4th Tank Corps In accordance with
State Committee of Defence (NKO) Order No. 724218сс оf 31 March 1942, the 4th
Tank Corps was established in the
Voronezh area in April 1942. By order of the NKO of the USSR No. 57 dated February 7, 1943, in recognition of the courage and heroism of its personnel, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the "Guards" honorary title, and transformed into the 5th Guards Tank Corps.
5th Guards Tank Corps In the final stages of the
Battle of Stalingrad, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the honorary title "Stalingrad" by NKO Order No. 42 of 27 January 1943. The corps participated in the following operations: • the Kursk strategic defensive operation (
Battle of Kursk, from 5 July 1943 - 23 July 1943. • Belogorod-Kharkov offensive operation (
Operation Rumyantsev) 3 August 1943 - 23 August 1943. On 6 November 1943 the 5th Guards Tank Corps was awarded the honorary title "Kiev" by a
Prikaz of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. • [08/26/1943 - 09/30/1944] • Sumy-Priluki Operation [08/26/1943 - 09/30/1943] • Kyiv Strategic Offensive Operation (
Battle of Kiev (1943)) • Kyiv defensive operation, (1943), 13 November - 22 December 1943 •
Dnieper–Carpathian offensive (Seizure of Right-Bank Ukraine), 12 December 1943 - 17 April 1944. •
Zhytomyr-Berdichev operation [12/24/1943 - 01/14/1944] •
Korsun-Shevchenko operation [01/24/1944 - 02/17/1944] •
Umansko-Botoshanskaya operation •
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive, 20 August 1944 - 29 August 1944. • Debrecen Offensive (
Battle of Debrecen), 6 October 1944 - 28 October 1944. •
Budapest Offensive •
Vienna Offensive [03/16/1945 - 04/15/1945] •
Bratislava–Brno offensive (at its final stage) •
Prague Offensive [05/06/1945 - 05/11/1945] •
Soviet invasion of Manchuria [08/09/1945 - 09/02/1945] •
Khingan-Mukden offensive operation [08/09/1945 - 09/02/1945] On 14 September 1945, the corps was reorganized into a division.
5th Guards Tank Division On 14 September 1945, on the basis of the order of the NKO of the USSR No. 0013 dated June 10, 1945, the corps, within the overall
demobilization process, was reorganised as the
5th "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov" Guards Tank Division (First Formation). Immediately after the war the division was part of the 6th Guards Tank Army. From September 1945 to June 1957 the division formed part of the
6th Guards Tank Army (briefly 6th Guards Mechanised Army).
122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division On 29 June 1957 the
5th Guards Tank Division became the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division. From 1976 to 1989 it formed part of the
36th Army. When the
41st Guards Rocket Division of the
Strategic Rocket Forces disbanded in 2001, "for a long time" there was no decision on the future use of the empty
Aleysk military garrison, containing housing, a school, three kindergartens, a swimming pool, and "an enormous amount of equipment that was discarded outside the city limits". "The maintenance of these facilities turned out to be too expensive for the small city of Aleysk." But a decision was made "at the beginning of summer [mid-2001]." A motor rifle division of the
Siberian Military District was to arrive to replace the SRF personnel. Later the division was identified as the 122nd Guards. Thus the 122nd Guards MGAD became a motor-rifle division.
35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade In 2009 (June) the division became the 35th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. The brigade allegedly took part in the
war in Donbas in the
Luhansk Oblast in 2014. == Invasion of Ukraine ==