![]() ![]() For distinction in combat during the Operation Little Saturn between 17 December and 30 December 1942, the 17th Tank Corps was renumbered the 4th Guards Tank Corps in January 1943. The 17th Tank Corps commenced combat operations on 26 June 1942, when it deployed to the west of Voronezh, just prior to the Battle of Voronezh. The direct ancestor of the Division was the Red Army's 17th Tank Corps, initially formed in Stalingrad in 1942 shortly after the 1941 start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. All of its units, as well as headquarters, are based in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, 70 kilometers (43 mi) south-west of Moscow. ![]() It has the Military Unit Number 19612 and is one of the key formations of the Western Military District. ![]() Andropova), is a Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces. Андропова, romanized: 4-ya gvardeyskaya tankovaya Kantemirovskaya diviziya imeni Yu. The 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Tank Division (Kantemirovites, Kantemirovskaya Division, or Kantemir Division), ( Russian: 4-я гвардейская танковая Кантемировская дивизия имени Ю. ![]()
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