27th Guards Motor Rifle Division

The 27th Guards Omsk-Novoburgskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 27-я гвардейская мотострелковая Омско-Новобургская Краснознамённая ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия; Military Unit Number 35100)[1] is a Guards mechanised infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces.

As part of the 3rd Shock Army, Kalinin Front in 1942 the brigade participated in the Demiansk operations – the Moscow counteroffensive.

The division participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, Izyum-Barvenkovo, Donbass, Zaporozhye, Nikopol-Krivoi Rog, Bereznegova-Snigirovka, Odessa, Lublin – Brest, Poznań, Küstrin, Warsaw-Poznan and the Berlin offensive operation.

[1] The division was renamed the 21st Guards Motor Rifle Brigade on 1 June 2009, after the beginning of the 2008 Russian military reform.

[6][7] Since 18 July 2024, the division as part of Russian forces began an offensive with the goal of capturing the strategically important city of Pokrovsk.