4th Guards Tank Division
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The 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Tank Division (Kantemirovites, Kantemirovskaya Division, or Kantemir Division), (Russian: 4-я гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия имени Ю. В. Андропова, romanized: 4-ya gvardeyskaya tankovaya Kantemirovskaya diviziya imeni Yu. V. Andropova), is a Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces. It is named after Yuri Andropov.
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4-я гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия имени Ю. В. Андропова | |
Active | 1942–2010 2013–present |
Country | Russia |
Branch | Russian Ground Forces |
Type | Armored |
Size | 12-14,000 soldiers[citation needed] |
Part of | 1st Guards Tank Army Western Military District |
Garrison/HQ | Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast |
Nickname(s) | Kantemirovskaya |
Patron | Yuri Andropov |
Motto(s) | Honour and glory |
Equipment | T-80U,[1] T-80UYe-1,[2] 2S1M1,[3] 2B11,[4] Msta-S,[1] BMP-2,[3] BTR-82А,[5] Uragan,[6] Grad,[1] Tornado-G,[7] Strela-10,[8] Tor,[2] Tiger, BREM-1, P-240TMN, R-142N, R-166[8] |
Engagements | World War II 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt 1993 Russian constitutional crisis First Chechen War South Ossetia – 1997 Second Chechen War Kosovo War Russo-Ukrainian War |
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Honorifics | Kantemirovka |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Colonel Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zhuravlyov |
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It has 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, 70 kilometers (43 mi) southwest of Moscow.