The 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Gneznensky Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov Regiment is a military unit of the Ground Forces of the Soviet Army of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
| 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Gneznensky Red Banner, Order of the Suvorov Regiment | |
|---|---|
| Years of existence | 1940-2009 |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Subordination | GSVG → MBO |
| Included in | 154th Infantry Division (1940-1942) 47th Guards Rifle Division (1942-1945) 47th Guards Tank Division (1945-1997) 3rd Motor Rifle Division (1997-2009) |
| Type of | motorized rifle regiment |
| Function | motorized rifle troops |
| Dislocation | Mulino village ( Nizhny Novgorod region ) (since 1994) |
| Participation in | The Great Patriotic War First Chechen war Second Chechen War |
| Marks of Excellence | Honorary Name: Gneznensky    |
| Predecessor | 437th Rifle Regiment (1941) → 137th Guards Rifle Regiment (1942) → 62nd Guards Mechanized Regiment (1945-1957) |
| Site | www.245msp.ru |
Conditional name - Military unit No. 62892 (military unit 62892). Short name - 245 guards. MSP
Before the disbandment, the regiment was part of the 3rd motorized rifle division and was stationed in the village of Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Region .
History
It traces its history from the 437th rifle regiment of the 154th rifle division, then reorganized on December 26, 1942 into the 137th guards rifle regiment of the 47th guards rifle division [1] , which took part in the Great Patriotic War, where it received the honorary name " Gnieznensky ”for the liberation of the Polish city of Gniezno during the Warsaw-Poznan offensive operation , guards status, the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov, 3rd class . [2] [3]
In 1945, it was reorganized into the 62nd Guards Mechanized Regiment of the 19th Guards Mechanized Division . [3] [2]
On May 17, 1957 it was renamed the 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 26th Guards Tank Division . [3]
In the GDR, the 245th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was stationed in the city of Magdeburg and was part of the 47th Guards Tank Division of the 3rd Combined Arms Army . [four]
Before being withdrawn to the USSR, the regiment was part of the 47th Guards Tank Division, then in 1998 it was included in the 3rd motorized rifle division of the 22nd Guards Combined Arms Army of the Moscow Military District along with the 99th Guards. self-propelled artillery regiment [5] .
In January 1995, he was transferred to Chechnya, where he took by storm the settlements of Goity , Goiskoye , Alkhan-Yurt , Vedeno , and Chatoy . Since May of that year, it was deployed in Shatoy.
On April 16, 1996, 1.5 km south of Yaryshmarda, the rear column of the regiment was ambushed by militants.
On July 1-3, 1996, the regiment returned to the station of permanent deployment in the village of Mulino. During the year and a half of the war, the regiment lost 231 people dead, of which 22 officers, 3 ensigns, 206 sergeants and soldiers.
In September 1999, the regiment was transferred to the border of Stavropol and Chechnya. Since October 1999, the regiment began to conduct military operations as part of the Zapad group. The 245th regiment takes part in the assault on Grozny [6] . At the end of March 2001 he returned to Mulino. [7] [8] [6]
Armament and military equipment
For 1991, in the 245th regiment there were: 31 T-64 , 87 BMPs (46 BMP-2 , 39 BMP-1 , 2 BRM-1K ), 2 BTR-60 , 19 2C1 , 12 2C12 , 5 BMP-1KSh , 1 PRP-3 3 RXM , 2 R-145BM , 2 PU-12 , 3 MT-55A , MT-LB T. [9]
Notes
- ↑ Feskov, 2003 , p. 96.
- ↑ 1 2 Feskov, 2013 , p. 209.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Feskov, 2013 , p. 172.
- ↑ Feskov, 2013 , p. 399.
- ↑ Feskov, 2013 , p. 503.
- ↑ 1 2 Troshev Gennady Nikolaevich. My war. Chechen diary of the trench general . - Separate edition. - M .: Vagrius , 2001 .-- P. 382. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 5-264-00657-1 .
- ↑ 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Gnieznensky, Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Regiment . Book of memory.
- ↑ History of the regiment . The site of a fellow soldier of 245 motorized rifle regiment. Date of treatment August 2, 2019.
- ↑ Lensky, 2001 , p. 91.
Literature
- Feskov V.I., Golikov V.I., Kalashnikov K.A., Slugin S.A. Armed Forces of the USSR after the Second World War: from the Red Army to the Soviet. Part 1: Ground Forces. - T .: Tomsk University Press, 2013. - 640 p. - ISBN 978-5-89503-530-6 .
- IN AND. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov. The Red Army in victories and defeats 1941-1945 .. - T .: Publishing house of Tomsk University, 2003. - P. 482. - 620 p. - ISBN 5-7511-1624-0 .
- Lensky A.G., Tsybin M.M. Soviet ground forces in the last year of the USSR. - SPb. : B&K, 2001 .-- 294 p. - 500 copies.