The 5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Russian: 5-я гвардейская зенитная артиллерийская дивизия) was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. It was formed in November 1942 as the 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division and fought in Operation Uranus and Operation Little Saturn in late 1942 and early 1943. In 1943 and 1944 it fought in the Donbass Strategic Offensive, the Melitopol Offensive, the Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive, and the Crimean Offensive. For its actions in the latter, the division was awarded the honorific Simferopol and the Order of the Red Star. It remained in reserve from May 1944 to February 1945, when it was assigned to the 9th Guards Army after becoming the 5th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division, fighting in t