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133rd Rifle Division (I Formation) (1939–1942) 18th Guards Rifle Division (1942–1945) 30th Guards Mechanised Division (1945–1965) 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1965 – c. 2001, 2020 – present)
18-я гвардейская мотострелковая Инстербургская Краснознамённая, ордена Суворова дивизия
Sleeve patch of the 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division
Active	1939–present
Country	Soviet Union (until 1991)  Russia (1991–2001; 2020–)
Branch	Soviet Army (until 1991)  Russian Ground Forces (1991–2001; 2020–)
Type	Mechanized infantry
Size	Division
Part of	Leningrad Military District 11th Army Corps,Baltic Fleet
Garrison/HQ	Gusev andSovetsk
Engagements	World War II Battle of Moscow East Prussian Offensive Russo-Ukrainian War 2024 Kharkiv offensive
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner  Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
Battle honours	Insterburg
Commanders
Notable commanders	Grigory Karizhsky

The18th GuardsInsterburg Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division (Russian:18-я гвардейская мотострелковая Инстербургская Краснознамённая, ордена Суворова дивизия,romanized: 18-ya gvardeyskaya motostrelkovaya Insterburgskaya Krasnoznamonnaya, ordena Suvorova diviziya), is an active division of theRussian Ground Forces.

The 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as the 133rd Rifle Division atNovosibirsk in 1939. The division was part of1st Shock Army on 1 December 1941 during theBattle of Moscow. It was redesignated as the 18thGuards Rifle Division in March 1942 with the 51st, 53rd, 58th Guards Rifle Regiments and 52nd Guards Artillery Regiment. The division fought in theEast Prussian Offensive. The unit became 30th Guards Mechanised Division in 1945 as part of the11th Guards Army. In 1965 it was renumbered as 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division. It was stationed in theKaliningrad enclave with 11th Guards Army before enteringCzechoslovakia in 1968, joining theCentral Group of Forces.

In 1991 the division was withdrawn back toGusev,Kaliningrad Oblast. The division was reorganised as acadre strength formation, as part of the third-line reserves of theRussian Ground Forces. In 2002, it became the 79th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Russian:79-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада).^[1] The division was reformed from the 79th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Kaliningrad in December 2020 as part of the11th Army Corps.^[2] In 2022, elements of the division were reportedly heavily engaged in combat in from the start of theinvasion of Ukraine.^[3][4][5]

• 210th Motor Rifle Regiment;^[1]
• 275th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment;
• 278th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment;
• 280th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment;
• 52nd Guards Artillery Regiment

Honorifics areInsterburgskayaKrasnoznamennaya andOrder of Suvorov.

• 275th Motor Rifle Regiment^[6]
• 280th Motor Rifle Regiment^[6]
• 79th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (former 79th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade re-formed as a regiment)^[7]
• 11th Separate Tank Regiment (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast)^[8] (Military Unit Number V/Ch (в/ч) 41611) (Equipped withT-72B Main Battle Tanks (upgrades of T-72s to B3M-standard underway as of 2019/20^[9][10][11])
• 20th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (forming 2020/21;Orlan-10 UAVs and "Sobolyatnik"^[12] and "Fara-VR" reconnaissance radars)^[13]
• 22nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Tor M1/M2), in Kaliningrad^[14][15][16]

• Советская Военная Энциклопедия: [В 8 томах] / Пред. Гл. ред. комиссии Н. В. Огарков – М.: Воениздат, 1977. Т. 4. 1977, 656 с., ил. "Инстербургско-Кёнигсбергская операция" стр. 471—472.
• Галицкий К. Н. (1970). "Глава двенадцатая. Последние бои. Разгром группы "Земланд"".В боях за Восточную Пруссию: Записки командующего 11-й гвардейской армией. Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах (40 000 экз ed.). М.:Наука. p. 500.
• Lobanov, V.V. (1975).Восемнадцатая гвардейская [Eighteenth Guards](PDF) (in Russian). Kaliningrad: Kaliningradskoye knizhnoye izdatel'stvo.
• В. И. Феськов К. А. Калашников В. И. Голиков "Красная Армия в победах и поражениях 1941-45 гг" Часть I.
• "Боевой состав Советской Армии. Часть III. (январь — декабрь 1943 г)., Москва, Военное изд. Мин. Обороны, 1972 г.",

• http://wikimapia.org/7820871/79th-Separate-Guards-Motor-Rifle-Brigade

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