47th Guards Tank Division
Identification
This record most plausibly refers to the reconstituted 47th Guards Tank Division at Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. A December 10, 2021 Volodarsk district report said the 26th Tank Regiment of the 47th Guards Tank Division had moved into Mulino on the former 6th Separate Tank Brigade site, and at that event it identified Col. Yevgeny Doroshenko as the divisional commander. ([moyaokruga.ru](https://moyaokruga.ru/gazetaznamia/Articles.aspx?articleId=503475))
Formation
Open sources place the division’s re-creation in late 2021 to early 2022 on the basis of the former 6th Separate Tank Brigade in Mulino. ISW’s 2023 Russian order-of-battle lists the 47th Tank Division as established from the 6th Tank Brigade in December 2021 and based in Mulino, while Izvestia reported in April 2023 that the 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment was being re-formed as part of the re-created 47th Guards Tank Division. ([understandingwar.org](https://understandingwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/October20122C20202320Russian20Orbat_Final.pdf))
Command chain
The hierarchy path is consistent with open reporting. Russian authorities re-established the Moscow Military District by decree on February 26, 2024, and by mid-2024 Russian official reporting said the district included a tank army; separate operational reporting in 2024-2025 identified regiments of the 47th Tank Division as belonging to the 1st Guards Tank Army in the Moscow Military District. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20086009?utm_source=openai))
Site function
Mulino is not just a barracks location; it is one of Russia’s major ground-force training hubs. TASS describes the 333rd Combat Training Center at Mulino on the Gorokhovets range as a large combined training complex for ground forces, airborne forces, and naval infantry, which means the division’s headquarters/base area is co-located with unusually extensive maneuver and training infrastructure. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/2007921?utm_source=openai))
Force posture
The division is an active field formation, not a static depot. Russian official media said in May 2024 that more than 800 servicemen of the 26th Tank Regiment had received awards for service in the war against Ukraine; ISW later placed elements of the division’s 153rd Tank Regiment and 272nd Motorized Rifle Regiment near Vovchansk in May 2024, the 26th Tank Regiment in Kursk Oblast in November 2024, and the 153rd Tank Regiment near Stepova Novoselivka in February 2025. The public record is strongest for divisional presence in Mulino and for the 26th Tank Regiment there; published ORBAT data still leaves some divisional artillery and air-defense elements unidentified, so the exact internal base layout remains only partially confirmed. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20764635?utm_source=openai))