3rd Guards Airborne Division

3rd Guards Airborne Division
3rd Guards Airborne Division
Active	1942–1945
Country	Soviet Union
Allegiance	Red Army
Branch	Airborne
Size	Division
Engagements	World War II Demyansk Offensive; Battle of Kursk; Battle of Kiev; Zhitomir–Berdichev Offensive; Uman–Botoșani Offensive; Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive; Battle of Debrecen; Siege of Budapest; Operation Spring Awakening; Vienna Offensive; ;
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner; Order of Suvorov, 2nd class; Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class
Battle honours	Uman
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Ivan Nikitich Konev (8 December 1942 – 19 November 1945)

The 3rd Guards Airborne Division was a Red Army division of World War II. In December 1945 it appears to have become 125th Guards Rifle Division, while serving with 35th Guards Rifle Corps, 27th Army, Carpathian Military District.^[1]