14th Special Forces Guards Brigade

Part Formation

The 14th separate special-purpose brigade (or military unit 74854), according to the order of the Minister of Defense, began its existence on January 1, 1963.

The city of Ussuriysk of the Primorsky Territory of the Far Eastern Military District (FEF) was chosen as the location.

According to the officers involved in the formation, the manning of the brigade was carried out from the troops of the Far Eastern Federal District ^[1] .

Some sources claim that the 77th separate reconnaissance battalion was used as the basis for the creation of the brigade, while it is not mentioned from which constituencies and which formations this military unit arrived ^[2] .

To place the brigade, the district command provided the military camp of the former disciplinary battalion ^[1] .

Formation and development of the team

Like all special-purpose brigades created in the early 60s (with the exception of the 3rd brigade ), the 14th separate brigade was a cropped compound in which, according to the state of peacetime, 4/226, approved on July 3, 1962, deputy. Chief of the General Staff of the SA and the Navy, Army General V. Ivanov. According to this state, the following were formed:

- Management

- Communication group

- Separate battalion

- Support units.

According to the plans of the military command during the introduction of martial law, due to the mobilization of reserve personnel and the holding of 30-day training camps, the 14th separate brigade was deployed into a full-fledged combat-capable force with 1,700 personnel ^[1] .

Subsequently, in the state of peacetime, the 14th separate brigade consisted of the following units:

• Office Brigade;
• detachment of special radio communications;
• 2 separate special forces;
• 2 separate special forces (frames);
• company of economic support.

By the end of 1963, the personnel began airborne training, and from the beginning of 1964 began the implementation of training jumps.

In 1967, in terms of combat training, the brigade became one of the best formations of troops and units of the Far Eastern Federal District and was listed in the Book of Honor of the district troops.

From June 22 to June 27, 1970, under the control of the GRU GRS commission, the personnel of the unit took part in the district exercises of intelligence units. During these exercises, personnel were parachuted and landed in Primorye, the Amur Region, and on Sakhalin Island.

From August 21 to 28, 1971, at the district exercises of the reconnaissance units, the brigade carried out parachute dropping of 20 special reconnaissance groups in Primorye, the Amur Region and on Fr. Sakhalin, followed by the completion of training tasks.

In 1972, for the high performance in combat and political training and in honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the USSR, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Council of Ministers of the USSR awarded the 14th separate brigade with the Badge of Honor.

In 1973, 1974, 1975 for successes in combat training, the unit was declared excellent and entered in the Book of Honor of the KDVO troops.

In 1983, the deployment of cropped units took place in the brigade.

In December 1984, about 200 officers and soldiers of the 14th separate brigade were seconded and included in the 334th separate special forces detachment , which was created on the basis of the 5th separate special purpose brigade . At the end of March, the 334th detachment was redeployed to Afghanistan to participate in the “Veil” border zone . Of the military personnel of the 14th separate special-purpose brigade, seconded to the 334th detachment, 12 officers and 36 sergeants and soldiers were killed during the fighting in Afghanistan.

The composition of the brigade in the late 80's

The composition of the 14th separate special-purpose brigade at the end of the 80s ^{[3] [4]} :

• Office of the brigade (military unit 74854) - Ussuriysk and its units:

• detachment of special radio communications;
• mining company;
• logistics company;
• commandant platoon.

• 282nd separate special forces detachment (military unit 20662) - Matveevka , Khabarovsk Territory ;
• 294th separate detachment of special forces (military unit 20706) - Belogorsk , Amur Region ;
• 308th separate detachment of special purpose (cropped - military unit 20707) - Ussuriysk;
• 546th separate detachment of special purpose (cropped - n / a) - Belogorsk;
• 742-th separate detachment of special purpose (cropped - military unit 74854 "B") - Matveevka.

The 282nd separate special-purpose detachment was transferred to the 14th brigade in 1988 from the 24th separate special-purpose brigade , when it was relocated from the village Hara-Birka in Kyakhta ^[5] .

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the 14th separate special-purpose brigade came under the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation .

In 1994, to conduct hostilities in Chechnya, the previously cropped 308th separate special-purpose detachment was deployed. In April 1995, upon the return of the 308th detachment to Ussuriysk, the detachment was again collapsed into a separate detachment (frame).

In 1998, the 308th detachment was deployed for the second time.

At the end of the 90s, the cropped 546th and 742th separate units were disbanded.

In 2010, the composition of the 14th separate special-purpose brigade, part of the Eastern Military District, was as follows ^[6] :

• Office of the brigade (military unit 74854) - Ussuriysk and its units:

• junior specialist school;
• detachment of special radio communications;
• logistics company.

• 282nd separate special forces detachment (military unit 20662) - Matveyevka;
• 308th separate detachment of special purpose (military unit 20707) - Ussuriysk;
• 294th separate detachment of special purpose (military unit 20706) - Belogorsk.

In June 2012, the brigade management was relocated from Ussuriysk to Khabarovsk. The compound is housed in the Volochaevsky Gorodok barracks fund (district training center).

On January 26, 2019, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, the brigade was awarded the honorary name “Guards” ^[7] .

First Chechen War

At the end of December, on the basis of the manned 308th special detachment of the 14th separate brigade, the creation of a consolidated detachment of 178 people began to be sent to Chechnya. At the time of deployment, the detachment consisted of only 14 officers and 11 military servicemen.

In the shortest possible time, in two weeks, the brigade officers completed the detachment with personnel, completed a brief but saturated set of exercises for tactical and fire training, and conducted combat coordination of the detachment.

On January 15, 1995, the 308th detachment was transferred by military transport aircraft to the military airfield in Mozdok . On the territory of the airfield, as a result of an accident , three squad officers were seriously injured, one of whom died on the same day.

On January 17, the detachment entered Chechnya. To strengthen the detachment, the command allocated him a howitzer battery from the artillery division of the 81st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Division.

Due to the fact that the personnel of the 308th detachment did not have combat experience, for additional combat training at the new location and the first exits to the fighting, unit detachments were provided with group commanders from the 173rd detachment of the 22nd separate special purpose brigade .

The area of ​​responsibility for the 308th detachment was determined by the neighborhood of the settlement Khankala , which housed the headquarters of the United Group of Forces.

On March 14, 1995, at the Chervlenaya-Uzlovaya station, when the reconnaissance group returned from ambush operations, in the area of ​​responsibility of the Moscow OMON , as a result of an OZM-72 mine explosion , an officer and a member of the military service died, several soldiers of the 308th detachment were injured.

On April 27, 1995, the detachment was withdrawn from Chechnya and redeployed to Ussuriysk. During a 3 month stay in Chechnya, the detachment lost 3 soldiers killed ^[8] .

Second Chechen War

Due to the aggravation of the situation in the summer of 1999 in Dagestan, the leadership of the RF Armed Forces began strengthening the group of forces in this region. Of the GRU special-purpose brigades, formations from the nearest military districts were primarily involved.

On November 6, 1999, in the 14th separate brigade, the creation of a combined detachment of 250 people began to be sent to the North Caucasus. The basis for the creation was the 294th separate special forces detachment.

On December 9, 1999, the detachment was transferred by military transport aviation to the settlement of Tarskoye of North Ossetia , after which it was introduced into Chechnya with a deployment in Shali.

On January 15, 2000, in the battle under the settlement of Serzhen-Yurt , 3 servicemen of the 294th detachment were killed.

On February 7, 2002, at the Khankala airfield, as a result of engine failure, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed, in addition to 3 crew members there were 5 military personnel of the 294th detachment. All 5 members of the squad died.

April 6, 2002 in a battle in the area of ​​the settlement Shelkozavodskaya killed 3 soldiers of the 294th detachment.

In total, during the stay of the 294th detachment in Chechnya from December 1999 to August 2006, 3916 people passed through the personnel of the detachment in the periodic replacement order.

For the courage and heroism shown during the performance of combat missions, 1,330 military personnel were awarded. Of these, the following were awarded:

• Order of Courage - 148 people
• Order of Military Merit - 8;
• the medal "For Courage" - 274.

In total, the 14th separate special-purpose brigade lost 18 people in the second Chechen war ^[6] . According to other sources, 22 people were killed ^[9] .

• Colonel Rymin Pavel Nikolaevich - 1963-1970;
• Colonel Drozdov Alexander Antonovich - 1970-1973;
• Colonel Demchenko Nikolay Andreevich - 1973-1975;
• Colonel Baglay Anatoly Mikhailovich - 1975-1978;
• Colonel Grishmanovsky Victor Fomich - 1978-1980;
• Colonel Onatsky Vitaliy Alekseevich - 1980-1987;
• Colonel Kurys Yakov Aleksandrovich - 1987-1992;
• Colonel Likhidchenko Alexander Ivanovich - 1992-1997;
• Colonel Rumyankov Andrey Mikhailovich - 1997-1999;
• Major General Degtyarev Sergey Petrovich - 1999—2011 ^[10] ;
• Colonel Arsalan Irincinov - 2011-2014 ^[9] ;
• Colonel Svyatko Alexander Yuryevich - 2014—2016;
• Guard Colonel Bilanchuk Vladimir Nikolaevich - 2016 - n. at. .

• GRU of the USSR
• General Directorate of the General Staff

• 14th GRU Special Forces Brigade