Composition
The division used to comprise:
- 2nd Guards Tank Vitebsk Red Banner Suvorov and Kutuzov's awards Regiment;
- 111th Guards Tank Red Banner Kutuzov's awards of Regiment;
- 125th Guards Tank Regiment;
- 143rd Guards Motor-Rifle Order of the Red Banner Regiment (Yekaterinoslavka, a constant readiness unit which changed its number from 277th Guards MRR in the late 1980s or early 1990s);
- 64th Guards self-propelled Artillery Regiment;
- 1064th Antiaircraft Rocket Regiment.
One of the machine-gun artillery divisions is deployed in Blagoveshchensk.
Circa 2004-6 the division became the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division, and its full formal title today is the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Vitebsk Lenin Order of the Red Banner Suvorov's awards Division.
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