2nd Motorized Guards Rifle Division

2nd Guard Mot Rifle Division - XX -
active	July 8, 1940 to the present
Country	Soviet Union → RF
Armed forces	RA 1943–1946 CA 1946–1992 Armed Forces RF 1993-
Armed forces	LaSK USSR , Army RF
Type	division
HQ	Moscow
commander
Division commander	Pyataev, Andrei Yuryevich (since September 2015) - Guard Colonel

Soldier of the 2nd Motorized Guards Rifle Division (1992)

Recon of the 2nd Guard MSD (2014)

The 2nd Guards MotSchützendivision , in short, the second GMSD , ( Russian 2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская ордена Октябрьской Революции Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия имени М. И. Калинина (2 гв мсд). ) Is a major unit of the Russian land forces .

This division was set up on July 8, 1940 in Kharkov . During the Second World War , she fought in the Kerch-Eltigen operation in the reconquest of the Crimea with an amphibious landing from the Taman peninsula and has been nicknamed "Tamanskaya" ever since.

The division has been stationed near Moscow since Soviet times and is one of the best-equipped large formations of Russian motorized rifle troops .

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motorized Rifle Division. In: GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017 (English).