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Ad-hoc battalion tactical groups were formed in the Russian Army as an expediency due to lack of manpower and equipment to field full-strength brigades and divisions during both the first and second Chechen Wars, and also in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. [19] Standard Russian BTG structure
Shoygu also focused on forming battalion tactical groups (BTGs) as the permanent readiness component of the Russian army, rather than brigade-sized formations. According to sources quoted by the Russian Interfax agency, this was due to a lack of the manpower needed for permanent-readiness brigades.
27th Separate Guards "Sevastopol" Motor Rifle Brigade; 35th Separate Guards "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade; 36th Separate Guards "Lozovaya" Motor Rifle Brigade; 37th Separate Guards "Budapest Don Cossack" Motor Rifle Brigade; 38th Separate Guards "Vitebskaya" Motor Rifle Brigade; 57th Separate Guards "Krasnograd" Motor Rifle Brigade
The 37th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Don Cossack Budapest Red Banner Order of the Red Star Brigade named after Ye. A. Shchadenko [a] is a motor rifle brigade of the Russian Ground Forces (Military Unit Number 69647). It is stationed at Kyakhta in Buryatia, part of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District.
1st Air Force Combined Rifles Brigade [653] 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Commander: Colonel Serhiy Blyzniuk) [654] 15th Transport Aviation Brigade [655] 25th Transport Aviation Brigade [656] 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade [657] [658] [659] 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade (Commander: Colonel Volodymyr Kravchenko) [660] 114th Tactical Aviation ...
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 kontrak
Horlivka Group; Oplot 5th Separate Infantry Brigade or Oplot Brigade (Russian: Батальон «Оплот», meaning "Bulwark Battalion") – First commanded by Alexander Zakharchenko. [102] [103] Originally a Donbas People's Militia battalion, it expanded to a brigade by September 2014 during the DPR militia restructuring. [104] Kolchuga Group
38th Guards Communications Brigade; 46th Radio-Technical Brigade; 50th Separate Operational Brigade; 69th Covering Brigade (Russia) 82nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade; 83rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade; 84th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade; 86th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade