title: 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division
text: # 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division
  
  The 6th Guards Motor Rifle Vitebsk-Novgorod Twice Red Banner Division (Russian: 6-я гвардейская мотострелковая дивизия; Military Unit Number 68434) was a Soviet motor rifle division, which after the end of World War II was stationed on the Polish territory as part of Northern Group of Forces. It was the second formation of the 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division, and drew its history from the 90th Guards Rifle Division.
  
  ## History
  
  In an exchange of numbers, the 6th Guards Lvov Motor Rifle Division (First Formation) in Germany in 1985 became the 90th Guards Tank Division, while the 90th Guards Tank Division became the 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division. The division in Poland disbanded a tank regiment and formed a motor rifle regiment, while the division in Germany formed a tank regiment.
  
  Division headquarters was located in the town of Borne Sulinowo.
  
  In November 1985, the 65th Separate Air Assault Battalion was formed from the division's 126th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion in Białogard. Between May and November 1986, the battalion was expanded to form the 83rd Separate Air Assault Brigade under the command of Colonel V.M. Sinitsyn.
  
  The Division withdrew from Poland in 1992 and was moved to Tver in the Moscow Military District where it became the 166th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Between January and July 1996 it fought in the First Chechen War. In 1997 the brigade was disbanded and converted into the 70th Guards Base for Storage of Weapons & Equipment. The 70th VkhVT was finally disbanded in 1998.
  
  The lineage of the division is perpetuated by the 90th Guards Tank Division, reformed in 2016.
  
  ## Composition
  
  1985
  
  The division was composed of the following units.
  
  16th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
  
  82nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment – Sypniewo
  
  252nd Motor Rifle Regiment
  
  80th Tank Regiment
  
  193rd Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
  
  1082nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
  
  90th Tank Battalion
  
  54th Guards Communications Battalion
  
  465th Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
  
  101st Guards Engineer-Sapper Battalion
  
  126th Reconnaissance Battalion
  
  71st Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion
  
  1083rd Material Supply Battalion
  
  97th Medical Battalion
  
  669th Missile Battalion
  
  Commanders
  
  Major General Vladimir Vasilyevich Bulgakov (1990–1992)
  
  Notes
  
  1 2 3 4 Holm, Michael. "90th Guards Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 8 April 2016.↑ Holm, Michael. "83rd independent Landing-Assault Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2015-11-12.↑ "83-я отдельная гвардейская десантно-штурмовая бригада" [83rd Separate Guards Airborne Brigade]. structure.mil.ru (in Russian). Russian Ministry of Defense. Retrieved 8 April 2016.↑ "90th Vitebskaya-Novgorodskaya tank division of the Red Banner of the Central MD started combat training". Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  
  References
  
  Andrew Wojtaszak, Kazimierz Kozlowski: Soldier Polish Western Pomerania X-XX century: the materials of scientific session of 10 November 1999: collective work. Wilson: Department of Civic Education, 2001. ISBN 83-86992-76-X .
  
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