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Troops of the Russian Airborne Forces have traditionally worn a blue beret and blue-striped telnyashka undershirt and are called desant (Russian: Десант), from the French Descente. The Russian Airborne Forces utilizes a range of specialist airborne warfare vehicles and are fully mechanized.
- Soviet Airborne Forces
The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno- desantnye...
- Telnyashka
Russian marines, PDSS and submarine crewmen: As branches of...
- 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade
The 4th Brigade of the Operational Assignment Serhiy...
- Blue Beret
UN blue beret being worn by Luís Carrilho, head of the...
- 76th Guards Air Assault Division
After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the division...
- Ribbon of Saint George
The ribbon of Saint George (also known as Saint George's...
- 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade
The 31st Separate Guards Order of Kutuzov 2nd class Air...
- 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade
The 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment is an airborne regiment...
- Soviet Airborne Forces
After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the division became part of the Russian Airborne Troops. The division fought in the First Chechen War, Second Chechen War, the Russo-Georgian War, and Donbas then 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, [8] including committing mass murder of civilians in Bucha. [9]
- Guards Colonel Denis Shishov
- Russian Armed Forces
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The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno- desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.
- 4 September 1941 – 14 February 1992
- Soviet Armed Forces
- Soviet Union (1941–1991), Commonwealth of Independent States (1991–1992)
- Airborne forces
Russian entry into World War I. Russian troops in the trenches at the East Prussian frontier. European diplomatic alignments shortly before the war. The Russian Empire 's entry into World War I unfolded gradually in the days leading up to July 28, 1914. The sequence of events began with Austria-Hungary 's declaration of war on Serbia, a Russian ...
The 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division is an elite guards division of the Russian Airborne Troops (Military Unit Number 61756). 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 .
- Col. Aleksandr Kornev
- Russian Armed Forces
Between 1941 and 1945, the airborne forces there, thus, effectively relegated to a separate ground force service, albeit of an elite character. 11 In the course of the war, the airborne forces’ designations and composition also changed a number of times; and by April 1945, there were only three airborne divisions in the Soviet Armed Forces.12
References. 98th Guards Airborne Division. The 98th Guards Airborne Division is an airborne division of the Russian Airborne Troops, currently based in Ivanovo . History. Second World War. During the Second World War, the formation began its existence as the 98th Guards Rifle Division ( ru:98-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия ).
