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Guards unit

Soviet military unit type designation
Class type of: Soviet Armed Forces unit, Guards Q2305012

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
military unit branch-type class, battle honour[3]
Inception
September 18, 1941[10]
Country
Soviet Union[2]
Subclass of
Soviet Armed Forces unit, Guards[6][7]
Part of
Soviet Armed Forces, Red Army[8][9]
Conflict
World War II, Soviet-Afghan War
Military branch
guard[5]
Named after
Russian Imperial Guard[4]
Participated in conflict
World War II, Soviet-Afghan War[11][12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Guards unit en Russian Guards unit en Soviet Guards unit ar وحدة الحرس cs Gardové jednotky Rudé armády de Sowjetische Garde es Guardia soviética fr Garde soviétique he המשמר הסובייטי it Unità delle guardie ja ソビエト親衛隊 ja ソビエト連邦国境警備隊 ko 근위부대 ko 친위부대 ms Unit pengawal (Kesatuan Soviet) pl Gwardia radziecka pt Unidades da Guarda ro Unitate Sovietică de Gardă ru Гв. ru Гвардия
🔖 Identifiers · 4
BabelNet ID
00592923n
Freebase ID
/m/03cm1ys
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2346538
Topic's main category
Category:Guards military units of the Soviet Union

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🔗 Connections
Awarded to 83
Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vasily Zaytsev, Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, Grigori Chukhrai, Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov, Anatoly Berezovoy, Aleksei Gubarev, Gennadi Sarafanov +75 more
← Military, police or special rank 15
Gherman Titov, Georgy Beregovoy, Abdraim Reshidov, Irina Levchenko, Mars Rafikov, Vasily Ivanovich Andrianov, Galiy Adilbekovich Adilbekov, Aslan Vazirov +7 more
Examples 2
22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 103rd Guards Separate Mobile Brigade
Part of 2
Red Army, Soviet Armed Forces
Participated in conflict 2
World War II, Soviet-Afghan War
Subtypes 2
44th Guards Tank Brigade, 1st Guards Tank Brigade
Belongs to 1
Guards
Country 1
Soviet Union
Instance of 1
battle honour
Military branch 1
guard
Named after 1
Russian Imperial Guard
Subclass of 1
Guards
Topic's main category 1
Category:Guards military units of the Soviet Union
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Category:Guards military units of the Soviet Union
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Summary

Guards unit is a military unit branch-type class[1].

Related Entities

Aleksei Gubarev Anatoly Berezovoy Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov Gherman Titov Grigori Chukhrai Innokenty Smoktunovsky Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev Vasily Zaytsev

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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