7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division
military unit
The 7th Guards Mountain Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Air Assault Division is the only elite guards (other than Spetsnaz VDV) division of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) (Military Unit Number 61756) responsible for mountain warfare and jungle warfare.
The 7th Guards Airborne Division was formed in September 1948 based on 322nd Guards Rifle Regiment which fought in Eastern Europe in World War II. In October 1948 the division was relocated to Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Cold War period, the division served in the suppression of the Hungarian and Czech revolutions. In August 1993, the division was relocated to Novorossisk, Russia. It took part in various counter-insurgency operations in the Caucasus region. On 1 December 2006 it was renamed as 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division.
In 2014 the division's 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment took part in the war in Donbas in Ukraine.
Since February 2022 the division has been heavily engaged in the invasion of Ukraine. It successfully captured the Antonov Bridge in Kherson Oblast during an air assault, but was pushed back from its attempt to capture Mykolaiv.
History
There were two separately formed 7th Guards Airborne Divisions in the Red Army and Soviet Ground Forces/Soviet Airborne Troops.
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