The 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was an mechanised

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of the

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. It was descended from

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World War II formations. It traces its history to the establishment of the 2nd Airborne Corps in May 1942.

Mikhail Tikhonov Mikhail Fyodorovich Tikhonov (; 11 November 1900 – 11 February 1971) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Tikhonov fought in the Russian Civil War and the Winter War. He commanded the 39th Guards Rifle Corps durin ...

commanded both the 2nd Airborne Corps and the later 32nd Guards Rifle Division. The division fought at Krasnodar, on the Kuban, and in Crimea prior to fighting in Kurland. On 1 June 1942 it was part of 47th Army,

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Combat composition of the Soviet Army ''Boevoi sostav Sovetskoi armii'' ("Combat composition of the Soviet army") is an official Second World War Soviet Army order of battle published in five parts from 1963 through 1990 by the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff and Voenizdat. ...

(BSSA)
1 June 1942
The division was with the 2nd Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front in May 1945. After the war it was reduced for a time to the 5th Independent Guards Rifle Brigade. It then became the 66th Guards Mechanised Division and then the 114th Guards Motor Rifle Division in June 1957. The 114th Guards MRD became the 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division on 17 November 1964 at Kalinin.Michael Holm
32nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division
and V.I. Feskov, Golikov V.I., K.A. Kalashnikov, and S.A. Slugin, The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces). (В.И. Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)) Томск, 201

Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected. The division included the 416th, 418th, and 420th Guards MRRs and 378th Tank Regiment. It was based in the

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from 1957 to 1993. In October 1989 the division was renamed the 5210th Guards Weapons and Equipment Storage Base. The storage base was itself disbanded in 1993.

References

*Keith E. Bonn, Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA., 2005. {{Use dmy dates, date=June 2017 G032 Military units and formations established in 1965 Military units and formations disestablished in 1989