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Russian Airborne Troops
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military branch of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Key facts
- Founded
- 7 May 1992
- Country
- Russia
- Branch
- Russian Armed Forces
- Type
- Airborne forces
- Role
- Light infantry Airborne infantry Airmobile infantry Mechanized infantry
- Size
- 60,000 (post-expansion 2022)
- Nicknames
- Blue Berets, Winged Infantry, Troops of Uncle Vasya, Angels of Death
- Mottos
- Никто, кроме нас ! (Nobody, but us!)
- Color of beret
- Ultramarine
- Anniversaries
- Paratroopers' Day (2 August)
- Engagements
- First Chechen War War in Dagestan Second Chechen War Incident at Pristina airport Russo-Georgian War Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Operation Grand Dawn (allegedly) 2022 Kazakh unrest Russo-Ukrainian War
- Website
- Official website
- Supreme commander in chief
- President Vladimir Putin
- Minister of defense
- Andrey Belousov
- Commander
- Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky
- Chief of staff first deputy commander
- Major General Aleksandr Kornev
- Deputy commander
- Major General Nikolai Choban
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- airborne forces
- Part of
- Russian Armed Forces
- Country
- Russia
- Conflict
- Russo-Georgian War
- Image
- 45thOBrSpN West2021 7.jpg
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- short name
- VDV
- native label
- Воздушно-десантные войска Российской Федерации
- Commons category
- Airborne Troops of the Russian Armed Forces
- topic's main category
- Category:Airborne units and formations of Russia
- Commons gallery
- Russian Airborne Troops
- replaces
- Soviet Airborne Forces
- inception
- 1992-05-12
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Russian Airborne Forces (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска России, ВДВ, romanized: Vozdushno-desantnye voyska Rossii, VDV) is the airborne separate combat arm of the Russian Armed Forces. It is a rapid response force and strategic reserve that is under the President of Russia, reporting directly to the Chief of the General Staff, and is organized into airborne and air assault units. It was formed in 1992 from divisions of the Soviet Airborne Forces that came under Russian control following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Troops of the Russian Airborne Forces have traditionally worn a blue beret and blue-striped telnyashka undershirt and are called desant (Russian: Десант), from the French Descente.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Russian Airborne Troops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.