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The Red Guards (Russian: Krasnaya Gvardiya) were armed groups of workers formed during the Russian Revolution of 1917, although the designation and concept dates back to Moscow during the Revolution of 1905. In 1917 the volunteers of the Red Guard and their elected leaders formed the main strike force of the Bolsheviks.
In 1942–1943 four groups of snipers from the Kremlin Regiment were sent to the Western and Volkhov Fronts. The snipers killed more than 1,200 German soldiers and officers, losing only 97 men in combat. [3] On February 23, 1944, the Kremlin Regiment was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner.
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 Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (Russian: Лейб-гвардия Leyb-gvardiya, from German Leib "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were combined Imperial Russian Army forces units serving as counterintelligence to prevent sabotage of important imperial palace, personal guards of the Emperor of Russia and imperial family, public security in capital, and ...
120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Domna, 27 km southwest of Chita (MiG-29) 159th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment; 98th Separate Guards Mixed Aviation Regiment; 42nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (42 Gv BAP) (Su-24) (Verino - Pereyaslavka, Khabarovsk Kray) (to disband(?)) 18th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment; 6950th Guards Air Base
A soldier of the Kremlin Regiment in a full dress uniform at Post No. 1 (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier). The FSO is organized into the following services: Management (Director, Deputies) Presidential Security Service; Security Service; Commandant's Office of the Moscow Kremlin. Kremlin Regiment. Regiment HQ; Presidential Band of the Russian ...
Guards units (Russian: Гвардия, romanized: Gvardiya) were elite units and formations in the Soviet Armed Forces that continue to exist in the Russian Armed Forces and other post-Soviet states. These units were awarded Guards status after distinguishing themselves in wartime service, and are considered to have elite status.