13th Guards Airborne Division

13-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная дивизия

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 1.10.48 in Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast, from the 296th Guards Air Landing Regiment.

Organisation 1948:

• 116th Guards Air Landing Regiment (Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya, Amur Oblast) - military unit: 10885
• 217th Guards Parachute Regiment (Galenki, Primorskiy Kray) - military unit: 11389
• 1183rd Guards Artillery Regiment (Galenki, Primorskiy Kray)
• 000 independent Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion
• 100th independent Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
• 000 independent Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
• 00 independent Guards Reconnaissance Company
• 000 independent Communications Company
• 000 independent Guards Engineering Battalion
• 000 independent Supply Truck Battalion
• 00 independent Air-Landing Security Company
• 000 independent Medical & Sanitary Company
• 000 independent Training Battalion

1949 the independent Landing Security Company was disbanded.

The 116th Guards Air Landing Regiment was later converted to the 116th Guards Parachute Regiment (exact date unknown, possibly 4.55).

15.11.53 re-organized:

• the independent Communications Company became the 000 independent Guards Communications Battalion
• the independent Medical & Sanitary Company became the 0000 independent Medical & Sanitary Battalion
• the independent Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion was disbanded
• the 00 independent Guards Reconnaissance Company was disbanded

Disbanded 1.4.55, except:

• 116th Guards Parachute Regiment was transferred to the 99th Guards Airborne Division
• 217th Guards Parachute Regiment was transferred to the 98th Guards Airborne Division

Bases:

• Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast, 10.48 - 4.55

Subordination:

• 37th Guards Airborne Corps, 10.48 - 4.55