tp) (Russian: 1-й гвардейский танковый Чертковский дважды ордена Ленина, Краснознамённый, орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого полк имени маршала бронетанковых войск М. Е. Катукова (1 гв.
By a 15 September 1976 decree of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, the regiment was named for the first commander of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, Mikhail Katukov.
[5] During the 2009 Russian military reform, the regiment was relocated without its tanks to Borzoy in Chechnya and reorganized as the 8th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Mountain).
[9] An officer of the 1st Guards Tank Regiment captured by Ukrainian forces claimed that his unit had crossed the Russia–Ukraine border at Myropillia in Sumy Oblast.
[9] According to documents captured by Ukrainian territorial defense fighters in Sumy Oblast in March 2022, there were 560 men in the 1st Guards Tank Regiment when it crossed into Ukraine.