15th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
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The 15th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Alexandria (Peacekeeping) Brigade (Russian: 15-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Александрийская бригада (миротворческая), romanized: 15-ya otdel'naya gvardeyskaya motostrelkovaya Aleksandriyskaya brigada (mirotvorcheskaya)), Military Unit Number 90600, is a unit in the Russian Ground Forces. It is the only named peacekeeping brigade in the Russian Armed Forces. The formation is part of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District. It is based in Roshchinsky in Volzhsky District of Samara Oblast.[2]
15th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade | |
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Russian: 15-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада | |
Active | 1 February 2005–Present |
Country | Russia |
Branch | Russian Ground Forces |
Type | Mechanized infantry (peacekeeping) |
Size | Brigade |
Part of | 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, Central Military District |
Garrison/HQ | Roshchinsky, Volzhsky District, Samara Oblast |
Equipment | Torn-MDM radio intelligence system[1] |
Engagements | United Nations peacekeeping Abkhaz–Georgian conflict 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war Russo-Ukrainian War |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Sergeevich Marushkin |
Insignia | |
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Its former honorifics were Berlin Red Banner Order of Kutuzov.