The 7th Guards Mountain Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Air Assault Division is the only elite guards division of the Russian Airborne Forces responsible for mountain warfare and jungle warf
An-12 Soviet military-transport plane
2S9 Nona self-propelled artillery vehicle
The 56th Guards Air Assault Orders of Kutuzov and the Patriotic War 1st class Don Cossack Regiment is an airborne regiment of the Russian Airborne Forces. Based at Feodosia in Crimea, the regiment is
7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division
…reformed from the battalion in the future. The regiment was reported forming in 2021 in Novostepove Crimea. In the same year, it was announced that the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade would also be re-deployed to Crimea where it would reform as a regiment and perhaps further augment the strength of the 7th Division. This plan to…
Оrganizational and staff structure of the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade in December 1986.
Soldiers of the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade performing combat duties, Wardak province, Afghanistan, June 1987.
A UAZ-469 of the brigade in Gardez during 1987.
Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Colonel General Yuriy Sadovenko visiting the 56th Guards Airborne Assault Brigade, 2014.