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In 2010, Spetsnaz GRU units were reassigned to the military districts of the Ground Forces and was subordinate to the operational-strategic commands until 2012, due to then Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov's military reforms. [12] [11] This decision was reversed in 2013 and Spetsnaz GRU units were reassigned to their original GRU divisions ...
As part of increases to the GRU's Spetsnaz, on July 19, 1962, General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces Directive No. 140547 was issued, by which the 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade was to be formed in the Leningrad Military District. The creation of the brigade began on September 17, 1962 and ended on March 1, 1963.
The elite units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are controlled, for the most part, by the military-intelligence GRU (Spetsnaz GRU) under the General Staff. They were heavily involved in secret operations and training pro-Russian forces in the civil war in Chechnya during the 1990s and 2000s.
The 24th Spetsnaz Brigade was established on 1 November 1977 at Nara-Byrka (Yasnaya), Chita Oblast, in the Transbaikal Military District at a former R-16 (SS-7) Strategic Rocket Forces support site, by expanding the previous company. [1] Initially, only a command team and the 1st Battalion were deployed. In 1980, the 2nd battalion was deployed. [2]
Vympel Group Directorate "B" Vympel Group is an elite Russian spetsnaz unit under the command of the FSB. (TsSN FSB) Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Spetsnaz GRU: 2nd, 3rd, 10th, 14th, 16th, 24th, 25th Spetsnaz Brigade (obrSpN) 45th Detached Reconnaissance Regiment Specnaz VDV (orpSpN)
Commanders of the 16th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade [7] No. Name From To 1 Colonel Alexander V. Shipka 1963 1967 2 Colonel G. Ya. Fadeyev 1967 1971 3 Colonel E. F. Chuprakov 1971 1973 4 Colonel Semen M. Tarasov 1973 1980 5 Colonel A. A. Ovcharov 1980 1985 6 Colonel A. A. Nedelko 1985 1989 7 Colonel A. M. Dementyev 1989 1991 8 Colonel Yevgeny V. Tishin
GRU (direct subordination) 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division (operational command) Type: Spetsnaz: Role: Anti-tank warfare Artillery observer Close-quarters combat Cold-weather warfare Combined arms Counterinsurgency Direct action HUMINT Irregular warfare Military intelligence Maneuver warfare Mountain warfare Patrolling Raiding Reconnaissance ...
The Russian commando frogmen (Russian: Морской спецназ, romanized: Morskoy spetsnaz), informally called "commando frogmen" in civilian media, are a Russian Naval Spetsnaz unit under operational subordination to the GRU that specialized in amphibious reconnaissance to prepare for amphibious warfare operations, clandestine operation, defense against swimmer incursions, direct ...