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The Kremlin Regiment (Russian: Кремлёвский полк, romanized: Kremlyovskiy polk), also called the Presidential Regiment (Russian: Президентский полк, romanized: Prezidentskiy polk), is a unique military regiment and part of the Russian Federal Protective Service with the status of a special unit.
[1] [2] Internally, has authority over the operation of certain Kremlin museums. [3] The Commandant of the Moscow Kremlin is the operational head of the office. It has direct control over the Kremlin Regiment, which notable maintains a permanent honor guard (Russian: Почётный караул) at the eternal flame of the Tomb of the Unknown ...
The Moscow Kremlin [a] or simply the Kremlin [b] is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. [1] Located in the centre of the country's capital city, it is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels ) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall along with the Kremlin towers .
83rd Corps Artillery Regiment; 100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment; 108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment; 111th Guards Airborne Regiment; 138th Separate Tank Regiment; 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment; 217th Guards Airborne Regiment; 243rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment; 295th Guards Motor Rifle ...
Members of the Kremlin Regiment on horseback dressed in the uniforms of the cavalry corps.. The cavalry corps (Russian: кавалерийский корпус) of the Workers and Peasant Red Army was a type of military formation that existed from the early days of the Russian Civil War until 1947 when the Red Army was renamed as the Soviet Army and all cavalry corps were disbanded.
The Presidential Band of the Kremlin Regiment of Russia was established in September 1938, being originally named the Moscow Kremlin Commandant's Band, for many years assigned as the official band of the Soviet KGB at state events. On January 11, 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the band to be renamed to its current title.
As the Second World War was ending in Europe in 1944 the Soviet NKVD in Moscow was charged with raising a full-time honor guard company as part of the 1st Regiment, OMSDON (then the NKVD 1st Special Duties Division), in the style and manner of the British Household Division's Foot Guards, the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and the French Republican Guard's First Infantry Regiment.
1st Semyonovsky Independent Rifle Regiment; 100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment; 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment; 219th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment; 341st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment; 555th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment; 810th Separate Naval Infantry Regiment; 967th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment