7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division

7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division
(1 Dec 2006 – present)
7th Guards Airborne Division
(Sep 1948 – 1 Dec 2006)
7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division; (1 Dec 2006 – present) 7th Guards Airborne Division; (Sep 1948 – 1 Dec 2006)
Russian: 7-я гвардейская десантно-штурмовая (горная) Краснознамённая орденов Суворова и Кутузова дивизия
	Great emblem of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division
Active	1942–1945 (1st formation); 1948–present (2nd formation)
Country	Soviet Union; (1942–1991); Russia; (1991–present)
Branch	Russian Airborne Forces
Part of	Russian Armed Forces
Garrison/HQ	Novorossiysk
Motto(s)	Мужество, отвага, честь!; (Courage, valor, honor!)
Engagements	World War II; Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Operation Danube; Black January; First Chechen War; Second Chechen War; War of Dagestan; Russo-Ukrainian War War in Donbas; Invasion of Ukraine Southern Ukraine offensive Battle of Kherson; Battle of Mykolaiv; ; 2023 Ukrainian Counteroffensive; ; ;
Decorations	Guards; Order of the Red Banner; Order of Suvorov; Order of Kutuzov
Commanders
Current; commander	Col. Aleksandr Kornev
Notable; commanders	Maj. Gen. Dmitry Drychkin; Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky †

The 7th Guards Mountain Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Air Assault Division is the only elite guards (other than Spetsnaz VDV) division of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) (Military Unit Number 61756) responsible for mountain warfare and jungle warfare.

The 7th Guards Airborne Division was formed in September 1948 based on 322nd Guards Rifle Regiment which fought in Eastern Europe in World War II. In October 1948 the division was relocated to Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Cold War period, the division served in the suppression of the Hungarian and Czech revolutions. In August 1993, the division was relocated to Novorossisk, Russia. It took part in various counter-insurgency operations in the Caucasus region. On 1 December 2006 it was renamed as 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division.

In 2014 the division's 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment took part in the war in Donbas in Ukraine.^[3]

Since February 2022 the division has been heavily engaged in the invasion of Ukraine with its commanding general having been reportedly killed in action on February 28, 2022.^[4]^[5]

^ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022". Critical Threats. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Institute for the Study of War".
^ Sutyagin, Igor (March 2015). "RUSI Briefing Paper: Russian Forces in Ukraine" (PDF). Royal United Services Institute. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
^ "Russian Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky killed by Ukrainians in blow to Putin". The Independent. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
^ "Offenbar zweiter russischer General getötet". Faz.net. 8 March 2022.

[1] "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022". Critical Threats. Retrieved 6 August 2023.

[2] "Institute for the Study of War".

[RUSI-3] Sutyagin, Igor (March 2015). "RUSI Briefing Paper: Russian Forces in Ukraine" (PDF). Royal United Services Institute. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2016.

[independent1-4] "Russian Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky killed by Ukrainians in blow to Putin". The Independent. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-15.

[autogenerated1-5] "Offenbar zweiter russischer General getötet". Faz.net. 8 March 2022.

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