467th Guards District Training Centre
| 467th Guards District Training Centre (1987–present) 26th Guards Tank Training Division 53rd Guards Motor Rifle Training Division 62nd Guards Motor Rifle Training Division 62nd Guards Motor Rifle Division 62nd Guards Mechanised Division 1st Separate Guards Rifle Brigade 53rd Guards Rifle Division 130th Rifle Division (II) 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division Moscow Worker's Division (October–November 1941) |
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| Active | 1941–present |
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| Branch | |
| Type | Infantry/Motorized Infantry/Training |
| Garrison/HQ | Kovrov |
| Engagements | World War II |
| Decorations |
 Order of the Red Banner
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26th Guards Tank Training Division
(1979–87)
53rd Guards Motor Rifle Training Division
(1964–79)
62nd Guards Motor Rifle Training Division
(1960–64)
62nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
(1957–60)
62nd Guards Mechanised Division
(1953–57)
1st Separate Guards Rifle Brigade
(1946–53)
53rd Guards Rifle Division
(1942–46)
130th Rifle Division (II)
(January–December 1942)
3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division
(November 1941 – January 1942)
The 467th Guards District Training Centre of the Western Military District (Russian: 467 гвардейский Краснознамённый Московско-Тартуский межвидовой окружной учебный центр подготовки младших специалистов) is a training formation of the Russian Ground Forces.
The training center traces its heritage back to the Moscow Workers' Division, a People's Militia division formed during the Battle of Moscow in October 1941. This unit was redesignated as the 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division within weeks, and fought in the Battle of Moscow. In January 1942 it was converted into a regular unit, the 130th Rifle Division (Second Formation). For its actions, the division became the 53rd Guards Rifle Division in December of that year. The 53rd Guards served through the rest of the war, later receiving the honorific "Tartu" and the Order of the Red Banner.
After the end of the war, the division was relocated to Kovrov and became the 1st Separate Guards Rifle Brigade in 1946. In 1953, the brigade became the 62nd Guards Mechanised Division, and in the 1957 Soviet Army reorganisation it was redesignated the 62nd Guards Motor Rifle Division. The division became a training unit in 1960 and was renumbered as the 53rd Guards Motor Rifle Training Division four years later, restoring its original World War II designation. In 1979 it was converted into the 26th Guards Tank Training Division, and in 1987 it assumed its current title, the 467th Guards District Training Centre.
It traces its history from Moscow militia units of the Second World War. The division was originally formed as the Moscow Worker's Division on 28 October 1941 in the Moscow Military District. On 14 November it was redesignated the 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division (also reported as the 3rd Moscow Communist People's Militia Division). It received a baptism of fire in the northwestern part of the group of the Moscow Defense Zone. It then became the 130th Rifle Division (Second Formation) on 22 January 1942. The division was given a Guards banner on December 8, 1942 in the North-Western Front, when it became 53rd Guards Rifle Division. On 28 April 1943 the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In August 1944 it received the honorary name of "Tartu". From Moscow it fought through the cities of Staraya Russa, Leningrad, Pskov, Tartu, and Riga. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. The division ended the war on 9 May in Liepāja, Latvia.
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