136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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

136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
Russian: 136-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Уманско-Берлинская Краснознамённая, орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого бригада
136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia (text transliteration: Umansko-Berlinskaja)
Active1993–present
Country Russia
Branch Russian Ground Forces
TypeMotorized Infantry
Sizebrigade
Part of58th Army
Garrison/HQBuynaksk, Dagestan
EquipmentT-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]
EngagementsFirst Chechen War
War of Dagestan
Second Chechen War
War in Donbass
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Decorations Order of the Red Banner
 Order of Suvorov
 Order of Kutuzov
 Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Roman Geradotovich Demurchiev

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 at some point during the transformation of the 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division, returning from the GSFG, to become the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in the Siberian Military District.

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

War in Ukraine

Some sources have provided legitimate proof that the 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade conducted combat operations in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, in 2014, during the Russo-Ukrainian War.[7]

The brigade took part in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine to the North-East of Crimea. Reportedly, the brigade's chief of staff, Colonel Viktor Ivanovich Isaykin, was killed in the first days of the war.[8]

Subordinated units

The brigade comprises, inter alia, of a tank battalion, three motor rifle battalions, artillery and engineers.

References
  1. "Буйнакская мотострелковая бригада получила новую боевую технику" (in Russian). RGVK Dagestan. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  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. "Сюрприз для "боевиков" приготовили дагестанские мотострелки" (in Russian). Zvezda. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  4. "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". 22 October 2014.
  8. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3417585-russian-army-colonel-killed-in-ukraine-media.html and https://gur.gov.ua/content/voennosluzhashchye-136-otdelnoi-motostrelkovoi-bryhady.html
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