37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade | |
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Active | 2009–present |
Country | Russia |
Branch | Russian Ground Forces |
Type | Mechanized infantry |
Size | Brigade |
Part of | 36th Combined Arms Army, Eastern Military District |
Garrison/HQ | Kyakhta (Buryatia) |
Patron | Ye. A. Shchadenko |
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The 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Don Cossack Budapest Red Banner Order of the Red Star Brigade named after Ye. A. Shchadenko
Components
Due to its location in
The brigade included more than 200 tracked vehicles and more than 100 wheeled vehicles in 2013.
History
On 1 June 2009, the 5th Guards Tank Division became the 37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, as part of the 2008 Russian military reforms.[4] The 5th Guards Tank Division (Second Formation) itself dated to 1965, and its predecessor 5th Guards Cavalry Corps to 1942.
Donbass (2014-2022)
Elements of the brigade fought in the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
The brigade was committed to the
On 20 April, residents of Kyakhta, the city of the unit's garrison, purchased a quadrocopter UAV to be sent to the brigade in Ukraine using funds from a donation drive.[14]
Elements of the 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade are suspected of participation to war crimes in
On 31 March 2024, the Ukrainian 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade claimed to have repelled the 37th Guards Brigade near Avdiivka, forcing it to be withdrawn, and claimed to have "eliminated" 1,300 Russian soldiers and 30 units of equipment over the past month.[16]
Structure
The brigade includes:[3]
- Headquarters
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd motor rifle battalions
- Rifle company (sniper)
- Tank battalion
- 1st and 2nd self-propelled howitzer battalions
- Reactive Artillery Battalion
- Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
- Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
- Anti-Aircraft Missile Artillery Battalion
- Reconnaissance Battalion
- Engineer Battalion
- Chemical Defense Company
- Headquarters Battalion (communications)
- UAV company
- Electronic Warfare Company
- Headquarters and artillery reconnaissance battery (chief of artillery)
- Repair and Recovery Battalion
- Materiel Support Battalion
- Commandant's Company
- Medical Company
See also
- 33rd Motor Rifle Division
- List of Russian generals killed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
- Fragging
Notes
References
- ^ "Путин поблагодарил буддийского капеллана из Бурятии". Байкал-Daily (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ "Части 36-й армии ВВО приведены в высшую боевую готовность" [36th Army units put on high alert]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 14 July 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Восточный военный округ | ВВО". milkavkaz.net. 2017-04-19. Archived from the original on 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ^ "Войсковая часть 69647 (37-я ОМСБр)" [Military Unit 69647 (37th OMSBr)]. voinskayachast.net (in Russian). 28 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-01.Holm, Michael (2015-01-01). "5th Guards Donskaya Budapeshtskaya Red Banner order of the Red Star Tank Division imeni E.A. Shchadenko". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991: Organisation and order of battle. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
- ^ Sutyagin, Igor (March 2015). "RUSI Briefing Paper: Russian Forces in Ukraine" (PDF). Royal United Services Institute. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
- ^ Czuperski, Maksymilian; Herbst, John E.; Polyakova, Alina; Wilson, Damon (6 June 2015). "Putin's Secret Warriors: Russian Soldiers Sent to Fight in Ukraine". Newsweek. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ Lisina, Yana (27 September 2016). "Военный КАМАЗ раздавил солдата-срочника на учениях в Бурятии" [Military KAMAZ crushes conscript soldier on exercises in Buryatia]. Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ "В бурятской части на границе с Монголией нашли мертвым контрактника" [Contract soldier found dead in Buryat unit on Mongolian border]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). 11 November 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ Hakobyan, Eduard (16 May 2018). ""Услышьте голоса и мольбы тех, кто еще жив"" [Hear the Voices and Pleas of those still living]. Sibir Realii (in Russian). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "The paratroopers defeated a detachment of the 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of Russia". mil.in.ua. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "Western official: Russian tank commander run over and killed by his own angry troops". Times of Israel. AFP. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
- TheGuardian.com. The Guardian. 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
- ^ "На Украине ламы из Бурятии провели молебен для военных" [Lamas from Buryatia held a prayer service for servicemen in Ukraine]. Baikal-Daily (in Russian). 21 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
- ^ "ЖИТЕЛИ КЯХТЫ ПРИОБРЕЛИ ДЛЯ БОЙЦОВ 37-Й ОМСБР КВАДРОКОПТЕР". Novaya Buryatiya (in Russian). 20 April 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ Crimes de guerre : le visage des bourreaux, Complément d'enquête, France 2, 23 juin 2022
- ^ In March, Russian Armed Forces lost 30 vehicles and 1300 personnel in Avdiivka sector - 47th Brigade press officer
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/world/europe/russia-war-military-putin.html - NYT story about impact of war on the brigade's home town.