810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade

810th Separate Guards Order of Zhukov Naval Infantry Brigade named for the 60th Anniversary of the Soviet Union
810-я отдельная гвардейская ордена Жукова бригада морской пехоты имени 60-летия образования СССР
Brigade insignia
Active1967–present
Country
Branch
TypeNaval infantry
Size2,500 marines,
36 T-80 or T-55 tanks[1][better source needed]
Part ofBlack Sea Fleet
Garrison/HQKazachya Bay, Sevastopol
EngagementsSecond Chechen War

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
Russian invasion of Ukraine

Decorations
Honorifics60th Anniversary of the Soviet Union

The 810th Separate Guards Order of Zhukov Naval Infantry Brigade named for the 60th Anniversary of the Soviet Union (810 gv. obrmp) (Russian: 810-я отдельная гвардейская ордена Жукова бригада морской пехоты имени 60-летия образования СССР (810 гв. обрмп); Military Unit Number 13140) is a brigade of the Russian Naval Infantry. Based in Sevastopol with one battalion in Temryuk, the brigade is the naval infantry brigade of the Black Sea Fleet.[2]

The brigade was formed as the 810th Separate Naval Infantry Regiment at Sevastopol in 1967 during the expansion of the Soviet Naval Infantry. It was expanded into the 810th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade in 1979, and remained stationed in Sevastopol as one of the Russian units based there under an agreement with Ukraine after the Soviet Union collapsed. In 1998, the brigade was reduced to a regiment again. It was expanded into a brigade again in 2008 and participated in the 2014 seizure of Crimea by Russia. It received Guards status in 2018.

  1. ^ The Ukrainian Marines Hit The Russian Marines So Hard, They Blew The Russians Back To 1980
  2. ^ "История 810-й отдельной гвардейской ордена Жукова бригады морской пехоты Черноморского Флота". www.kchf.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-01.