25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
The 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Sevastopol Red Banner named after the Latvian Riflemen is a brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, which traces its history to the 13th Guards Rifle Regiment.
Medal commemorating "50 years of the Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Motor Rifle Regiment named for the Latvian Riflemen," 1990.
Vasily Filippovich Margelov was a Red Army General who was the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Vasily Margelov
An Il-76 transport loading paratroops in 1984
Monument in Chișinău