20th Guards Motor Rifle Division
The 20th Motor Rifle Division (Cyrillic: 20 гвардейская мотострелковая Прикарпатско-Берлинская дивизия) is a formation of the Russian Ground Forces, originally formed within the Soviet Red Army as the 3rd Mechanised Corps.
Read more about 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division: The First Formation of 1940, The Second Formation of 1942, Order of Battle in 1989-90, Germany, Footnotes
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