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97th Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)
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The 97th Guards Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 97-ма гвардійська мотострілецька дивізія, romanized: 97-ma hvardiys'ka motostrilets'ka dyviziya) was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine.
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Active | August 1941 – November 2004 |
Country | Ukraine |
Branch | Ukrainian Army |
Type | Mechanized Brigade |
Part of | 13th Army Corps |
Garrison/HQ | А-1766[1] Slavuta,[2] Khmelnytskyi Oblast |
Equipment | T-64[3] BMP-2[3] ZSU-23-4[3] 2S3 Akatsiya[3] 2S1[3] |
Engagements | World War II |
Decorations | Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky |
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The full name of the division was the "97th Guards Poltava Motor-Rifle Division, Red Banner, Suvorov's, Bogdan Khmelnitsky". After the division became part of Ukrainian Armed Forces it was known as the "97th Separate Mechanized Brigade" [uk] (97-ma okrema mekhanizovana bryhada).[4]