1141st Guards Artillery Regiment

1141-й гвардейский артиллерийский полк

Military Unit: 02207; from 8.93: 40515

Activated 1.10.48 in Polotsk, Vitebsk Oblast, as the 1137th Guards Artillery Regiment.

7.6.60 reduced and renamed 816th independent Guards Artillery Battalion.

27.4.62 enlarged and renamed 1141st Guards Artillery Regiment.

1.10.76 absorbed the 880th independent Rocket Artillery Battalion.

In 1986 absorbed the 83rd independent Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion.

Operations:

• 11.56 took part in the Hungarian operation

• 8.68 took part in the Czechoslovakian operation

Bases:

• Polotsk, Vitebsk Oblast, 1.10.48 - 14.10.48

• Mariampole, Lithuanian SSR, 14.10.48 - 1953 [54 32 28N, 23 20 26E]

• Kalvariya, Lithuanian SSR, 1953 - 8.93 [54 24 13N, 23 13 25E]

• Maykop, Krasnodar Kray, 8.93 - 6.94 [44 34 19N, 40 07 36E]

• Anapa, Krasnodar Kray, 6.94 - today [44 53 43N, 37 20 08E]

Equipment:

• 19.11.90: 18 2s9 Nona, 6 D-30, 6 BTR-D, 18 BTR-RD, 3 BTR-3D, 3 BMD-1KSh, 10 1V119 [CFE treaty data exchange]

• 1.1.2000: 18 2s9 Nona, 12 D-30, 5 BTR-D, 3 BTR-3D, 9 BTR-RD, 1 BMD-1KSh, 9 1V119, 598 men [CFE treaty data exchange]

Subordination:

• 7th Guards Airborne Division, 10.48 - 1998

• 7th Guards Air Landing Assault Division, 1998 - today