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19th Motor Rifle Division
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The 19th Voronezh-Shumlinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Red Banner of Labor Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 19-я мотострелковая Воронежско-Шумлинская Краснознамённая, орденов Суворова и Трудового Красного Знамени дивизия, romanized: 19-ya motostrelkovaya Voronezhsko-Shumlinskaya Krasnoznamonnaya, ordenov Suvorova i Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni diviziya), is a division of the Russian Ground Forces. It appears to have been formed originally in July 1922 at Tambov in the Moscow Military District as a territorial formation. In 1923 it was awarded the 'Tambov' placename and renamed the 19th Voronezh Rifle Division. The division was downsized to a brigade in 2009 and reestablished as a division in 2020.
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19th Rifle Division (1922–1957) 92nd Motor Rifle Division 19th Motor Rifle Division (1965–2009, 2020–Present) | |
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19-я мотострелковая Воронежско-Шумлинская Краснознамённая, орденов Суворова и Трудового Красного Знамени дивизия | |
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Active | 1922–2009 2020–present |
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Type | Mechanized infantry |
Size | Division |
Part of | 58th Combined Arms Army |
Garrison/HQ | Vladikavkaz |
Engagements | World War II
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive[1] |
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Current commander | Colonel Dmitri Ivanovich Uskov |