200th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade | |
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200-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада | |
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Active | 1 December 1997 - present |
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Branch | ![]() |
Type | Mechanized infantry |
Size | Brigade |
Part of | 14th Army Corps, Northern Military District Coastal Troops |
Garrison/HQ | Pechenga |
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Honorifics | Pechenga |
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 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.[2][3]
In 2022, brigade units participated in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4] Interrogations of Russian prisoners of war established that the brigade was in Ukraine and suffered heavy losses in the battle of Kharkiv.[5][6][7][8]
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