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In accordance with the federal law of December 8, 1997 "On Immortalizing the Soviet People’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945", the regiment also maintains a guard of honor (Russian: Почётный караул) at the eternal flame of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The regiment is housed in the historic Kremlin Arsenal.
Badge of the Soviet Guards (1941). "Guards" (Russian: Гвардия, romanized: Gvardiya) designations were awarded to units and formations that distinguished themselves during the Second World War by the order of People's Commissar for Defence of USSR No.303 on the 18 September 1941, and were considered to have elite status. However, the ...
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
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 ...
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.
An 1863 oval-shaped map depicting the Gettysburg Battlefield during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of Gettysburg residents at the time of the battle A November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration showing Confederate Army troops escorting captured African American ...
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941–1945. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-027169-4. Reese, Roger R. (2000). The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917–1991. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-21719-9. Steven J. Zaloga and James Grandsen (1984). Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two. London ...
The Russian guard (Semyonovsky and Preobrazhensky regiments) firmly defended themselves from the Swedes and avoided a defeat. For their bravery, the Swedish king Charles XII agreed to allow them to keep their weapons; the Russian guard regiments marched with standards unfurled, drums rolling and in possession of their weapons. For their prowess ...