Flashcards: Airborne divisions of the Soviet Union

The 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division is an elite guards division of the Russian Airborne Troops.

The 3rd Guards Airborne Division was formed on 8 December 1942 after the disbanding of the 8th Airborne Corps.

The 105th Guards Airborne Division (105-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная дивизия) was an airborne division of the Soviet Airborne Troops.

In September 1944, the second formation of the 14th Guards Airborne Division was created from the 202nd Airborne Brigade in the Moscow Military District, part of the 39th Guards Airborne Corps.

The 6th Guards Airborne Division was formed on 8 December 1942 from the 6th Airborne Corps in Noginsk.

The 76th Guards Air Assault Division is a division of the Russian Airborne Troops based in Pskov.

The 2nd Guards Airborne Division was formed from 7th Airborne Corps on 8 December 1942 in Zvenigorod.

The 106th Guards Tula Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Airborne Division, more generally referred to as the Tula Division, is one of the four airborne divisions of the Russian Airborne Troops, the VDV (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска, Vozdushno-desantnye voyska).

The original 103rd Guards Rifle Division (ru:103-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия) was formed from the previous 13th Guards Airborne Division on 18 December 1944 in Bykhaw.

The 1st Guards Zvenigorod-Bucharest Red Banner Order of Suvorov Airborne Division (Russian: 1-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная Звенигородско-Бухарестская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия) was a division of the Soviet Airborne Troops.

The 11th Guards Airborne Division was formed on 23 December 1943 from three Guards Airborne Brigades in the Moscow Military District.

The 242nd Training Centre of the Airborne Forces (242 TC VDV) is a brigade-sized training formation of the Russian Airborne Troops.

The 8th Guards Airborne Division was formed on 8 December 1942 from the 10th Airborne Corps in the Moscow Military District.

The 98th Guards Airborne Division is an airborne division of the Russian Airborne Troops, stationed in Ivanovo.

The 13th Guards Airborne Division was first formed on 20 December 1943 from the 18th, 19th and 20th Guards Airborne Brigades in Moscow Military District.

The 11th Guards Airborne Division was formed on 23 December 1943 from the 1st, 2nd, and 11th Guards Airborne Brigades, part of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command.

The division was activated on 15 October 1948 in Valga in Estonia from the 346th Guards Airlanding Regiment of the 104th Guards Airborne Division, inheriting the Order of Alexander Nevsky from the regiment.

The 31st Guards Airborne Division was formed on 15 October 1948 from the 298th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 100th Guards Airborne Division in Novohrad-Volynskyi, part of the 39th Guards Airborne Corps.