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35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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The 35th Separate Guards Volgograd-Kiev Orders of Lenin, Suvorov and Kuzov Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade (Russian: 35-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада; Military Unit Number 41659) is a unit of the Russian Ground Forces.[1] It traces its history back to the formation of the Soviet 4th Tank Corps (later: 5th Guards Tank Corps) during the Second World War. It forms part of the 41st Combined Arms Army (CAA), and has its headquarters in a former Strategic Rocket Forces installation at Aleysk in Altai Krai.[2]

35th Separate Guards Volgograd-Kiev Orders of Lenin, Suvorov and Kuzov Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade
Active2009–present
Country Russia
BranchRussian Ground Forces
TypeMechanized infantry
SizeBrigade
Part of41st Combined Arms Army, Central Military District
Garrison/HQAleysk
EngagementsWorld War II
Russo-Ukrainian War
Decorations
Honorifics
Commanders
Current
commander		Oleg Vladimirovich Kurygin

History

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4th Tank Corps

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In accordance with State Committee of Defence (NKO) Order No. 724218сс оf 31 March 1942, the 4th Tank Corps was established in the Voronezh area in April 1942. By order of the NKO of the USSR No. 57 dated February 7, 1943, in recognition of the courage and heroism of its personnel, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the "Guards" honorary title, and transformed into the 5th Guards Tank Corps.

5th Guards Tank Corps

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In the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the honorary title "Stalingrad" by NKO Order No. 42 of 27 January 1943.

The corps participated in the following operations:

On 14 September 1945, the corps was reorganized into a division.

5th Guards Tank Division

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On 14 September 1945, on the basis of the order of the NKO of the USSR No. 0013 dated June 10, 1945, the corps, within the overall demobilization process, was reorganised as the 5th "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov" Guards Tank Division (First Formation). Immediately after the war the division was part of the 6th Guards Tank Army.[4] From September 1945 to June 1957 the division formed part of the 6th Guards Tank Army (briefly 6th Guards Mechanised Army).

122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division

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On 29 June 1957 the 5th Guards Tank Division became the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division.[5] From 1976 to 1989 it formed part of the 36th Army.

When the 41st Guards Rocket Division of the Strategic Rocket Forces disbanded in 2001, "for a long time" there was no decision on the future use of the empty Aleysk military garrison, containing housing, a school, three kindergartens, a swimming pool, and "an enormous amount of equipment that was discarded outside the city limits." "The maintenance of these facilities turned out to be too expensive for the small city of Aleysk." But a decision was made "at the beginning of summer [mid-2001]." A motor rifle division of the Siberian Military District was to arrive to replace the SRF personnel.[6] Later the division was identified as the 122nd Guards. Thus the 122nd Guards MGAD became a motor-rifle division.[7]

35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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In 2009 (June) the division became the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.

The brigade allegedly took part in the war in Donbass in the Luhansk Oblast in 2014.[8]

Major Leonid Shchotkin, a deputy battalion commander in the 35th Brigade, was reportedly captured in Chernihiv by Ukrainian forces on 26 February 2022.[8][9] Ukrainian forces claimed to have captured the commander of a tank platoon of the 35th Brigade after repelling an attempted Russian breakthrough near Chernihiv on 27 February.[10] A member was of the brigade was sentenced to imprisonment in a Ukrainian court for allegedly robbing and threatening to kill a civilian in the village of Khaliavyn [uk], Chernihiv Oblast in early March 2022.[11]

After the brigade began to take part in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, messages from relatives revealed that the brigade had suffered heavy losses near Chernihiv.[8]

Commanders

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  • Guards Major General Grigoriy Rostislavovich Tyurin[12]
  • Guards Colonel Andrey O. Shelukhin[13]
  • Guards Colonel Oleg Vladmirovich Kurygin[14]

Notes

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  1. ^ Юрченко, Юрий (2015-08-27). "Войсковая часть 41659 (35-я ОМСБр)". Воинские части России (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. ^ Robinson, Colin. “The Russian Ground Forces Today: A Structural Status Examination.” The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 202–203.
  3. ^ Приказ Верховного Главнокомандующего № 37, от 6 ноября 1943 года, «Об овладении столицей Советской Украины городом Киев».
  4. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 565-566.
  5. ^ Michael Holm, 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, c2015.
  6. ^ "All 30 of the Silos, which contained RS-20 nuclear ICBMs, Have been destroyed in Altay Krai". Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2002-01-24.
  7. ^ "122nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division".
  8. ^ a b c Illia Ponomarenko (2 March 2022). "EXCLUSIVE: Voice message reveals Russian military unit's catastrophic losses in Ukraine". The Kyiv Independent. Retrieved 23 April 2022., see also MediaZona
  9. ^ Крижева, Тетяна (26 February 2022). "Третій день збройного нападу. Чернігівщина". Suspilne (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  10. ^ Онищенко, Ольга (27 February 2022). "Четвертий день збройного нападу. Чернігівщина". Suspilne (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  11. ^ Sheremet, Anhelina (1 September 2022). "In Chernihiv, the court sent a Russian tanker driver to prison for more than 8 years. He robbed a civilian and threatened to shoot". Babel. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  12. ^ "Фотофакты. Мотострелковая бригада из Алейска приехала на помощь жителям посёлка Ильича". 14 June 2014.
  13. ^ "29 марта военнослужащие и горожане отметили 77-летие Гвардейской Волгоградско-Киевской ордена Ленина, Краснознаменной, орденов Суворова и Кутузова 2-й степени 35-ой отдельной мотострелковой бригады".
  14. ^ "Resolution No. 498". Aleisky District Administration, Altai Territory. 4 December 2020.
  • Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.

Further reading

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  • Catherine Harris; Frederick W. Kagan (March 2018). "Russia's Military Posture: Ground Forces Order of Battle" (PDF). www.criticalthreats.org. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  • Приказ Верховного Главнокомандующего № 37, от 6 ноября 1943 года, «Об овладении столицей Советской Украины городом Киев».
  • Завизион, Гавриил Тимофеевич, Корнюшин П. А. И на Тихом океане… — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1967.
  • Краснознамённый Киевский. Очерки истории Краснознамённого Киевского военного округа (1919—1979) [Red Kiev: Studies in the History of the Red Banner Kiev Military District (1919-1979)] Second edition, revised and expanded. Kiev, издательство политической литературы Украины [Ukraine Political Literature Publishing House] 1979. Pages 249—253.
  • Герои Советского Союза. Краткий биографический словарь в двух томах — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1987.
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