30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

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83rd Cavalry Division (1941-c.1944) 13th Guards Cavalry Division (c.1944-45) 11th Guards Mechanised Division (1945-57) 30th Guards Tank Division (1957-2004) 30th Mechanized Brigade (2004-present)
Brigade Insignia
Active	September 1, 1941 - December 6, 1991 December 6, 1991 - present
Country	Ukraine
Branch	Ukrainian Ground Forces
Type	Mechanized
Part of	8th Army Corps
Garrison/HQ	A0409 Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr Oblast
Engagements	World War II
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov
Battle honours	Rovno, Novohrad-Volynskyi
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Ihor Dovhan^[1]
Insignia
Guards unit
Mechanized branch insignia

The 30th Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

Full name of the Brigade is 30th Separate Guards Mechanized Novohrad-Volynskyi Rovno Orders of the Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade, (Ukrainian: 30 окрема гвардійська механізована Новоград-Волинська Рівненська орденів Червоного Прапора і Суворова бригада)^[2].

1 History
2 Division Order of Battle
3 Awards
4 Past commanders
5 References

[edit] History

[edit] First Formation

Between September 1, and October 1, 1941 in the city of Samarkand Uzbekistan the 83rd Cavalry Division was formed.

Division consisted of the following units:

215th Cavalry Regiment
226th Cavalry Regiment
231st Cavalry Regiment
Separate Chemical Squadron

From September 5, 1941 commanding officer of the Division was Lieutenant General Selivanov.

On November 7, 1941 the Division was relocated to the front. Until December 28, 1941 the Division was fortifying near the station of Lysi Gory Saratov Oblast.

First battle that the Division took part in, was near the city of Ryazhsk, Ryazan Oblast as part of the Cavalry mechanized group of the 61st Army.

[edit] Second Formation

From February 22, 1942 the 83rd Cavalry Division was transferred into the reserves.

13th Guards Cavalry Division fought at Dubno in 1944, as well as at the Battle of Debrecen and was with 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in May 1945. Both the 83rd and the 13th Guards were for a time commanded by General Major Petr Zubov.^[3] Feskov et al trace the unit's history as follows. The Division was transformed in July 1945 into 11th Guards Mechanized Division. In 1957 it became the 30th Guards Tank Division, and remained under that title until the fall of the Soviet Union.^[4]

[edit] 1990-present

The 30th Guards Tank Division, along with the rest of the 8th Tank Army and the Carpathian Military District, became part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces according to the order of Ukraine About Armed Forces of Ukraine from December 6, 1991.

In February of 1992 all units of the Division pledged their allegiance to Ukraine.

On October 20, 1999 the Division was awarded the Novohrad-Volynskyi designation.

On July 30, 2004 the Division was reformed into a Brigade.

Currently the brigade is the only mechanized brigade that doesn't have any conscripts. It is also a part of Joint Rapid Reaction Forces.

Over a 100 soldiers from the Brigade have served in peace keeping missions in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Iraq and Kosovo^[5].

As of October 12, 2007 2nd mechanized battalion of the Brigade is deployed in Kosovo as part of the POLUKRBAT.^[6]

The current commander of the brigade served as a commander of the 5th Separate Mechanized brigade in Iraq.^[7]