136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
Russian: 136-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Уманско-Берлинская Краснознамённая, орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого бригада
Sleeve patch of the 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.svg
136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia (text transliteration: Umansko-Berlinskaja)
Active1993–present
CountryFlag of Russia.svg  Russia
Branch Great emblem of the Russian Ground Forces.svg   Russian Ground Forces
Type Motorized Infantry
Size brigade
Part of 58th Army
Garrison/HQ Buynaksk, Dagestan
Equipment T-90A, [1] BMP-3, [2] BTR-82A, [3] GAZ Tigr, [1] 2S12 Sani, [3] 2S3 Akatsiya, [3] 9M133 Kornet, [4] 9K114 Shturm-S, [4] BM-21 Grad, [3] 9A34(35) Strela-10, 2S6M Tunguska, 9A331 Tor-M1, ZSU-23-4 [3]
Engagements First Chechen War
War of Dagestan
Second Chechen War
War in Donbass
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Decorations Order of Red Banner.svg   Order of the Red Banner
Order of Suvorov 2nd class.png   Order of Suvorov
Order Kutuzov 2.png   Order of Kutuzov
OrderKhmelnitsky2ndClass.png   Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Roman Geradotovich Demurchiev

The 136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade is a mechanised infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces.

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On December 1, 1993, the 136th Motor Rifle Brigade was established at Buynaksk, Dagestan. In 1996-97, the brigade was merged with the 204th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment "Uman-Berlin" as the 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. [5] The 204th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was transferred to the North Caucasus Military District at some point during the transformation of the 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division, returning from the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, to become the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in the Siberian Military District.

Plans from 2018 to upgrade the brigade to division status [6] had apparently not completed by 2022, unlike the 19th Motor Rifle Brigade which was reestablished as a division in 2020.

War in Ukraine

The 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade conducted combat operations in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, in 2014, during the War in Donbas. [7]

The brigade took part in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, operating north-east of Crimea on the southern front. Reportedly, the brigade's chief of staff, Colonel Viktor Ivanovich Isaykin, was killed in the first days of the war. [8] [9]

Subordinated units

The brigade comprises, among other units, a tank battalion, three motor rifle battalions, artillery, and engineers.

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References

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  2. "Мотострелковое соединение ЮВО в Дагестане переброшено в Волгоградскую область в рамках проверки боевой готовности" (in Russian). Southern Military District Press Service. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-12 via mil.ru.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Сюрприз для "боевиков" приготовили дагестанские мотострелки" (in Russian). Zvezda. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  4. 1 2 "В Дагестане ракетные комплексы ведут бой против бронетехники "врага"" (in Russian). Zvezda. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  5. Turchenko, Sergey (5 September 2010). "Кровавая проверка боеготовности. Всего один смертник сумел прорвать оборону мотострелковой бригады". Svobodnaya Pressa (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  6. Institute for the Study of War, Russia's Military Posture: Ground Forces Order of Battle , p. 20, March 2018. Washington D.C.
  7. "Russian T-90 Tanks of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Luhansk Oblast". informnapalm.org. 22 October 2014.
  8. "Russian army colonel killed in Ukraine – media". www.ukrinform.net.
  9. "Военные преступники – военнослужащие 136 отдельной мотострелковой бригады совершающие военные преступления против мирного населения Украины". gur.gov.ua.

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