- Service ensign · official · carried by Ground Forces
- State affiliation · Russia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Flag of the Russian Ground Forces — carried by Ground Forces, not issued to this record. The service flag of the Ground Forces, adopted 2004. The design itself is not an object of copyright: Article 1259(6) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation excludes official symbols and signs. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Flag of the Russian Ground Forces.svg", released under PD-RU-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Russia.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
The Taman division of the 1st Guards Tank Army — Moscow's ceremonial and showcase formation, the first publicly fielding the T-90M — turned into a line division: the Izium bridgehead in spring 2022, the September retreat, and the Kupiansk axis since.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 5 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Peacetime: Kalininets, west of Moscow. Wartime: the Izium bridgehead in 2022 and the Kharkiv–Kupiansk axis since, by ISW's tracking. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- A division that survived every post-Soviet reorganisation because it was the capital's parade formation, re-formed as a division in 2013 when most of the army was still in brigades, and given the newest equipment first — the T-90M among it. The war made it a line division: its elements reinforced the Izium bridgehead in April 2022 and were among the formations driven back across the Oskil in the September counteroffensive, with losses counted publicly by independent trackers. Reconstituted like its tank-army sibling, it has been tracked on the Kupiansk axis since — the axis the 1st Guards Tank Army has held longest.
- Strengths
- First-priority access to modern equipment, T-90M above all; a divisional structure kept intact through reconstitution; and the institutional prestige that keeps it manned.
- Limitations
- The gap between showcase status and 2022 battlefield performance is publicly documented; reconstitution restored mass, not the pre-war cadre; and nothing below the division is authored.
Documented equipment
Related locations
Kupiansk: Publicly associated with the Kupiansk axis from late 2022, by ISW's tracking.
Quick actions
System access
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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