17th Armored Brigade (Ukraine)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 174th Rifle Division (I Formation) (1940-42)
20th Guards Rifle Division (1942-45)
25th or 35th Guards Mechanized Division (1950s-57) [Feskov et al 2004 gives two different numberings on pages 41 and 74]
37th Guards Tank Division (1957-65)
17th Guards Tank Division(1965-90s)
17th Guards Tank Brigade (1990s-present)


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dates= World War II - present
country= Ukraine
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branch= Ukrainian Army
type= Brigade
role= Armored
size= ~3,500
command_structure= 6th Army Corps (former Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army)
current_commander= Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Tarnavskiy
garrison= Kryvyi Rih [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10294 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ] Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
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motto=
mascot=
battles= World War II
notable_commanders=
anniversaries=The 17th Guards Armored Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Full name of the Brigade is 17th Separate Guards Kryvyi Rih orders of Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade. [ [http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/p_4627.html President.Gov.Ua | ] ] It was formally known as 17th Guards Tank Division.The Brigade is located in Kryvyi Rih.

History

The first 17th Tank Division was formed on the base of 37th light tank brigade. It also included 199th flamethrower and 526 transport battalions. On June 22, 1941 the Division was part of the 5th Mechanized Corps, in the Transbaikal Military District. Beginning June 12, 1941 the division was relocated to Izyaslav, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.

The current unit's history stems from the 174th Rifle Division, which became the 20th Guards Rifle Division in 1942.

tructure in 1941

*33rd Tank Regiment
*34th Tank Regiment
*35th Tank Regiment
*17th Mechanized Regiment [ [http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/lepel.htm лПОФТХДБТ РПД мЕРЕМЕН Й уЕООП 5-ЗП Й 7-ЗП НЕИЛПТРХУПЧ ] ]
*17th Artillery Regiment
*17th Reconnaissance Battalion
*17th Transport Battalion
*17th Maintenance Battalion

The history of the postwar 17th Guards Tank Division traces back to the 20th Guards Rifle Division which was active in 1945. Later it became the 35th [V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945-91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004 pg41] Guards Mechanized Division, and by 1957 37th Guards Tank Division. In 1965 the 37th became the 17th Guards Tank Division, a designation it would retain until the fall of the Soviet Union.

Current Structure

*25th Armor Battalion
*93rd Armor Battalion
*230th Armor Battalion
*869th Artillery Regiment
*1069th Anti-Aircraft Regiment
*145th Reconnaissance Battalion
*812th Signal Battalion
*1457th Combat Engineer Battalion
*44th Chemical Battalion
*1055th Supply Battalion
*129th Repair Battalion
*18th Medical Battalion

Past Commanders

*Iliya Prokopievich Alekseenko - Summer 1940 - 1 March 1941 [ [http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/biograf_a.htm#%E1%CC%C5%CB%D3%C5%C5%CE%CB%CF+%E9.%F0. Вйпзтбжйй - Б ] ]
*Ivan Petrovich Korchagin - 1 March 1941 - 28 August 1941 [ [http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/biograf_k.htm#%EB%CF%D2%DE%C1%C7%C9%CE+%E9.%F0. Вйпзтбжйй - Л ] ]
*Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Tarnavskiy - temporary commander

Decorations

* Order of Suvorov
* Order of the Red Banner

References