The Guards Airborne Assault Red Banner Regiment 104, the Airborne Division, in other words, the military unit 32515, is deployed in the village of Cheryokha, near Pskov. The unit performs combat missions, destroys and captures the enemy from the air, robs him of ground weapons, cover, and destroys his defense. This regiment also acts as a quick reaction unit.
History
A regiment was formed in January 1948 as part of units of the 76th, 104th and 346th Guards Airborne Divisions. For excellent combat training in 1976, the regiment became the Red Banner, and from 1979 to 1989, all personnel and officers fought in Afghanistan. In February 1978, the regiment mastered new weapons and for its valiant use it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. From 1994 to 1995, the Red Banner Regiment 104 (Airborne Division) was part of the 76th division, and therefore actively participated in the First Chechen War, and in 1999 and in 2009 carried out an anti-terror mission in the North Caucasus.
In early 2003, the regiment was partially transferred to a contract basis, at the same time the reconstruction of military unit 32515 began. Regiment 104, the Airborne Division, received reconstructed old and erected new residential premises and facilities on its territory, thanks to this work, living and material conditions of service have become much better. The barracks took a cubic view with hallways, showers and cabinets for personal belongings, with a gym and a relaxation room. Both officers and soldiers of regiment 104 (Airborne Division) eat in a common dining room, located separately. The food is the same for everyone, eat together. Civilians work in the dining room, on cleaning the territory and in the barracks.
Preparation
All fighters of such a famous unit as the Pskov Airborne Division, 104th regiment especially, spend a lot of time on airborne and general physical training at any time of the year. Mandatory activities for the landing: improving camouflage skills, forcing fire and water barriers and, of course, parachuting. First, training takes place with the help of the airborne complex on the territory of the military unit, then comes the turn of the five-meter tower. If everything is learned correctly, then fighters equipped with groups of ten people make three jumps from airplanes: first from the AN, then from the IL.
Unregulated relations and hazing in this unit have never been present. Now, this would not be possible, if only because recruits, senior employees and contract soldiers live separately and are extremely busy each with their own business. The Pskov Airborne Division, 104th regiment, the oath, the recruits take on Saturdays at ten in the morning, rarely, due to circumstances beyond the command of the commanders, it can be transferred an hour ago or forward. After taking the oath, servicemen receive a leave of absence until 20.00. By the way, on holidays, fighters also get dismissal. On Monday, following the taking of the oath, the command distributes the new fighters among the companies.
To relatives
Of course, parents, relatives and friends are bored and worried about the health and pastime of those who are just starting their military service. The command warns relatives that their beloved sons, grandchildren, brothers and best friends, having entered the service in regiment 104 (Pskov Airborne Division), cannot be constantly in touch.
Mobile phones are allowed to be used only one hour before the end of the call, the rest of the time the commander stores the gadgets at his place and gives the soldier only as a last resort, and after he is noted in a special magazine. Field exercises in the unit take place year-round, regardless of the weather, sometimes trips last up to two months. The fighters are famous for their military training, and without constant training they would not have won such fame for the 104th regiment of the 76th division (city of Pskov) of the airborne forces.
Useful information
Contract service is shown only to psychologically stable job seekers who have excellent physical training (health certificate no less than form A-1). Here, preference is given to applicants with martial arts skills and those who previously served in the Airborne Forces or were engaged in professional parachuting. Salaries (cash allowances) to the soldiers are transferred to the card of the Sberbank of the Russian Federation: to contract soldiers twice a month, and to conscript soldiers once a month. ATMs on the territory of the unit are available. If relatives want to send a transfer to a fighter, then this can be done at a bank, Sberbank terminal, through the Qiwi system or online.
Part address: Cheryokha village, Pskov region, Leningradskoye Shosse, military unit 32515. Parcels can be sent to the following address: postcode 180560, Cheryokha village of the Pskov region, Pskov region, DOS street, house 50. The soldier will receive a notification in part, he can pick up the parcel only at Saturday and always accompanied by the commander. Letters are brought in part weekly on Fridays. Relatives who want to visit a fighter need to know that from the railway station you need to go to Cheryokha by bus number 6 (be sure to ask so as not to go the other way). Get off the bus as soon as you pass the pedestal with a parachute. Hotels in the village are: "October", "Sport", as well as in the sanatorium "Cheryokha".
First of march
The whole country remembered the day of the great feat of the soldiers of the sixth company of the second battalion of the hundred and fourth parachute regiment of the seventy-sixth Pskov Airborne Division. Year 2000 Since the beginning of February, the largest group of militants after the fall of Grozny retreated to the Shatoi district, where it was blocked. After air and artillery preparation, a battle ensued after Chatoy. The militants nevertheless broke through in two large groups: Ruslan Gelayev to the north-west to the village of Komsomolskoye, and Khattab - to the north-east through Ulus-Kert, where the main battle took place.
The federal troops consisted of one company of regiment 104 (Airborne Division) - 6 companies, heroically killed, commanded by Guard Lieutenant Colonel Mark Nikolayevich Evtyukhin, fifteen soldiers from 4 companies of the same regiment under the command of Major Guard Alexander Vasilievich Dostalov and 1st company of the first battalion of that the same regiment under the command of Major Guard Sergei Ivanovich Baran. There were more than two and a half thousand militants: groups of Idris, Abu Valid, Shamil Basaev and Khattab.
Mount Isty Kord
On February 28, the commander of the 104th regiment, Colonel Sergei Yuryevich Melentyev, who briefly survived his sixth company, ordered the occupation of the height of Ista-Kord, which dominated the area. The sixth company, headed by Major Sergei Georgievich Molodov, immediately advanced and managed to occupy only 776 altitude, four and a half kilometers from the designated mountain, where twelve reconnaissance paratroopers were sent.
The height planned by the commander was occupied by Chechen fighters, with whom the intelligence entered the battle, retreating to the main forces left behind. The commander Molodov joined the battle and was mortally wounded, on the same day he died on February 29. The command was taken by Mark Nikolaevich Evtyukhin.
The Brotherhood of War
But only four hours ago, Chatoy fell under the blow of the federal troops. The militants violently broke out of the ring, not looking at the loss. Here they were met by the sixth company. Only the first and second platoons fought, since the third was destroyed by the militants on the slope. By the end of the day, company losses amounted to one third of the total personnel. Thirty-one people - the number of dead paratroopers in the first hours of the battle with a dense environment by the enemy.
By morning, soldiers from the fourth company, led by Alexander Vasilievich Dostalov, broke through to them. He violated the order, leaving well-fortified lines at a nearby height, took with him only fifteen fighters and came to the rescue. Also comrades from the first company of the first battalion rushed to their aid. They crossed the Abazulgol River, were ambushed there and fixed on the shore. Only on the third of March did the first company break through to the position. All this time, the battle has not abated everywhere.
Argun Gorge
The night of March 1, 2000 claimed the lives of eighty-four paratroopers who never missed the Chechen bandits. The death of the sixth company is the heaviest and largest in the Second Chechen War. In Cheryokha, at home, at his native checkpoint, a stone is reminded of this date, on which is carved: "The sixth company went into immortality from here." The last words of Lieutenant Colonel Yevtyukhin were heard by the whole world: “I call fire on myself!” When the militants made an avalanche breakthrough, it was 6.50 in the morning. The bandits didn’t even shoot: why spend bullets on twenty-six wounded paratroopers, if there were more than three hundred selected militants.
But hand-to-hand combat nevertheless ensued, although the forces were unequal. The guardsmen did their duty. Everyone who could still hold weapons, and even those who could not, entered the fray. Twenty-seven dead enemies fell on each of the half-dead paratroopers remaining there. The bandits lost 457 best-choice militants, but they could not break through either to Selmentauzen or further to Vedeno, after which the road to Dagestan was practically open. All roadblocks were removed by high order.
Khattab may not have been lying when he stated on the radio that he had bought a passage for five hundred thousand dollars, but it didn’t work out. They attacked the company with waves, in a dushmanish manner. Knowing the area well, the militants were getting close. And then sapper shovels and bayonet-knives, butts and just fists were used. Twenty hours the Pskov paratroopers held the height.
Only six survived. Two were saved by the commander, who covered their jump from the cliff with automatic fire. The bandits took the rest of the survivors for the dead, but they were alive and after some time crawled out to the location of their troops. Company of heroes: twenty-two soldiers posthumously became Heroes of Russia. Streets in many cities of the country, even in Grozny, were named after eighty-four paratroopers.
104 Airborne Division (Ulyanovsk)
This connection of the USSR Airborne Forces lasted until 1998 as the 104th Guards Airborne Order of the Kutuzov Division, founded in 1944. In June 2015, the Russian Ministry of Defense decides to recreate the famous military unit. The composition of the 104th Airborne Division is three regiments based on the 31st Ulyanovsk Airborne Brigade, which are located in Orenburg, Engels and Ulyanovsk.
Glory of the Airborne Forces
Airborne troops originate in August 1930, and this is the only branch of the country in the country where divisions are all up to one guard. Each of them earned his own fame in battle. Ancient Pskov is rightfully proud of its oldest military unit - the 76th Guards Red Banner Airborne Division, which heroically proved itself in all the wars in which it participated. The tragic death of a brave, courageous, staunch sixth company of the 104th regiment will never be forgotten not only in the country, but also in the world.
Ulyanovsk has its own historical pride: the personnel of the 104th Guards Airborne Division stationed there participated in battles in Chechnya and Abkhazia, and was part of UN peacekeepers in Yugoslavia. And every resident of the city knows that military equipment with a scorpion on board is the 104th Guards Airborne Division named after Kutuzov converted from the brigade of the Airborne Forces.