27th Guards Motor Rifle Division

27th Guards Omsk-Novoburgskaya Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Motorised Rifle Division
Russian: 27-я гвардейская мотострелковая Омско-Новобургская Краснознамённая ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия
27th Guards Motor Rifle Division shoulder sleeve insignia
Active1945–1964, 1964–2009, 2024–present
Country Soviet Union (1945–1991)
 Russia (1991–2009, 2024–present)
Branch Russian Ground Forces
TypeMotorized Infantry
SizeDivision
Part ofCentral Military District
2nd Combined Arms Army
Garrison/HQTotskoye, Orenburg Oblast
MUN 35100
Nickname(s)"Omsk-Novobugskaya"
EngagementsWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Second Chechen War
War in Donbass
Battle of Ilovaisk
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Pokrovsk offensive
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner
Order of Khmelnitsky 2nd Class (USSR) Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Battle honoursGuards unit Guards
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Dmitri Zavyalov (as of 2019)

The 27th Guards Omsk-Novoburgskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Motorised Rifle Division (Russian: 27-я гвардейская мотострелковая Омско-Новобургская Краснознамённая ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия; Military Unit Number 35100)[1] is a Guards mechanised infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces. It was a Red Army rifle division in World War II which later became a Soviet Ground Forces motor rifle division. In 2009, it was reformed into the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. In the spring of 2024, the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division was revived.[2]

  1. ^ Michael Holm, 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division
  2. ^ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment," (PDF). ISW. 11 March 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2024.