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4th Guards Tank Division
Summary
The 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Tank Division (Kantemirovites, Kantemirovskaya Division, or Kantemir Division), (4-я гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия имени Ю. В. Андропова), is a Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces. It is named after Yuri Andropov.
It has the Military Unit Number 19612 and is one of the key formations of the Western Military District. All of its units, as well as headquarters, are based in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, south-west of Moscow.
The direct ancestor of the Division was the Red Army's 17th Tank Corps, initially formed in Stalingrad in 1942 shortly after the 1941 start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The 17th Tank Corps commenced combat operations on 26 June 1942, when it deployed to the west of Voronezh, just prior to the Battle of Voronezh. For distinction in combat during the Operation Little Saturn between 17 December and 30 December 1942, the 17th Tank Corps was renumbered the 4th Guards Tank Corps in January 1943. The Corps received the honorific Kantemirovskaya after the village of Kantemirovka in Kantemirovsky District, Voronezh Oblast, which its tank sub-units liberated from German occupation in their baptism of fire.
In August 1943, the 4th Guards Tank Corps conducted continuous combat operations on the Belgorod-Kharkiv sector of the Kursk Bulge. For the courage and heroism shown during the liberation of cities in right-bank Ukraine, including Zbarazh, Ternopil, and Shepetovka in April 1944, the Corps was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Seventeen regiments and separate battalions were awarded honorifics of Shepetovsky, Zhitomirsky, Yampolsky, and Tarnopolsky, in honor of the cities they had taken.
The 4th Guards Tank Corps participated in the 1945 battle for Kraków, for which it was awarded the Order of Lenin. It was among the first Red Army formations to reach the river Elbe, and participated in the capture of Dresden in Germany.
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