10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division
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The 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division, also known at the Ural-Lvov Tank Division, is headquartered and based at Boguchar, around 100 miles south of Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast. It is an armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces and part of the Moscow Military District's 20th Army, under the command of Lt. General Andrey Tretyak. The division traces its lineage back to World War II.
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[edit] The Second World War
The formation was initially known as the 30th Uralskaya Voluntary Tank Corps when it was formed in April 1943 in the Ural Military District. Workers from the Ural tank factories were among its initial soldiers. Between 1943 and 1945 it took part in the Orel, Bryansk, Proskurov-Chernovits, Lvov-Sandomir, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Berlin, and Prague Offensive operations. In October 1943 it was honoured and renamed the 10th Guards Uralskaya Voluntary Tank Corps. It was reconstituted from a Tank Corps to a Tank Division after the end of the war, as were all Soviet tank corps (including what became the famous Kantemirovskaya Division).
[edit] Subordinate units and fighting strength
61 tk rgt "Sverdlovsko-Lvovskiy"
62 tk rgt
6 mot rifle rgt (Kursk)
248 mot rifle rgt
744 arty rgt
359 ad rgt
112 indep int bn
152 indep comms bn
127 indep chemical bn
131 indep engr bn
60 rpr bn
1072 indep logistics bn
188 indep med bn
689 indep ew bn
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources and references
- Keith Bonn (ed.), Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA, 2005
