The 55th Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade (Russian:55-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада (горная)) (Military Unit Number 55115) is a mechanized infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces. It is located in Kyzyl, Tyva Republic, as part of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District.
In April 2014, it was reported that a new mountain motor rifle brigade would be formed in Kyzyl, Tyva Republic, in 2015.[3] In July 2014 Krasnaya Zvezda wrote that the organizational core of the future brigade had already arrived in Tuva. Colonel Andrei Shelukhin, head of the organizing group, and many of his subordinates arrived in Tuva from mountainous Tajikistan "so they had experience in conquering peaks."[4] On June 28, 2014, a Snow Leopard mountaineering club team, together with officers of the mountain brigade Kydykbek Sheripov and Alexander Umrikhin, climbed the highest peak of Tuva and all of Eastern Siberia - Mount Mongun-Taiga (Silver Taiga), "and now their pennants are flying at the height of 3,976 meters." The head of government in Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool, reportedly ordered that each of the future mountain rifle candidates also had a recommendation signed by the relevant district official. The article also said that high-ranking officials made no attempts to avoid military service for their sons.
The brigade was formed in November 2015.[5] 1047 of the 1300 servicemen were natives of Tuva.[6]
In November 2018, an unmanned aerial vehicle unit was formed as part of the brigade, equipped with Orlan-10 and Eleron-3 drones.[7]
It has been involved in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]
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^В Туву прибыл первый эшелон 55 отдельной мотострелковой (горной) бригады. TuvaOnline (in Russian). 23 November 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
^"Подразделение беспилотной авиации ЦВО сформировано в Туве". Press service of the Central Military District (November 27, 2018) (in Russian). 27 November 2018. Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
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