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Badge of the 13th Tank Regiment

The 13th Tank Regiment, or military unit 32010, is one of the formations currently included in the tank ground forces of the Russian Federation. The military unit is stationed in the Moscow region, in the city of Naro-Fominsk.

Story

Type of sleeve patch of the 13th GShTP

During the Great Patriotic War, the tank brigade took part in the battles on the Kursk Bulge, Elbe and Stalingrad. The combat path of the 67th Tank Brigade ended in May 1945 with the capture of Prague.
Since September 1945, it was reorganized into the 13th Tank Regiment of the Moscow Military District, redeployed to Naro-Fominsk and is currently military unit 32010. The unit shows good results in international exercises and participates in annual parades in honor of Victory Day on Red Square.

Awards

1945 – Order of the Red Banner and Order of Alexander Nevsky

Eyewitness impressions

Information stand in the 13th regiment

Military unit 32010's canteen is staffed by civilians, so soldiers do not take part in preparing food or delivering food. In the near future, the command of military unit 32010 plans to begin feeding employees on a buffet basis.
Soldiers are given leave on weekends, but in some cases they are also given leave on weekdays.
Relatives should write a statement indicating the reason and provide a passport as collateral. Calls to family are allowed only on weekends, from 19.00.
Eyewitnesses emphasize that tank soldiers are allowed to purchase shoes and uniforms on their own. The military store is located in Naro-Fominsk, not far from the unit, at the intersection of Kubinskoe highway and st. Shibankova.
As for the training of soldiers of military unit 32010, each newcomer undergoes psychological testing, with the help of which he is assigned to the position of a tank driver, mechanic or reconnaissance officer.

Living conditions in the unit barracks

Military training is carried out quickly. 4 hours a day are allocated for physical training of personnel. Classes in the major military specialty take 25 hours a week.
An important factor for training fighters is the interchangeability of the crew of a combat vehicle. So, the gunner must be able to control the tank, and the mechanic must be able to aim and fire the gun. Test exercises on virtual simulators (T-80-U) and control of theoretical knowledge are carried out monthly.
According to the soldiers, they carry out maintenance of the tanks independently, but at first they are advised and trained by specialists from the factories that manufacture the combat vehicles.

Instructions for mom

Parcels and letters

Division Clubhouse

Unit address: 143300 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, military unit 31010
A parcel (weighing from 3 to 5 kg) can be sent to a soldier to one of the post offices:

143300 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, st. Marshala Zhukova, 11; (without weekend breaks from 8.00 to 20.00, on Sunday from 09.00 to 14.00). Phone: (496-34) 3-57-26
143301 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, st. Shibankova, 2; (closed on Sunday, on weekdays from 08.00 to 20.00, break from 14.00 to 15.00). Phone: (496-34) 4-08-01

Soldiers receive letters and parcels on Saturdays. Among the transfers, the command of the Kantemirovskaya Tank Division allows:

Night tank exercises

Personal hygiene items;
Hemming fabric;
Threads and needles;
Disposable machines;
Medicines;
Stationery;
Sweets;
Laces and felt insoles for shoes;
Cigarettes;
Warm and thin socks.

In h 32010 Naro-Fominsk - 4th Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, 13th Tank Regiment. Located in the specified city of the Moscow region.

An official website has not been developed for the military unit. Useful information about conscription service, its conditions, features and reviews can be found here. Information about vacancies is provided at military registration and enlistment offices.

HF 32010 has been known since 1942. At that time it represented the 67th Tank Brigade. The unit's military personnel successfully carried out various operations. The most famous battles for Kantemirovka and Shepetovka took place in 1943 and 1944, respectively. For its services, the brigade first received the name Kantemirovskaya, and then Shepetovskaya.

The unit took part in the most difficult battles and operations of the Great Patriotic War: on the Kursk Bulge, Stalingrad, and the Elbe. The combat journey was completed in Prague in 1945. In the same year, the brigade became the 13th regiment with its location in Naro-Fominsk.

Service

The recruit undergoes psychological testing, the purpose of which is to determine the most suitable specialty: tank driver, reconnaissance officer or gunner. However, the specifics are such that the crew must be interchangeable. Every month, theoretical and practical knowledge is monitored. Practice is tested on special virtual simulators.

The preparation is intensive. The total number of hours during which special classes are held is 25 per week. To improve and maintain physical fitness, 4 hours are allocated daily. Drill training is also carried out, soldiers take part in squads and guards.

Various exercises are periodically conducted with trips to training grounds and accommodation in tents. The duration of such exercises varies.

Among other things, soldiers are taught to maintain tanks and other military equipment. Consulting support is provided by factory specialists and officers.

Accommodation

Barracks of cubicle type. There are 2 shower cabins per cabin. There are rest rooms and a consumer services plant. The barracks are periodically renovated, so living conditions are decent.

Meals in the dining room. Civilian personnel cook and clean. There are different reviews on the quality and taste of the food: some people like it, but there are also dissatisfied ones.

A special feature of the unit is the ability to independently purchase uniforms and shoes. There are shops in Naro-Fominsk. Closest to the part:

Soldier, st. Ogorodnaya, 17;
Voentorg AllTactic (Atak shopping center, 2nd floor), Kubinskoe shosse, 5.

Contentment

Soldiers receive money on a card. There are no ATMs in the area. In order to withdraw money you need to go into the city.

Parcel address:

143300, Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, military unit 32010, division, full name.

143300, Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, st. Marshala Zhukova, 11.
143301, Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, st. Shibankova, 2.

Both branches are open every day except Sunday. You can track the location of the package using the postal identifier and inform the soldier that he should pick up the package from the post office.

It is not recommended to put meat products, alcohol, money and medicines in the parcel. However, given that during the adaptation period almost everyone gets sick, you can send vitamins, immunity boosters, and a spray for the common cold. Warm insoles, socks and hygiene items (disposable razors, nail clippers and other things) will not be superfluous.

Also useful are needles and threads of three colors (white, black and khaki), laces (preferably reinforced), and fabric for hems. You can put cigarettes.

Of the products, it is best to put what is well packaged and will not spoil: waffle cake, cookies, chips in hard packaging, condensed milk and canned food in jars with a key.

The parcel should not be too large, since nothing can be stored. It's better to send several small ones.

Phones

Phone numbers are kept by commanders. They are only issued for calls on weekends for a few hours. Most likely, phones will not be taken away at all, but phones can only be used during free time, that is, in the evening.

You can call the military unit by phone +7 496 344-40-55.

Other useful contacts:

+7 496 344-41-21 – emergency department of the military hospital in Naro-Fominsk;
+7 496 344-40-53 – military prosecutor’s office.

How to get to Naro-Fominsk

From Moscow by bus (minibus) or train.
Art. M. Yugo-Zapadnaya - minibus No. 309.
Kyiv railway station - trains to Nara, Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga stations 1 and 2.

In Naro-Fominsk

The part can be reached on routes 15, 16, 17. The landmark is Peshekhonova Street. Or use a taxi service.

Accommodation

The city is small, but there are plenty of hotels. When planning a trip to the oath of office, it is better to book cheap seats in advance. Hotels closest to the part:

Hotel "Sportivnaya", st. Vorovskogo Park, 16, tel. +7 496 343-81-42;
Hotel "Voyage", Kubinskoe shosse, 5, tel. +7 495 268-14-80.

There are also many hostels nearby. Don’t forget about the way to solve the housing problem, like renting an apartment or room in a private fund.

Layoffs

Furloughs are granted on weekends. If the issue is important and urgent, the commander, at his discretion, can release it on a weekday.

Relatives who come to visit a soldier must write a statement indicating the reason for the visit and leave their passport.

It's not easy being thirteen. The fate of the Guards Tank Regiment of the Kantemirovskaya Division, bearing this number, is proof of this. In August 1991, inept “hunters” tried to turn the 13th guards into street gendarmes. Two years later, the tank crews again had the dubious honor of defending the “ideals of democracy” with targeted fire at the offices of the White House. If the people had known then the number of the “distinguished” unit, the name of the damned apostle would have been stuck to the honorary name “Shepetovsky Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov of the Red Banner” for a long time...

However, it is not these pages that make the regiment’s military chronicle famous. Born in the hot 1942 near Stalingrad as a tank brigade, he fought near Voronezh. Then he cleared Volodarsk, Chervonoarmeysk, Shepetovka, Ternopil, Krakow, Katowice of the adversary... The guards celebrated Victory Day in Czechoslovakia, with swift actions forcing the retreating enemy to unconditional surrender.
After the war, the Kantemirovites had the difficult fate of being “exemplary and elitist.” By the way, the tankers owe their holiday to this. On September 2, 1946, the division in its entirety, starting with the division commander’s tank and ending with a field kitchen on wheels, marched solemnly across Red Square. This is how Tankmen Day appeared at the behest of Joseph Vissarionovich. And Kantemirov residents have since become regulars in the country’s main square. True, not all. The difficult joy of demonstrating to the country and the world the military power of the Fatherland in even ranks of “steel horses” at the parade on November 7th went to the tank crews of the 13th.
As for “elitism”, it still turns out to this day for the guardsmen, like a holiday for a horse - its face is in flowers, and everything else... Together with the Taman brothers, the Kantemirovites now and then receive various kinds of delegations, inspections, conduct demonstration exercises, exercises, training camps, celebrations... And at the same time they manage to remain an exemplary tank formation, a trendsetter in the combat training of tank crews.
The evil 1990s took a toll on the division, and even more so on the 13th Regiment. And not only because Shepetovsky’s tank crews had to “resolve” political collapses. The difficult but honorable parades on Red Square are over. The last one, with the participation of technology, took place in 1995 on Poklonnaya Hill. With the collapse of the Union, the regiment itself “shrank” to a reduced number of members. Then, in the second half of the 1990s, it turned around again. But they are no longer so brave: in this organizational pandemonium, the unit lost many experienced officers. And army life itself, which has been so unkind to people in uniform for the last 12 years, has knocked out quite a few professionals.
Chechnya did not bypass the Shepetovites either. The unit itself did not participate in the war: it was not the right scale for a tank regiment. But many officers visited there more than once during the first campaign. The regiment's intelligence chief returned from a combat mission wearing zinc. Five more were injured...
The 13th sent his God of War to the second counter-terrorist operation. Having fought back for six months, the regiment's artillery division returned to its native land without losses.
Today, Guards Shepetovsky, without exaggeration, is the main strike force of the Moscow Military District, commanded by Major General Alexander Postnikov-Streltsov. In the “kantemirovka” itself, besides Shepetovsky, only the neighbor, the motorized rifle regiment, is in constant readiness. There are no deployed units in the tank division that is stationed near Voronezh. The weapons and equipment storage base near Yelnya is about to die for a long time...
However, the 13th “works” the best among tank regiments, not only within the framework of the combined arms army, but throughout the entire district. No wonder it was named the best tank unit in the Moscow Military District last academic year.
Keeping the “brand” of the best is not easy. It is the 13th regiment, according to an already established tradition, that from year to year is the first in the district to conduct shooting with a standard projectile, underwater driving classes, and company and battalion tactical exercises. In the last winter training period, Shepetovsky conducted a regimental tactical exercise with live firing as “good”. And this despite the fact that for the first time in six years the regiment “played on a foreign field.” In more detail: they went on alert, made a combined march, some on their own, some by rail, for about 500 km and conducted a training offensive battle at the Gorokhovets training ground.
In July, the 13th Guards proudly represented Russia at a joint peacekeeping exercise with Moldova. In a certain country tormented by internal conflict, which was more than replaced by a divisional training ground in Golovenki, a company of Shepetovites, together with a platoon of Moldovans, separated the warring parties, carried out checkpoints, escorted humanitarian supplies, and evacuated refugees through a water barrier. And so on for a whole week.
There are three battalion tactical live-fire exercises ahead. And then the final inspection is just around the corner.
There is no doubt that the 13th will not lose face. Moreover, there is a solid prerequisite for this: 40 career graduate lieutenants arrived in the regiment. In our times, when in other parts of the Ground Forces up to 80 percent of primary officer positions are occupied by “two-year officers,” this is simply a gift of fate. By the way, according to the deputy regiment commander for educational work of the Guard, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Balabanov, so far only one “recruit” has submitted a report for dismissal. Enviably low
indicator in our times. But this is no wonder. In order to keep the youth in their battle formations, the Shepetovites literally did not crawl out of their skin. The academic building was converted into a family dormitory. And not anyhow, but with furniture, carpets, curtains, tiles, paintings in every room. They paid the lieutenants everything they could. We met with a chin-plane tree. By the way, the prospects for newly minted guardsmen also seem to be quite good when it comes to obtaining normal service housing. This year, two five-story buildings with two entrances were built. They say that most of the apartments will be used as “services”. One entrance will be given to military pensioners.
But for the Shepetovites of the middle generation, only hope remains, which, as we know, is the last to die. There are more than a hundred such officers on the waiting list for housing in the 13th. Balabanov himself has been in it for about five years already... But these are the hardships and deprivations from which the lives of most people in uniform are woven in our time. Tomorrow, perhaps, it will be better, but today we must, as always, without lowering the bar, solve the problems that pour in as if from a cornucopia. The regiment still has no shortage of guests and inspectors. Representatives of the army headquarters work here all the time. And in the near future, sensitive attention to the regiment from the leadership will increase even more than before. Indeed, in January 2005, the 13th Guards will be the first in the Ground Forces to begin total “contractization.” Considering that there are now only four “pros” in the unit, we can assume that this page in the life of the 13th, like many previous ones, will not sparkle with carefree fun.
By the way, a remarkable trend has recently been observed in the 13th regiment. Babies are born so eagerly that two local kindergartens can no longer cope with the flow. You know, there is still gunpowder in the flasks. Which means we’ll break through...

There, behind the thickness of the armor,
United in thought, in deed,
Pressing your eyebrow to the sight
And leaning towards the levers,
Combat crew -
The heart of a formidable machine,
Her master
And a thunderstorm for the enemy.

Leonid Sidorov

The 13th Tank Regiment, or military unit 32010, is one of the formations of the 4th Tank Division, currently part of the Tank Ground Forces of the Russian Federation. The military unit is stationed in the Moscow region, in the city of Naro-Fominsk.

History of military unit 32010

Awards
1945 – Order of the Red Banner and Order of Alexander Nevsky

Reviews of military unit 32010

Instructions for mom
Parcels and letters

Unit address: 143300 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, military unit 31010
A parcel (weighing from 3 to 5 kg) can be sent to a soldier to one of the post offices:

Badge of the 13th Tank Regiment

Story

The 13th Tank Regiment dates back to 1942, when the 67th Tank Brigade was formed near Stalingrad. In 1943, for its distinction in the battles near the Kantemirovka station, it was renamed Kantemirovskaya. In 1944, the unit received the name Shepetovka, for the successful conduct of a military operation near the city of Shepetovka.
During the Great Patriotic War, the tank brigade took part in the battles on the Kursk Bulge, Elbe and Stalingrad. The combat path of the 67th Tank Brigade ended in May 1945 with the capture of Prague.
Since September 1945, it was reorganized into the 13th Tank Regiment of the Moscow Military District, redeployed to Naro-Fominsk and is currently military unit 32010. The unit shows good results in international exercises and participates in annual parades in honor of Victory Day on Red Square.

Type of sleeve patch of the 13th GShTP

Awards

1945 – Order of the Red Banner and Order of Alexander Nevsky

Eyewitness impressions

The material and living conditions in the unit, as employees say, are good. The barracks, divided into blocks, are renovated annually, they have two showers per block, rest rooms and academic classrooms. Instead of a divisional laundry, there is a consumer services plant.
Military unit 32010's canteen is staffed by civilians, so soldiers do not take part in preparing food or delivering food. In the near future, the command of military unit 32010 plans to begin feeding employees on a buffet basis.
Soldiers are given leave on weekends, but in some cases they are also given leave on weekdays.

Information stand in the 13th regiment

Relatives should write a statement indicating the reason and provide a passport as collateral. Calls to family are allowed only on weekends, from 19.00.
Eyewitnesses emphasize that tank soldiers are allowed to purchase shoes and uniforms on their own. The military store is located in Naro-Fominsk, not far from the unit, at the intersection of Kubinskoe highway and st. Shibankova.
As for the training of soldiers of military unit 32010, each newcomer undergoes psychological testing, with the help of which he is assigned to the position of a tank driver, mechanic or reconnaissance officer.
Military training is carried out quickly. 4 hours a day are allocated for physical training of personnel. Classes in the major military specialty take 25 hours a week.

Living conditions in the unit barracks

An important factor for training fighters is the interchangeability of the crew of a combat vehicle. So, the gunner must be able to control the tank, and the mechanic must be able to aim and fire the gun. Test exercises on virtual simulators (T-80-U) and control of theoretical knowledge are carried out monthly.
According to the soldiers, they carry out maintenance of the tanks independently, but at first they are advised and trained by specialists from the factories that manufacture the combat vehicles.

Division Clubhouse

Instructions for mom

Parcels and letters

Unit address: 143300 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, military unit 31010
A parcel (weighing from 3 to 5 kg) can be sent to a soldier to one of the post offices:

143300 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, st. Marshala Zhukova, 11; (without weekend breaks from 8.00 to 20.00, on Sunday from 09.00 to 14.00). Phone: (496-34) 3-57-26
143301 Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk, st. Shibankova, 2; (closed on Sunday, on weekdays from 08.00 to 20.00, break from 14.00 to 15.00). Phone: (496-34) 4-08-01

Soldiers receive letters and parcels on Saturdays. Among the transfers, the command of the Kantemirovskaya Tank Division allows:

Night tank exercises

Personal hygiene items;
Hemming fabric;
Threads and needles;
Disposable machines;
Medicines;
Stationery;
Sweets;
Laces and felt insoles for shoes;
Cigarettes;
Warm and thin socks.

You can track where the parcel is located on the Russian Post website.
It is better for soldiers to make money transfers to a VTB Bank or Sberbank card (they work around the clock).

Tank driving lessons

Addresses of the departments: Square with three tanks near the checkpoint of the Kantemirovskaya division

Your visit

There are several ways to get from Moscow to Naro-Fominsk:

By minibus No. 309 from the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station. In summer, minibuses run until 21.30.
On electric trains going to the stops “Nara”, “Maloyaroslavets”, “Kaluga 1”, “Kaluga 2”. Electric trains depart from Kievsky station. Travel time is 1 hour 30 minutes. In Naro-Fominsk itself you need to change to minibuses No. 15, 16 and 17, going to the street. Peshekhonov. From there it's about a 25-minute walk to the part.
Taxi. Inform drivers that they need to get to the 13th Regiment.
By car from the Moscow Ring Road to Naro-Fominsk. At the first traffic light, 300 meters from the sign with the name of the city, turn left and follow the main road. Drive under the railway bridge, after 100 meters turn left again and get to McDonald's. Then turn right again, drive about 200 meters and turn left along the main road. Drive a little more, to a square with three tanks. Not far from it is the checkpoint of the Kantemirovskaya division.

Where to stay

There are two hotels in the city, the telephone numbers of which are listed above. You can rent a room daily in a mini-hotel, apartment or a bed in the private sector.