"Sevastopol Regiment during the Great Patriotic War"

On September 22 at 16:00 at the School of Watercolors of Sergei Andriyaka the opening of the exhibition "Sevastopol Regiment during the Great Patriotic War" will take place.

Photos and documents of the Sevastopol Regiment project are the result of painstaking work with archives that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made the property of all our people. Combat reports, data on irrecoverable losses, on awards to servicemen of the regiment make it possible to establish not only the fate of many of them, but also to trace the history of the unit.

Formed from representatives of almost all nationalities and peoples of the Soviet Union, the 535th and then the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment went through the Great Patriotic War from the first to the last day. For participation in the battles of the Great Patriotic War, the regiment was awarded 10 times thanks of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, 4882 officers, soldiers and sergeants were awarded orders and medals, of which 11 guardsmen were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union, 2 became full holders of the Order of Glory.

In the postwar period, the regiment continued its military work, glorious combat traditions and was transformed into the 27th separate guards motorized rifle Sevastopol Red Banner brigade named after the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. Despite many reorganizations, reassignment and redeployment, the soldiers - "Sevastopol" retained high combat readiness and training.