4th Guards Tank Division
Identification
This record matches the 4th Guards Tank Division (military unit 19612) at Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast. ISW’s October 2023 order of battle places the division HQ in Naro-Fominsk and lists the 12th Guards Tank Regiment (31985), 13th Guards Tank Regiment (32010), 423rd Motorized Rifle Regiment (91701), 137th Reconnaissance Battalion (54919), 275th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (73941), and 538th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (51383) there, which is consistent with the supplied placemarks. Russia also formally dissolved the Western Military District and restored the Moscow Military District effective June 5, 2024, so the hierarchy path under the Moscow Military District is time-consistent for March 2026. ([understandingwar.org](https://understandingwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/October20122C20202320Russian20Orbat_Final.pdf))
Garrison
Open-source defense analysis describes the division as based in Naro-Fominsk, about 65 km (40 miles) west of Moscow. Local Naro-Fominsk government reporting from June 2025 also placed the division’s anniversary formation on the divisional parade ground in the city, confirming that this is a real fixed garrison and not just an administrative designation. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/russian-forces-in-the-western-military-district.pdf))
Order of battle
CNA assessed the division as a heavy armored formation with two tank regiments and one motor rifle regiment, supported by a self-propelled howitzer regiment and an organic air-defense regiment. The same study assessed the regiments as mostly equipped with T-80U and T-80BV family tanks rather than T-72s or T-90s as of 2021, while RAND’s appendices described the division as one of the expanded western formations and noted a force-design trend toward three tank regiments plus one motor rifle regiment, underscoring its armored emphasis. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/russian-forces-in-the-western-military-district.pdf))
Posture
Within the 1st Guards Tank Army, the division’s basing near Moscow gives it clear strategic relevance for defense of the capital region. CNA judged the 1st Guards Tank Army’s peacetime disposition on Moscow’s outskirts as suitable primarily for defense of Moscow, and assessed that moving the full army westward would require substantial and observable logistics activity. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/russian-forces-in-the-western-military-district.pdf))
Combat relevance
The division has been operationally committed to the war against Ukraine since 2022. ISW reported on September 29, 2022 that the 4th Tank Division had suffered considerable losses while operating near Kupyansk after earlier losses in the Kharkiv counteroffensive, and UK sanctions notices issued in December 2022 identified Colonel Evgeny Nikolaevich Zhuravlev as commander of the 4th Tank Division, stating he had held that post since September 2021; I did not find a more authoritative routine public roster confirming whether that command assignment is still current as of March 2026. ([understandingwar.org](https://understandingwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Russian20Offensive20Campaign20Assessment20September2029.pdf))