30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 83rd Cavalry Division (1941-c.1944)
13th Guards Cavalry Division (c.1944-45)
11th Guards Mechanised Division (1945-57)
30th Guards Tank Division (1957-2004)
30th Mechanized Brigade (2004-present)


caption=Brigade Insignia
dates= September 1 1941 - December 6, 1991
December 6, 1991 - present
country= Ukraine
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branch= Ukrainian Ground Forces
type= Mechanized
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command_structure=8th Army Corps
garrison=A0409 Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr Oblast
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battles=World War II
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decorations=Order of the Red Banner
Order of Suvorov
battle_honours=Rovno, Novohrad-Volynskyi
commander1=Colonel Ihor Dovhan [ [http://www.vu.mil.gov.ua/pdf/2007-12.pdf untitled ] ]
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identification_symbol_2_label=Mechanized branch insignia

The 30th Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

Full name of the Brigade is 30th Separate Guards Mechanized Novohrad-Volynskyi Rovno Orders of the Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade, ( _uk. 30 окрема гвардійська механізована Новоград-Волинська Рівненська орденів Червоного Прапора і Суворова бригада) [ [http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4627.html List of full names of the Ukrainian Military unit] ] .

History

First Formation

Between September 1, and October 1, 1941 in the city of Samarkand Uzbekistan the 83rd Cavalry Division was formed.

Division consisted of the following units:
* 215th Cavalry Regiment
* 226th Cavalry Regiment
* 231st Cavalry Regiment
* Separate Chemical Squadron

From September 5, 1941 commanding officer of the Division was Lieutenant General Selivanov.

On November 7, 1941 the Division was relocated to the front. Until December 28, 1941 the Division was fortifying near the station of Lysi Gory Saratov Oblast.

First battle that the Division took part in, was near the city of Ryazhsk, Ryazan Oblast as part of the Cavalry mechanized group of the 61st Army.

econd Formation

From February 22, 1942 the 83rd Cavalry Division was transferred into the reserves.

13th Guards Cavalry Division fought at Dubno in 1944, as well as at the Battle of Debrecen and was with 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945. Both the 83rd and the 13th Guards were for a time commanded by General Major Petr Zubov. [ [http://www.generals.dk/general/Zubov/Petr_Ivanovich/Soviet_Union.html Biography of Major-General Petr Ivanovich Zubov ] ] Feskov et al trace the unit's history as follows. The Division was transformed in July 1945 into 11th Guards Mechanized Division. In 1957 it became the 30th Guards Tank Division, and remained under that title until the fall of the Soviet Union. [Feskov et al, The Soviet Army during the period of the Cold War, Tomsk University Press, Tomsk, 2004, p.54/55]

1990-present

The 30th Guards Tank Division, along with the rest of the 8th Tank Army and the Carpathian Military District, became part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces according to the order of Ukraine "About Armed Forces of Ukraine" from December 6, 1991.

In February 1992 all units of the Division pledged their allegiance to Ukraine.

On October 20, 1999 the Division was awarded the Novohrad-Volynskyi designation.

On July 30, 2004 the Division was reformed into a Brigade.

Currently the brigade is the only mechanized brigade that doesn't have any conscripts. It is also a part of Joint Rapid Reaction Forces.

Over a 100 soldiers from the Brigade have served in peace keeping missions in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Iraq and Kosovo [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=8657 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ] .

As of October 12, 2007 2nd mechanized battalion of the Brigade is deployed in Kosovo as part of the POLUKRBAT. [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10468 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]

The current commander of the brigade served as a commander of the 5th Separate Mechanized brigade in Iraq. [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=6970 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]

Division Order of Battle

* 276th Armor Regiment
* 325th Armor Regiment
* 282th Guards Armor Regiment
* 319th Mechanized Regiment
* 855th Guards Artillery Regiment
* 937th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
* 214th Separate Guards Signal Battalion
* 54th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion
* 151st Separate Guards Combat Engineer Battalion
* 108th Separate Maintenance Battalion
* 1043rd Separate Combat Service Support Battalion
* 112nd Separate Medical Battalion
* 404th Separate Chemical Battalion

Awards

Brigade has received 22 orders. 30 of its soldiers have been decorated with medals. [http://lebedin.info/reklama/3/index_1.html]

* Order of the Red Banner - 276th, 325th, 282nd, 855th
* Order of Alexander Nevsky - 54th
* Order of Suvorov - Second Class - 325th, 282nd
* Order of Kutuzov - Second Class - 325th, 282nd, 855th
* Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky - Second Class - 325th, 282nd
* Order of Kutuzov - Third Class - 54th
* Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky - Third Class - 54th
* ??? awarded Rovno designation
*On October 20, 1999 awarded Novohrad-Volynskyi designation [ [http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=1356%2F99 Про присвоєння почесного найменування "Новоград-Волинсь...| вiд 20.10.1999 № 1356/99 ] ]

Past commanders

*Lieutenant General Selivanov September 5, 1941 -
*Major-General Petr Ivanovich Zubov
*Colonel Yuriy Muchailovich Mukolenko 2006 - 2007
*Colonel Ihor Dovhan 2007 -

References