# List of guards units of Russia

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

## Ground Forces
### Guards Armies

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

### Guards Divisions
#### 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

### Guards Brigades
#### 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

## Navy
### 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.

## Strategic Rocket Forces
### Guards Rocket Armies

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