3rd Marine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet

The brigade was formed as part of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet in July 1941.

On July 22, 1941, the team, as part of the Olonets group, concentrated on the banks of the Vidlitsa River. The brigade’s units took the first battle on the same day near the village of Pogrankondushi.

On July 23, 1941, the brigade launched a counterattack, forcing Vidlitsa , dropping Finnish troops 5-8 kilometers away, but was forced to retreat to the border of the Tuloksa River.

On August 22, 1941, the brigade was located at the Torosozero - Sarmyagi line , where the Finnish troops repulsed the units of the brigade.

On September 4, 1941, the brigade was surrounded and pinned to Lake Ladoga , and from there it was taken out by ships of the Ladoga Naval Flotilla to the area of ​​Cape Black and the mouth of the Svir River . (excluding the 4th battalion of the brigade, which, having destroyed equipment - 5 armored vehicles, made its way to the troops to the station of Tokari by forests)

In September 1941, defending, while in the reinforced concrete fortifications of the Svirsky fortified area in the Podporozhye region, the dam of the hydroelectric power station was under construction, providing crossing across the river of the retreating parts of the Olonets group, and on the order left the dam.

Since the end of September 1941, he has been participating in battles while being on the bridgehead near the mouth on the northern shore of the Svir , and occupied this bridgehead before the Svir-Petrozavodsk offensive operation .

During the Svir-Petrozavodsk offensive operation, the brigade, leaving the Ladoga military flotilla from Sviritsa at 14:00 on June 24, 1944, landed in the interfluve of Tuloksa and Vidlitsa, making up the second echelon of the Tuloksa landing . (The 1st echelon was the 70th Marine Rifle Brigade )

After a counter attack , on June 27, 1944, units of the brigade joined the units of the 114th Infantry Division , advancing from the Olonets side and began to advance towards Pitkäranta , immediately crossed the Vidlitsa River and after fierce battles completely liberated the village of Ustye-Vidlitsa .

On August 5, 1944, she was transferred to the Suoyarvi area and fought there until the end of hostilities with Finland on September 5, 1944.

Then the team took part in the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation

In January 1945, the brigade was renamed a separate naval rifle brigade and was soon reorganized into a mountain rifle brigade.

In March 1945, she took part in the Moravian-Ostrava offensive operation .

She ended the war by participating in the Prague operation .

By order of the Supreme High Command of July 23, 1945, the brigade was disbanded, the personnel (remaining after being retired to the reserve of older ages) and weapons were transferred for re-equipment to the 126th light mountain rifle corps and the 72nd separate mountain rifle brigade , which until August 1945 were deployed in the Carpathian region and participated in the battles with Bandera, and in August 1945 they were transferred to Sakhalin , Chukotka ( Anadyr ) and Kamchatka , where they partially participated in the end of the battles with the Japanese army.

• 3 separate rifle battalions;
• separate artillery division of regimental guns
• separate anti-tank battalion
• separate mortar division
• separate company of machine gunners
• reconnaissance company
• company of anti-tank rifles
• air defense platoon
• separate battalion of communications
• sapper company
• car company
• health company.

• Roslov A.P., (July 1941) Colonel
• Gudimov, Semyon Alekseevich engineer- captain of the 1st rank , with ??. July 24, 1944
• Kaverin, Alexey Grigorievich , (from 07.25.1944 to 05.03.1945) Colonel .

• 07/02/1944 - awarded the Order of the Red Banner  
• 10/31/1944 - the honorary name "Pechenga" was awarded

• Loginov, Sergey Dmitrievich , captain, company commander of the 4th separate rifle battalion.

• Russian Marines

• Bunakov S. Ya. Raids in the camp of the enemy. - L.: Lenizdat, 1986