42nd Guards Tank Division

The 42nd Guards 'Prilukskaya order of Lenin Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy' Tank Division (Military Unit Number 29410) was an armoured division of the Soviet Ground Forces, active from 1957 to 1990.

The division was formed on the Western Front in July 1942 on the basis of the 1st Guards Red Banner Rifle Brigade as the 1st Guards Red Banner Rifle Division. The division in the process of formation was temporarily called the '1st Guards Red Banner Rifle Division' (formed 1942) from July 6, 1942 to September 13, 1942. Units of the division included the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards Rifle Regiments.

On 13 September 1942 the division became the 42nd Guards Red Banner Rifle Division. It fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, Kiev, Iasi, and Budapest; gained the 'Prilukskaya' honorific 13 February 1944 after the liberation of Pryluky; and it was serving with the with 1st Guards Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the 2nd Ukrainian Front at the end of the war in May 1945.

The 42 Gv TD was formed from the 42 GRD on 4 June 1957 at Gvardeyskoye, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. It was part of the 6th Guards Tank Army throughout its existence.

The division became the 6299th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment (VKhVT) on 1 September 1990; probably actually the 6299th Guards VKhVT.