31st Guards Airborne Division

31-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная дивизия

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 1.10.48 in Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast, from the 356th Guards Parachute Regiment.

Organisation 1948:

• 115th Guards Parachute Regiment (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 381st Guards Air Landing Regiment (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 1295th Guards Artillery Regiment (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 95th independent Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion
• 764th independent Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
• 152nd independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
• 00 independent Guards Reconnaissance Company
• 716th independent Guards Communications Company
• 157th 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 381st Guards Air Landing Regiment was later converted to the 381st Guards Parachute Regiment (exact date unknown).

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

30.4.55 re-organized:

• 152nd independent Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated

• 000 independent Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion became the 95th independent Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion

• 109th Guards Parachute Regiment joined the regiment from the disbanded 100th Guards Airborne Division

Disbanded 1959.

Bases:

• Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast, 10.48 - 1959

Subordination:

• 39th Guards Airborne Corps, 10.48 - 12.55
• GK VDV, 12.55 - 1959