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The goal of a regimental combat group task force of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) tactical group in the area, based on the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 76th Division and including also teams from the GRU Spetsnaz, and the elite Vympel group of the FSB, was to block an exit from a gorge, while other Russian forces attempted to encircle a large Chechen force departing the village of ...
A new VDV formation was also established in 1994, the 45th Spetsnaz Regiment. [12] The Airborne Forces took part in the First Chechen War from December 1994 to August 1996. [12] The joint army groups that carried out the ground campaign in the Battle of Grozny at the start of the war had elements of the 76th, 98th, 104th, and 106th GAD.
Kazantsev commanded the VDV Group deployed in the Second Chechen War. [2] In January 2000, during that conflict, he was involved in a helicopter crash in Chechnya and survived. [3] On 30 October 2000 he was appointed as commander of the Russian military contingent in the Kosovo Force. [2]
During the Dagestan War in August 1999, the VDV's 7th Guards Airborne Division were the first federal troops to respond to the Chechen rebel attack into the region of Dagestan. Later on, after two Russian paratroopers were captured, Staskov personally went to Chechnya in November to negotiate with the rebel leadership to secure their release ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. 1999–2009 conflict in Chechnya and the North Caucasus This article is about the war during the period of 1999–2009. For the following conflict in North Caucasus, see Insurgency in the North Caucasus. Second Chechen War Part of the Chechen-Russian conflict and the Post-Soviet ...
In August 1999, a battalion sized task force of the regiment was deployed to fight in the Second Chechen War. After being withdrawn from Chechnya in November 2004, the regiment once again became the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade on 1 May 2009 and in July 2010 was designated as the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade (Light). [ 3 ]
The 45th Guards Spetsnaz (Special Purpose) Detached Brigade (Russian: 45-я отдельная гвардейская бригада специального назначения (45-я ОБр СпН); Military Unit Number 28337) is the only spetsnaz unit of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV), based near Moscow. [1]
Vladimir Shamanov entered the Tashkent Higher Tank Command School in 1974. He commanded a battalion in the 76th Guards Air Assault Division in 1985–86, attended the Frunze Academy, graduated in 1989, was a deputy airborne regiment commander in Moldova, regimental commander in Azerbaijan, became division chief of staff for 7th Guards Airborne Division in Novorossiysk, fought in the Chechen ...