List of guards units of Russia

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

Guards Armies

 * 1st Guards Tank Army
 * 2nd Guards Tank Army
 * 20th Guards Combined Arms Army
 * 58th Guards Army

Motor Rifle

 * 2nd Guards "Tamanskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская дивизия)
 * 18th Guards "Insterburgskaya" Motor Rifle Division
 * 20th Guards "Prikarpatsko-Berlinskaya" Motor Rifle Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская мотострелковая Прикарпатско-Берлинская бригада)
 * 42nd Guards "Evpatoriyskaya" Motor Rifle Division
 * 144th Guards "Yelnya" Motor Rifle Division

Tank

 * 4th Guards "Kantemirovskaya" Tank Division, (Cyrillic: гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия)
 * 47th Guards "Nizhniydneprovskaya" Tank Division
 * 90th Guards "Vitebsko-Novgorodskaya" Tank Division

Motor Rifles

 * 15th Separate Guards "Alexandriyskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 21st Separate Guards "Novobug" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 25th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade "Latvian Riflemen"
 * 27th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 35th Separate Guards "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 36th Separate Guards "Lozovaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 37th Separate Guards "Budapest Don Cossack" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 38th Separate Guards "Vitebskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 57th Separate Guards "Krasnograd" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (received Guards status on April 18, 2022)
 * 70th Separate Guards "Dukhovshchina-Khingan" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 74th Separate Guards "Zvenigorod-Berlin" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 136th "Umansko-Berlinskaya" Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade
 * 138th Separate Guards "Krasnoselskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade

Tank

 * 5th Separate Guards "Tatsinkaya" Tank Brigade
 * 10th Separate Guards "Uralsko-Lvovskaya Volunteers" Tank Brigade

Engineering

 * 1st Guards Brest-Berlin Engineering Brigade
 * 11th Separate Guards Kingisepp Engineering Brigade
 * 12th Separate Guards Koenigsberg-Gorodok Engineering Brigade
 * 14th Separate Guards Baranovichi  Engineering Brigade
 * 45th Guards Berlin Engineering Brigade

Artillery

 * 9th Guards "Kielce-Berlin" Artillery Brigade
 * 79th Guards "Novozybkov" Rocket Artillery Brigade
 * 120th Guards Artillery Brigade
 * 338th Guards "Dvinskaya" Rocket Artillery Brigade
 * 385th Guards "Odesskaya" Artillery Brigade
 * 439th Guards "Perekop" Rocket Artillery Brigade

Other Guards units

 * 1st Guards "Orshanskaya" Missile Brigade
 * 20th Guards "Berlin" Missile Brigade
 * 112th Guards "Novorossiysk" Missile Brigade
 * 212th Guards District Training Center
 * 467th Guards "Moscow-Tartu" District Training Center
 * 9th Guards "Lvov-Berlin" Headquarters Brigade
 * 3rd Guards "Warsaw-Berlin" Spetsnaz Brigade
 * 4th Guards Military Base

Disbanded Guards units

 * 7th Separate Guards "Orenburg Cossack"' Tank Brigade
 * 8th Separate Guards "Kramatorsk" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 8th Guards "Chertkovsky" Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 17th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 18th Separate Guards "Yevpatoriya" Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 23rd Separate Guards "Petrokovskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade

Air Force

 * Guards formations of the Air Force
 * 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Domna, 27 km southwest of Chita (MiG-29)
 * 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 98th Separate Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment
 * 42nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (42 Gv BAP) (Su-24) (Verino - Pereyaslavka, Khabarovsk Kray) (to disband(?))
 * 18th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment
 * 6950th Guards Air Base
 * 6980th Guards Air Base
 * 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division
 * 303rd Guards Mixed Aviation Division

Disbanded Guards units

 * 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 18th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 19th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 22nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (PVO)
 * 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 458th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
 * 627th Guards Fighter Aviation Training Regiment
 * 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (VVS Baltic Fleet)
 * 2nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment
 * 899th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment

Airborne Forces

 * Guards formations of the Airborne Troops (Cyrillic: гвардейские соединения воздушно-десантных войск):
 * 7th Guards Airborne Division
 * 76th Guards Air Assault Division
 * 98th Guards Airborne Division
 * 106th Guards Airborne Division
 * 11th Guards Airborne Brigade
 * 31st Guards Airborne Brigade
 * 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade
 * 83rd Guards Airborne Brigade
 * 38th Guards Separate Communications Brigade
 * 45th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Brigade

Guards formations of the Coastal Troops and Naval Infantry

 * 336th Separate Guards Bialystok Marine Brigade
 * 79th Separate Guards Insterburg Motor Rifle Brigade
 * 152nd Separate Guards Brest-Warsaw Missile Brigade
 * 244th Separate Guards Neman Artillery Brigade
 * 7th Separate Guards Proletarian Moscow-Minsk Motor Rifle Regiment
 * 22nd Separate Guards Air Defense Missile Regiment
 * 69th Separate Guards Mogilev Marine Engineering Regiment

Guards ships of the Navy (Cyrillic: гвардейские корабли)

 * submarine D-3 (1929), NF, I series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * Soviet submarine K-22 (1938), NF, XIV series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * Soviet submarine M-171 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * submarine M-174 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * destroyer Stoykiy (1938), BF, project 7U. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * minelayer Marti, ex-Imperial yacht Shtandart (1895), BF. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * base minesweeper T-205 (Gafel`) (1938), BF, project 53U. Awarded on April 3, 1942.
 * submarine Shch-205 (1934), BSF, V-bis-2 series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * submarine Shch-303 (1931), BF, III series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * submarine Shch-309 (1935), BF, V-bis-2 series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * submarine minelayer L-3 (1931), BF, II series. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * destroyer Gremiashchiy (1937), NF, project 7. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * destroyer Soobrazitel`nyi (1939), BSF, project 7U. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * base minesweeper T-411 (Zashchitnik) (1937), BSF, project 53. Awarded on March 1, 1943.
 * Soviet submarine M-35 (1940), BSF, XII series. Awarded on May 31, 1943.
 * submarine Shch-402 (1935), NF, X series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
 * submarine Shch-422, ex-Shch-314 (1935), NF, X series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
 * Soviet submarine M-172 (1937), NF, XII series. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
 * patrol boat № 065 (1938), BSF, MO-IV class. Awarded on July 25, 1943.
 * Soviet submarine S-33 (1939), BSF, IX-bis series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
 * submarine Shch-215 (1937), BSF, X series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
 * Soviet submarine M-62 (1939), BSF, XII series. Awarded on July 22, 1944.
 * Soviet submarine S-56 (1939), NF, IX-bis-2 series. Awarded on February 23, 1945.
 * patrol ship EK-2, ex-USS Long Beach (PF-34) (1943), PF, Tacoma-class. Awarded on August 22, 1945.
 * patrol ship Metel` (1934), PF, project 4. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
 * minelayer Okhotsk (1935), PF, Okean-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
 * minesweeper T-278, ex-USS Nucleus (AM-268) (1943), PF, Admirable-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
 * minesweeper T-281, ex-USS Peril (AM-272) (1943), PF, Admirable-class. Awarded on August 26, 1945.
 * Sverdlov, ex-Vyuga (1909), AMF, Shkval-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
 * monitor Sun Yat-sen, ex-Shkval (1909), AMF, Shkval-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
 * gunboat Krasnaya Zvezda, ex-Vogul (1907), AMF, Vogul-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
 * gunboat Proletariy, ex-Votyak (1907), AMF, Vogul-class. Awarded on August 30, 1945.
 * large guided missile ship Gremiashchiy (1959), NF, project 57bis. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1937).
 * large anti-submarine ship Soobrazitel`nyi (1961), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Soobrazitel`nyi (1939).
 * Kynda class cruiser Varyag, ex-Soobrazitel`nyi (1963), PF, project 58. Succeeded Soobrazitel`nyi (1939) too.
 * seagoing minesweeper MT-205 (Gafel`) (1964), BF, project 266. Succeeded T-205 Gafel` (1938).
 * Soviet submarine K-22 (Krasnogvardeets) (1964), NF, project 675. Succeeded K-22 (1938).
 * Kashin class destroyer Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1916).
 * Kashin class destroyer Krasnyi Krym (1969), BSF, project 61. Succeeded Krasnyi Krym (1915).
 * destroyer Gremiashchiy (1987), NF, project 956. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1959).
 * Russian cruiser Varyag, ex-Chervona Ukraina (1983), PF, project 1164. Succeeded Varyag (1963) in 1996.
 * guided missile cruiser Moskva, ex-Slava (1979), BSF, project 1164. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966) in 1998.
 * destroyer Gremiashchiy, ex-Bezuderzhnyi (1990), NF, project 956A. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1987) in 2007.


 * Soviet ships
 * Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym (1915), BSF, Svetlana-class. Awarded on June 18, 1942.
 * Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Kavkaz (1916), BSF, Svetlana-class. Awarded on April 3, 1942.

Guards Rocket Armies

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