page_title: List of paratrooper forces
section_title: Russian Federation
hierarchical_section_title: List of paratrooper forces / Russian Federation
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Выпуск первого набора девушекEnglish: Graduation of the first group of female cadets in RVVDKU
context_page_description: Various countries around the world maintain military units that are trained as paratroopers. These include special forces units that are parachute-trained, as well as non-special forces units.
context_section_description: Army
  Air Landing Forces (Воздушно-десантные войска - Vozdushno-Desantnye Voyska)
  7th Guards Airborne Assault Division (Mountain) (7-я гвардейская десантно-штурмовая дивизия (горная) -  7-ya Gvardeyskaya Desantno-Shturmovaya Diviziya (Gornaya))
  108th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment "Kuban Cossack" (108-й гвардейский десантно-штурмовой "Кубанский Kазачий" полк - 108-y Gvardeyskiy Desantno-Shturmovoy "Kubanskiy Kazachiy" Polk)
  247th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment "Caucasus Cossack" (247-й гвардейский десантно-штурмовой "Кавказский Kазачий" полк - 247-y Gvardeyskiy Desantno-Shturmovoy "Kavkazskiy Kazachiy" Polk)
  76th Guards Air Assault Division "Chernigov" (76-я гвардейская десантно-штурмовая дивизия "Черниговская" - 76-ya Gvardeyskaya Desantno-Shturmovaya Diviziya "Chernigovskaya")
  104th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment (104-й  гвардейский  десантно-штурмовой полк - 104-y Gvardeyskiy Desantno-Shturmovoy Polk)
  234th Guards Black Sea Airborne Assault Regiment "Holy Blessed Alexander Nevsky" (234-й гвардейский десантно-штурмовой Черноморский полк "имени Святого благоверного Александра Невского" - 234-y Gvardeyskiy Desantno-Shturmovoy Chernomorskiy Polk "Imeni Svyatogo Blagovernogo Aleksandra Nevskogo")
  237th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment "Toruń" (237-й гвардейский десантно-штурмовой "Торуньский" полк - 237-y Gvardeyskiy Desantno-Shturmovoy "Torun'skiy" Polk)
  98th Guards Svir Airborne Division "70th Anniversary of the Great October Revolution" (98-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная Свирская дивизия "имени 70-летия Великого Октября" - 98-ya Gvardeyskaya Vozdushno-Desantnaya Svirskaya Diviziya "imeni 70-letiya Velikogo Oktyabrya")
  217th Guards Parachute Regiment (217-й гвардейский парашютно-десантный  полк - 217-y Gvardeyskiy Parashyutno-Desantnyy Polk)
  331st Guards Parachute Regiment (331-й гвардейский парашютно-десантный полк - 331-y Gvardeyskiy Parashyutno-Desantnyy Polk)
  106th Guards Airborne Division "Tula" (106-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная дивизия "Тульская" - 106-ya Gvardeyskaya Vozdushno-Desantnaya Diviziya "Tul'skaya")
  51st Guards Parachute Regiment "Dmitry Donskoy" (51-й гвардейский парашютно-десантный полк "имени Дмитрия Донского" - 51-y Gvardeyskiy Parashyutno-Desantnyy Polk "imeni Dmitriya Donskogo")
  137th Guards Parachute Regiment (137-й гвардейский парашютно-десантный полк - 137-y Gvardeyskiy Parashyutno-Desantnyy Polk)
  45th Independent Guards Special Forces Brigade (45-я отдельная гвардейская бригада специального назначения  - 45-ya Otdel'naya Gvardeyskaya Brigada Spetsial'nogo Naznacheniya)
  218th Special Forces Battalion (218-й батальон специального назначения - 218-y Batal'on Spetsial'nogo Naznacheniya)
  901st Special Forces Battalion (901-й батальон специального назначения - 901-y Batal'on Spetsial'nogo Naznacheniya)
  11th Independent Guards Air Assault Brigade (11-я отдельная гвардейская десантно-штурмовая бригада - 11-ya Otdel'naya Gvardeyskaya Desantno-Shturmovaya Brigada)
  1st Air Assault Battalion (1-й десантно-штурмовой батальон - 1-y Desantno-Shturmovoy Batal'on)
  2nd Air Assault Battalion (2-й десантно-штурмовой батальон - 2-y Desantno-Shturmovoy Batal'on)
  31st Independent Guards Air Assault Brigade (31-я отдельная гвардейская десантно-штурмовая бригада - 31-ya Otdel'naya Gvardeyskaya Desantno-Shturmovaya Brigada)
  1st Air Assault Battalion (1-й десантно-штурмовой батальон - 1-y Desantno-Shturmovoy Batal'on)
  2nd Air Assault Battalion (2-й десантно-штурмовой батальон - 2-y Desantno-Shturmovoy Batal'on)
  56th Independent Guards Air Assault Brigade "Don Cossak" (56-я отдельная гвардейская десантно-штурмовая бригада "Донская Kазачья" - 56-ya Otdel'naya Gvardeyskaya Desantno-Shturmovaya Brigada "Donskaya Kazach'ya")
  1st Air Assault Battalion (1-й десантно-штурмовой батальон - 1-y Desantno-Shturmovoy Batal'on)
  2nd Air Assault Battalion (2-й десантно-штурмовой батальон - 2-y Desantno-Shturmovoy Batal'on)
  83rd Independent Guards Air Assault Brigade (83-я отдельная гвардейская десантно-штурмовая бригада - 83-ya Otdel'naya Gvardeyskaya Desantno-Shturmovaya Brigada)
  1st Air Assault Battalion (1-й десантно-штурмо
caption: Parade at the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School "General V.F. Margelov", 2013
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