6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade information
6th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (1997–2009)
6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (1982–1997)
6th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (1962–1982)
Post-Soviet brigade insignia
Active
1962–2009
Country
Soviet Union
Russia
Branch
Soviet Army
Russian Ground Forces
Part of
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (later Western Group of Forces)
10th Guards Tank Division
Garrison/HQ
Karlshorst
Kursk
Engagements
First Chechen War
Second Chechen War
Decorations
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd class
Battle honours
Berlin
Commanders
Notable commanders
Nikolai Sergeyev
Alexander Dorofeyev
Sergei Gushchin
Aleksandr Yevteyev
Military unit
The 6th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Russian: 6-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая бригада) was a Soviet Army mechanized infantry brigade, stationed in East Berlin during the Cold War, from 1962 to 1989.
Formed in 1962 as the 6th Separate Brigade of Protection after the Berlin Crisis of the previous year increased tensions, the unit was soon renamed the 6th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade. Directly subordinated to the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG), the brigade helped protect East Berlin and provided troops for ceremonial duties in the city. In event of a conflict, the brigade was to invade West Berlin, with the help of National People's Army units stationed in and around Berlin. In 1982, the brigade inherited the lineage of the 60th Guards Rifle Division's 185th Guards Rifle Regiment, and became an elite Guards unit, also receiving the honorifics "Berlin Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky". The brigade was the last Soviet Army unit to leave Germany after its reunification, in 1994, and was withdrawn to Kursk, where it became a motor rifle regiment of the 10th Guards Tank Division in 1997. Fighting in both the First and the Second Chechen War, the unit was disbanded in 2009.[1]
^Tolstykh, Viktor (23 June 2016). "Краткая история 6 гв. омсбр – 1962-1997 гг" [A Brief History of the 6th Guards Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, 1962–1997]. 10otb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 28 May 2017.
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