Unit intelligence profile

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division

Subordinates: 0
Locations: 12

Profile summary

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military unit 23626, HQ: Kalininets, Moscow Oblast, Commander: Colonel Sergey Medvedev

Assessment

Identity

This record matches the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division, military unit 23626, headquartered in Kalininets, Naro-Fominsk urban okrug, Moscow Oblast. Public registry-style records place military unit 23626 in Kalininets; a CNA order-of-battle study places the 2nd Motor Rifle Division at Kalininets about 50 km west of Moscow; and Russian official reporting states that the re-created 1st Guards Tank Army includes the Tamanskaya division. After Russia re-created the Moscow Military District in 2024, the district officially included a tank army in its structure. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1095030003750-federalnoe-gosudarstvennoe-byudzhetnoe-uchrezhdenie-federalnoe-byudzhetnoe-uchrezhdenie-vojskovaya-chast-23626/?utm_source=openai))

Garrison

Kalininets is a long-established military town tied to the Alabino garrison. Local historical material states that the settlement took its name from the Tamanskaya division and identifies it as the military town of the Alabino garrison; other public references place Kalininets roughly 34-50 km from Moscow. Nearby Alabino, Patriot Park, and Kubinka continue to host major defense exhibitions and dynamic military demonstrations, underscoring the area’s role as a principal Moscow-region training and showcase hub. ([cgnf.ru](https://www.cgnf.ru/article/1935/iz-istorii-poselka-kalininets))

Structure

Open-source order-of-battle research identifies the Kalininets site as a full combined-arms divisional cantonment, not just an administrative headquarters. CNA describes the division as fielding two motor rifle regiments, one tank regiment, artillery and air-defense regiments, plus logistics, engineer-sapper, and reconnaissance battalions. That makes the site a dense maneuver-force base with organic combat support and sustainment inside one garrison area. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/Russian-Forces-in-the-Western-Military-District.pdf))

Readiness

Official Russian reporting indicates the division remains a priority readiness and modernization formation. TASS reported delivery of 20 upgraded T-72B3 tanks to military unit 23626 in 2017 and new Tornado-G multiple-launch rocket systems to the Tamanskaya division in 2015. In January 2020, a readiness check in Moscow Oblast involved more than 4,500 personnel and about 1,000 weapons and vehicles from the division. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/4122594?utm_source=openai))

Operational relevance

The Kalininets-based division is operationally significant, not merely ceremonial. A 2021 CNA assessment judged that the post-2014 re-expansion of the 2nd Motor Rifle Division and 4th Tank Division around Moscow was meant to restore a heavier maneuver force capable of missions ranging from lower-intensity operations to high-tempo warfare. Separately, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine reported that information it collected placed the division’s 147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment in Bucha in March 2022; the same report explicitly notes that a unit’s presence in an area does not by itself establish responsibility for specific violations unless separately stated. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/Russian-Forces-in-the-Western-Military-District.pdf))

Geospatial index

Known places

1st Tank Regiment

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military unit 58190, (T-72B3, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 31135, (T-72B3, BTR-80/82A, 2S1 Gvozdika)

15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 31134, (T-72B3, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment

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military unit 73966, (2S19M2 Msta-SM/SM2, 9K51M Tornado-G)

1117th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51382, (9K331 Tor-M1-U2, 9K33M3 Osa-AKM)

1174th Separate Anti-Tank Battalion

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military unit 51381, (9K123 Khrizantema)

211st Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion

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military unit 77707

136th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion

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military unit 51387

47h Separate Communications Battalion

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military unit 56139

1063rd Separate Material Support Battalion

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military unit 56155

370th Separate Medical Battalion

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military unit 57062

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division HQ

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military unit 23626