93rd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

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unit_name= 93rd Mechanized Brigade


caption= Sleeve patch for the 93rd Mechanized Brigade
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country= Ukraine
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branch= Ukrainian Ground Forces
type= Mechanized Brigade
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command_structure= 6th Army Corps (formerly Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army)
current_commander= Colonel Ihor Bocharov [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/news/print_news.php?id=218&lang=ua Міністерство оборони України - Новини ] ]
garrison=Cherkaske Dnipropetrovsk Oblast [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10427 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ] Ukraine
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decorations=Order of the Red Banner(2)
Order of Suvorov
Order of Kutuzov
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The 93rd Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 93rd Separate Guards Mechanized Kharkiv twice Order of the Red Banner, Suvorov's and Kutuzov's awards Brigade. [ [http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/4627.html President.Gov.Ua ] ]

The Brigade traces its history back to the 93rd Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed at Valuki in April 1943 from 13th Guards and 92nd Rifle Brigades. The Division fought at Kursk, Kharkov, Budapest, and Prague, and was serving with the 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945. [Divisions of the Soviet Union 1917-1945] After several redesignations and a period as a Mechanized Division, the Division appears to have been redesignated as the 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division in 1965. It served with the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary during the last years of the Cold War, [Feskov et al, The Soviet Army during the Period of Cold War, Tomsk, 2004] and after the fall of the Berlin Wall was withdrawn to Ukraine, downsized to the size of a brigade, and became part of the Ukrainian military.

Throughout 1999, the Brigade conducted a series of small unit and staff officer exchanges with the 40th Infantry Division of the US. [ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/ng.htm Ukrainian National Guard ] ]

On December 10, 2007 the Brigade received its Colour by the order of the President of Ukraine.

Brigade Order of Battle

1997

*87th Armor Battalion
*110th Mechanized Regiment
* Mechanized Regiment
*529th Mechanized Regiment
*108th Engineer Battalion
*16th Reconnaissance Battalion
*1119th Combat Service Support Battalion
*198th Artillery Regiment
*446th Anti-Tank Battalion
*1039th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
*166th Signal Battalion
*89th Medical Battalion
*133rd Chemical Battalion
*16th Novomoskovsk Field Training Site(Range) [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=6918 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]

2007

*1st Mechanized Battalion [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10959 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]

Awards

*19?? received the Guards designation.
*19?? received the Order of the Red Banner
*19?? received the honorable name «Kharkiv»
*19?? received the Order of Suvorov
*19?? received the Order of Kutuzov
*On December 10, 2007 received its Colour [ [http://www.mil.gov.ua/index.php?lang=ua&part=news&sub=read&id=10860 Новини Управління Прес-служби МО ] ]

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