Talk:239th Guards Tank Regiment (Russia)

Was the 15th Guards Mozyr Tank Division actually disbanded c1990?

Dear Kges1901 thank you for your recent edits. We have a puzzle here. Kommersant-Vlast of 2005 indicated that the 15 GTD was still active at the time; then later Holm, no doubt drawing upon Feskov et al 2013, indicated that the division was disbanded in August 1990, so still under the Soviet Union, never active under the RF, at Chebarkul. But all the Russian things I have been reading in the last couple of days appear to indicate that the 295th GMRR was *active* to be reorganised as the 7th Guards Tank Bde in 2009. Was the division active, or was 295 GMRR transferred to 34th Motor Rifle Division or another formation? Is there anything that you've seen that would clear up the puzzle? Buckshot06 (talk) 23:15, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

• Buckshot06 I have checked over Feskov et al 2013 and he does not state that the division was disbanded at all. According to google books preview, the 15th GTD is mentioned in Lenskii's Army of the Fatherland book about the late 1990s Russian army, so I'd assume that the division survived past 1990. This kommersant article mentions that Russian general Alexey Maslov commanded the division between 1994 and 1998, which is definite proof that the division was not disbanded in 1990. The 295th does not appear to have been disbanded and this claims that elements fought in the Chechen War and names specific exercises. Other forum source and other websites on the runet mention that the Chebarkul garrison was taken over by the 34th MRD. It would appear that the 15th GTD was disbanded at some point but not in 1990 and the 295th became part of the 34th MRD by the mid-2000s. The approximate date given for the disbandment of the 15th GTD is 2004 or 2005 given by Russian sources on the internet.

I also checked the Eastview newspaper database that I have thanks to my university library, which has Pravda and Izvestia clippings. The only article I found was a 19 June 1996 Izvestia interview with a currently serving senior lieutenant in the 15th GTD about his experiences in Chechnya with the 205th OMSBR during the previous year. Kges1901 (talk) 00:43, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

VAd777's listing as of May 13, 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080513075203/http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/russia/grand_force/districts/pr-ur.htm, the division had been disbanded by this point and several regiments shifted into the 34 MRD. The table of regiments at the Ru 34 MRD article appears to have been copied from Vad777. Buckshot06 (talk) 01:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

B class review

B class. After reading the article, I believed it would be helpful to add the overall operation of which the captures of Lodz and Kalisz were part (was it the Vistula–Oder offensive?). Similarly, was the "breakthrough of German defenses east of Stargard" part of the Race to Berlin, or another battle? Thanks. Djmaschek (talk) 20:30, 18 June 2022 (UTC)