The 27th Separate Guards Sevastopol Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade "60th Anniversary of the USSR" () is a tactical

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of the

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. Its

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(V/Ch) is 61899 (military unit 61899). It is part of

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of the

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, stationed in Mosrentgen,

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History

The brigade traces its origins to the 535th Rifle Regiment, formed in the city of

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e of

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in July 1940. From August 8, 1941 to September 14, 1941, the regiment, part of the

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, participated in battles near Yelnya. On September 18, 1941, for the courage and valor of its personnel, the

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and the remainder of the division became a

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, the division becoming the 2nd Guards Rifle Division.

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, the father of the first post-Soviet

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Saparmurat Niyazov, reportedly volunteered to go to the front with the 535th Rifle Regiment during World War II. According to post-Soviet official Turkmen sources, surrounding his son's personality cult, he was killed on 24 December 1942 during the

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. The unit served as the 404th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment (404th GMRR) from 1957 until the early 1980s, and in 1982 was given the honorific title "named for the 60th anniversary of the

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", celebrated that year. After many years of service as a regiment, the brigade was activated when on 1 June 1983, in Teplyy Stan, Moscow Oblast, the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was established from the former 404th GMRR. It was briefly transferred to the Soviet Border Troops in 1990-91 before reverted to army control. 75Parad 03

It is now part of the reformed

after 2014. The brigade was deployed in the

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for the occupation of Kharkiv Oblast, participating in the Battle of Izium. Reportedly during the retreat of the brigade following the recapture of Izium by Ukrainian forces, commanding officer Colonel

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and another officer had stabbed an elderly woman and shot her husband respectively, killing both.

Composition

* Directorate * 1st Motorized Rifle Battalion * 2nd Motorized Rifle Battalion * 3rd Motorized Rifle Battalion * Tank Battalion * Self-Propelled Artillery Division * Rocket Artillery Division * Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery Division * Intelligence Company * Rifle Company * Signals Battalion * Battalion of Material Support * Repair and Restoration Company * Engineering Company * Commandant's Company * NBC Company * Medical Company * Battery Management and Artillery Intelligence * Command and Radar Deconnaissance Platoon * Management Platoon * Platoon of Instructors * Simulators Platoon *

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* Brigade Band

Band

The

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(currently led by Lieutenant Alexei Bozhedomov) is a specialized unit group in the brigade. It is deployed in the village of Mosrentgen in

. It conducts active cultural accompaniment to all events of the brigade and at cultural events in Moscow. It is a regular participant in the

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. The band is participated in the

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from 2017-2019.

Brigade commanders

* Valentin Kryukov (June 1983 — August 1984) * Gennady Andreev (August 1984 — August 1987) * Pyotr Medvedev (August 1987 — July 1988) * Boris Polyakov (July 1988 — June 1990) * Alexander Yegorov (June 1990 — July 1993) *

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Denisov Aleksandr Nikolayevich Denisov (russian: Александр Николаевич Денисов; 7 March 1955 – 15 March 2020) was a Soviet and later Russian military officer who held a number of posts in both the Soviet and Russian armies, r ...

(July 1993 — February 1995) * Sergey Generalov (February 1995 — April 1997) * Alexey Samolkin (April 1997 — June 1999) * Ivan Buvaltsev (July 1999 — July 2001)Министерство обороны РФ
/ref> * Alexander Kuzhilin (August 2001 — September 2003) * Dmitry Yashin (November 2003 — October 2006) * Aleksandr Chaiko (November 2006 — November 2007) * Gennady Obukhov (December 2007 — December 2009) * Andrey Trifonov (December 2009 — January 2012) * Vladimir Yeremeyev (February 2012 — December 2013) * Александр Семёнович Санчик (December 2013 — December 2014) * Сергей Владимирович Горячев (December 2014 — November 2015) * Dmitry Yakovlevich Aksyonov (November 2015 — July 2021) * Colonel Sergey Igorevich Safonov (August 2021 — present)

Heroes of Russia

* Lieutenant Colonel of the Vladimir Belov *

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of the Guards Alexander Solomatin

External links

Общественный портал 27-я ОМСБр

27-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада (в/ч 61899)

Описание боевых действий
2 гв. сд гв. генерал-майор Акименко А. З. — 1953 г.
Система безопасности СССР

References

*Michael Holm, ttp://www.ww2.dk/new/army/other/27ogmsbr.htm 27th independent Guards Sevastopolskaya Red Banner Motorised Rifle Brigade imeni 60th anniversary SSSR {{Brigades of the Russian Ground Forces Mechanised infantry brigades of Russia Military units and formations established in 1983 Ground Forces brigades of the Soviet Union Military units and formations of the Russo-Ukrainian War