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200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
Active1 December 1997 - present
CountryRussia
BranchCoastal Troops of the Russian Navy
TypeMotorized Infantry
Part of14th Army Corps, Northern Military District Coastal Troops
Garrison/HQPechenga
Engagements
DecorationsOrder of Kutuzov 2nd Class Order of Kutuzov
Battle honoursPechenga
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Denis Yuryevich Kurilo

The 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade is a military formation of the 14th Army Corps, part of the Northern 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 according to Bellingcat contributor and other sources.[2][3]

In 2022, brigade units participated in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine according to The Independent Barents Observer.[4] Interrogations of Russian POW established that the brigade was in Ukraine and that one or more battle groups may have been neutralized or captured in the Battle of Kharkiv (2022).[5][6][7][8]

History

The 200th Brigade was formed from the former 131st Motor Rifle Division in 1997. It inherited the honorifics "Pechenga Order of Kutuzov" from the division.

Transition to professional contract status was planned to finish at the end of 2006. At the beginning of April 2006 the brigade had about 700 professional personnel, practically all sergeant positions having been filled by kontraktniks (Russian: контрактник contracted professional soldiers). More than 180 military men and women have signed contracts for service in communications, medical, and rear services subunits. The brigade had about 10 professional soldiers from other Commonwealth of Independent States members. At the beginning of 2006, during a trip to the Leningrad Military District, the 200th Brigade was visited by the Minister of Defence, Sergei Ivanov. The brigade has association links with the Norwegian 6th Division (Norway) and the Swedish Norrbottens Regiment.

It formed part of the 6th Army in the Western Military District.[9] As of November 2011 it became the first of two new Arctic brigades of the Russian Ground Forces.[10][11][12] The unit had some disciplinary problems.[13] In November 2012 it became part of the Coastal Troops of the Northern Fleet.[14]

In 2014, according to Bellingcat contributor, the brigade was involved in the War in Donbas.[2][15] Brigade's units participated in the battle of Luhansk Airport and were spotted in the Khryashchevatoe village, a Luhansk suburb.[2] In October 2014, Senior Lieutenant Yevgeny Trundayev, commander of the anti-tank platoon of the 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion, was killed in the clashes for 32nd checkpoint, a battle in Luhansk region. He was later awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.[16]

The brigade has formed part of the 14th Army Corps since the corps' formation in April 2017.[17]

As of February 2022, elements of the Brigade were reported deployed on operations as part of the invasion of Ukraine,[18] operating in the area near Kharkiv.

Current structure

200th Separate Motor Rifle Battalion organization, as of 2019

200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade consists of a brigade headquarters, three motor rifle battalions, one tank battalion, a brigade artillery group (coordinating two separate self-propelled howitzer battalions and one separate rocket artillery battalion), an anti-aircraft missile battalion, an anti-aircraft missile-artillery battalion, an anti-tank artillery battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, and several directly subordinated combat support and combat service support battalions and companies. [19]

  • Brigade Headquarters
    • 274th Separate Guards Engineer Battalion
    • 293rd Electronic Warfare Company
    • 185th Postal Service Station
    • Separate Reconnaissance Battalion
    • Separate Communications Battalion
    • NBC Defense Company
    • Medical Company
    • Commandant Company
    • Separate Material Support Battalion
    • Maintenance Battalion
    • Sniper Company
    • UAV Company
  • 583rd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Battalion (MT-LB)
  • 658th Separate Motor Rifle Battalion (MT-LB)
  • 664th Separate Motor Rifle Battalion (MT-LB)
  • 60th Separate Guards Tank Battalion (T-80BVM)[20]
  • Brigade Artillery Group (BrAG)
    • Control and Reconnaissance Battery (for brigade Chief of Artillery)
    • 416th Separate Guards Howitzer Self-Propelled Artillery Division (152mm)
    • 471st Separate Guards Howitzer Self-Propelled Artillery Division (152mm)
    • 382nd Separate Rocket Artillery Battalion (BM-21)
  • 871st Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
  • 226th Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
  • 246th Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile-Artillery Battalion

Equipment

The 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade has the following equipment:

Commanders

  • Colonel Vitaly Leonidovich Razgonov (September 2009–April 2011)[13]
  • Colonel Denis Kurilo ( > 2022)[22] ( >2022 Death )[23]

References

  1. ^ "131st Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  2. ^ a b c "Russia's 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the Donbass – bellingcat". bellingcat. 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  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). 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
  4. ^ "Northern Fleet attacks Ukraine, but no spillover impact on the Arctic". The Independent Barents Observer. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  5. ^ ""Alexander Ivanov, født i 1999, ble arrestert i Kharkov". "Tjener under kontrakt i militær enhet 08275 (200th Motorized Rifle Brigade basert i #Murmansk-regionen"". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-02-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "#OSINT-report about battle groups of the 200th Motor Rifle Brigad/ 200-я Отдельная Мотострелковая Бригада - Northern Fleet in #Ukrania. #Leak of audio-report has been translated. Their families deserve to know". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  7. ^ "Destroyed MTLB and T-80 near Kharkiv, this is the 200th OMSBR, unit 08275". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  8. ^ "Tweets with hashtag #200mrb". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  9. ^ 200TH DET MOT BDE, PECHENGA, WEST, 2011-11-17,
  10. ^ "Russia plans Arctic army brigades". BBC News. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  11. ^ Development of Russia’s Arctic Brigade, 2011-11-17,
  12. ^ Pettersen, Trude (11 August 2011). "Russia's Arctic force may include paratroopers". Barents Observer. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  13. ^ a b Another Trouble Brigade, 2011-11-17,
  14. ^ Pettersen, Trude (26 November 2012). "Motorized infantry brigade to Northern Fleet". Barents Observer. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  15. ^ Aksai707 (2016-07-04). "Russia's 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the Donbass: The Tell-Tale Tanks – bellingcat". Retrieved 2016-09-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Russia's 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade in the Donbass: The Hero of Russia – bellingcat". bellingcat. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  17. ^ "14-й армейский корпус сформирован на Северном флоте для действий в условиях арктических широт" (in Russian). militarynews.ru. 22 April 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  18. ^ "Hundreds of Russian Arctic troops believed to be involved in war crimes in Ukraine".
  19. ^ L. Grau & C. Bartles, The Russian Way of War: Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces, (Fort Leavenworth: U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office, 2017), 31.
  20. ^ "200-я отдельная мотострелковая бригада перевооружена модернизированными танками Т-80БВМ".
  21. ^ "New Barnaul-T air defense system comes to motorized rifle brigade in Pechenga".
  22. ^ "One Ukrainian armed vehicle captures six Russian tanks near Kharkiv". Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  23. ^ "Kyiv Post twitter". Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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