34th Guards Artillery Division
military unit
The 34th Guards Artillery Perekop Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division (Russian: 34-я гвардейская артиллерийская Перекопская Краснознамённая, ордена Суворова дивизия) was an artillery division of the Soviet Ground Forces and the Russian Ground Forces. It was formed after the Second World War in Potsdam as the 34th Artillery Division and served there with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In 1993 it inherited the honors of the disbanded 2nd Guards Artillery Division. The division withdrew to Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, in 1994 and was disbanded in 2009.
History
The division was formed as the 34th Artillery Division as part of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany's 4th Artillery Corps at Potsdam from 25 June to 9 July 1945. It included the 30th and 38th Guards and the 148th Cannon Artillery Brigades. In 1953, the 4th Artillery Corps was disbanded and the division was directly subordinated to the GSFG Staff.
In 1958, the 38th Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade was renamed the 243rd Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment. In 1960, the 30th Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade became the 248th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment. The 148th Cannon Artillery Brigade returned to the Soviet Union in 1960 with the 6th Artillery Division.
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