20th Guards Motor Rifle Division 8th Guards Mechanised Division 8th Guards Mechanised Corps 3rd Mechanised Corps | |
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Active | 3 April 1943 – 2009; reformed 2021 |
Country | Soviet Union (until 1991) Russian Federation |
Branch | Red Army (until 1945) Soviet Ground Forces (1945-1991) Russian Ground Forces |
Type | Mechanized infantry |
Size | Division |
Part of | 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, Southern Military District |
Garrison/HQ | Volgograd |
Nickname(s) | Zaleshchitskaya (Russian: Залещицкая) |
Engagements | World War II Cold War Russian invasion of Ukraine |
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Honorifics | Carpathian Berlin |
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The 20th Guards Carpathian-Berlin Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 20-я гвардейская мотострелковая Прикарпатско-Берлинская дивизия) is a formation of the Russian Ground Forces, originally formed within the Soviet Red Army as the 3rd Mechanised Corps. The division was reformed in 2021 from the former 20th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.[1]