200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade

200th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
200-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада
Shoulder sleeve patch
Active1 December 1997 - present
Country Russia
Branch Russian Navy
TypeMechanized infantry
SizeBrigade
Part of14th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District Coastal Troops
Garrison/HQPechenga
Engagements
DecorationsOrder of Kutuzov 2nd Class Order of Kutuzov
HonorificsPechenga
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo

The 200th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Pechenga Order of Kutuzov Brigade (Russian: 200-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Печенгская ордена Кутузова бригада) is a military formation of the 14th Army Corps, part of the Leningrad Military District, based at Pechenga in Murmansk Oblast.[1] The brigade was formed from the 131st Motor Rifle Division in 1997 and was one of the two Russian Arctic warfare brigades.

In 2014, brigade units participated in the War in Donbas.[2][3]

In 2022, brigade units participated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

  1. ^ "131st Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "The Tour of Duty of the 200th Special Purpose Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy in Rostov Region and in Ukraine". InformNapalm.org (English). 1 December 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Northern Fleet attacks Ukraine, but no spillover impact on the Arctic". The Independent Barents Observer. Retrieved 27 February 2022.

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