137th Guards Airborne Regiment

137th Guards Airborne Regiment
Russian: 137-й парашютно-десантный Кубанский казачий ордена Красной Звезды полк
137th Guards Airborne Regiment shoulder sleeve insignia
Active1948–present
Country Russia
Branch Russian Airborne Forces
SizeRegiment
Part of106th Guards Tula Airborne Division
Garrison/HQRyazan
MUN 41450
EngagementsWar in Donbas
Battle of Ilovaisk
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Battle of Izyum
Battle of Bakhmut
DecorationsOrder of the Red Star Order of the Red Star
Kuban Cossacks
Commanders
Current
commander
Guards Colonel Roman Andreyevich Borsuk[citation needed]

The 137th Guards Airborne Regiment (military unit 41450) at Ryazan is a formation of the Russian Airborne Troops. It is part of the 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division.[1]

In 2014, the regiment was involved in the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[2] It fought again in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. At the Battle of Izium (counteroffensive phase) the unit fell into an ambush, losing their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Krivov.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ww2dk20160812 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sutyagin, Igor (March 2015). "RUSI Briefing Paper: Russian Forces in Ukraine" (PDF). Royal United Services Institute. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Error | VK".

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