136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
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

.

On December 1, 1993, the 136th Motor Rifle Brigade was established at

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

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.

References

^ ^a ^b "Буйнакская мотострелковая бригада получила новую боевую технику" (in Russian). RGVK Dagestan. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Сюрприз для "боевиков" приготовили дагестанские мотострелки" (in Russian). Zvezda. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
^ ^a ^b "В Дагестане ракетные комплексы ведут бой против бронетехники "врага"" (in Russian). Zvezda. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
^ Turchenko, Sergey (5 September 2010). "Кровавая проверка боеготовности. Всего один смертник сумел прорвать оборону мотострелковой бригады". Svobodnaya Pressa (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-08-01.
^ Institute for the Study of War, Russia's Military Posture: Ground Forces Order of Battle, p. 20, March 2018. Washington D.C.
^ "Russian T-90 Tanks of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade in Luhansk Oblast". informnapalm.org. 22 October 2014.
^ "Russian army colonel killed in Ukraine – media". www.ukrinform.net.
^ "Военные преступники – военнослужащие 136 отдельной мотострелковой бригады совершающие военные преступления против мирного населения Украины". gur.gov.ua.

External links

Media related to 136th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade at Wikimedia Commons

[rgvktv-1] "Буйнакская мотострелковая бригада получила новую боевую технику" (in Russian). RGVK Dagestan. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 2016-08-01.

[:1-2] "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.

[zv-3] "Сюрприз для "боевиков" приготовили дагестанские мотострелки" (in Russian). Zvezda. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-13.

[sturm-4] "В Дагестане ракетные комплексы ведут бой против бронетехники "врага"" (in Russian). Zvezda. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-09.

[:0-5] 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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