70 motorized rifle regiment. The Ministry of Defense revives the legendary "Chechen division
Russia is ashamed of its "heroes". The dishonorable, vile war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine and resulting in the death of the Russian military forces the Kremlin to resort to all sorts of subterfuges. Back in 2014, a number of Russian human rights organizations, the liberal press and individual bloggers managed to collect data on dozens of Russian servicemen killed in Donbas. But this is only a small part that does not reflect the real picture, since a year later the Russian Federation adopted a law classifying data on the losses of personnel of the Ministry of Defense "in Peaceful time”, which almost eliminated the leakage of information.
But even with the published losses, the situation is ambiguous. From the very beginning of the invasion, Russian special services and propaganda launched a powerful mechanism, the task of which was to introduce confusion into the lists of those killed. With the help of disinformation in the media and social networks, in a number of cases they managed to distort reality - names and surnames, dates of birth and death, belonging to the RF Armed Forces (as was the case with the killed contract soldier of the 18th Motorized Rifle Brigade Denis Khusainov, who became known in the media as a militant of the "LNR "). One of the main goals of such an informational chaos is to cut off all the links leading the press and others interested in the topic to the relatives of the killed soldiers, who, having not yet received compensation for their silence, could tell a lot of interesting things.
As a result of a new OSINT investigation (open source intelligence), the InformNapalm international intelligence community has obtained evidence of a remarkable distortion of information about a Russian contract soldier from the 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade from Chechnya, who was killed in eastern Ukraine in August 2014 ( see Part I. The Forgotten "Hero"). At the same time, we sum up some of the results of the three-year work of the community and present summary information about the 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade, which has appeared more than once in our publications in the context of the so-called. Ukrainian business trips. The generalized data and infographics clearly reflect information about the structure, weapons and features of this unit, as well as the personal data of the commanders who gave criminal orders, and the contractors who carried out these orders (see. Part II. The shameful combat path of the 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade. infographic).
Part I. Forgotten "hero"
During the study of information in in social networks in the tape of one of the groups of the 17th separate motorized rifle brigade, a curious record(archive), dated March 22, 2017. The author of the post is Azaliya Sadykova. She writes (spelling retained): “Hi, is there anyone here serving in Shali now? You can throw off a photo of the monument to the fallen soldiers photo please if it's not difficult" .
This message, of course, interested us, especially since the mentioned monument appeared more than once in our past investigations. We are talking about a memorial stele in the 17th motorized rifle brigade stationed in Chechnya, in Shali, on which the names of Russian servicemen killed in Ukraine in August 2014 are indicated. For the first time about this stele in the fall of 2014 wrote Ukrainian investigative blogger Askai.
Subsequently, this monument more than once became the subject of controversy, reaching the point of absurdity: in some forums, "Russians" (or rather, paid trolls) tried to present this monument as "a bad photoshop of Ukrainian provocateurs." However, later the stele was taken more than once from other angles, so its authenticity is beyond doubt. But the latest data suggests that the Russian military command accidentally or deliberately misrepresented the name of at least one of the killed servicemen.
Gathering all the facts together and building a logical chain with the appropriate evidence was not so easy. Moreover, the family of the newly identified hero of our investigation, Janhuvatova -Sadykov, apparently, she was under pressure from the Russian special services, as was the case with the family of another 200th from the same brigade, Marcel Araptanova(we provided updated information about it in March 2017).
Some details of OSINT
Ibrahim Sadykov
Date of birth 06/04/1989.
Killed in Ukraine on 08/13/2014.
Lived in the village Bykovo Volgograd region. Originally from Dagestan.
From the analysis of the profile of I. Sadykov, it follows that he has been in contract military service in the 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade (military unit 65384, Shali, Chechnya) since 2010. Rank - sergeant, presumably in the position of a reconnaissance gunner.
The main source of information is the preserved page of the late Ibrahim in the social network " OK"(archives profile, album, contacts), under the name" <<
Fathers-commanders of the 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade (2014) and the 70th SME (2017)
Major General Dmitry Valerievich Kasperovich
Born in 1976. Veteran of the Second Chechen campaign in 2001. Hero of Russia. In 2007 - commander of the 191st moto rifle regiment 201st military base in Tajikistan.
In 2014 - commander of the 17th motorized rifle brigade of the 58th army of the Southern Military District in the village. Shali, Chechnya (at the beginning of 2017 it was reorganized into the 70th SME of the 42nd MSD of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District).
Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Nikolaevich Kens
Date of birth 03/08/1980. Graduate of LVOKU (SPb VOKU) in 1999. In 2011 - commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District (Botlikh, Dagestan; in 2011 she was relocated to Adygea).
In 2015 - temp. and about. commander of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 49th Mountain Army of the Southern Military District (Maikop, Adygea); in the spring of 2017, it was reorganized into the 102nd MSP of the 150th MSD of the 8th army of the Southern Military District with relocation to the Rostov region, the Kadamovsky training ground.
In 2017 - commander of the 70th motorized rifle regiment of the 42nd motorized rifle division of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District in the village. Shali, Chechen Republic (formed from the former 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade).
A scandal is connected with the name of S. Kens. In 2014 some Russian media illuminated (archive) trial with the participation of servicemen of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Brigade, who refused to carry out the criminal orders of the Kremlin. Then Kens, who was the acting brigade commander, cynically asserted that the servicemen of the Maykop brigade were not sent to the Donbass in Ukraine either. Russian troops no. Moreover, he was one of the initiators of criminal cases for desertion against soldiers who refused to obey illegal orders.
Identification of machine gunner "X"
In addition, we were able to identify the previously unidentified machine gunner "X", listed in the publication dated February 12, 2017, under No. 4, posing along with other colleagues - veterans of the so-called. Ukrainian business trip, pictured in September 2014.
Viktor Grigorievich Kalinichenko
Date of birth 02.05.1993
A native of Gelendzhik Krasnodar Territory(listed in the address database).
He served in the Airborne Forces in 2012-2013. As of 2014, a contract serviceman of the 17th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
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The 70th Guards SME has been in Chechnya since the spring of 2000, stationed three kilometers from the regional center of Shali. As in Khankala and elsewhere, the territory of the garrison is completely fenced, covered from different sides by minefields, and guarded by several outposts. In addition to them, near the checkpoint of the unit, a reinforced anti-terror company is vigilantly on duty, ready, in the event of a bandit attack on any of the outposts, to plunge into combat vehicles and advance to the area assigned by the command. In a word, as they say, the situation is the most combative.
The process of staffing the regiment exclusively with contract servicemen began as early as April 2004. True, the majority of servicemen under contract in the 70th MRR are former "conscripts", as a rule, who have served on conscription for at least a year and a half. But the officers in the regiment are exclusively regular, there are no so-called "jackets" - two-year-olds with stars on shoulder straps. Of course, senior commanders would be more to their liking if personnel officers sent to their unit for the positions of platoon commanders not recent graduates of military universities, but those lieutenants who had already been “run-in” in other units, having managed to command the younger conscripts. After all, not every twenty-two-year-old young man, even a regular military man, can be a subtle psychologist, will be able to quickly find mutual language with healthy men who are well over 30, and even more so to gain authority from them! Although over the past six months, the commander of the 70th SME Guards, Colonel Mikhail Nosulev, managed to prepare 5 future full-fledged company commanders from fifty lieutenants sent to him.
The secret of your pedagogical excellence Nosulev conveys in a few words:
When I see a sparkle in an officer's eyes, I can work with him. Yes, and the combat situation forces from time to time to take up textbooks, because the responsibility for people here is higher than in "peaceful" garrisons. Lieutenants who themselves wanted to get here become warriors. And we have to weed out those who were not morally ready for this, who were sent here without taking into account personal opinion. Such people almost immediately begin to give up, give in - send, second ...
The commander of the unit speaks especially laudatory of the graduates of the Novosibirsk Military Institute (Novosibirsk Higher All-Arms Command School) and their store of knowledge.
Mikhail Yakovlevich Nosulev himself began his service as a soldier in the Limited Contingent Soviet troops in Afghanistan, where he was wounded. After graduating from the tank school in Samarkand, he spent 5 years in Germany, in the Western Group of Forces, where at that time he took 4th place in combat training among tank company commanders. Then there was the Academy of Armored Forces, service in various parts SKVO. And since the autumn of 1999 he has been in Chechnya. According to many officers, their commander is an ardent workaholic. It was thanks to his diligence and perseverance that the main sections of the largest divisional training ground in Chechnya in Shali were equipped in the very first year after the 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment began quartering here. And this construction was carried out very difficult - in conditions of high activity of gangs.
The subject of special pride of Colonel Nosulev (among other sites and training facilities of the training ground) is the so-called "scout trail". Every day, two reconnaissance groups are sent from the unit to combat missions, mainly for a day, so they equipped such a site on the ground, within which brave guys are now trained and trained. The length of this "path" is 900 m. It includes ceilings, buildings, containers, niches, trenches, a system of locks (which can also be used), ditches with water, a section of the railway track, telegraph poles with wires and a firing line at the final segment. The creators of the "path" tried to take into account as much as possible all the possible obstacles that may arise for fighters performing, for example, reconnaissance and search or reconnaissance and ambush actions.
As a rule, military personnel of one reconnaissance platoon compete simultaneously on the "reconnaissance trail", divided into 2 groups, each with 9-12 people: shooters, snipers, sappers, doctors, signalmen, group commanders. From the personnel of the reconnaissance units, only the mechanics-drivers and gunners-operators of the BMP are absent, who act at the training ground in the same way as in a real combat situation: the main personnel disembark from the armor in a given area, the equipment leaves, and the scouts move to another place, to start from there. There is no strictly established time limit for passing the "scout trail". The command evaluates the work of subordinates by the speed of action and the combat coherence of groups. Exercise scenarios (and hence goals and objectives) can also be different. For example, if a group, the first and in full force to come to the line of opening fire, engages in battle with a mock enemy before the main forces approach and hits all targets, then it is considered more prepared.
Simulating the situation of an unforeseen meeting with the enemy, as well as getting into the territory with mines (or tripwire grenades on the "path" in places unfamiliar to scouts), sappers preliminarily install explosion simulators, which are almost identical to warheads in terms of noise impact. A soldier must hear explosions, even go deaf a little, in order to be psychologically prepared for anything in a war. Otherwise, in a difficult real situation, he may be frightened, which, in turn, may lead to unjustified losses. Naturally, imitation charges are placed a little away from a predetermined route for the movement of groups, so as not to accidentally harm people's health.
It is very difficult to pass this obstacle course. Leg or arm injuries are possible, you can fall from an icy log into a ditch with ice water and move on wet and under the piercing January wind. Such a fall is regarded by the commanders as a conditional irretrievable loss as a result of falling into the abyss. You will not envy the reconnaissance signalmen, who are simply obliged, after several hundred meters of overcoming various kinds of obstacles, to climb a six-meter mast in order to connect to the wires at its very top and listen to the enemy.
Although candidates for regimental intelligence are selected from all units (of course, the most healthy in body and physically resilient), the vast majority of them are experienced people sent by the military registration and enlistment offices, who once served in reconnaissance companies, special forces units, who have established themselves as class specialists, good athletes. According to the officers, it takes at least two years for the best conscript soldier to grow up to their level. But these "uncles" initial stage staying in the regiment can withstand the pace set by the commanders-mentors on the "scout trail", far from the first time.
The "scout path" was built in the spring of 2004, and since then each of the 12 reconnaissance groups in the regiment must pass through it once a week - so as not to lose their skills. Here they are - miraculous heroes from under Shali.
The Russian Defense Ministry decided to re-form the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (42 MSD) in Chechnya. In 2009 the legendary military unit, once considered the "most belligerent" in the Russian Armed Forces, was disbanded former minister defense Anatoly Serdyukov. Instead of 42 MSD in Chechnya, separate motorized rifle brigades were created, which will now again be united into a division and will cover state border.
At present, the decision has already been made and work on reorganizing the division has begun, ”an informed source in the military department told Izvestia. - The division will be formed on the basis of three motorized rifle brigades, which are now based in the Republic of Chechnya. These brigades will be reorganized into motorized rifle regiments of the division.
According to Izvestia, the Russian military department plans to finally form the division within the next year.
42 MSD originates from the 111th Rifle Division, formed in 1940 in the Kiev Special Military District. During the Great Patriotic War, for the courage and heroism shown in the battles against the Nazi invaders, the formation was transformed into the 24th Guards Rifle Division. Later, for the liberation of the city of Evpatoria, the division received the honorary name "Evpatoria", and for the capture of Sevastopol, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
After the Second World War, the division changed its serial number, becoming the 42nd Guards MSD. The formation, relocated to the city of Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, became a training center where, until 1992, future tankers, signalmen, anti-aircraft gunners, motorized riflemen and even doctors were trained. After the aggravation of the situation in the North Caucasus Training Center was disbanded.
At the end of 1999, the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to revive the 42 MSD and deploy it on a permanent basis in the Republic of Chechnya. Four motorized rifles and one artillery regiment, reconnaissance and engineering battalions of the newly created division were fully staffed with contract servicemen. Despite the ongoing fighting, a unique social infrastructure was created in Chechnya, and the fighters of the unit lived not in barracks, but in dormitories.
In addition to participating in the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya, units and subunits of the 42nd MSD played an important role during the fighting with Georgia in August 2008. Thus, the personnel of the 70th and 71st motorized rifle and 50th artillery regiments, as well as the 417th reconnaissance battalion, made a many-kilometer march from Chechnya to South Ossetia, overcame the Roki Tunnel and immediately entered into battle with the Georgian forces. In the future, the fighters of the division participated in the defeat of the enemy already on the territory of Georgia.
The division traveled more than 300 km along mountain serpentines in the most difficult conditions. At the same time, the march took less than a day, - Anton Lavrov, one of the authors of the book "Tanks of August", dedicated to the Russian-Georgian conflict of 2008, told Izvestia. - Soldiers of the 42nd Motor Rifle Division liberated Tskvinval and then took part in the attack on the Georgian Gori. Although the personnel of the division did not enter the city itself and therefore did not get into the lenses of television cameras, they did the most important task- Blocked Gori and held the approaches to the city.
In 2009, by decision of the Ministry of Defense, the division was disbanded, separate motorized rifle brigades were created from its two regiments, the rest of the units and subunits were disbanded, and the personnel were dismissed or transferred to other positions.
Later, the 1st Guards Tank Regiment was transferred to the place of the 291st regiment of the 42nd MSD in the village of Borzoi from Alabino near Moscow. Already in Chechnya, the regiment surrendered its tanks and turned into the 8th Mountain Rifle Brigade. On the emblem new brigade, where there is not a single tank, until recently, a cuirass was painted (a symbol of the armored forces. - Izvestia), as well as alpenstocks, showing that the military unit belongs to the mountain infantry. A strange combination of symbols on the emblem of the unit gave rise to jokes about "mountain tank climbers" capable of "conquering Elbrus" on tanks.
Previously, three brigades in the Republic of Chechnya were intended primarily to provide assistance to local law enforcement in conducting counter-terrorist operations, - told Izvestia Chief Editor branch magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Viktor Murakhovsky. - These military units had in many respects a unique staff and weapons, designed primarily for solving anti-terrorist tasks. But at present the main task brigades have changed - they are involved in covering the state border, and in case of war they must hold the enemy’s offensive, then defeat him with a counterattack. For such actions, a more heavily armed and numerous division is better suited, which, unlike brigades, can be more autonomous at the expense of its own resources and solve a fairly wide range of tasks both in defense and in the offensive.
Addition. "The 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division since 2003 was not part of the 58th OA, but was subordinate to the district." , - said Andrey Zhukov, who in the period from January to July 2006 served in the 42nd motorized rifle division as the chief of staff of the 1st motorized brigade of the 71st guards.
The history of the 42nd Guards Evpatoria Red Banner Motorized Rifle Division of the 58th Army of the North Caucasian Military District begins on the eve of the Great Patriotic War. The division was formed in July 1940 in Vologda as 111th Rifle on the basis of the 29th reserve brigade of the Arkhangelsk military district.
AT active army from June 22, 1941 to March 17, 1942. On June 22, 1941, stationed in summer camps near Vologda.On July 16, 1940, the division was fully formed. July 16, 1940 - the day of the unit. Until March 1941, the 111th Rifle Division was maintained by a staff of 3,000.
According to the “Information on the deployment of the Armed Forces of the USSR in the event of a war in the West”, prepared by N.F. Vatutin on May 13, 1941, the 111th Rifle Division was supposed to be included as a separate formation in the 28th Army.
From June 10 to June 20, 1941, the 111th SD was replenished with 6,000 assigned personnel. The peacetime staff No. 4/120 in the spring of 1941 was 5,900 people.
By the beginning of World War II, the division included:
- 399th Infantry Regiment (Vologda, commander - Major A.P. Filippov);
- 468th Infantry Regiment (Vologda, commander - Lieutenant Colonel D.D. Vorobyov);
- 532nd Infantry Regiment (Gryazovets, Vologda Oblast, commander - Major Vlasov);
- 286th light artillery regiment (Vologda);- 561st howitzer artillery regiment (Vologda, until October 1, 1941);
- 267th separate anti-tank fighter division (Vologda);- 466th separate anti-aircraft artillery division (Vologda);
- 146th reconnaissance battalion (Vologda);
- 181st engineer battalion (Vologda);
- 223rd separate communications battalion (Vologda);
- 120th medical battalion (Vologda);
- 119th separate company chemical protection;
- 189th motor transport company (Vologda);
- 490th pkhz; - 1005th dvl;
- 1608th field post station;
- 1652nd pkg.
Division command:
- Ivanov Ivan Mikhailovich (07/16/1940 - 07/12/1941) colonel (died near the village of Maramorka, Pskov region);
- Roginsky Sergey Vasilievich (07/13/1941 - 03/17/1942), colonel.
March 17, 1942 for courage and courage shown in battles with the German invaders, for discipline, organization, heroism of the personnel of the 111th rifle division by order of the NPO of the USSR No. 78 was transformed into 24th Guards Rifle Division.
The division included:
- 70th Guards Rifle Regiment;
- 71st Guards Rifle Regiment;
- 72nd Guards Rifle Regiment;
- 50th Guards Artillery Regiment.
The 71st Guards Rifle Regiment was awarded the Order of Kutuzov 3rd degree, the 72nd was given the honorary name "Königsberg".
For high military skill, valor and courage, over 14,000 officers, sergeants and soldiers of the division were awarded orders and medals, 11 people were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union, P. Koshevoy twice, 4 became full holders of the Order of Glory.
At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the division was withdrawn to the Bryansk region and included in the Smolensk military district. Here the division was reorganized into 3rd Separate Guards Evpatoria Red Banner Rifle Brigade.
In February 1946, the Smolensk Military District was disbanded and the brigade became part of the Moscow Military District.
By September 1, 1949, the division was redeployed to the city of Grozny of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and reorganized into 24th Guards Evpatoria Red Banner Mountain Rifle Division North Caucasus Military District, which took place in 1950, rearmament for carrying out in 1951-1954. mountain training.
On June 1, 1957, the connection was converted to 42nd Guards Evpatoria Red Banner Motor Rifle Division 12th Army Corps.All regiments of the division and their numbers remained the same.
In the late 1960s the division became a training division.In 1987, the 42nd Guards Training Motorized Rifle Evpatoria Red Banner Division was reorganized into the 173rd Guards District Training Evpatoria Red Banner Training Center for junior specialists (motorized rifle troops).
The division was equipped with a double staff of armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition. In case of war, it was supposed to create two full-blooded divisions on its base. One already was and only from training it became combat. The second was mobilized by the local population. For her, the second state of weapons, ammunition and ammunition, which were stored in her arsenals, was intended.
By the summer of 1991, the training division had more than 400 armored vehicles. Basically, these were tanks: T-62, T-72, BMP-1, various MTLB special vehicles and so on.
The District Training Center included:
- 70th Guards Training Motorized Rifle Regiment (Grozny);
- 71st Guards Training Motorized Rifle Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Regiment (Grozny);
- 72nd Guards Training Motor Rifle Königsberg Red Banner Regiment (Grozny);
- 392nd Training Tank Regiment (Shali);
- 50th Guards Training Artillery Regiment (Grozny);
- 1203rd training anti-aircraft artillery regiment;
- 95th Separate Training Missile Division (Grozny);
- 479th separate training battalion of communications (Grozny);
- 539th separate training engineer-sapper battalion (Shali);
- 367th separate training automobile battalion;
- 106th separate medical training battalion.
From September to December 1991, part of the equipment and weapons were withdrawn from Chechnya along railway. But no more than 20% of the funds available there.
In 1992, the 173rd Guards District Training Center was disbanded. Directive of the General Staff No. 314/3/0159 dated January 4, 1992, the 173rd Guards District Training Center was to be disbanded, and weapons were to be removed.
By cipher telegram of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army P.S. Grachev dated May 20, 1992, the commander of the North Caucasus Military District was allowed to transfer to the Chechen Republic from the presence of the 173rd guards training center military equipment and weapons 50 percent.
In 1992, when the division was disbanded, the Chechen Republic received: 42 tanks, 36 BMP-2s, 14 armored personnel carriers, 44 MTLBs, 139 guns and mortars, 101 anti-tank weapons, 27 systems salvo fire, 2 helicopters, 268 aircraft, of which 5 are combat, 57,000 units small arms, 27 wagons of ammunition, 3 thousand tons of fuel and lubricants, 254 tons of food.
In December 1999, it was decided to deploy the division on a permanent basis in the Chechen Republic. At the same time, the arrangement of the places of deployment of the division began, which was completed during 2000. The division became part of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Red Banner North Caucasian Military District.
In March 2000, in accordance with the directive of the Chief of the General Staff, the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Volga Military District became part of the 71st Motorized Rifle Regiment formed on the territory Chechen Republic 42nd motorized rifle division.
For this, a military camp with all the infrastructure was set up in the village of Khankala in the suburbs of Grozny. 20 prefabricated modular barracks, a hospital, and several storage hangars have been erected here.
On April 1, 2000, in the city of Podolsk, Moscow Region, the 478th Separate Guards Order of the Red Star Communications Battalion (battalion commander - Guards Major D. Polynkov) was awarded Battle Banner. By the directive of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the battalion was included in the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division with deployment in the Chechen Republic.
At the beginning of April 2000, the 478th Guards Obs was sent to the place of permanent deployment.
April 4, 2000 from N. p. Alabino, Moscow Region, the 72nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Koenigsberg Red Banner, formed on the basis of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Taman Order, left for the division October revolution Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division named after M.I. Kalinin. The regiment was relocated to the village of Kalinovskaya, Naursky district, without military equipment. The regiment has 2,500 troops. They were recruited from the Moscow and other military districts. During April 2000, the regiment received weapons and equipment and units arrived at their places of permanent deployment.
According to the directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Military District also formed the division's directorate. In the future, the MVO carries out the rotation of officers and ensigns.
In the division of military personnel passing military service under the contract up to 50%, conscripted military personnel served for at least 6 months.
May 15, 2000 in Kalinovskaya began to equip the regiment. In early July 2000, the regiment's camp went into operation.
In mid-April 2000, the 291st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was sent from the Leningrad Military District to the place of permanent deployment in Chechnya.
At first, it was decided to place the regiment in the settlement. Itum-Kale. At the end of June 2000, it was decided to deploy the regiment in the settlement. Borzoi because of the difficult terrain and for the sake of cost savings.
On April 28, 2000, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Marshal I.D. Sergeev reported to the acting President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin on the completion of the formation of the 42nd motorized rifle division.
On May 1, 2000, the formation of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was completed. The division and regiments were awarded Battle Banners, but without orders and registration cards. Not transferred to the headquarters of the division and the historical form of the connection.
The government allocated 1.5 billion dollars for the development of military camps and forts, and 6,000 military builders and civilian specialists, as well as about 450 units of construction equipment, participated in their development.
Since May 2000, the 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment has been serving in the village of Shali. It is staffed by 35% with contract soldiers and sergeants, mainly from the Tyumen region. The battalions of the regiment consist of four companies.
By the end of July 2000, the 1st stage of the deployment of the division was completed. In Khankala, the restoration of capital buildings and technical facilities was completed; in the Kalinovskaya garrison, a complex of buildings and structures was put into operation. In the Borzoi garrison, work was completed by the end of 2000.
The 2nd stage of the division's equipping was completed in 2001, the construction of the parking garage and utility and storage areas of the garrison was completed.
The division is deployed in four garrisons and in its composition (15,000 people - 1450 officers and 600 ensigns, 130 tanks, 350 armored combat vehicles, 200 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 100 artillery pieces caliber above 100 mm, 5 heavy bridge layers) includes 5 regiments, 9 separate battalions and divisions and support units:
- Division Headquarters (Khankala);
- 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment (Shali village);
- 71st Guards Motor Rifle Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Regiment (Khankala);
- 72nd Guards Motorized Rifle Koenigsberg Red Banner Regiment (village of Kalinovskaya, Naursky Districton, 2600 people, military unit 42839);- 291st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment (settlement Borzoi);
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50th Guards Artillery Regiment (Khankala); (Blogger's addition
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Correct, fifty kopecks - he is in Shali. At least until 2005 he was definitely there.
Medbat is also in Shali. From 2003 to 2005, I saw him there with my own eyes, if a year before / a year after he was not there / was gone, I would have known.)
- 478th Separate Guards Order of the Red Star Signal Battalion (Khankala);- 539th separate engineer-sapper battalion;
- 524th separate repair and restoration battalion;
- 474th separate battalion of material support;
- 106th separate medical battalion.The regiments in Shali and Itum-Kale were placed in fortresses.
For them, fortifications were built taking into account protection from fire damage.
In Itum-Kale, a deep ditch was dug around the perimeter of the fortress to enhance the security of military personnel. Firing points were installed on the fortress towers to control the surrounding territories. On the heights located around the fortress, 6 points of fire support for the garrison of the fortress, as well as other fortifications, were created.
As part of the ongoing reform in the armed forces Russian Federation three motorized rifle brigades were created on the basis of the 42nd motorized rifle division constant readiness a new organizational and staffing structure of about 3.5 thousand people each. The brigade headquarters are located in settlements Khankala, Shali and Borzoi.
Division History Author - Former Deputy Commander - Chief of Staff 1 motorized rifle battalion 71st Guards Motorized Rifle Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Regiment 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Evpatoria Red Banner Division of the Red Banner North Caucasian Military District Reserve Captain ZHUKOV ANDREI YEVGENIEVICH.
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