in January 1948 as part of units of the 76th, 104th and 346th Guards Airborne Divisions. For excellent combat training in 1976, the regiment became Red Banner, and from 1979 to 1989, all personnel and officers fought in Afghanistan. In February 1978, the regiment mastered new weapons and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for its valiant use. From 1994 to 1995, the Red Banner Regiment 104 (VDV division) was part of the 76th division, and therefore actively participated in the First Chechen War, and in 1999 and 2009 carried out an anti-terrorist mission in the North Caucasus.

At the beginning of 2003, the regiment was partially transferred to a contract basis, at the same time the reconstruction of military unit 32515 began. Regiment 104, Airborne Division, received reconstructed old and new residential premises and facilities on its territory, thanks to this work, living and material conditions of service became much better. The barracks took on a cockpit look with hallways, showers and closets for personal belongings, with a gym and a relaxation room. Both officers and soldiers of regiment 104 (airborne division) eat in a common dining room, located separately. The food is the same for everyone, they eat together. Civilians work in the dining room, cleaning the territory and barracks.

Training

All the fighters of such a famous unit as the Pskov Airborne Division, especially the 104th regiment, devote a lot of time to landing and general physical training at any time of the year. Mandatory activities for landing: improving camouflage skills, forcing fire and water barriers and, of course, parachuting. First, training takes place with the help of an airborne complex on the territory of a military unit, then comes the turn of a five-meter tower. If everything is assimilated correctly, then the fighters, equipped with groups of ten people, make three jumps from aircraft: first from the AN, then from the IL.

Hazing and hazing in this unit was never present. Now this would not be possible, if only because recruits, old-timers and contractors live separately and are extremely busy with their own business. The Pskov Airborne Division, 104th Regiment, take the oath on Saturdays at ten in the morning, rarely, due to circumstances beyond the control of the commanders, it can be moved back an hour or forward. After taking the oath, military personnel receive a leave of absence until 20.00. By the way, on holidays, fighters also receive leave. On the Monday following the taking of the oath, the command distributes new fighters into companies.

Relatives

Of course, parents, relatives and friends miss and worry about the health and pastime of those who are just starting military service. The command warns relatives that their beloved sons, grandchildren, brothers and best friends, having entered the service in regiment 104 (Pskov airborne division), cannot constantly be in touch.

It is allowed to use mobile phones only one hour before lights out, the rest of the time the commander keeps the gadgets at his place and gives the soldier only as a last resort, and after he is noted in a special journal. Field exercises in the unit are held year-round, regardless of the weather, sometimes trips last up to two months. The fighters are famous for their military training, and without constant exercises, the 104th regiment of the 76th division (Pskov) of the Airborne Forces would not have earned such fame.

Useful information

March first

The whole country remembered the day of the great feat of the soldiers of the sixth company of the second battalion of the 104th paratrooper regiment of the 76th Pskov airborne division. Year 2000. Since the beginning of February, the largest group of militants after the fall of Grozny retreated to the Shatoi region, where it was blocked. After air and artillery preparation, the battle for Shata followed. The militants nevertheless broke through in two large groups: Ruslan Gelaev to the northwest to the village of Komsomolskoye, and Khattab to the northeast through Ulus-Kert, and there the main battle took place.

The federal troops consisted of one company of regiment 104 (VDV division) - the 6th company, who died heroically, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel of the Guards Mark Nikolayevich Evtyukhin, fifteen soldiers from the 4th company of the same regiment under the command of Major of the Guards Alexander Vasilyevich Dostavalov and the 1st company of the first battalion of that the same regiment under the command of Guards Major Sergei Ivanovich Baran. There were more than two and a half thousand militants: the groups of Idris, Abu Walid, Shamil Basayev and Khattab.

Mount Isty-Kord

On February 28, the commander of the 104th regiment, Colonel Sergei Yuryevich Melentyev, who had briefly outlived his sixth company, ordered to take the height of Ista-Kord, which dominated the area. The sixth company, headed by Major Sergei Georgievich Molodov, advanced immediately and managed to occupy only Hill 776, four and a half kilometers from the designated mountain, where twelve reconnaissance paratroopers were sent.

The height planned by the commander was occupied by Chechen fighters, with whom the reconnaissance entered the battle, retreating to the main forces left behind. Commander Molodov entered the battle and was mortally wounded, on the same day, February 29, he died. Took command

The Brotherhood of War

But just four hours ago, Shatoi fell under the blow of federal troops. The militants furiously broke out of the ring, not looking at the losses. Here they were met by the sixth company. The battle was fought only by the first and second platoons, since the third was destroyed by militants on the slope. By the end of the day, the loss of the company amounted to a third of the total number of personnel. Thirty-one people - the number of paratroopers who died in the first hours of the battle with a dense encirclement by the enemy.

By morning, soldiers from the fourth company, led by Alexander Vasilyevich Dostavalov, broke through to them. He violated the order, leaving well-fortified lines at a nearby height, took only fifteen fighters with him and came to the rescue. Comrades from the first company of the first battalion also hurried to their aid. They crossed the Abazulgol River, got ambushed there and entrenched themselves on the shore. Only on the third of March the first company was able to break through to the position. All this time, the battle did not subside everywhere.

Argun Gorge

The night of March 1, 2000 claimed the lives of eighty-four paratroopers who did not let the Chechen bandits through. The death of the sixth company is the heaviest and largest in the Second Chechen War. In Cheryokha, at home, at the native checkpoint, this date is reminded of a stone on which is carved: "From here the sixth company went into immortality." The last words of Lieutenant Colonel Yevtyukhin were heard by the whole world: "I call fire on myself!" When the militants went to break through the avalanche, it was 6.50 in the morning. The bandits did not even shoot: why waste bullets on twenty-six wounded paratroopers, if there are more than three hundred selected militants.

But hand-to-hand combat nevertheless began, although the forces were unequal. The guards did their duty. Everyone who could still hold a weapon entered the fray, and even those who could not. Twenty-seven dead enemies fell on each of the half-dead paratroopers remaining there. The bandits lost 457 of the best fighters, but they could not break through either to Selmentauzen or further to Vedeno, after which the road to Dagestan was practically open. All checkpoints have been removed by high order.

Khattab may not have been lying when he announced on the radio that he bought the passage for five hundred thousand dollars, but it did not work out. They attacked the company in waves, in a dushman way. Knowing the area well, the militants got close. And then bayonet-knives, butts and just fists were used. Pskov paratroopers held the height for twenty hours.

Only six survived. Two were saved by the commander, who covered their jump from a cliff with automatic fire. The bandits took the rest of the survivors for the dead, but they were alive and after some time crawled out to the location of their troops. Company of Heroes: twenty-two soldiers posthumously became Heroes of Russia. Streets in many cities of the country, even in Grozny, were named after eighty-four paratroopers.

104 Airborne Division (Ulyanovsk)

This formation of the USSR Airborne Forces existed until 1998 as the 104th Guards Airborne Division, founded in 1944. In June 2015, the Russian Ministry of Defense decides to recreate the famous military unit. Composition of the 104th Airborne Division - three regiments based on the 31st Ulyanovsk Airborne Brigade, which are located in Orenburg, Engels and Ulyanovsk.

Glory to the Airborne Forces

The airborne troops originate from August 1930, and this is the only branch of the military in the country where the divisions are all guards. Each of them earned their own glory in battle. Ancient Pskov is rightly proud of its oldest military unit - the 76th Guards Red Banner Airborne Division, which heroically showed itself in all the wars in which it participated. The tragic death of the brave, courageous, staunch sixth company of the 104th regiment will never be forgotten not only in the country, but also in the world.

Ulyanovsk has its own historical pride: the personnel of the 104th Guards Airborne Division stationed there took part in the battles in Chechnya and Abkhazia, were part of the UN peacekeepers in Yugoslavia. And every resident of the city knows that the military equipment with the scorpion on board is the 104th Guards Airborne Division named after Kutuzov, transformed from the airborne brigade.

The one who has never left the plane in his life,
where cities and villages seem like toys,
who has never experienced joy and fear
free fall, whistling in the ears, a jet of wind
beating in the chest, he will never understand
honor and pride of a paratrooper ...
V.F. Margelov

Airborne Troops (VDV), a highly mobile branch of the armed forces, designed to cover the enemy by air and conduct combat operations in his rear. The Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation are a means of the Supreme High Command and can form the basis of mobile forces. They report directly to the commander of the Airborne Forces and consist of airborne divisions, brigades, dep. parts and institutions.

CreationAirborne Troops .

The history of the Airborne Forces dates back to August 2, 1930 - at the exercises of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District near Voronezh, a paratrooper unit consisting of 12 people was parachuted. This experiment allowed military theorists to see the prospect of the advantage of parachute units, their enormous capabilities associated with the rapid coverage of the enemy through the air.

The Revolutionary Military Council of the Red Army determined one of the tasks for 1931: "... airborne operations should be comprehensively studied from the technical and tactical side by the Headquarters of the Red Army in order to develop and distribute appropriate instructions to the places." Attention was drawn to the need for a deep development of the organizational structure and theory of the combat use of airborne troops.

The first unit of the Airborne Forces was formed in 1931 in the Leningrad Military District, an airborne assault detachment, numbering 164 people. E.D. Lukin was appointed commander of the detachment. The creation of mass airborne troops was initiated by a resolution of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, adopted on December 11, 1932. In particular, it was noted in it that the development of aviation technology, as well as the results achieved in the design and dropping of fighters, cargo and combat vehicles from aircraft, require the organization of new combat units and formations of the Red Army. In order to develop the airborne business in the Red Army, to train the relevant personnel and units, the Revolutionary Military Council decided to deploy a brigade on the basis of the airborne detachment of the Leningrad Military District, entrusting it with the training of instructors in airborne training and the development of operational-tactical standards. At the same time, it was planned to form by March 1933 one airborne detachment each in the Belorussian, Ukrainian, Moscow and Volga military districts. A new stage in the development of the airborne troops began. And already at the beginning of 1933, special-purpose aviation battalions were formed in these districts. By the summer of 1941, the staffing of five airborne corps of 10 thousand people each had ended. The combat path of the Airborne Forces is marked by many memorable dates. Thus, the 212th Airborne Brigade (commander - Lieutenant Colonel N.I. Zatevakhin) took part in the armed conflict at Khalkhin Gol. During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940), the 201st, 204th and 214th airborne brigades fought together with rifle units. The paratroopers carried out raids deep behind enemy lines, attacked garrisons, headquarters, communication centers, disrupted command and control, and attacked strongholds.

ATDVinyears of the Great Patriotic War.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, all five airborne corps participated in fierce battles with the invaders in the territory of Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine. During the counteroffensive near Moscow, in order to assist the troops of the Western and Kaliningrad fronts in the encirclement and defeat of the Vyazma-Rzhev-Yukhnovskaya group of Germans, at the beginning of 1942, the Vyazemsky airborne operation was carried out with the landing of the 4th Airborne Forces (commander - Major General A.F. Levashov, then - Colonel A.F. Kazankin). This is the largest operation of the Airborne Forces during the war years. In total, about 10 thousand paratroopers were thrown into the rear of the Germans. Parts of the Airborne Corps in cooperation with the cavalrymen of General P.A. Belova, who broke through behind enemy lines, fought until June 1942. The paratroopers acted boldly, boldly and exceptionally persistently. In almost six months, paratroopers marched along the rear of the Nazi troops for about 600 km, destroyed up to 15 thousand enemy soldiers and officers. The military merits of paratroopers during the Great Patriotic War were highly appreciated. All airborne formations were given the rank of Guards. Thousands of soldiers, sergeants and officers of the Airborne Forces were awarded orders and medals, and 296 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union .

Airborne Forces in the post-war years.

During this period, the Airborne Forces began to be built on other organizational and technical principles, but always taking into account the experience of those who during the war years created an airborne school of victory, glory and professionalism. In the 1950s, during the exercises of airborne units, special attention was paid to new methods of defense behind enemy lines, landing survivability, interaction with advancing troops when forcing water barriers, and landing operations in the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons. Military transport aviation is equipped with An-12 and An-22 aircraft, which are capable of delivering armored vehicles, vehicles, artillery, and large stocks of materiel behind enemy lines. Every year the number of exercises with the use of airborne assaults increased. In March 1970, a large combined-arms exercise "Dvina" was held in Belarus, in which the 76th Guards Airborne Chernigov Red Banner Division took part. In just 22 minutes, more than 7 thousand paratroopers and over 150 units of military equipment were airborne. And from the mid-70s, the Airborne Forces began to intensively "cover themselves with armor."

The training and combat readiness of the paratroopers was also required by Russia at a higher level - in the UN peacekeeping mission. Now in the former Yugoslavia there is no battalion of Russian paratroopers. "Rusbat 1" was located in Serbian Krajina, on the border of Serbia and Croatia. "Rusbat 2" - in Bosnia, in the Sarajevo region. According to the UN, Russia's "blue berets" are an example of training, discipline and reliability.

For the glorious and difficult history of the Airborne Forces, the people and the army love and respect this courageous branch of the military. The Airborne Forces are troops of a harsh moral and ../fotos/foto-after_gpw-2.html physical climate, which taught the paratrooper the principle - "serve to the limit", "to the point", "to victory". History confirms that everything comes to its own time. The paratroopers of the 30s, 40s, and 80s contributed to the defense of the Fatherland, to the cause of increasing the country's defense capability. So it will continue

Paratrooper training.

One of the main tasks in organizing the combat training of the Airborne Forces is to teach the paratrooper to shoot accurately. And from any position, on the move, from a short stop, day and night. Shoot sniper, use ammo sparingly. In a real battle, a paratrooper more often fires from a machine gun with single shots. Each cartridge is worth its weight in gold.

The military work of a paratrooper is not easy: with full combat gear, a forced march to a shooting range or to a training ground, and there on the move - live firing as part of a platoon or company. And a tactical battalion exercise with landing and live fire is three days of tension, when you can’t relax even for a minute. In the Airborne Forces, everything is as close as possible to a combat situation: a parachute jump from an airplane; collection at the landing site - as in battle, especially at night; searching for your airborne combat vehicle (BMD) and bringing it into combat position - everything is like in war.

Particular attention in the Airborne Forces is paid to the moral, psychological and physical training of personnel. Every morning, the paratroopers begin with intense physical exercises, intensive physical training sessions are regularly held, and after two or three months the young soldier feels an unprecedented surge of strength, acquires resistance to motion sickness, to great physical exertion. Hand-to-hand combat is an indispensable part of every physical training lesson. Training bouts are held in pairs, as well as with a superior number of "enemy". Running and forced marches develop excellent endurance in a person. It is not in vain that they say in the Airborne Forces: "A paratrooper runs as long as he can, and after that - as much as necessary."

a conscious fear of a jump, with insufficient psychological preparation to overcome fear. The command of the Airborne Forces considers the principle true: each paratrooper is obliged to personally pack his own parachute. This greatly increases the responsibility, and after two or three training packs, the warrior is able, under the supervision of an instructor, to prepare a parachute for a jump. The training program for ground training of a skydiver includes training the body, the vestibular apparatus for resistance to motion sickness, willpower, courage, determination, and courage. Preparation for the jump lasts long hours, days, and sometimes weeks, but the jump itself is just a brief moment in the life of a paratrooper.

Combat capabilities
airborne troops.

To accomplish the assigned tasks, the Airborne Forces are equipped with combat vehicles, self-propelled artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, as well as control and communications equipment. The available parachute landing equipment makes it possible to drop troops and cargo in any weather and terrain conditions, day and night from various heights. Before the collapse of the USSR, there were 7 airborne divisions in the combat composition of the Airborne Forces.

Today, the airborne troops constitute the reserve of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces. In their composition four airborne divisions, one airborne brigade, airborne training center, parts of combat support and Ryazan Institute of Airborne Troops.

On the basis of advanced formations, meetings of the leadership staff are organized. In the course of them, demonstrative regimental exercises are held with landing, crossing a water barrier, marching 150 kilometers on new BMD-3 vehicles and live firing.

In addition to combat training tasks, paratroopers perform responsible peacekeeping tasks. Today, one and a half thousand paratroopers are in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the same number of personnel are in Abkhazia. A maneuverable military group of 500 people has been formed in Dagestan. By the way, this group during the hostilities in Chechnya performed tasks near Bamut. Today, the units are used to protect airfields, air defense radar stations and other important facilities.

Combat route of the 76th Airborne Division.

The day of the creation of the 76th Guards Chernigov Red Banner Airborne Division is September 1, 1939.

The first commander of the division was Colonel Glagolev Vasily Vasilyevich. The base for the deployment of the 157th Rifle Division (its original name) was the 221st Black Sea Rifle Regiment of the 74th Taman Rifle Division, created in 1925 on the basis of the 22nd Krasnodar Iron Rifle Division.

By the beginning of World War II, the division was part of the troops of the North Caucasian Military District and, with the outbreak of hostilities, received the task of preparing a defensive line along the Black Sea coast.

September 15, 1941 the division is sent to help the heroic defenders of Odessa. On September 22, the units of the formation replaced the defenders and by dawn took their starting positions for the offensive. During this offensive, the division completed its task and captured the Ilyichevka state farm and the village of Gildendorf. The military council of the Odessa defensive region highly appreciated the combat activity of the division in its first battle for the city. For courage and courage, the commander of the defensive area announced gratitude to the personnel of the formation. So the baptism of fire of the division took place.

By November 20, 1941, the division returned to Novorossiysk and took part in the Feodosia landing operation, which the Transcaucasian Front carried out jointly with the Black Sea Fleet. As a result of this operation, the Kerch Peninsula was cleared of the enemy and great support was provided to the besieged Sevastopol.

From July 25 to July 30, 1942, the division conducted active combat operations to destroy the Nazis who had crossed to the left bank of the Don. For successful military operations and the liberation of the village of Krasnoyarskaya, the commander of the North Caucasian Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budyonny announced gratitude to the personnel.

By August 4, 1942, the formation retreated to the northern bank of the Aksai River. From August 6 to August 10, his units fought incessant battles, trying to knock the enemy off the bridgeheads he had captured and preventing the offensive from developing. In these battles, the machine gunner Private Ermakov distinguished himself. On his combat account over 300 exterminated Nazis. In the name of Afanasy Ivanovich Ermakov, a modest and fearless machine gunner, a glorious list of Heroes of the Soviet Union was opened in the division. This title was awarded to Ermakov by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on November 5, 1942.

From September 1942, the division as part of the 64th Army took up defensive positions at the Gornaya Polyana - Elkhi line.

On January 10, 1943, the unit as part of the troops of the Stalingrad Front launched a decisive offensive to destroy the encircled enemy.

Until July 3, 1943, divisions of the division were part of the Bryansk Front near the city of Belev, Tula Region.

On July 12, units of the formation on improvised means began crossing the Oka. By the end of the day, the guards captured the bridgeheads and destroyed more than 1,500 enemy soldiers and officers, 45 firing points, 2 tanks, captured 35 Nazis. Among others, the personnel of the 76th division was noted by the gratitude of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

On September 8, the division moves out of the Orel region near Chernigov. For three days of continuous offensive, she advanced 70 kilometers and at dawn on September 20 approached the village of Tovstoles, three kilometers northeast of Chernigov, and then, having captured the city, continued the offensive to the west. By order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief dated September 21, 1943, No. 20, the division was thanked and given the honorary name Chernihiv.

On July 17, 1944, as part of the 1st Belorussian Front, the division launched an offensive northwest of Kovel. On July 21, the vanguards of the formation with fierce battles began to move north, towards Brest. On July 26, troops advancing from the north and south united 20-25 kilometers west of Brest. The enemy group was surrounded. The next day, the division proceeded to active operations to destroy the encircled enemy. For reaching the State border of the USSR and the liberation of the city of Brest, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

On January 25, 1945, as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front, the division's division blocked the exit from the city of Torun, surrounded by a 32,000-strong enemy group, with a swift march. The enemy grouping that defended Torun - a powerful stronghold on the Vistula - ceased to exist.

On March 23, the division stormed the city of Tsoppot, went to the Baltic Sea and turned its front to the south. By the morning of March 25, as part of the corps, the division captures the city of Oliva and rushes to Danzig. On March 30, the liquidation of the Danzig group was completed.

Having made a march from Danzig to Germany, on April 24, the division concentrated in the Kortenhaten area, 20 kilometers south of Stettin. At dawn on April 26, the formation crossed the Rondov Canal on a wide front and, breaking through the enemy’s defensive line, cleared the city of Preclav from the Nazis by the end of the day.

On May 2, the division captured the city of Güstrow, and on May 3, having traveled about 40 kilometers, cleared the cities of Karow and Buttsov from the enemy. The forward detachments reached the Baltic Sea and, on the outskirts of the city of Wismar, met with units of the airborne division of the Allied Expeditionary Army. On this, the 76th division ended the fighting against the Nazi troops and began to carry out patrol service on the coast.

During the war years, 50 fighters received the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union in the division, and over 12 thousand were awarded orders and medals.

Immediately after the war, the 76th division was redeployed from Germany to the territory of the Soviet Union, during the same period it was transformed into an airborne division.

In the spring of 1947, the division was redeployed to the city of Pskov. Thus began a new stage in the history of the connection.

From year to year the skill of paratroopers rose. If earlier the main task was training in parachute jumps, and actions on the battlefield were practiced without landing, then in 1948 company tactical exercises with practical landing began. In the summer of the same year, the first demonstration battalion tactical exercise with landing was held. He was led by the division commander, later the legendary commander of the Airborne Forces, General V.F. Margelov.

The personnel of the division took part in the exercises "Dnepr". The guards demonstrated high military training, earning the gratitude of the command.

With each subsequent year, the division increased its combat skills. In March 1970, the personnel of the division took part in the major combined-arms exercise "Dvina". The actions of the paratroopers were highly appreciated by the command.

High skill was shown by the guards-paratroopers of the formation at the exercises "Autumn-88".

In the period from 1988 to 1992, the division's paratroopers had to "extinguish" interethnic conflicts in Armenia and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, the Baltic States, Transnistria, North and South Ossetia.

In 1991, the 104th and 234th Guards Airborne Regiments were awarded the Pennant of the USSR Ministry of Defense "For Courage and Military Valor". Earlier, the division as a whole and its artillery regiment were awarded the Vympel of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

The events in Chechnya in 1994-1995 are written like a black page in the history of the division. 120 soldiers, sergeants, ensigns and officers died, having fulfilled their military duty to the end. For the courage and heroism shown in carrying out a special task to restore constitutional order on the territory of Chechnya, many guards paratroopers were awarded orders and medals, and ten officers were awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation. Two of them - the commander of the reconnaissance company of the Guards, Captain Yuri Nikitich and the commander of the Guards Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Pyatnitsky, were awarded this high rank posthumously.

On November 17, 1998, one of the oldest regiments of the division and in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - the 1140th twice Red Banner Artillery Regiment celebrated its 80th anniversary. Formed on the basis of the 22nd Artillery Battalion of the 22nd Iron Krasnodar Rifle Division, dating back to 1918, the Artillery Regiment has passed a glorious military path, 7 Heroes of the Soviet Union have been brought up in its ranks. The soldiers-artillerymen met their anniversary with high performance in combat training, the regiment was recognized as the best in the Airborne Forces.

From August 18, 1999, the personnel of the formation took part in the liquidation of illegal armed gangs on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan and the Chechen Republic as part of a regimental tactical group. During this period of time, the paratroopers of the unit had to take part in many military operations, including the liberation of the settlements of Karamakhi, Gudermes, Argun, and the blocking of the Vedeno Gorge. In most operations, the personnel were highly appreciated by the Joint Command of the Group of Forces in the North Caucasus, while showing courage and heroism.

Their memory will forever remain in our hearts.

The story of the illustrious compound continues. It is led by young guardsmen, successors of the military glory of the front-line soldiers. It is supplemented by their military deeds by soldiers, sergeants and officers, who today carry out their honorable service under the military order-bearing Banner of the division.

At present, contract servicemen (contract servicemen) are serving in the division.

Modern Airborne Forces

The fundamental changes in the military-political situation in the world that have taken place in recent years have led to a fundamental revision and refinement of views on ensuring the military security of the state, forms, methods and means of achieving it. Realistically assessing the position of Russia, the size of its territory, the length of borders, the current
According to the state of the Armed Forces, one should proceed from the need to have deployed groupings of troops that would be guaranteed to ensure the security of Russia in all strategic directions.

In this regard, the importance of mobile forces is sharply increasing, capable of moving by air in the shortest possible time to any strategic direction within the borders of the Russian Federation, providing cover for sections of the state border and facilitating the timely deployment
and the creation of a group of Ground Forces, to carry out tasks to suppress armed conflicts and stabilize the situation in remote regions of Russia. The Airborne Forces have a high degree of strategic and operational-tactical mobility. Their formations and units are completely airborne, autonomous in combat, they can be used on any terrain, parachute into areas inaccessible to ground forces. The Supreme High Command and the General Staff, using the Airborne Forces, can respond in a timely and flexible manner to any operational or strategic direction.

At present, the main tasks of the Air
landing troops are:
In peacetime- conducting independently peace-
creative operations or participation in multilateral
actions to maintain (establish) peace in re-
decision of the UN, the CIS in accordance with international
obligations of the Russian Federation.
During the threatened period- reinforcement of cover troops
state border, participation in securing
operational deployment of groupings of troops on
threatened directions, dropping parachutes
landings in hard-to-reach areas; increased security
and defense of important state facilities; struggle
with special enemy troops; assistance
other troops and security agencies in the fight against
terrorism and in other actions in order to ensure
national security of the Russian Federation.

During the course of hostilities- landing of various
composition and purpose of airborne assault forces and
conduct of hostilities behind enemy lines for
grip and hold, disable or destroy
niyu important objects, participation in the defeat or blocking
tracking enemy groupings that broke through
the operational depth of our troops, as well as in blocks
rovaniya and destruction of the landed air
landings.

The airborne troops are the basis on which the universal mobile forces can be deployed in the future. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief, in a number of documents and instructions, demanded that the Government and the Ministry of Defense, when developing military reform plans, provide for the development of the Airborne Forces. In particular, to ensure their staffing with personnel, weapons and equipment, readiness for immediate action, to prevent the loss of Russia's leading positions in the development of weapons and military equipment for the Airborne Forces. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief confirmed that the Airborne Forces are his reserve, the basis of forces for conducting peacekeeping operations.
The command and staff of the Airborne Forces have developed a plan for their further construction, which provides for the development of the Airborne Forces as an independent branch of the RF Armed Forces, capable of quickly bringing its units and subunits to combat readiness to perform tasks for their intended purpose. The main task of reforming the Airborne Forces is to optimize the organizational and staffing structure in accordance with the established strength. The main efforts are directed: firstly, to the modern training of future commanders of paratrooper units, the forge of which is the only Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces in the world. Secondly: to increase the combat capabilities of formations, units and subunits, their air mobility, the ability to conduct independent combat operations, both as airborne assault forces and as part of ground forces and peacekeeping force contingents. Priority attention will be given to parachute regiments and battalions, control systems, communications and intelligence, as well as equipping troops with new generation combat vehicles. In the future, it is envisaged to reform the Airborne Forces in two directions: to reduce the number of formations intended for parachute landing; to create, on the basis of some airborne formations and units, airborne assault formations and units for operations on helicopters, as well as special operations forces.

Now the "Blue Berets" form the combat basis of the present and future Russian army. The Airborne Forces are part of the mobile troops and are always ready for battle. The history of the Airborne Forces continues.

The composition and deployment of the Airborne Forces

Taken from http://ryadovoy.vif2.ru/militarizm/dds&antidds/dds_vdv_1a.htm

Text notes:

1. All separate brigades had the status of a connection and, therefore, their battalions (dshb) were called separate. They should not be confused with separate battalions that were not part of the brigades (odshb proper).

2. All airborne troops were guards troops. They, in fact, were formed on the basis of guards formations. In the text, their guard distinction and honorary titles are omitted.

Period 1946-68 Revival and formation.

Despite the generally unsuccessful experience of using our airborne assault forces in the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet leadership remained enviably faithful to the idea. (It is possible that the airborne assaults somewhat rehabilitated themselves in the Manchurian operation, where they showed themselves brilliantly.) Therefore, six months after the end of the war, a decision was made on the new formation of full-fledged airborne forces. A number of elite guards rifle divisions formed during the war years on the basis of guards airborne divisions are involved in this. It should be noted here that these divisions, despite the name, were reinforced rifle divisions in terms of organizational structure and weapons and were actually elite rifle divisions - a guard within a guard.

So, in June 1946 - by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the rare remaining "real" Airborne Forces were withdrawn from the Air Force (where they were from the moment of formation), included in the reserve of the Supreme High Command and subordinated directly to the Minister of the Armed Forces. Five guards were sent to form troops. rifle corps consisting of ten guards. rifle divisions (with the preservation of numbers, guards rank, honorary titles and military awards). In addition, the existing 1st and 12th air transport divisions were included in the troops and the 3rd, 6th and 281st divisions were formed.

Corps and divisions - Location and composition

8th Guards Neman Red Banner VDK, Polotsk

103rd Guards. Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Airborne Forces, Polotsk, Belarus

114th Guards. Vienna Red Banner Airborne Forces, Art. Borovukha Belarus

15th Guards VDK, Rakvere, Krechevits, Novoselytsya

104th Guards. Order of Kutuzov VDD, Narva and Kingisepp (Leningrad region, Estonia) - 332nd (Rakverne) and 349th (Yehvi) pdp

76th Guards. Chernihiv Red Banner Airborne Forces, Novgorod

37th Guards. Svirsky Red Banner VDK, pos. Monastery (Primorye)

98th Guards. Svir Red Banner Airborne Forces, Art. Pokrovka (Primorsky Territory)

99th Guards. Svirskaya Order of Kutuzov VDD, Art. Manzovka and Flour (Primorsky Territory) - 297th and 300th pdp

38th Guards Vienna VDK, Tula

106th Guards. Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Airborne Forces, Tula

105th Guards. Vienna Red Banner Airborne Forces, Kostroma

39th Guards. Vienna VDK, Belaya Tserkov

100th Guards. Svir Red Banner Airborne Forces, Belaya Tserkov

107th Guards. Pervomaiskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Airborne Forces, Chernihiv

Aviation transport units were located in the same areas of deployment.

In 1947, the 100th Airborne Division was relocated to the city of Kirovograd (Ukraine).

In the summer of 1948, the deployment of five more airborne forces began:

7th (Lithuania, 8th VDK),

11th (presumably on the territory of the Moscow Military District, 38th VDK),

13th (Transbaikalia, 37th VDK),

21st (Estonia, Valga, 15th Airborne Forces)

31st (Prikarpattya, 39th Airborne Forces) - each on the basis of one of the already existing parachute regiments. New divisions were distributed, one per corps.

The 2nd air transport division and a separate communications battalion of the Airborne Forces were also formed in the village. Bear Lakes near Moscow.

At the same time, all available forces formed the Airborne Army. Thus, the Airborne Forces had 5 corps headquarters, 15 (!!!) airborne and 6 air transport divisions. A total of 30 parachute regiments.

In April 1953, the Directorate of the Airborne Forces was reorganized into the Directorate of the Airborne Forces, all airborne divisions (except the 103rd and 114th) were transferred to a three-regiment structure [before that they had two regiments each]. Thus, the total number of parachute regiments reached 43.

All R. In the 1950s, due to the general reduction of the Armed Forces, the Airborne Forces were also reduced and reformed:

Con. 1955 - beginning. 1956 - the 11th, 21st, 100th and 114th Airborne Forces and the Airborne Forces Directorates were disbanded [Apparently, only the headquarters and units of the divisional set were disbanded, and the parachute regiments, at least some of them, were transferred to other divisions. The number of divisions was thus reduced to 11.

April 1955 - airborne aviation was withdrawn from the Airborne Forces and the VTA VVS was created on its basis

1956 - the Airborne Forces were transferred to the Main Command of the SV.

1959 - the 31st and 107th airborne divisions were disbanded

October 1960 - the 44th school was formed. VDD

1964 - The Airborne Forces were again withdrawn from the SV and subordinated directly to the Minister of Defense.

The troops gained combat experience in the suppression of the anti-Soviet rebellion in Hungary. The 7th Airborne Division as part of the 80th and 108th Airborne Regiment and the 31st Airborne Division as part of the 114th and 381st Airborne Regiment took part in those events (the rest of the regiments of divisions did not participate in hostilities, they did not leave the territory of the USSR).

Two divisions changed their places of permanent deployment: the 104th in 1960 was relocated to the city of Kirovobad (Azerbaijan), and the 105th in 1961 to Fergana (Uzbekistan) and Osh (Kyrgyzstan).

In addition to these divisions, in con. In the 1950s, it was decided to deploy another training division. Such a division - the 44th training airborne division, consisting of three airborne divisions (226th, 285th and 301st) and one UAP, was formed in the city of Ostrov, Pskov Region. in the autumn of 1960 and redeployed, after being formed in the PPD on the territory of Lithuania.

Thus, from 1960 to 1967, the Soviet Airborne Forces consisted of nine combat and one training airborne divisions of three regiments, i.e. there were 30 parachute regiments.

7th Guards VDD - Kaunas, Lithuania (PribVO) - 108th (Kaunas), 119th (Kapsukas) and 97th (Alytus) pdp

13th Guards. VDD- ZabVO- ???

76th Guards. VDD - Pskov region. (LenVO) - 104th (since 1959, Cherekha), 234th and 237th (both in the Pskov region) pdp

98th Guards. VDD- gg. Bolgrad and Chisinau (OdesVO) - 217th, 299th (both in Bolgrad) and 300th (Chisinau) pdp

99th Guards. VDD - Primorsky Territory (DalVO) - incl. 297th and 305th pdp

103rd Guards. VDD - Vitebsk (BelVO) - 317th, 350th and 357th (all in Vitebsk) pdp

104th Guards. VDD- Kirovobad (ZakVO) - 80th, 328th and 332nd checkpoints (all in Kirovobad)

106th Guards VDD - Tula, Ryazan (MVO) - 51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan) and 331st (Narofominsk) pdp

44th account. guards Airborne Forces - Lithuania (PBVO) - 226th, 285th and 301st updp

Period 1968-79 Rise.

At the end of the 1960s, the 13th (Transbaikalia) and 99th (Primorsky Territory) airborne divisions were disbanded and two (11th and 13th, respectively) separate air assault brigades were deployed at their base. B - 21st brigade in the WKVO. All new ovshbr are part of the SV GK. In 1968, the 98th Guards. the airborne division was transferred to the new PPD in OdVO (Bolgrad-Chisinau). Thus, from the late 60s to 1979, the Airborne Forces consisted of:

7th Guards Airborne Forces - Kaunas, Lithuania (PribVO) - 108th (Kaunas), 119th (Kapsukas), 97th airborne division (Alytus), and 1137th ap (Kalvaria).

76th Guards. VDD - Pskov region. (LenVO) - 104th (Cherekha), 234th, 237th (both in Pskov) pdp.

98th Guards. VDD-Bolgrad-Chisinau (OdVO) - 217th, 299th (both in Bolgrad) and 300th (Chisinau) pdp

103rd Guards. Airborne Forces - Vitebsk (BelVO) - 317th, 350th and 357th (all in Vitebsk) pdp

104th Guards. VDD- Kirovobad (ZakVO) - incl. 80th pdp

105th Guards. VDD- Fergana, Osh (SAVO) - 345th, 351st (both in Fergana) and 383rd (Osh) pdp

106th Guards. VDD - Tula, Ryazan (MVO) - 51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan) and 331st (Narofominsk) pdp

44th account. guards Airborne Forces - Jonava (Lithuania) - Composition: 301st (Gaizhunai), 226th and 285th (both in Jonava) updp, as well as UAP.

Period 1979-89. Apogee.

In 1979, the 105th Guards. VDD (345th, 351st and 383rd PDP; 730th obs, etc.) was disbanded. Only the 345th opdp (Fergana) was left. Thus, there were seven airborne divisions, incl. one educational; in total - 22 parachute regiments (of which 3 are training and 1 separate).
Number

7th Guards VDD

Location: headquarters and 108th (Kaunas), 119th (Kapsukas), 97th infantry regiment (Alytus), 1137th ap (Kalvaria).

44th account. guards VDD

Location: Gaižiūnai (Lithuania). Composition: 301st (Gaijunai), 226th and 285th (both in Rukla) UPDP, as well as UAP. In 1987 it was reorganized into the 242nd Training Center of the Airborne Forces.

76th Guards. VDD

Location: Pskov. Composition: 104th, 234th, 237th pdp.

98th Guards. VDD

Location: Bolgrad and Chisinau. Composition: 217th, 299th (both in Bolgrad) and 300th (Chisinau) pdp.

103rd Guards. VDD

Location: Vitebsk (Belarus). From 1979 to 1989 she fought in Afghanistan. Training units remained in Vitebsk. Composition: 317th, 350th and 357th infantry regiment (in Afghanistan there is also the 62nd detachment).

104th Guards. VDD

Location: Ganja (then - Kirovabad, Azerbaijan). Composition: 28th, 382nd, 227th pdp; since 1990, it may have also had the 10th pdp.

106th Guards. VDD

Location: headquarters and 51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan) and 331st infantry regiments (Narofominsk).

345th OPDP

Remained from the 105th Airborne Division. Location: Fergana (Uzbekistan), since December 1979 - in Afghanistan, Kabul district, Bagram. Served as a training center. After the withdrawal from Afghanistan, in 1990 it was renamed into the 10th opdp and transferred to the Transcaucasus and there, possibly, it was merged into the 104th airborne division.

387th OUPDP

Formed in Afghanistan on the funds of the 345th OPDP as a training unit. After the withdrawal from Afghanistan - disbanded.

171st OBR

Dislocation - town. Bear Lakes.

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Gaižiūnai (Lithuania)

The separate communications brigade (OBRS), which was part of the Airborne Forces, stationed in Bear Lakes, had, in addition to communications units, also a separate special intelligence company.

Period from 1989-1991 An association..

The most important events of this period were:

1989 - Renaming the air assault brigades into airborne as part of the High Command of the Ground Forces.

1988-89 - The withdrawal of airborne formations from Afghanistan with their corresponding restructuring and rearmament. (For example, in Afghanistan, the 103rd Airborne Division had a separate tank battalion, which, after the withdrawal, was disbanded.)

Transfer of the 103rd Airborne Division to the KGB PV.

1990 - Reassignment of airborne brigades from the High Command of the Ground Forces to the Command of the Airborne Forces.

The composition of the Airborne Forces took the following form:
Number

Location, composition and notes

7th Guards VDD

Location: headquarters and 108th (Kaunas), 119th (Mariampole-Kapsukas) and 97th infantry regiment (Alytus), 1137th ap (Kalvaria).

76th Guards. VDD

Location: Pskov. Composition: 104th, 234th, 237th pdp.

98th Guards. VDD

Location: Bolgrad and Chisinau (since 1968). Composition: 217th, 299th (both in Bolgrad) and 300th pdp and ap (Chisinau).

103rd Guards. VDD

Location: Vitebsk (Belarus). Composition: 317th, 350th and 357th pdp. From January 1990 to August 1991 - as part of the KGB of the USSR. During this period it was called the 103rd Guards. VDD PV KGB.

104th Guards. VDD

Location: Ganja (then - Kirovabad, Azerbaijan). Composition: 28th, 382nd, 227th pdp and?

106th Guards. VDD

Location: headquarters and 51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan) and 331st infantry regiments (Narofominsk).

242nd Training Center of the Airborne Forces

Location: Gaižiūnai (Lithuania). Composition: 301st (Gaijunai), 226th and 285th (both in Rukla) updp, as well as UAP.

345th Guards. OPDP

After the withdrawal from Afghanistan, in 1990 he was transferred to the Western Military District and later the 10th OPDP was additionally deployed at its base.

11th Guards. VDBR

Location - Mogocha. ZabVO.

13th Guards. VDBR

Dislocation - In 1994, she was transferred from Usuriisk (Far Eastern Military District) to Orenburg. PurVO. In 1997 - disbanded.

14th Guards VDBR

Location - Cottbus (GDR), ZGV. In 1990, it was bred to Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata region).

21st Guards VDBR

Location - Kutaisi. ZakVO.

23rd Guards VDBR

Location - Kremenchug. QUO.

35th Guards. VDBR

Location - Kapchegay. TurkVO.

36th Guards. VDBR

Location - pos. Garbolovo (Vsevolozhsk district, Leningrad region). LenVO.

37th Guards. VDBR

Location - Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad region). PribVO.

38th Guards. VDBR

Location - Brest (Belarus). BVI.

39th Guards VDBR

Dislocation - Khyriv, (Lviv region). Since 1990, when transferred to the Airborne Forces, it was reorganized into the 224th Training Center of the Airborne Forces. PrikVO.

40th Guards. VDBR

Location: Nikolaev (Ukraine). OdVO.

56th Guards. VDBR

Deployment - from Afghanistan, in 1988, was withdrawn to Iolotan (Turkmenistan). SAVO.

83rd Guards VDBR

In 1990, she was relocated from Magdagachi to Ussuriysk (Primorsky Territory). DVO.

95th Guards. VDBR

Dislocation - Zhytomyr (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine). QUO.

100th Guards. VDBR

Location - Abakan, Krasnoyarsk Territory.

171st OBR

Dislocation - town. Bear Lakes, MVO

332nd ensign school

Gaizhunai (Lithuania), PrikVO

Thus, on ser. 1991, there were a total of (deployed, spares do not count): 22 parachute regiments (including 1 separate and 3 training) and 15 airborne brigades (including 1 training). In addition, the 38th communications brigade (renamed 171st), the Ryazan military school, and others remained.

The strength of the Airborne Forces on:

Mid-1991 - 77,036 people, including 20 generals 11,445 officers

At the end of 1991 - early. 1992, in connection with the collapse of the USSR, difficult times came for the Armed Forces. They also spoke to the Airborne Forces. With a landslide overall reduction of the Armed Forces, the Airborne Forces were no less landslide reduced. On the basis of the Soviet Airborne Forces located on their territory, such countries as Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan formed their own troops of a similar type. The idea of ​​the existence of some "strategic forces" common to the post-Soviet states, in which the airborne forces were supposed to play the main role, did not stand the test of time for half a year and quickly died. An idea of ​​this situation is provided by the following country data.

7th Guards VDD-(since 1998 - DShD)

Completely withdrawn from Lithuania in August 1993 and redeployed to Novorossiysk. At the same time, the 237th RPD was disbanded, and the 119th RPD was transferred to the 106th Airborne Division. Instead, they transferred the 345th opdp. In 1993, for a short time (2 months), the division was given the 901st Ordb. In the summer of 1998: the 97th and 345th infantry regiments were disbanded, and the newly formed 247th infantry fighting regiment was introduced in Stavropol. Thus, in the composition of the division for 1999 there were: 108th Guards. Kuban Kaz. pdp (Novorossiysk); 247th Guards. kaz. dshp (Stavropol) and 1137th Guards. art. regiment (Anapa). It is possible that - the 10th pdp (in Abkhazia) is also part of it.

76th Guards. VDD

The location remained unchanged - the district of Pskov. The composition includes: 104th, 234th and 237th pdp, 1140th ap. In 1998, it was planned to reorganize into the DSHD.

98th Guards. VDD

The forces stationed in Ukraine are divided between Russia and Ukraine - 50/50. Almost all equipment in Chisinau was left to Moldova. What was left to the Russian Federation was withdrawn to Kostroma (217th RPT) and Abakan (300th RPT). Abakansky, approximately, in 1998, was disbanded, and on the basis of the 331st (from the 106th Airborne Division) and the 217th Airborne Division, the division was re-formed. Current deployment: headquarters and the 331st infantry fighting unit in the region of the city of Ivanovo (Teikovsky district, Ivanovo region), and the 217th infantry fighting unit in Kostroma.

103rd Guards. VDD

Completely ceded to Belarus in 1992.

104th Guards. VDD

Bred in the Volga region (Ulyanovsk); at the same time, a significant part of the equipment was left to Azerbaijan. It was disbanded in 1996, and the 31st airborne brigade was deployed on its basis, and part of the equipment was transferred to the 98th airborne division.

106th Guards. VDD

One of the regiments (331st) was transferred to the 98th Airborne Division, and the 119th Airborne Division from the 7th Airborne Division arrived instead. The final composition: the headquarters and the 51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan) and 119th infantry regiment (Narofominsk), as well as the 1182nd ap (Efremov).

In February-September 1993, he was transferred to the city of Omsk in full force. The 301st UPDP was soon disbanded.

45th ORP Special Forces

Formed in 1993-94. on the basis of two separate rb spn - 218th and 901st.

10th Guards opdp

Peacekeeping. It was formed in May 1998, in Gudauta (Abkhazia) on the basis of the disbanded 345th RPD of the 7th Airborne Division. Non-standard. The recruitment was carried out on the basis of rotation from other units of the Airborne Forces. (In the summer of 2001, a decision was made to disband this regiment).

1st Guards OVDB

It was formed in 1994 on the basis of the 331st PDP as a peacekeeping force to be sent to Slavonia - and is stationed there to this day. time.

31st Guards OVDBr

Formed in 1996 on the basis of the disbanded 104th Airborne Division. It is deployed in Ulyanovsk. Has battalions with their own numbers - 91st, 54th ...

11th Guards. OVDBr

In the beginning. 90s transferred to Ulan-Ude. In 1997-98 - disbanded.

13th Guards. OVDBr

In 1994 she was transferred from Ussuriysk to Orenburg. In 1997 - disbanded.

14th Guards OVDBr

It was bred from Cottbus to Alma-Ata. Transferred to Kazakhstan in 1992

21st Guards OVDBr

From Kutaisi, in 1992, bred to Stavropol. In 1993 it received the name "Cossack". In the summer of 1998, it was reorganized into the 247th Airborne Regiment, introduced into the 7th Guards. DShD.

23rd Guards OVDBr

Location: Kremenchug. Withdrawn to Ukraine in 1992.

35th Guards. OVDBr

Stationed in the city of Kapchegay, it was transferred to Kazakhstan in 1992.

36th Guards. OVDBr

Location: pos. Garbolovo (Vsevolozhsk district, Leningrad region). LenVO. Disbanded in 1995-96.

37th Guards. OVDBr

Location: Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad region). PribVO. Disbanded in 1995-96

38th Guards. OVDBr

Location: Brest (Belarus). BelVO. Withdrawn to Belarus in 1992.

39th Guards OVDBr

Location: Khyrov, (Starosamborsky district, Lviv region). Since 1990, when transferred to the Airborne Forces, it was reorganized into the 224th Training Center of the Airborne Forces. Withdrawn to Ukraine in 1992.

40th Guards. OVDBr

Location: Nikolaev (Ukraine). OdVO. Withdrawn to Ukraine in 1992.

56th Guards. OVDBr

Since 1993 - pos. Podgora (Volgodonsk district, Rostov region). SKVO. In July 1998, it was reorganized into the DSHP and introduced into the 20th MSD of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region.

83rd Guards OVDBr

Location: Ussuriysk, since 1990 (Primorsky Territory) Far East. Apparently disbanded in 1998. It is possible that the 635th opdb was formed on its basis and exists.

95th Guards. OVDBr

Location: Zhytomyr (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine). QUO. Went to Ukraine.

100th Guards. OVDBr

Location: Abakan (Krasnoyarsk Territory) Siberian Military District. In 1996, it was merged with the 300th opdp. Disbanded in May 1998

38th OBR

Stationed in the village. Bear Lakes. In the 90s. reorganized into the 38th OPS Airborne Forces.

332nd ensign school

In 1992 relocated to Mitino (Moscow region)

UKRAINE

On the basis of the units and formations of the Airborne Forces remaining after the division in 1992-93. Airborne Troops were formed. For some time, the names of the brigades had the addition "SpN" - special assignments, although they were not such.

Location - Bolgrad (Odessa region). Formed in 1992 on the basis of the Soviet 98th Guards. VDD. It had in its composition, initially two, and then three (1st, 25th and 45th) ambergris.

23rd OAMBR

It was formed on the basis of the 23rd airborne brigade of the USSR Airborne Forces without changing its location - the city of Kremenchug (Poltava region). And on 07/01/95 transferred to the Border Troops and reorganized into the 23rd airmobile. neg. special forces (AMOSpN) of the Border Troops of Ukraine.

6th OAMBR

It was formed in 1995 on the basis of the 224th Training Center of the Airborne Forces of the USSR without changing its location - the city of Khyrov (Lvov region, Starosamborsky district). In the beginning. 1999 reorganized into the 80th oamp.

80th OAMP

Until 1999 - 6th Oambr.

40th OAMBR

It was formed in 1992 on the basis of the 40th airborne brigade of the USSR Airborne Forces without changing its location - the district of Nikolaev. In the beginning. 1999 reorganized into the 79th oamp.

79th OAMP

Until 1999 - 40th Oambr.

95th OAMBR

It was formed on the basis of the 95th airborne brigade of the USSR Airborne Forces without changing its place of deployment - the outskirts of the city of Zhytomyr.

BELARUS

On the basis of the existing airborne formations, the Mobile Forces were formed as part of the so-called. "mobile brigades" - in fact - airmobile or airborne.

Remained from the Airborne Forces of the USSR. In 1996, it was disbanded, and two AMBRs were deployed at its base.

317th Motorized Brigade

G. Vitebsk. Deployed on the basis of the 317th airborne infantry regiment of the 103rd airborne division.

350th Motorized Brigade

G. Vitebsk. Deployed on the basis of the 350th airborne infantry regiment of the 103rd airborne division.

38th Motorized Brigade

Formed on the basis of the 38th airborne brigade of the USSR without changing the PPD - Brest.

KAZAKHSTAN

On the basis of the existing formations of the Soviet Airborne Forces, their own Airborne Forces were formed.

35th OVDbr

Deployed on the basis of the 35th brigade of the USSR Airborne Forces without changing the PPD - town. Kapchegay. The number is conjectural.

14th OVDbr

Deployed on the basis of the 14th brigade of the USSR Airborne Forces without changing the PPD - the district of Alma-Ata (Almaty). This brigade was withdrawn from Cottbus (GDR). The number is conjectural.

In total, more than 18 thousand people, 5216 units of military and other equipment, 60.5 thousand tons of ammunition and stocks of material resources. The redeployed formations and units lost 58% of training facilities: 9 regular and 10 non-standard training grounds were left in their former locations.

In mid-1998, the number of Russian Airborne Forces was 32,000 people. Staffing - up to 75%.

By the middle of 2000 there was:

Russia - four divisions (76th airborne division, 106th airborne division, 98th airborne division and 7th airborne division), one (31st) brigade, two regiments (45th opspn and 38th ops) and a training center (242nd UTs). (In addition, in Yugoslavia there is the 1st consolidated brigade).

7th Guards DSHD - Novorossiysk - 108th Guards. kaz. Kuban PDP (Novorossiysk); 247th Guards. PDP (Stavropol) and 1137 (1141-?) Guards. ap (Anapa).

76th Guards. VDD-Pskov- 104th, 234th and 237th pdp, 1140th ap.

98th Guards. VDD- Ivanovo- 331st (Kostroma), 299th and 217th (Novo-Talitsy village, Ivanovo district) pdp, 1065th app.

106th Guards. VDD-Tula- 51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan) and 119th (Narofominsk) pdp.

242nd UC - Omsk 226th and 285th updp.

31st Guards OVDBr-Ulyanovsk- Includes battalions with "own" numbers. All R. The 90s were planned to be deployed in a division.

1st OVDbr (consolidated) - on the territory of the former Yugoslavia - In the Peacekeeping Forces.

10th OPDP - Gudauta (Georgia-Abkhazia) - In the Peacekeeping Forces. In July 2001, the disbandment of the regiment began.

45th ORP SpN - district of Moscow - Dislocation: 218th orb spn in Bear Lakes, and 901st orb spn - in Kubinka.

38th OBR - Bear Lakes

The total number is approx. 40.5 thousand people (Staffing is 90-95%). In 2001-02 it is planned to reduce the number by 5.5 thousand, namely, to disband two RAPs (10th and 237th).

Ukraine - one division (1st AMD), one separate brigade (95th ambr) and two separate regiments (79th and 80th oamp).

Belarus - three separate (38th, 317th and 350th), so-called. mobile brigade.

COMPLETE.

The most healthy and physically developed draft contingent was allocated for the recruitment of the l / s of the Airborne Forces. High selection requirements (height - not less than 175 cm; physical development - not lower than average; education - not lower than average, no medical restrictions, etc.) led to high opportunities for combat training.

The training of officers was carried out at first in two, and since the 70s, in one - the Ryazan school. In addition, the officer corps was staffed with officer graduates from other schools, especially for the positions of commanders of special units - artillery, sapper, automobile, communications, etc.

RVVDKU (RVVDI)

G. Ryazan

Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. Lenin Komsomol (RVVDKU). Now - Ryazan Airborne Institute (RVDI) them. V. Margelov

AAVVDKU

Alma-Ata

Alma-Ata Higher Airborne Command School. Reorganized into combined arms in the 70s. Went to Kazakhstan in 1992.

332nd Ensign School

G. Mitino (Moscow region)

Valid.

ADDITIONS and NOTES.

1) Supplement for the 7th division. Formed in 1948 on the basis of the 322nd RAP from the 103rd Guards. VDD 8th VDK. The division included: 108th RAP (Kaunas); 119th RAP (Marijampole); 1137th AP (the city of Marijampole then - in the city of Kalvaria).

Since 1954 attached to the 80th RAP (Gaijunai). In 1959, the 80th RAP was transferred to the 104th Guards. VDD (Kirovabad-Ganja); and in return they transferred the 97th RAP from the 76th Guards. VDD. In the 70s. the division had: 108th RAP (Kaunas) 119th RAP (Kapsukas) 97th RAP (Alytus) 1137th AP (Kalvaria).

2) Regarding the transfer of airborne units to the KGB ...

I can say that it took place. The 103rd Guards was transferred to the composition of the KGB PV. VDD, which became known as Guards. airborne division of the border troops! The servicemen were dressed in border uniforms, and, due to unrest among the rank and file, it was decided to introduce in the border troops a uniform similar to a vede: he takes a bright green color and a green vest. However, the resigning soldiers were constantly trying to get landing berths.

The reason for the resubordination, apparently, lies in the internal political situation of that time. Constant unrest on national grounds and the lack of reliable troops to restore order led to the need to use the most trained Soviet infantry - paratroopers from the Airborne Forces and the Airborne Troops - in restoring order. (The operational units of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were then too small and were by no means as prepared as they are now, combat discipline was lame and there was no specific fighting spirit ...). In general, if we take into account the role of the KGB in provoking nationalist uprisings, and even in the covert leadership of their course, then such a resubordination looks like a mockery.

3) The 901st Odshb (since 1989 - Ordb) was withdrawn from Mongolia, in 1993 - temporarily subordinated to the 7th Airborne Forces, from 1994 - to the 901st Airborne Special Operations Division and introduced into the 45th OPSpN Airborne Forces.

4) The 218th obspn was formed on July 25, 1992, and before that - a special intelligence company as part of the 171st / 38th OBR in Medvezhye Ozyory. In 1993, the 45th ORP of the Special Forces deployed at its base.

5) 103rd Guards. VDD had regiments with the following honorary titles:

317th Guards Ord. Alexander Nevsky RAP

350th Guards Ord. Suvorov RAP

357th Guards Ord. Suvorov PDP.

airborne troops
The Independent Directorate of the Airborne Troops of the Red Army, which supervised the airborne corps of the brigade organization and other airborne forces created in the spring of 1941, was created on June 12, 1941.
During the Great Patriotic War, the use of formations formed as part of the Airborne Forces was determined by the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, and most of them, heading to the front, were reorganized into rifle divisions.
In October 1944, from four divisions returned from the active army, and airborne formations that were in the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, a Separate Guards Airborne Army was created as part of the 37th Svirsky, 38th and 39th Guards Airborne airborne corps (each of which included three airborne divisions).
At the end of December 1944, the Separate Guards Airborne Army, which united most of the formations of the airborne troops, was transformed into the combined arms 9th Guards Army.
The remaining airborne formations (first of all, separate guards airborne brigades) and the Office of the Commander of the Airborne Forces were subordinate to the commander of the Red Army Air Force.
The 9th Guards Army included the following formations (underlined remained in the Airborne Forces in the post-war period):
37th Guards Svir Rifle Corps:
- 98th Guards Svir SD;
- 99th Guards Svir SD;
- 103rd Guards Rifle Division (b. 13th Guards Airborne Division of the second formation, deployed at the base
3rd Guards vdbr);
38th Guards Rifle Corps:
- 104th Guards Rifle Division (b. 11th Guards Airborne Division);
- 105th Guards Rifle Division (b. 12th Guards Airborne Division);
- 6th Guards Rifle Division (former 16th Guards Airborne Division);
39th Guards Rifle Corps:
-100th Guards Svir SD;
-107th Guards May Day cd;
- 114th Guards Rifle Division (b. 14th Guards Airborne Division of the second formation, deployed at the base
8th Guards vdbr);
In February 1945, the 9th Guards Army was introduced into the active army with the task of strengthening the offensive capabilities of the Soviet troops in Hungary. Not participating in repulsing the counterattack of German troops in the area of ​​Lake Balaton, the formations of the 9th Guards Army were put into hostilities in mid-March 1945 and completed the Great Patriotic War
war in the Vienna and Prague offensive operations.
In addition to the divisions transferred to the 9th Guards A, in the active army, divisions also fought as part of rifle corps, which retained the names of the airborne. These were airborne divisions formed at the end of 1942 and operating at the front since February 1943: 1st Guards. Zvenigorod-Bucharest, 2nd guards. Proskurovskaya, 3rd Guards. Umanskaya, 4th Guards. Ovruch. 5th Guards Zvenigorodskaya, 6th Guards. Kremenchug-Znamenskaya, 7th Guards. Cherkasy: 9th Guards. Poltava, 10th Guards. Krivoy Rog.
At the end of the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War, part of the airborne divisions operating at the front as part of rifle corps (in particular, the 4th Guards Ovruchskaya and the 7th Guards Cherkasy Airborne Forces) returned to the subordination of the airborne troops, and part was reorganized (in particular, on the basis of the 9th Guards Poltava Airborne Division, which remained part of the troops of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, the 14th Guards Poltava Mechanized Division was formed).
In June 1946, in accordance with a decision taken at the highest level, the leadership of the airborne troops was entrusted to the command and staff, formed on the basis of the command and staff of the 9th Guards Army (transformed into the Airborne Army), and the airborne troops in general, they were withdrawn from the Air Force and subordinated directly to the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
In the first post-war period, the army (Airborne Army) and corps (in particular, the 38th Guards Vienna Airborne Corps) units remained in the leadership of the airborne troops, and then the airborne divisions began to report directly to the Command of the Airborne Forces.
In October 1956, the parachute regiments of the 7th and 31st Guards Airborne Divisions were involved in the operation of the Soviet troops in Hungary, and in August 1968, the 7th Guards Airborne Division actively participated in the operation "Danube "on the entry of troops of the Warsaw Pact countries into Czechoslovakia. The 99th Guards Airborne Svirskaya Red Banner Division was stationed in the Far Eastern Military District (see FEB)
In the 1980s As part of the airborne troops, in addition to separate brigades, there were 7 airborne divisions, of which one, in Lithuania, was training (besides it, another airborne division was stationed in Lithuania).
Since the places of permanent deployment of the divisions remaining in the Airborne Forces in the post-war period were quite stable (which, among other circumstances, was due to the "binding" to the airfield network of military transport aviation), unofficial names were assigned to combat divisions;
"Kaunasskaya" - 7th Guards. Cherkasy Airborne Division;;
"Pskovskaya" - 76th Guards. Chernihiv Airborne Division;
"Kishinevskaya" - 98th Guards. Svirskaya airborne division;
"Vitebsk" - 103rd Guards. vdd;
"Kirovobadskaya" - 104th airborne division;
"Tulskaya" - 106th Guards. vdd.
Since the end of December 1979, the 103rd "Vitebsk" division, stationed in the area of ​​​​the Kabul airfield, was a connection of a limited continent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. In addition, a separate parachute regiment was stationed in Afghanistan (see "VIZH", 1993, No. 11, p.33).
In the late 1980s. the training division in Lithuania was transformed into the 272nd Guards Training Center of the Airborne Forces, and the 103rd Guards "Vitebsk" Airborne Division, which returned from Afghanistan to Belarus, at the end of 1989 in connection with preparations for the conclusion of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe transferred to the border troops of the KGB of the USSR (The structure and armament of the 103rd airborne division remained "regular" for an airborne formation and in independent Belarus it became, retaining the numbering, an airborne division subordinate directly to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus).
After the transfer of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division in the zone "to the Urals" to the KGB of the USSR, on November 19, 1990, the Soviet airborne troops had 2712 armored combat vehicles (BMD, BTR-D), 846 vehicles based on BMD and BTR-D, 595 self-propelled guns, guns and mortars.
The divisions of the Airborne Forces in terms of numbers were kept in a state close to deployed (a little more than 7.2 thousand people, including about 700 officers). In 1991, they numbered about 6 thousand people. personnel personnel each. The number of personnel of the Airborne Forces as a whole was about 75 thousand people (In the first half of the 1990s, after some reduction - 68 thousand people).
Compared to the 1970s, there have been certain changes in the parachute regiments. If earlier the regiment was based on 3 airborne battalions, self-propelled artillery, mortar and anti-aircraft batteries, then with the arrival of self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona" and vehicles based on the BTR-D (with ATGM "Konkurs" and MANPADS "Strela"), all the equipment of the Airborne Forces was unified on a single tracked chassis BMD / BTR-D, and the need for mortars, given the fire capabilities of the Nona self-propelled guns, disappeared. As for the latest BMD-3 airborne combat vehicles, the serial vehicles entered the troops after 1991, when they were armed with a battalion of one of the regiments of the 76th Guards Airborne Division.

HQ VDV - Moscow
58th Separate Military Transport Aviation Squadron (Ryazan): 3 Mi-8s

171st separate communications brigade (in the Moscow region)
Ryazan Higher Airborne School: 136BMD (20 BMD-2, 116BMD-1), 10 BTR-D; 3-2S9 "Nona", 1 D-30; 3 BTR-ZD, 1 BTR-RD, 3 BMD-1KSh
242nd Guards Training Center
(Gaižunai, Lithuania)
Management: 1 R-440 odb

The 4th (subsequently - the 44th) Guards Airborne Ovruch Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division in the post-war period was a linear and training unit of the airborne troops, in the last period of deployment of Soviet troops in Lithuania - the 242nd Guards training airborne center.
Training guards parachute regiments of the 242nd guards. The training centers were stationed in Gaizhunai, and the training artillery regiment in Prenau, having the following weapons:
226th updp - 100 BMD-1, 10 BTR-D;
285th updp - 100 BMD (28 BMD-2, 62 BMD-1), 10 BTR-D;
301st updp - 43 BMD-1, 90 BTR-D; 2 BTR-RD;
1120th an - 22 - 2S9 "Nona", 9 D-; BTR-D, 1 BMD-1; 12BTR~RD,4 1V119.
The existing rapse as part of the training center of the 743rd UPDP was curtailed, like other parts, with the exception of the following:
- 367th separate training anti-aircraft missile and artillery division (Gayzhunay): 3 BTR-ZD, 1 BTR-D
- 45th separate training repair and restoration battalion (Gayzhunay): 1 BTR-D
- 148th separate training battalion for the transportation of airborne equipment (Kaunas): 1 BMD-1.1 BTR-D
In total, on 11/19/90, the 242nd Guards. UC has:
245 BMDs (38 BMD-2s, 207 BMD-1s);
157 BTR-D;
22 self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona";
14 BTR-RD (ATGM carriers);
3 BTR-ZD (MANPADS carriers);
9 guns D-30.

7th Guards Airborne Cherkasy Division (Kaunas)
Division Command: 8 BMD-2, 12 BTR-D; 1 BTR-ZD, 1 MBD-1KSh
In the second half of 1942, the 5th Airborne Corps was formed in the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters, in December 1942 it was reorganized into the 7th Guards Airborne Division.
In early February 1943, the 7th Guards. the airborne division was sent to the North-Western Front, where it fought heavy battles as part of the 1st shock army, and in August 1943 was transferred to the Kharkov region as part of the 52nd army. Later, as part of this and the 4th Guards Armies, the 7th Guards. the airborne division participated in hostilities in Ukraine, in Romania, Hungary and completed its combat path in Austria, in the region of Amstetten.
In the post-war period, the regiments of the 7th Guards Airborne Division Cherkasy were stationed in Lithuania. In October 1956, two regiments of the 7th Guards. airborne troops were transferred by aircraft to Hungary, where they actively participated in the hostilities of the Soviet troops in August 1968. The 7th Guards. The airborne division was involved in Operation Danube to bring troops from the Warsaw Pact countries into Czechoslovakia.
97th (Alytus), 108th (Kaunas), 119th (Mariampole) Guards Airborne Regiments: in each regiment: 110 BMD (40 BMD-2, 70 BMD-1), 32 BTR-D; 18-2S9 "Nona", 6 BTR-RD, 13 BTR-ZD; 8 BMD-1KSh, 10-1V119
1141st Guards Artillery Regiment (Kalvaria): 18-2S9 "Nona", 6 D-30s; 6 BTR-D; 18 BTR-RD,
3 BTR-ZD; 3 BMD-1KSh, IO-1B119
744th separate anti-aircraft missile and artillery division (Kaunas): 4 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh

185th Separate Military Transport Aviation Squadron (Kaunas): 1 Mi-8
In addition, in the 7th Guards. vdd included:
- 143rd separate engineer-sapper battalion (Kaunas): 1 BTR-D, 1 BMD-1KSh
- 743rd separate communications battalion (Kaunas): 3 BTR-ZD, 10 BMD-1KShch, 3 R-440odb 6th separate repair and restoration battalion (Kaunas): 1 BTR-D
- 1692nd separate road maintenance battalion
- 1681st separate battalion of material support
- 313th separate medical battalion
In total, on 11/19/90, the 7th Guards. VDD had:
328 BMD (138BMD-2, 210 BMD-1);
129 BTR-D;
72 self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona";
36 BTR-RD (carriers 1GTUR);
47 BTR-ZD (carriers of MANPADS);
6 guns D-30.

76th Guards Airborne Chernihiv Red Banner Division (Pskov)
The unit was formed in August-September 1939 in the North Caucasus Military District as the 157th Rifle Division. During the Great Patriotic War, the division participated in the defense of Odessa, fought in the Crimea, and after the evacuation in May 1942 from the Kerch Peninsula, the formation, the few surviving soldiers of which retained their battle flags, was staffed again within a month.
From the beginning of June 1942, the 157th Rifle Division fought in the Rostov region, participated in further hostilities near Stalingrad, incl. in defeating the enemy directly in the city. By order of the NPO of the USSR dated 03/01/43, the formation was transformed into the 76th Guards Rifle Division.
Later, as part of the 61st Army, and from March 1944 - as part of the 114th Rifle Corps of the 70th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, 76th Guards. sd participated in the summer 1943 offensive of Soviet troops in the Orel region, liberated Chernigov, Brest, Warsaw and completed the combat path of the Great Patriotic War in Wismar on the Baltic coast of Germany.
In the winter of 1945-46 76th Guards. The SD returned to the territory of the Soviet Union, to the Leningrad Military District, where it was subsequently reorganized into a formation of airborne troops.
According to the combat path of the connection, the regiments of the 76th Guards. the airborne forces were the most fought in the Great Patriotic War units in the post-war Soviet airborne forces.
104th (Pskov), 234th Order of Kutuzov (Pskov), 237th Torun Red Banner (Pskov) Guards Airborne Regiments:
in each regiment: 101 BMDs (31 BMD-2s, 70 BMD-1s), 23 BTR-Ds (29 units in the 237th BMD); 18-2S9 "Nona", 6 BTR-RD, 13 BTR-ZD (in the 237th pdp - 7 units), 8 BMD-1KSh, 10-1V119

1140th Guards Artillery twice Red Banner Regiment (Pskov): 18-2С9 "Nona",
6 D-30; 18 BTR-RD, 3 BTR-ZD; 3 BMD-1KSh, 4-1V119, and 6 BTR-D
290th Separate Anti-Aircraft Rocket-Artillery Battalion (Pskov): 4 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh

242nd Separate Military Transport Aviation Squadron (Pskov): 1 Mi-8
As part of the 76th Guards. vdd included:
- 83rd separate guards engineer-sapper order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky battalion (Pskov): And BTR-D, 1 BMD-1KSh
- 728th Separate Guards Order of the Red Star Communications Battalion (Pskov): 3 BTR-D,
10BMD-1KSh, ZR-440odb

7th separate repair and restoration battalion (Pskov): 1 BTR-D
- 608th separate battalion of road support
- 1682nd separate battalion of material support 82nd separate medical battalion

In total, on 11/19/90, the 76th Guards Airborne Division had: 3L2 BMD (93BMD-2, 219BMD-1); 108 BTR-D; 72 SAU2S9 "Nona"; 36 BTR-RD (ATGM carriers); 41 BTR-ZD (MANPADS carriers); 6 guns D-30.

98th Guards Airborne Svir Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division (Bolgrad)
Division Command: 9 BMD-2, 12 BTR-D; 1 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh, 1-1V119
In December 1943, the 13th Guards Airborne Division was formed in the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, which was reorganized in January 1944 into the 98th Guards Rifle Division of the 37th Guards Rifle Corps. In June-July 1944, formations of the 37th Guards. sk fought as part of the Karelian Front, and the further combat path of the 98th Guards Division was connected with the Separate Guards Airborne - 9th Guards Army.
In the post-war period, the regiments of the 98th Guards Airborne Svir Division were deployed in the Moldavian SSR and in the south of the Odessa region, on the territory of the OdVO.
217th (Bolgrad), 299th (Bolgrad), 300th (Chisinau) Guards Airborne Regiments:
in each regiment: 101 BMD (37 BMD-2, 64 BMD-1), 23 BTR-D; 18-2S9 "Nona" (20 units in the 299th pdp); 6 BTR-RD, 13 BTR-ZD; 8 BMD-1KSh, 10-1V119

1065th Guards Artillery Regiment (Merry Kut): 18-2S9 "Nona", 8 D-30s; 6 BTR-D,
18 BTR-RD, 3 BTR-ZD; 3 BMD-1KSh, 4-IB119
100th separate anti-aircraft missile and artillery division (Bolgrad): 3 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh 243rd separate military transport aviation squadron (Bolgrad): 1 Mi-8
In addition, in the 98th Guards. vdd included:
- 112th separate engineer-sapper battalion (Bolgrad): 11 BTR-D, 1 BMD-1KSh
- 674th separate communications battalion (Bolgrad): 3 BTR-D, 10 BMD-1KSh, 3 R-440odb
- 15th separate repair and restoration battalion (Bolgrad): 1 BTR-D
- 613th separate battalion of road support
- 1683rd separate battalion of material support
- 176th separate medical battalion
In total, on 11/19/90, the 98th Guards. airborne division had: 312 BMD (120 BMD-2, 192 EMD-1);
102 BTR-D;
74 SAU2S9 "Nona";
36 BTR-RD (ATGM carriers);
47 BTR-ZD (carriers of MANPADS);
8 guns D-30.

104th Guards Airborne Division (Ganja)

Division Command: 9 BMD-1, 12 BTR-D; 1 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh, 1-1V119
In December 1944 January 1945. The 11th Guards Airborne Division, formed somewhat earlier in the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters, was reorganized into the 104th Guards Rifle Division of the 38th Guards Rifle Corps of the 9th Guards Army, with whose troops it completed the combat path of the Great Patriotic War in Czechoslovakia .
In the post-war period, the regiments of the 104th Guards Airborne Division were stationed in the Azerbaijan SSR, in the city of Kirovobad (Ganja), on the territory of the ZakVO.
328th (Ganja), 337th (Ganja), 345th (Ganja) Guards Airborne Regiments: in each regiment: 101 BMD (31 BMD-2, 70 BMD-1), 23 BTR-D (in 345th pdp - 28 units); 18-2S9 "Nona"; 6 BTR-RD, 13 BTR-ZD (in the 345th pdp - 8 units); 9 BMD-1KSh (in the 345th pdp - 8 units), 10-1V119
1080 - Guards Artillery Regiment (Shamkhor): 18-2S9 "Nona", 6-D-ZO; 6 BTR-D, 18 BTR-RD, 3 BTR-ZD, 2 BMD-1KSh, 10-1VP9
103rd Separate Anti-Aircraft Rocket and Artillery Battalion (Ganja): 4 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh
116th Separate Military Transport Aviation Squadron (Ganja): 1 Mi-8
In addition, the 104th Guards Airborne Division included:
- 132nd separate engineer-sapper battalion (Ganja): 11 BTR-D, 1 BMD-1KSh
- 729th separate communications battalion (Ganja): 3 BTR-D, 10 BMD-1KSh, 2 R-440odb
- 24th separate repair and restoration battalion (Ganja): 1 BTR-D
- 611th separate battalion of road support
- 1684th separate battalion of material support
- 180th separate medical battalion
In total, as of 11/19/90, the 104th Guards Airborne Division had: 312 BMDs (93 BMD-2s, 219 BMD-1s);
107 BTR-D;
72 self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona";
36 BTR-RD (ATGM carriers);
42 BTR-ZD (MANPADS carriers);
6 guns D-30.

106th Guards Airborne Division (Tula)
Division Command: 9 BMD-1, 12 BTR-D; 1 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh, 1-1V119
In December 1944 - January 1945. The 16th Guards Airborne Division, formed a little earlier in the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, was reorganized into the 106th Guards Rifle Division of the 38th Guards Rifle Corps of the 9th Guards Army, with whose troops it completed the fighting of the Great Patriotic War in Czechoslovakia .
In the post-war period, the regiments of the 106th Guards Airborne Division were stationed in the Moscow Military District, and the division's headquarters were in Tula.
51st (Tula), 137th (Ryazan), 331st (Kostroma) Guards Airborne Regiments:
in each regiment: 101 BMDs (in addition to 30 BMD-2s in the 331st BMD), 23 BTR-Ds; 18-2S9 "Nona" (in 51-mpdp-20 unit); 6BTR-RD, 13 BTR-ZD, 8 BMD-1KSh, 10-Sh119
1182nd Guards Artillery Regiment (Efremov): 18-2S9 "Nona", 8 D-30; 18 BTR-RD, 3 BTR-ZD, ZBMD-1KSh, 10-1V119, and 6 BTR-D
107th Separate Anti-Aircraft Rocket and Artillery Battalion (Donskoy): 4 BTR-ZD, 1 BMD-1KSh
110th Separate Military Transport Aviation Squadron (Tula): 1 Mi-8
In addition, in the 106th Guards. vdd included:
- 139th separate engineer-sapper battalion (Tula): 11 BTR-D, 1 BMD-1KSh
- 731st separate communications battalion (Tula): 3 BTR-D; 10 BMD-1KSh, 4 R-440odb
- 43rd separate repair and restoration battalion (Tula): 1 BTR-D
- 610th separate battalion of road support
- 1060th separate battalion of material support
- 234th separate medical battalion
In total, on 11/19/90, the 106th Guards. VDD had:
342 BMDs (30 BMD-2s, 312 BMD-1s);
102 BTR-D;
74 self-propelled guns 2S9 "Nona";
36 BTR-RD (ATGM carriers);
47 BTR-ZD (carriers of MANPADS);
8 guns D-30

In addition to the above-mentioned training center and 5 airborne divisions (all of which were stationed in the "zone up to the Urals"), the Airborne Forces included brigades - formations equipped, as a rule, with lighter weapons.
In groups of troops in the 1980s. airborne assault brigades were deployed, of which in the "zone to the Urals" in 1991 there was one subordinate to the Airborne Forces - airborne assault regiments and brigades (for military districts and groups of troops) and airborne assault battalions (for army associations) were created since the 1970s as formations of the Ground Forces, intended for the landing of tactical and operational-tactical airborne assault forces (see "History of the military strategy of Russia", M., 2000, p. 424); for 1990, the only airborne brigade remaining in the "zone to the Urals" was subordinate to the command of the Airborne Forces, and the four remaining separate airborne brigade were still subordinate to the SV
35th brigade (in the Western Group of Forces, Cottbus): 18 D-30 guns, 30 2S12 "Sani" mortars.
Separate airborne brigades were deployed on the territory of the military districts "zone to the Urals", which were supposed to have 18 D-30 guns from heavy weapons.
In the zone "to the Urals" these were the following brigades:
21st brigade (in ZakVO, Kutaisi);
23rd brigade (in KVO, Kremenchug);
36th brigade (in the LVO, Garbolovo);
37th brigade (in PribVO, Chernyakhovsk);
38th brigade (in BVO, Brest);
39th brigade (in PrikVO, Khyrov, Lviv region) - In the second half of 1991, the brigade was transformed into the 22nd training center, and the number of D-30 guns was reduced to one;
40th brigade (in OdVO, Nikolaev).
In the zone "beyond the Urals" formations of airborne troops were deployed, in particular, in Uzbekistan (a separate parachute regiment equipped with BMD-I and BTR-D) and Kazakhstan (a separate airborne assault brigade).