On 1 February 2021 the revival of the 75th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment at
Sovetsk (until 1946 - the city of Tilsit), formerly part of the
40th Guards Tank Division, was reported.[2] It was reported that the new regiment would form part of the newly forming motor rifle division of the 11th Army Corps, likely a revived
1st Guards Motor Rifle Division. Sovetsk is located on the banks of the
Neman River on the border with Lithuania, where the shortest land route to the border with the main part of Russia begins.
The Corps included an artillery brigade (with
BM-27 Uragan and
BM-30 Smerch heavy rocket launchers), missile and motor rifle brigades, and regiments for tanks, motor rifle and air defense.[3]
Military actions
After February 24, 2022, the corps was committed to the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 26th October 2022, Reuters published a special report regarding the defeat and retreat of an 11th Army detachment under colonel Ivan Popov and thousands of documents left in a base in Balakliia after the Ukrainian eastern
Kharkiv counteroffensive 6-8th September.[4]
In October 2022 American
military correspondentDavid Axe claimed that the 11th Army Corps was destroyed during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and would "almost certainly require many months to rest, re-equip and induct draftees in order to regain even a fraction of its former strength."[5]
152nd Guards Rocket Brigade [
ru] (
Chernyakhovsk) The brigade traces its history back to the 3rd Destroyer (istrebitel'nye) Brigade of the 2nd Destroyer Division, in the combined-arms anti-tank role.[10] The brigade's first action was at the
Battle of Kursk.[11] Twelve soldiers were awarded the
Hero of the Soviet Union. [12] The 3rd Destroyer Brigade was raised to
Guards status on August 10, 1943, with the same original number retained. The formation was in the ranks of the
Active Army [
ru] (the troops fighting on the frontline) from June 12, 1942 to August 10, 1943 and from September 14, 1943 to May 9, 1945. In July-August 1943, it fought as part of the
70th Army at the
Battle of Kursk. Initially, the unit was formed as the 3rd Destroyer Brigade. It then became the 3rd Guards Destroyer Brigade and was eventually reorganized in 1943 into the 3rd Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade.[13] After the war, the brigade was in the
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and reported directly to the command of the Group of Forces. The formation was stationed in the area of Strelitz-Alt (or Alt-Strelitz) (de:Strelitz-Alt / Altstrelitz) in
Neustrelitz,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the
German Democratic Republic. In the 1960s, the brigade was reorganized into a missile formation. In the late 1980s, in the process of disbanding the GSFG, the brigade (military unit 96759) was withdrawn to Chernyakhovsk,
Kaliningrad Oblast.[14]
^List No. 7 of the Directorates of brigades of all types of troops that were part of the active army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Moscow. 1960. pp. 96, 131.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)
Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing.
ISBN9785895035306.