138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
45th Guards Rifle Division 138th Guards Separate Motor Rifle Brigade | |
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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | |
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Current commander | Colonel (Guards) Sergei Maksimov |
The 138th Guards Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (138th MRB) (
45th Guards Rifle Division
The brigade traces its history to the 45th Guards Rifle Division of the Second World War. The 45th Guards Rifle Division was formed from the
138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
In 1994-1995 a force from the 129th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment with 45 T-80 tanks was deployed to
The brigade was deployed for operations during the Second Chechen War, in which, along with other Russian Ground Forces units, its personnel was reported to have behaved badly at times.[3] A 22-year-old woman in Ingushetia was shot by drunken soldiers from the brigade scavenging for alcohol. The deployment of a tank battalion of the brigade was apparently halted when it was discovered that soldiers had been selling the explosive from their tanks' reactive armour.
In March 2010 Leningrad Military District commander General Lieutenant Nikolai Bogdanovskiy said, regarding problems with the command and violence in the 138th at Kamenka:[4] ". . . we haven't managed to complete fully tasks connected with discipline–in particular, in the 138th Kamenka Brigade the commander, chief of staff, and assistants for armaments and socialization work were dismissed because of events there. Now the situation is normalising, we are trying not to repeat past mistakes."
The 45th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a separate formation from the
According to the Finnish newspaper
Commanders
- Major-General Mikhail Malofeyev (21.11.1997 – 15.7.1999)
- Major General Igor Turchanyuk (05.8.1999 – 07.7.2000)
- Colonel Bagir Yusuf oglu Fatulayev (temporarily filled the post of 08.07.2000 – 21.09.2000)
- Major General Anatoli Elkin (22.9.2000 – 22.02.2002)
- Major General Andrey Serdyukov (temporarily filled the post in 10.03.2002, has been appointed 11.7.2002 – 09.6.2004)
- Major-General Vladimir Genrikhovich Tsilko (22.6.2004 – 14.6.2005)
- Colonel Alexander Romanenko (14.6.2005 – 24.4.2008)
- Colonel Vladimir Frolov (temporarily filled the post of 25.4.2008 – 19.6.2008)
- Colonel Alibek Navruzbekovich Aslanbek (20.6.2008 [8] – 10.2009 [9]) [10]
- ...
- Colonel (Guards) Sergei Maksimov (since 2021)
Notes
- ^ Michael Holm, 45th Guards Motorised Rifle Division, accessed February 2015.
- ^ Holm 2015, and Andrew Duncan, 'Russia and Ukraine: Restructuring for a New Era,' Jane's Intelligence Review, June 1998, p.7
- ^ Some Provisional Notes On Current Russian Operations In Dagestan & Chechnya
- ^ State of the 'New Profile' in one district, March 17, 2010
- ^ "HS vieraili Viipurin lähellä sotilastaajamassa, jonne satelee nyt suruviestejä Ukrainasta: "He luulivat lähtevänsä harjoituksiin"". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 9 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "General Staff: Russian invaders suffer significant losses". www.ukrinform.net. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ^ "RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 10"., Institute for the Study of War
- ^ Commander Lenville presented personnel commander of the 138-th Guards omsbr[permanent dead link], News Lenville, 3.07.2008
- ^ Command 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade in the village of Kamenka lost the post for hazing, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, December 10, 2009
- ^ "Отдельные мотострелковые бригады СССР, до "Нового облика"". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
External links
- http://russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/ - hazing incidents in 2009
- https://russiandefpolicy.blog/2019/11/13/krasnoselskaya-brigade/ - sketch profile, 2019