The 3rd Guards 'Kotelnikovo' Tank Division (Russian:3-я гвардейская танковая Котельниковская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия) (

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44181) was an armoured division of the

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, formed in 1945 and disestablished in 1989. The division was formed from the previous 3rd Guards Tank Corps. At the beginning of the

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in February 1944 the 3rd Guards Tank Corps was directly reporting to Leningrad Front, and was led by Major General I. A. Vovchenko. The organisation of the division before being reduced: * Division Headquarters, Zaslonovo,

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* 430th Independent Communications Battalion * 33rd Independent Guards Reconnaissance Battalion * 3rd Guards Tank Regiment * 18th Guards Tank Regiment * 126th Guards Tank Regiment * 296th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment * 733rd Artillery Regiment * 256th Independent Missile Battalion * 740th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment * 154th Independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion * 92nd Independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion * 1018th Independent Materiel Supply Battalion * 160th Independent Medical Battalion * Unknown Chemical Defence Company In June 1989 it was reduced to a Weapons and Equipment Storage Base,V.I. Feskov et al 2013, 457-458. and in November 1989 it was disbanded completely. It spent much of the Cold War based at Zaslonovo in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic/

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as part of the

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References

*Michael Holm
3rd Guards Tank Division
* Tank divisions of the Soviet Union Military units and formations disestablished in 1989 {{mil-unit-stub