92nd Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine)

2nd Tula Rifle Division 48th Rifle Division 132nd Motor Rifle Division 48th Motor Rifle Division 6th Division of the National Guard of Ukraine 92nd Mechanized Brigade
Sleeve patch for the Brigade
Active	1920–1992 (Soviet Union) 2000–present (Ukraine)
Country	Ukraine
Branch	Ukrainian Ground Forces
Type	Brigade
Role	Mechanized
Part of	Operational Command East
Garrison/HQ	Bashkurivka, Chuhuiv, Kharkiv OblastUkraine
Engagements	World War II Operation Iraqi Freedom War in Donbass • Battle of Ilovaisk
Decorations	Order of the October Revolution (removed)  Order of the Red Banner (removed)
Battle honours	Ropsha (removed)
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Viktor Nikolyuk

The 92nd Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade. (Ukrainian: 92 окрема механізована бригада, 92 okrema mehanizovana Brugada)

The division traces its heritage to the Soviet 48th Rifle Division that was established on 26 February 1920 by renaming the 2nd Tula Rifle Division. It became a territorial division after the Soviet-Polish War and was then upgraded to 'cadre' status. On 2 December 1930 it was given the title 'in the name of M.I. Kalinin.' In August–September 1939, two of its rifle regiments were expanded to become the 123rd Rifle Division and the 138th Rifle Division. In 1940 the division participated in the occupation of the Baltic states. On June 22, 1941, it was assigned to the 10th Rifle Corps of the 8th Army. It was based at Raseiniai in Latvia, part of the second echelon, but soon after Operation Barbarossa began it was severely battered by the 6th Panzer Division. In October 1941 it became part of the Coastal Operations Group of the Leningrad Front, defending the Oranienbaum Bridgehead pocket, just west of Leningrad on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Then fought as part of the 2nd Shock Army and 42nd Army. On 19 January 1944 it was given the title 'Ropshinska.'

After the war, the division became the 69th Mechanized Division. In 1957 the 69th became the 118th Motor Rifle Division at Bolhrad. In 1964 it became the 48th Motor Rifle Ropshinska Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner awards division named after Mikhail Kalinin. From October 1968, it was based at Vysoké Mýto with the Central Group of Forces. It remain in Czechoslovakia until 1990 when it was the first Division to depart (between February and May 1990). It appears that there wasn’t enough space for the entire Division, so the 210th Motor Rifle Regiment was attached to the 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division. The remainder of the division departed for Ukraine, with the last units arriving by May 1991.