Airborne special forces: history and structure. Airborne special forces - the elite of the Russian armed forces 45th separate airborne special forces brigade

About the arrival in Novoazovsk of special forces from the 45th ObrSpN Airborne Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.

“The transfer to the village has been confirmed. Novoazovsk unit of the 45th separate special purpose brigade (Kubinka, Moscow region) Airborne troops Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in connection with which the intensification of sabotage and reconnaissance activities of the Russian occupation forces in the Mariupol direction is expected,” the intelligence report said.

In June 2016, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine named several names of Russian military personnel from the 45th Separate Brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, providing their photographs and personal information. At the same time, the intelligence officers, as always, limited themselves to only words without any photo or video evidence of the presence of military personnel in the occupied part of Donbass. We hope that such evidence will be removed from the classification of secrecy in the future, and these materials will be presented to the general public and will be reflected in the cases of the international court.

Until this happens, the InformNapalm team presents its information about the presence of Russian saboteurs from the 45th Separate Brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.

The photo, uploaded on August 31, 2016 and subsequently deleted, was taken on the roof of the building of the Utes boarding house, 3 km from the village. Shirokino (47.109467, 37.8733277).

Let us note that this boarding house, as well as the nearby “Parus” and “Donchanka”, have long been not places of rest for civilians, but barracks premises and positions of Russian “vacationers” who constantly come on “Ukrainian business trips”.

In the photo below, Mikhail Rusinov measures the depth Sea of ​​Azov near the recreation center of the KCC plant named after. Ilyich "Alexandria" (n.p. Bezymennoe) (47.101058, 37.934254).

And in June 2016, he even met local representatives of the opposite sex in the village. Khreschatitskoye (formerly Krasnoarmeyskoye) Novoazovsky district. The dating site apparently finally helped (47.233526, 37.926393).

Thus, we can claim that representatives of the 45th OBRSpN are directly involved in military operations in Donbass. Let’s not forget that this same unit was directly involved in the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. As we can see, since 2014 it has been conducting sabotage and reconnaissance operations in the occupied part of Donbass.

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On the third day, we managed to get into the 45th separate guards special-purpose reconnaissance regiment of the Order of Alexander Nevsky “with a watering can” and a notepad. The group of civilian Arkharov volunteers was accompanied by the head of the press service of the Airborne Forces, Colonel Alexander Anatolyevich Cherednik. An exceptionally intelligent head of the press service. I believe it was thanks to his efforts that the visit to the guards-paratroopers turned out to be so eventful.

To begin with, all those who arrived were briefed, then we were given flowers with the aim of placing them on the stones of the monument to the fallen soldiers of the regiment. The regiment is, as they say, “at war,” and in war there are no losses.

The youngest part in the composition Russian Airborne Forces is the 45th separate reconnaissance regiment, the formation of which began in February 1994. The regiment was formed on the basis of two separate battalions, each of which had its own history of formation and development before being included in the regiment. By order of the Commander of the Airborne Forces, in order of historical continuity, the day of formation of the 45th regiment is considered to be July 25, 1992.

On December 2, 1994, the regiment's personnel departed for the North Caucasus to participate in the liquidation of illegal armed groups in the territory of the Chechen Republic. From December 12, 1994 to January 25, 1995, reconnaissance groups and special forces (assault troops) from the regiment in cooperation with airborne units took part in military operations to capture the most important enemy targets, including in the city of Grozny.

On February 12, 1995, units of the regiment returned to their permanent deployment points. On March 15, 1995, the combined detachment of the regiment again arrived in Chechnya, continuing to carry out combat missions until June 13, 1995. During this period, as a result of competent military operations, there were no losses in the regiment.

By Presidential Decree Russian Federation dated July 21, 1995 to the commander of the special-purpose reconnaissance group, senior lieutenant Ermakov V.K., for the courage and heroism shown during the execution special task command for the disarmament of illegal armed groups, awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously). On July 30, 1995, a monument in honor of the fallen scouts was unveiled on the territory of the unit in a solemn ceremony.

On May 9, 1995, for services to the Russian Federation, the regiment was awarded a diploma from the President of the Russian Federation. The regiment took part in the parade dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany.

From February to May 1997, the combined detachment of the regiment took part in the peacekeeping mission in the zone of separation of Georgian and Abkhaz troops. armed forces in Gudauta.

On July 26, 1997, following the glorious traditions of the Armed Forces, the regiment was awarded the Battle Banner and Certificate of the 5th Guards Airborne Rifle Order of Kutuzov 3rd Class Regiment, disbanded on June 27, 1945, and stored in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation .

Since September 12, 1999, the regiment's combined reconnaissance detachment took part in the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

From the monument we went to the obstacle course. The runway isn’t exactly huge, but it’s big enough to guarantee you get tired. It imitates a section of mountainous and wooded terrain and is covered at a fast pace. To prevent the fighters on the strip from getting bored, other fighters ensured timely detonations of simulator charges and fired blank cartridges from a machine gun at those storming the strip. The paratroopers moved in twos, after overcoming each element of the obstacle course they stopped, looked around and covered their comrade, firing blanks. They moved deftly.

Not far from the obstacle course, other fighters practiced stowing parachutes. A film crew from Channel One worked next to them. Wet from the heat and diligence, the correspondent listened carefully to the commands and explanations of his personal mentor and immediately followed the instructions received. If reports are now prepared in this way, and end with a jump with a self-installed canopy, hats off. The work of a professional. This one certainly won’t talk about “rafter overlap.”

From the obstacle course we went to the shooting range and looked at various types of small arms available in the regiment. I can’t tell you much about the weapon - I fell into unconsciousness, became agitated and lost touch with reality. He repeatedly offered to exchange at least some of the existing samples for his photographic equipment, and even agreed to “his own cartridges.” But it didn’t work out. But he grabbed everything and examined it.

Kalashnikov assault rifle with PBS-1 and under-barrel grenade launcher, modifications of the SVD sniper rifle, gun SR-1 (SPS), VSS "Vintorez", AS "Val", PSS "Vul", knife NRS-2, pistol SME, submachine gun SR-2M "Veresk", PYa pistol, the legendary APB with a muffler and more. You need to not only be able to use all this, but use it successfully. Separately, they talked about the presence of a collection of captured weapons, for example, Georgian ones. It is also carefully studied so that fighters, if necessary, can beat the enemy with his own weapon.

We arrived at the territory of the airborne complex (VDK). This is a decent-sized area with all the necessary simulators for full training in parachute jumping. In our presence, two groups of fighters demonstrated several exercises for separating from aircraft and for a safe landing. All exercises were performed as expected: with two parachutes (main and reserve), with weapons and with all standard ammunition.

Soldiers are trained in all necessary actions on mock-ups of real aircraft from which paratroopers jump. There is a full-fledged parachute tower, and a simulator has been built for making a training jump from a helicopter. You equip yourself properly, climb the ladder to the tower, enter the landing compartment of the helicopter, secure yourself on the guide and jump down and forward, pushing off vigorously with your feet.

At a decent speed, with a roar and a metallic clang, you rush forward along the guide rail. To enhance naturalism, the rail is skillfully curved in several places, so that every trainee is jerked and tossed as if in a real jump. At the end of the training path, a group of colleagues with a safety rope is waiting for the paratrooper. Having grouped, the paratrooper flies with his feet into a specially prepared area with sawdust, and the other two belay the “landed” with a special rope, preventing him from flying too far forward.

Looks like an attraction in a cultural park. But during a training jump, the paratrooper does not forget to perform a whole series of actions that are brought to complete automaticity. In fact, the very fact good landing, for example, for me it is the end of a risky experiment, joy and the desire to drink immediately. And for a fighter this is just the beginning. It was me who, after my first jump, went light to the bar, and for him, landing is usually followed by a forced march and/or battle.

Paratroopers live not in barracks, but in a soldiers' dormitory. In each compartment, consisting of two adjacent rooms, there are 4-6 people. Bathroom and toilet. In the corridor, in addition to the soldiers' quarters, there is also a gym, a recreation room, and classrooms. Everything inside is clean and cool. At the entrance there are tanks with drinking water and mugs for those who want to quench their thirst. The orderly glances attentively at everyone coming and going. Overall, good, comfortable and clean accommodation. I especially remember the wall newspaper, it is documented there below. Laughed.

Of course, it would not have been possible without a dining room. No miracles were noticed in the dining room - just good-quality men's grub. God forgive me, they didn’t serve arugula and velig without any frills, but it’s clear right away: the food is hearty and fresh. Without any extra frills, I devoured everything that was offered. I didn't want any more, because it was very hot. The thermometer was rushing to +40.

The soldiers walk in formation towards the soldiers' canteen building and sing a song. The song was the same for everyone, with the intolerant words “we are Russians, the Russians are coming!” Some commanders reported to their soldiers that they could not hear their units. In response, the unit increased the volume and brutally typed the step. The freshly recruited fighters were very noticeable in the general mass. The young guardsmen have berets on their shaved heads, but they are not the same. Seasoned, seasoned warriors wear teardrop-cut berets with honor, which certainly look much more dashing than the “default” hats.

But the soldier’s ingenuity, of course, came up with the best way to transform the authorized “airfields” into what is needed: the soldier is stocked with a beret small size, evaporates the lining from it. If it is taken suturewise (i.e. with a seam), the fabric along the seam is ripped open, all excess is cut off and sewn again. The sewn beret is moistened with water and dried on a jar of suitable diameter or directly on the head.

The procedure must be repeated until complete readiness. As soon as the beret is ready, you need to refine the haircut. The “droplet” on the legally shaved head looks just right! A fighter passing by wearing such a “droplet” additionally explained that if you don’t want to bother making a beret yourself, you can simply buy a ready-made one. And he left smiling.

I noticed some discrepancies in the shoes. One of the paratroopers explained that for shoes you can use the boots that are issued, or you can buy the ones you like for your own money. This, of course, is not about patent leather boots or cowboy “Cossacks,” but about jumping boots for everyday wear. I saw several people wearing good quality American and German boots. And at the shooting range I noticed the heels. The fighters with weapons lay down in positions so that their soles were clearly visible. There are a lot of boots with fairly worn treads, which means they are constantly running and jumping.

A group of soldiers accompanied by an officer demonstrated to the audience the basic set of weapons and equipment of a reconnaissance soldier. Small arms, ammunition, knife, hand and grenade grenades, mines, disposable anti-tank grenade launcher, ropes, wires, tape, dressing bags, foam, a hat with a sweater, an infantry shovel, explosives in checkers, a minimum of medicines, various detonators and other things necessary for an autonomous reconnaissance raid in war conditions.

For ease of understanding: I once had the opportunity to carry 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Ammo only, no weapons or other equipment. I managed to walk four kilometers. It was very difficult. And the fighter has 450+ rounds of ammunition for the machine gun, the machine gun itself, and everything listed above. And you must constantly look around, at your feet, be ready to open fire and cover your comrades. And you are wearing 40+ kilograms of equipment and weapons.

It was especially interesting to learn about mines, which scouts can use to organize ambushes or, for example, if necessary, evade pursuit. Simply by destroying this very persecution. They showed the MON-50 directional mine and the OZM-72 ejecting all-round fragmentation mine. I have met German analogues of OZM-72 more than once, but MON-50 turned it over in my hands for the first time. They said - a very effective weapon in capable hands, an analogue of the American M18A1 Claymore.

Briefly: inside the plastic body of the mine, there are metal balls and rollers filled with synthetic resin. Approximately 500 pieces. And plastic explosives. When a mine is triggered, the specially curved body of the product causes metal striking elements to fly in a sector 54 degrees wide and about 5 meters high. At a distance of 50 meters, the lethal effect of the striking elements is reliable. It’s a terrible thing, it mows down everything in the working sector. And if you combine it with others of the same kind, mask and complement the effect small arms- there is no salvation at all. Excellent product For organizing an ambush, including for ambushes without direct contact with the enemy.

The jumping mine is a round steel can. At the moment of operation, it throws up, above itself, an internal “glass” with the same roller balls, only there are already about 2,500 of them. The glass is tied by a tension rope. The mine went off, the glass flew out to a height of about a meter, the cable twitched, the detonator went off, metal balls flew in all directions and wounded and killed everyone, even the lying soldiers.

This mine is perhaps the most powerful of all-round fragmentation mines. Even the OZM-160 mines, which are much larger in size and weight, do not provide such a uniform distribution of fragments over the affected area as the OZM-72 mine distributes its ready-made lethal elements.

The experience of using a mine clearly indicates that in the zone of continuous destruction (radius of the zone 30 meters) there will not be a single object the size of a person that will not receive at least one roller. even if he lies flat on the ground. The explosion of this mine cannot be confused with any other due to its screeching sound of flying rollers. The soldiers nicknamed her “The Evil One” or “The Witch.”

A funny thing: during his stay at the Airborne Forces, Colonel Cherednik told how exactly they use old ones when training paratroopers car tires. You have to carefully jump over them like this and like that - and he immediately demonstrated in person exactly how to jump. Let me remind you, a whole colonel jumped. In uniform, with shoulder straps. The faces of the young soldiers resting on the sidelines expressed some degree of surprise :).

Some airborne portraits:

Oh yes. I completely forgot. Of course, everything mentioned is pure window dressing. Personally, the Minister of Defense from the bushes made sure that we liked everything, and then, in the dining room, he secretly added meat to the saucepan. I noticed it and understood: this is a secret plan to throw dust in the eyes of the soldiers’ mothers. I'm letting you in!

The 45th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade, stationed in Kubinka near Moscow, passed its first test in its new status (previously it was a regiment) and demonstrated the high level of training of each soldier and their skills as a team in carrying out the assigned task. Journalists who prepared a rather interesting report from the scene of events were allowed to check, timed to coincide with Special Forces Day, which is traditionally celebrated on October 24.

On the obstacle course
“The Scout's Path” reproduces the obstacles that may be encountered on the path of a paratrooper when performing a real mission.

Is the group ready?
The scouts are completing preparations for the test.

Forward and upward
The machine gunner on the wall has the hardest time.

Crossing

In short dashes
All movements between positions are carried out by running.

In the forest
A group of scouts on an BTR-82. Soon they will go into the forest to organize an “ambush” on the militants.

Before the task
The scout is armed with an AK-74M assault rifle with a GP-25 grenade launcher.

Terrorists neutralized
Some of the fighters portrayed a mock enemy.

Finding a target
In the foreground is a fighter with sniper rifle VSS.

Terrorists' car
“Ural” was “blown up” by an explosive package and conditionally fired upon.

And again "terrorist"

Eyes of Intelligence
The crew is preparing to launch the Tachyon UAV.

Assembling the device
The UAV and control system occupy two inconspicuous suitcases.

Ready to go!
To launch, you need to tighten the catapult cable.

Controlled flight
Rugged laptops with special software provide flight control and reconnaissance results.

Route by points
The UAV can fly both under external control and independently - in advance given points route.

Parachute belay device
Ensures that the parachute opens after a specified period of time or at a specified altitude.

Stowing parachutes
Parachute training remains the main one in the Airborne Forces.

Primary Weapon
The scouts are armed with AK-74M assault rifles.

Everyone packs their own parachute

Duration of installation - 45 minutes

Preparation of standard No. 4
Standard No. 4 - putting on equipment to prepare for a jump with shooting in the air.

Training apparatus
Training on the simulator is a mandatory part general course before the actual jump.

Ready for the training jump!
When adjusting the equipment, the paratroopers are divided into pairs, monitoring the correct preparation of their comrade.

Let's jump
Jumping on old tires should prepare the joints and muscles of the legs for landing.

Ready for training jump
The roller suspension is designed to hook onto the rail of the training complex.

Climbing to the simulator

Ready? Let's go!

Landing

Sergeant of the 45th separate special purpose reconnaissance regiment Airborne Forces Valery K., grenade launcher of the 4th reconnaissance group of the 1st reconnaissance company of the 901st separate special forces battalion.

By the time I was drafted into the army (June 1994), I already had a sports rank in rock climbing and prizes at youth competitions in Apatity Murmansk region- I lived there until the mid-90s. That’s why they took me to the 45th regiment, I didn’t fit in height, they took guys with a height of 180 cm, but in those years there was a wild shortage of people, besides, I had already done several parachute jumps, we jumped in the winter of 1989 at the Murmashi airfield. In general, a kid came with jumping and rock climbing skills - practically a ready-made saboteur. The military commissar says to me: “You are not suitable in height, but with your sports training we can send you to special forces. Understand, it will be very difficult for you... Are you ready?" And at the parachute club where we trained, the instructors were Afghans, healthy, cheerful men in vests, some with military awards. Of course, I also wanted to be like them! I and I say: “Of course, I can handle it!” And from the very beginning I was determined to go to combat company, and not as security. That's how I ended up in the 45th Regiment.

901 SEPARATE SPECIAL PURPOSE BATTALION

The 45th regiment at that time consisted of two battalions - 218 separate battalion (commander - Major Andrei Anatolyevich Nepryakhin, future Hero of Russia) and 901 separate battalion (commander - Major Nikolai Sergeevich Nikulnikov), a three-company composition of 4 reconnaissance groups in each company. The regiment also included auxiliary units - a communications company (signalmen were scattered among reconnaissance groups), a special weapons company, an armored personnel carrier driver and gunner, and AGS crews. The reconnaissance company numbered 52-54 people, so a combined detachment of about 150 people operated in Grozny: 2nd company (commander - captain Andrei Vladimirovich Zelenkovsky) 218 ​​special forces, 1st (commander - senior lieutenant Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Nikolakhin) and 3rd ( commander - captain Cherdantsev) of company 901 special forces.

I can characterize all my immediate commanders as very professional, cruel and very cheerful people (such a complex combination). I am immensely grateful to them, and to this day, a quarter after the Grozny battles, I remember them. But this is never forgotten...

"Healthy, bald, with their own appearance and in their habits they were more reminiscent of bandits than officers of the Red Army. It was not for nothing that at that time citizens in black Mercedes were constantly grazing at the checkpoint with offers to earn extra money - to kill someone in Moscow..." 1

I now understand that, by and large, all our officers were real Soviet officers, in the very in the best sense this word. One of my acquaintances served ten years later in 2005 in GRU intelligence, and he told how their company commander extorted money from personnel. So, in principle, this could not have happened here; the consciousness of people in that early post-Soviet period did not allow it.

Hazing was very cruel. Officers approached this phenomenon in different ways: some tried not to pay attention, others, as the company commander Bannikov, fought as best he could (in the evening he climbed into the window of his office on the first floor, and when after lights out they began to press the young people, he jumped out office with a rubber stick and dispersed the old-timers), some of the officers, on the contrary, tried to use this phenomenon to their service. Our commander of the 4th group, Captain Vladimir Vladimirovich Glukhovsky, was engaged in serious education, and he turned our group into a truly well-coordinated team.

“Army friends... All this is a myth, a fiction, do not believe anyone who says that only in the army can you find real friends. Who can you call a friend here? Mordvin Evdokimov, who before the army made a living robbing passers-by at Moscow train stations and fled to the army from prison? The psychotic Tatar Zimadeev, who is also a karateka? He knows how to somersault over a fence and at the same time shoot from a machine gun. He has one argument for all everyday disputes - a kick to the head. A Kazakh named Batyr, who speaks Russian with difficulty? Or my fellow countryman from St. Petersburg Kokorin, who spent his entire childhood in a special boarding school and at twenty years old did not know the multiplication table? They could not be my friends." 1

“In a unit where they didn’t take guys less than one meter tall and where there was a cult physical strength, they began to hate me immediately, simply because of my short stature.

As night fell, after lights out, the old-timers came up with the idea that it was I who should clean their boots and hem their collars. Of course, because it seemed to them that it was much easier to mentally break a person who was chest-high and thirty kilograms lighter.

All attempts to “agree” ended in a simple beating.

I didn’t say anything afterwards, I just walked up and hit back once, knowing that in a few seconds I would be looking at the interior of the barracks from some unusual angle, lying with my head turned between the bedside table and the bed.

But I had to take this shot over and over again.

They were a little discouraged by the fact that I packed the parachute faster than anyone else in the company, could accurately navigate the map, and could translate phrases into English language from the training manual for interrogating prisoners of war, he pulled himself up the most on the crossbar and never died on forced marches.

Who gave this little nerd a grenade launcher? Are you completely crazy? - officers from another battalion reacted to me. After all, in addition to the machine gun, I also had to carry a grenade launcher with ammunition.

Everything is fine! Are your grenade launchers dying on the march? - Lieutenant Shepherd protected me with the castle of our reconnaissance group.

Well, they die, the soldiers constantly carry them in their arms...

But ours won’t die! He is our only “undying” one! “The shepherd was the only one who believed in me, maybe because he was just as short and thoughtful.

I was stubborn and patient, and after a year even those who hated me began to respect me." 1

Hazing is a complex, reciprocal phenomenon in which not only old-timers are to blame, and not all forms are bad. And whoever has not seen this will never understand. Later, reconnaissance groups tried to form guys from the same conscription, but this did not always help.

“Being a soldier of the smallest stature, and even serving in the fourth reconnaissance group, means always and everywhere being last in line.

To the bathhouse, to the dining room, to receive uniforms.

And now, I stood in the central aisle in front of the storeroom, anxiously watching a stack of tattered pea coats melting away.

A year ago, our unit left Abkhazia, and the thrifty company commander took out a whole truckload of what seemed then unnecessary junk. These peacoats have come a long way and if they could talk they could tell a lot.

Are these bullet holes? - a colleague of my conscription, standing opposite the window, looked into the light at the mysterious holes in the pea coat he had just received.

What is this, blood?.. - he turned to us showing strange brown spots on the fabric.

I won't wear this!!

Take it! Don't wander around! - one of the “old men” said sternly - “it will get cold in the forest at night, put it on, and you will be glad!”

The first three-day reconnaissance mission awaited us, and since we were called up in June, we were not entitled to winter uniforms.

In the army everything is on schedule.

The transition to winter uniform is scheduled for October 15, which means that until this moment everyone goes to summer camouflage, and it doesn’t matter that it’s already the end of September and there are frosts in the mornings.

You're out of luck! - the company commander said cheerfully, pointing to the empty shelves of the rack; he issued these pea coats personally.

Maybe... maybe there was at least one shot left?

No more pea coats! Take a raincoat from OZK, it will be warmer for everyone to spend the night - he handed me a rubber package.

It was a very cold three days.

When I went to bed, I covered my head with this cloak and from breathing it became covered from the inside with perspiration, which by morning turned into frost.

On the third day of continuous trembling, I heard, I almost felt a strange click in my head, as if some kind of switch had been switched.

And with that click, I suddenly stopped shaking and felt warm.

I will only acquire the ability to freeze again only about seven years after leaving the army." 2

"EVERYONE WAS READY THREE DAYS BEFORE DEPARTURE"

I remember very well how the deployment took place here in Kubinka, to the PPD battalion. On the twentieth of November 1994, on Saturday, we were in the garrison cinema on the territory of a tank unit. During the film show, a messenger came running and shouted into the audience: “First company, go out!”

We ran out and went to the company location. The training camp was already underway there. It was announced that a joint reconnaissance group was moving to Chechnya. The first reconnaissance group was assembled from us; they laid out the equipment in the central aisle for inspection. The mood before the departure was combative; they turned to the company commander with a request to include us in the combat formation. To which he replied: “Don’t worry, we’ll all fly there soon.” (One couple, however, got drunk. And the most pumped-up and bullish ones. Overnight they turned from centers into schmucks. But then no one condemned them. But they remained outcasts until the end of the service.) Then a new composition of the advanced detachment was formed, in which included our group. Before departure, everyone was ready three days in advance and slept on rolled-up mattresses. The bed linen was handed over, and we lay with our weapons on nothing but armored nets. Before departure, we wrote letters to our parents that we were going to Pskov for jumping. Maybe in Moscow (the 218th battalion was stationed in Sokolniki) there were parents at the checkpoint, but we had no one. On November 27 the departure took place. Upon arrival in Mozdok, we spent the night at the location of the VV unit. This night was very memorable because the BB guys in the barracks had a TV on the wall, and the singer Freddie Mercury was playing there. Then we moved to the checkpoint at the airfield, and soon everyone else arrived, and we moved to the boathouses near the takeoff. On the very first night, my grandfathers poked me a little with a knife in order to take away cash, but bad luck - I didn’t have any cash! Looking ahead, I will immediately say that during the hostilities in Grozny, hazing disappeared completely; in those conditions, hazing was impossible.

Upon arrival in Mozdok, they immediately went on guard to protect the personal train of Defense Minister P. Grachev, as well as his helicopter and the plane on which he flew to Moscow. So they changed constantly: to and from guard duty, to training, to shooting. In Grozny we operated with three companies, the other two were replacements, and one company was in reserve. Reserve companies guarded Grachev's train.

“Winter. Mozdok. Chill wind with sleet. We’ve been there for three days now. We can’t hide from it anywhere, because we’re at the airfield.

My friend and I are standing guard. There is no one to replace us, since our company is chasing a Chechen reconnaissance group through the forests.

The day before yesterday we guarded the plane of the Minister of Defense, yesterday we guarded the helicopter of the Minister of Defense, today we are guarding the mobile headquarters of the Minister of Defense.

We wait for the inspector to leave, take off our helmets and sit in them like in pots. Back to back. It's warmer this way. As I fall asleep, I think that a Chechen reconnaissance group will find us and cut our throats. “And then everything will end...” I think, even with some relief, and fall into sleep. The snow covers us with a wet blanket." 1

Of course, in addition to guarding facilities, the personnel of some reconnaissance groups carried out reconnaissance missions of the approaches to Grozny.

Once, my 4th reconnaissance group carried out a mission to search for an exposed Chechen reconnaissance group. True, they were not found.

On December 30, Captain Glukhovsky gave the order to prepare for a flight to mountainous areas, scheduled for tomorrow, December 31. In addition to the ammunition, we were each given a kilogram of forty different charges of explosives; it was assumed that we would have to start blowing up some bridges, the details were not specified. On the 31st we were ready to take off, and at approximately 14:15 a combined detachment of about 30 people boarded two Mi-8s. But an hour later, the takeoff was canceled, nevertheless, the order was given to be at the airfield. At about 17-18 the command came to load again, and this time we took off. We spent almost an hour in the air. We were covered by three Mi-24s. In the mountains, at the time of landing, the pilot discovered a Chechen armored personnel carrier standing in the bushes, and our helicopter took off sharply and left the landing point. The militants were apparently afraid of the Mi-24 and did not open fire. For a long time it was a mystery to me where they wanted to send us for the first time, and after 20 years, from some source, I learned that they were planning to land on the central stadium of Grozny, exactly where the reserve of Dudayev’s forces was located. We were very lucky that the flight was cancelled.

“There were about 20 of us left from the special operations department. Guys from the 45th reconnaissance regiment were supposed to act with us. They alerted us again and brought us to the airfield in Mozdok to deliver us by helicopter to the center of Grozny, to the stadium. It was then assumed that that we will take Dudayev’s palace in much the same way as we took Amin’s palace in December 1979.<...>We never flew to the center of Grozny. As they say, as above, so below. A terrible lack of coordination has emerged different kinds troops. It turned out that the helicopters could not take off, because one helicopter pilot had not yet had lunch, another had not yet refueled, and the third was completely on duty. As a result, already on January 1 at 00 hours 10 minutes we were given the order: “Get to the cars!” - the city had to be entered by land.<...>By the evening of that day, having already entered the city with a tank column, we learned from our scouts that by the time of that failed landing, the stadium planned as a springboard for it was full of well-armed and at the same time not subordinate to anyone: it was on December 31 that the the weapons available in warehouses were also distributed there without restrictions to everyone who wanted to defend “free Ichkeria”. So our three helicopters would most likely have been burned over this stadium.” 3

The leadership developed a “brilliant plan”: when we start sending troops into the city from the north, the militants will “get scared” and run to the south, where pre-established ambushes will await them on the main roads. It was these ambushes that we had to organize, and this explains the distribution of 40 kilograms of explosives for each person.

We are celebrating the New Year near the boathouses after the failed landing in the mountains. Somewhere there in the dark in the ranks is me.

Returning to Mozdok on the evening of the 31st, we immediately stepped up to guard Grachev’s train. New Year I met, guarding this train. There were BB posts across the field, and when the chimes struck, they opened fire with tracers in our direction, apparently believing that there could be no one in the field. My friend and I fell behind a thick poplar, branches cut down by bullets fell on us, he took out a can of beer stolen from an “officer’s” gift, and lying behind the poplar, we drank it in honor of the coming New Year.

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Here, by the way, is a very good video filmed by an officer from the 901st battalion. All our officers are here, almost all the guys from our group. I will comment on this video, summarizing the “peaceful” part of the service - from the PPD in Kubinka to the location in the boathouses at the Mozdok airfield. There were a lot of videos on the regiment on the Internet, but these videos disappear from time to time, perhaps the owners delete accounts.

Loading before departure on the battalion's central parade ground.

01:00. Battalion commander Nikulnikov and the commander of the 3rd company Cherdantsev stands with his back.

01:46. Senior Lieutenant Konoplyannikov, commander of the first reconnaissance group. On January 5, 1995, in the hospital, he will receive a bullet in the head, the Sphere will save him: the bullet will pierce steel, Kevlar, lining, all layers, and, having pierced the skin, will stick into the skull, but all the consequences will be a hefty bump.

01:53. A high officer - Major Cherushev, in my opinion he will later become a battalion commander after Nikulnikov.

14:21. Boxes with gifts from Menatep Bank. We called the black round hats “menatepovki”. Ironically, just before the storming of Grozny, they sent us gifts from “Menatep” - such cardboard boxes, they were brought on the 30th. The boxes were “officers” and “soldiers”. They all had writing materials: notebooks, pens, and also sweaters and hats like this. The "officer's" boxes also contained a bottle of champagne and a can of imported beer. Whoever compiled these kits had a very good understanding of what a soldier needed. Many years later, to be honest, I am stunned, knowing the arrogance of the current oligarchs: to send a gift to a soldier and also consult with a knowledgeable specialist about what exactly the soldier needs. This had to come down... The fact is that a fucking soldier's helmet only fits on the top of the head with a fur army earflap, and the whole point of the helmet disappears, but here they sent caps - the consultant clearly understood the situation.

So we ran around in these hats. In general, it turned out that all the uniforms and equipment were very poorly suited for active combat operations. Upon arrival at the PPD in Kubinka, these caps were taken to the warehouse by order.

A few years later, in the St. Petersburg metro, I saw a man wearing such a hat. I stood and looked at him for a long time, trying to understand whether he was in Grozny...

15:41. On the right in the frame is Lieutenant Andrei Gridnev, the future Hero of Russia. I remember how Gridnev just came to the unit from school as a young lieutenant, he was only 21 or 22 years old, he was assigned to our company as Konoplyannikov’s deputy, he was immediately very motivated to serve. From the first days, Gridnev was seriously involved in preparing and educating the guys from the group, they regularly ran with him, did extra cross-country runs, and every evening he came and forced them to douse themselves with ice water (in fact, hot water We didn’t have it in our company at the time). They called it “Karbyshev’s bathhouse”. He gave the impression of a very tough person. But I remember when his wife arrived at the unit, when he had already settled into the officer’s dormitory, and we were helping him bring in furniture and things, he, secretly from his wife, took a box with jars of raspberry jam, and in the dark around the corner of the dormitory, he handed it to us, saying : “Here, guys, eat some jam!” I remember being very touched. After Konoplyannikov was wounded on January 5, Gridnev will take command of the reconnaissance group and will successfully lead it. The guys from the group recalled that he was very lively in battle, they laughed, saying: “The battle is being fought by Lieutenant Gridnev and ten of his squires,” because he was constantly running from one fighter to another, shooting from a grenade launcher, then from a machine gun, then He would take the rifle away from the sniper, the guys laughed that if they started giving him shells, he would throw shells at the militants’ positions even without a gun. And when I found out that he was given the Hero star, I was not surprised at all.

15:53. Company commander Nikolakhin and on the left in a winter hat and camouflage uniform are the deputy company commander and the commander of the combined group of snipers (included soldiers armed with SVD and VSS) Konstantin Mikhailovich Golubev, who will die on January 8, 1995. They were friends, and Nikolahin was very upset about his death.

16:11. Our political officer Bannikov waves his hand.

16:15. A big mustachioed guy is the battalion's main demolition bomber, I don't remember his name. When classes on subversive training were taking place, he said: “Explosives can be made from last year’s leaves; whoever stays for a contract, I’ll tell you how.” Behind him is a healthy guy - our machine gunner Yura Sannikov, from Siberia, a very kind guy, one of two in the company with a higher education.

The camera moves to the right, and we again see Gridnev and Lieutenant Gonta, a tough guy, on the second trip he will be the commander of a combined reconnaissance group, in which I will be, we will destroy the ambush at height 970 in the Serzhen-Yurt area under his leadership. Then things will work out with him a good relationship. In Grozny he was the commander of the second reconnaissance group. At the very edge of the frame on the right is Dima T., a sergeant from our reconnaissance group, who transferred to the RMO after the assault on Grozny. Now in Europe he is a chef in one of the hotels.

17:20. Formation of officers of our 1st company. The tallest in the ranks is Glukhovsky! Vladimir Glukhovsky, at the age of 27 at that time, was already a very experienced officer, commanding a reconnaissance group in Transnistria in a separate 818th special forces company, subordinate directly to the commander of the 14th Army Lebed, which carried out complex combat missions, and was disbanded after the withdrawal from Transnistria. Glukhovsky was sent to our regiment, and it so happened that he, a captain, a former group commander, who was already wounded, fell under the subordination of the junior senior lieutenant Nikolakhin. Glukhovsky was a man of character, very energetic and treated war as a sport. I never saw him scared or tired, although he sometimes slept less than we did.

Behind Glukhovsky, the last one in the ranks is his deputy. Vadim Pastukh. On his second trip in the summer of 1995, Shepherd will be the commander of a group providing support for a detachment of drones. And the commander of this unit will be Sergei Makarov, the second in line. In the event of a drone being shot down by militants, Shepherd’s group was to ensure its search and return.

"THE CITY WAS DESTROYED, MANY HOUSES WERE BURNED"

I don’t remember exactly, but it seems that on January 1, 1995, on the Urals, we moved to Grozny with two companies: the 2nd 218th battalion and our 1st 901st battalion. The second company, under the leadership of Major Nepryakhin, entered first. The third company of our battalion entered Grozny one or two days later than us.

I always thought that they entered the city late in the evening on January 1st. The day before there was turmoil: departures, arrivals, train security... Perhaps one day (December 31, 1994) slipped out of my memory.

Before leaving for Grozny, near the boathouses, we tied the Urals with boxes of sand, and it was during the day, I remember exactly. The thaw began, and, by the way, they brought “sphere” helmets by car, which the officers immediately snapped up, but they brought few helmets, so not even all the officers had enough. Apparently, this happened on the afternoon of January 1, and we set out, accordingly, on the second, because on December 31 we were closely busy with these attempts to fly somewhere, and the Urals were not tied with boxes that day. But I was always sure that the entrance to the city took place on the first of January.

In the video there are metal trusses of a cannery; there were infantry machine gunners on all the platforms, who began firing bursts at any sound.

Then, if the 218th battalion reached the canned food facility approximately at the time indicated on the timer in the video frames of Lyubimov’s film, then it turns out that our company arrived at night after them. Nepryakhin says in the video that they entered with a fight. And then we, the first company of the 901st battalion, moved separately (our column was not large, just a few vehicles). Grozny is only about 100 kilometers from Mozdok.

We moved in a column behind the second company of the 218th battalion, already in the dark. The city was destroyed, there was no electric lighting, but many houses were burning. At one point, a mortar mine exploded in front of our Ural. The driver stopped, and immediately a second mine fell behind the car. I saw how Glukhovsky, who was sitting at the edge of the body, ran to the cabin and began banging on it with his fist, shouting: “Forward!” The driver drove off, and where we were standing, the third mine exploded. One of the mines landed in a private house, which was located in the direction of travel on the left side. We entered the cannery late at night on January 1st. The company was located in a two-story building on the second floor. My friend and I were immediately put on guard to guard the Urals. The mortar shelling continued and several mines exploded nearby.

There were already infantry at the plant, the remnants of some units. In the darkness we met a surviving warrant officer from Maikop brigade, who told about the death of their column, about how the Chechens shot the crews of cars leaving the burning equipment. The cannery was generally a safe place, despite periodic shelling. All the stories about compote from this factory - however, we drank compote all the time, no one broke these cans (Obviously this refers to a scene from A.G. Nevzorov’s feature film “Purgatory”, 1997: “Why are you destroying banks, huh?”)

Over time, the plant became a kind of springboard where suitable units were pulled up.

“[The plant] was a series of barracks-type premises, but built very thoroughly. Some of them housed unit headquarters, others housed units withdrawn from battle and their armored vehicles. Some of the warehouses were still filled with canned juices and compotes. there was a constant stream of people carrying away the cans." 4

After entering the cannery, Glukhovsky ordered to find wooden pallets, and from these pallets to build a floor for sleeping in the two-story building where we were located. It must be said that Glukhovsky took the organization of everyday life very seriously and always forced the creation of the most comfortable conditions possible for sleep and rest. He immediately dispatched one of our soldiers to make lamps from shell casings. It turned out that this ancient, proven method of lighting has no alternative. Later, when the building is hit by a mortar, we will move to the basement, and there, too, our commander will force us to equip sleeping places, build a stove from a barrel, and make a dozen lamps from shell casings. This habit of making our locations as comfortable as possible will remain with us until the end of our service.

On the same day they will bring in a captured artillery spotter. Then there was a version about “a captain dressed in a uniform,” I don’t know if these are different people or not. But the spotter is not a myth, and I have seen it myself.

Officer 22 Special Special Forces Vyacheslav Dmitriev:“For some time we were harassed by mortar fire, from which there was no escape. This continued until the spotter was caught. One of the sentries noticed a man of Slavic appearance in the uniform of a captain Russian army, who alone then entered and then again left the territory of the cannery. They checked him, the unit number in the documents did not coincide with any number of military units that entered Grozny, and the artillery compass and the Japanese radio station dispelled all doubts. During interrogation it turned out that he was a Ukrainian mercenary. His further fate is unknown. Some said that he was sent to Mozdok to a filtration point of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, others that he was shot here, behind the barracks. In those conditions, both could be true." 4

The captured spotter will boast: “Welcome to hell!” There were rumors that infantrymen took him on the roof of either a five-story building or a nine-story building nearby; he had a walkie-talkie with him, but this is also unlikely, rather he was “rummaging around” near the plant, and apparently lost his sense of smell from impunity. He was a Chechen with a big nose, unshaven, spoke with an accent, was dressed in black trousers and a long black leather jacket with pockets. I now think it was not a mercenary, but most likely one of the locals, such as a surveyor or a retired military man; you can’t teach a simple shepherd to use a compass so quickly. I'll see him the next day. The spotter was kept in the basement of the house where we lived at first. There, near the porch, the next morning I saw him and didn’t recognize him, his face was very badly damaged, he cried and said: “Don’t kill me, I’m a soldier like you!” A tall, thin general spoke to him gloomily.

It became psychologically difficult already on January 2: constant lack of sleep, knee-deep mud, shelling from mortars, snipers. Even to smoke - I had to hide.

On January 2, if I’m not mistaken, the first reconnaissance group received the task of moving to the Petropavlovskoye Highway area (but this is not accurate information). The fact is that troops were planned to approach the highway, and the militants set up ambushes there, and it was necessary to carry out counter-ambush measures.

Major Sergei Ivanovich Shavrin, Directorate special operations FSK:"The task of the corps commander (commander of the 8th Guards AK, Lieutenant General L.Ya. Rokhlin) He entrusted us with a difficult task: to ensure the safety of the column routes along which military equipment and troops advanced. This is Lermontovskaya street (Lermontov Street, adjacent to Petropavlovskoye Highway). There are houses on one side there, private sector, and on the other modern buildings. Militants in groups of 5-6 people made their way into houses and fired at the columns. And the street is completely clogged with combat vehicles, tankers, and vehicles with ammunition. In general, every shot results in a hit and a lot of damage and losses. From our joint team with special forces paratroopers, we formed four groups and cleared the neighborhood of bandits. They set up ambushes, and when they found militants, they entered into battle. The bandits are afraid of open battle and avoid it. They have one tactic: bite and run, bite and run... They soon realized that there were ambushes, there were special forces, there was danger. And the bandit raids stopped. Several blocks along the road were clear." 3

On one of the night outs, machine gunner Sergei Dmitruk, from the first reconnaissance group, died, number 3 or 4, I don’t remember exactly. The first loss in our company.

The mentioned cleansing of the private sector, where exactly, I don’t know exactly, maybe somewhere in the area of ​​the Petropavlovskoye Highway. The voice of the commander of the first reconnaissance group of our company, Konoplyannikov: “Slash to the right, Mustafa!” Mustafa is the nickname of a sniper from the VSS Radik Alkhamov from Bashkiria. Radik was very kind and very slow, but he was transformed in the ring at competitions hand-to-hand combat. He was small in stature, very sinewy, with prominent muscles, like Bruce Lee. Radik was a hand-to-hand champion in the battalion; they pitted huge guys against him and he defeated them all! When we jokingly asked: “Radik, why are you so slow?”, he drawled and answered: “The sniper must be slow!”

I remember in the morning I went on some errand to the plant, and saw a car trying to break through the bridge over the Sunzha at full speed - a white “six” with four men in it. I don’t know if they were militants, but this maneuver was tragic for them: it turns out that our tank was standing opposite the bridge behind a concrete fence in a caponier and with the first shot the hood with the engine was torn off the “six”, the driver and passenger in the front seat were killed, and two passengers They jumped out of the back seat and rushed back across the bridge. Immediately, heavy fire was opened from all the metal trusses of the plant on those escaping, and I saw how the bullets began to tear their clothes. I sat with my neck craned and looked over the fence, which wildly infuriated Glukhovsky: “Do you want a bullet in the head?!” - He hit me on the helmet with the butt of his helmet.

And the next moment a mine flew into the territory of the plant and a shrapnel cut off one of our Ural drivers, he fell as if he had been knocked down. The guys immediately grabbed him and carried him to the doctors. Only upon arrival in Kubinka did we learn that he had survived.

SOURCES

1. God comes himself.-M., Printing house "News", 2012.-112 p., ill. Page 107.

2. Valery K. “I can’t be an atheist,” story. Published in the author's edition.

July 25 - Education Day of the 45th separate regiment special forces of the Airborne Forces, now the 45th separate guards order of Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky special forces brigade of the Airborne Forces.

The 45th Separate Guards Order of Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky Special Purpose Regiment of the Airborne Troops (45th Guards Special Purpose Special Forces Airborne Forces) was formed in February 1994 on the basis of the 218th Special Assault Regiment and the 901st Special Assault Regiment.

901st separate air assault battalion for special purposes.

The 901st ODSB was formed on the basis of the order of the chief General Staff The USSR Armed Forces on the territory of the Transcaucasian Military District by the end of the 70s.
Then this battalion was moved to Czechoslovakia, where it was included in the structure of the Central Military Command. On November 20, 1979, the Oremov Laz garrison in Slovenia became the new location of the 901st Separate Specialized Assault Brigade (some sources indicate the garrison in Rijeka as the location).

The battalion was equipped with approximately 30 combat landing vehicles BMD-1. In March 1989, the number of TsGV troops began to decline, and this process affected 901 ADSB. At the turn of March and April, the entire battalion was moved to Latvian Aluksne, where it was enrolled in the PribVO.

1979 - formed on the territory of the Transcaucasian Military District as the 901st separate airborne assault battalion
1979 - transferred to the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia
1989 - transferred to the Baltic Military District (Aluksne)
May 1991 - transferred to the Transcaucasian Military District (Sukhumi)
August 1992 - transferred to the command of the Airborne Forces headquarters and renamed the 901st separate parachute battalion
1992 - transferred as a separate battalion to the 7th Guards Airborne Division
1993 - during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, he performed tasks for the protection and defense of military and government facilities on the territory of Abkhazia
October 1993 - transferred to the Moscow region
February 1994 - reorganized into the 901st separate special forces battalion
February 1994 - transferred to the newly formed 45th separate special forces regiment (Airborne)

218th separate air assault battalion for special purposes

In 1972, the 778th separate special-purpose radio company of 85 people was formed as part of the Airborne Forces. The main task of this unit was to drive the landing aircraft to the drop point, for which groups of this company had to land behind enemy lines ahead of time and deploy the drive equipment there. In 1975, the company was reorganized into the 778th OR REP, and in February 1980 - into the 899th separate special-purpose company with a strength of 117 people. In 1988, the 899th Special Forces Regiment was reorganized into the 899th Special Forces Company (with a staff of 105 people) as part of the 196th Airborne Forces. The company was later deployed to the 218th separate air assault battalion.

July 25, 1992 - formed in the Moscow Military District. The permanent deployment points were located in the Moscow region.
June-July 1992 - took part as a peacekeeping force in Transnistria
September-October 1992 - took part as a peacekeeping force in North Ossetia
December 1992 - took part as a peacekeeping force in Abkhazia
February 1994 - transferred to the newly formed 45th separate special-purpose airborne regiment

History of the 45th Guards. separate reconnaissance regiment of the Airborne Forces.

By July 1994, the regiment was fully formed and equipped. By order of the Commander of the Airborne Forces, in order of historical continuity, the day of formation of the 45th regiment is specified to be considered the day of formation of the 218th battalion - July 25, 1992.
On December 2, 1994, the regiment was transferred to Chechnya to participate in the liquidation of illegal armed groups. Units of the regiment took part in hostilities until February 12, 1995, when the regiment was transferred back to its permanent location in the Moscow region. From March 15 to June 13, 1995, a combined detachment of the regiment operated in Chechnya.

On July 30, 1995, an obelisk was unveiled on the territory of the regiment's deployment in Sokolniki in honor of the soldiers of the regiment who died during the fighting.
On May 9, 1995, for services to the Russian Federation, the regiment was awarded a diploma from the President of the Russian Federation, and servicemen of the regiment as part of the combined airborne battalion took part in the parade on Poklonnaya Hill dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany.
From February to May 1997, the combined detachment of the regiment was in Gudauta as part of a peacekeeping mission in the zone of separation of the Georgian and Abkhaz armed forces.
On July 26, 1997, the regiment was awarded the Battle Banner and Certificate of the 5th Guards Airborne Rifle Mukachevo Order of Kutuzov III Class Regiment, disbanded on June 27, 1945.

On May 1, 1998, the regiment was renamed the 45th separate reconnaissance regiment of the Airborne Forces. The 901st separate special forces battalion was disbanded in the spring of 1998; in 2001, a line battalion was created on its basis
special purpose as part of the regiment (called “901st” according to old habit).

From September 1999 to March 2006, the regiment's combined reconnaissance detachment took part in the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

On February 2, 2001, the regiment was awarded the pennant of the Minister of Defense “for courage, military valor and high combat skills.”

On August 8, 2001, a new memorial Complex in memory of the soldiers of the regiment who died while performing combat missions. Every year, on January 8, the regiment celebrates the Day of Remembrance of Fallen Soldiers.
In April-July 2005, it was decided to transfer to the 45th Regiment the Battle Banner, the title “Guards” and the Order of Alexander Nevsky, which belonged to the 119th Guards Parachute Regiment, which was disbanded in the same year. The ceremony of transferring the honors took place on August 2, 2005.

In 2007, the 218th separate special forces battalion was reorganized into a linear battalion, losing its numbering and status as a separate military unit. Since that time, the regiment has consisted of two line battalions.

The regiment was returned to the name 45th separate regiment special purpose airborne forces.

In August 2008, units of the regiment took part in the operation to force Georgia to peace. Regimental officer, Hero of Russia Anatoly Lebed was awarded the Order of St. George, IV degree.

On July 25, 2009, on the day of the regimental holiday, a small consecration of the throne of the garrison church of the 45th separate guards regiment, consecrated in honor of the icon, took place in Kubinka Mother of God"Blessed Sky"
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 170 of February 9, 2011, the regiment was the first in modern history awarded the Order of Kutuzov.

The presentation of the award took place on April 4, 2011 at the regiment's headquarters in Kubinka. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev personally attached the badge and ribbon of the order to the regiment's St. George banner.

In May-June 2012, the regiment's reconnaissance platoon participated in joint exercises with " green berets"at the American military base of the 10th Special Forces Group, located in Fort Carson.

In the spring of 2014, a separate reconnaissance detachment of the regiment took part in the operation to annex Crimea to the Russian Federation.

During the general increase in the number of Russian Airborne Forces at the end of 2014, the 45th separate regiment was deployed into a brigade.

Battle path

1994-1995 - First Chechen War
1997 - Georgian-Abkhaz conflict
1999—2006 — Second Chechen War
2008 — Georgian-Ossetian conflict
2010 — ensuring the safety of Russian citizens on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic

Commanders

Kolygin, Viktor Dmitrievich - 1994-2003
Kontsevoy, Anatoly Georgievich - 2003-2006
Shulishov, Alexander Anatolyevich - 2006-2012
Pankov, Vadim Ivanovich - 08.2012 - present.

Regimental awards

August 2, 2005 - The title “Guards” and the Order of Alexander Nevsky were transferred from the disbanded 119th Guards Parachute Regiment.

February 9, 2011 - Order of Kutuzov “For the successful completion of combat missions of the command and the courage and heroism shown by the regiment personnel.”

Heroes

218th separate battalion (before inclusion in the regiment)
For courage and heroism in carrying out peacekeeping missions in 1992, many servicemen of the battalion were awarded government awards.

901st separate battalion (before inclusion in the regiment)

Order "For Personal Courage" - 43 people
Medal "For Courage" - 21 people
Medal "For Military Merit" - 27 people

45th separate regiment

Heroes of the Russian Federation:

Hero of the Russian Federation Vadim Alekseevich Gridnev

Hero of the Russian Federation Ermakov Vitaly Yurievich (posthumously)

Hero of the Russian Federation Zhidkov Dmitry Vasilievich (posthumously)

Hero of the Russian Federation Lais Alexander Viktorovich (posthumously)

Hero of the Russian Federation Lebed Anatoly Vyacheslavovich

Hero of the Russian Federation Andrey Anatolyevich Nepryakhin

Hero of the Russian Federation Vadim Ivanovich Pankov

Hero of the Russian Federation Alexey Viktorovich Romanov

Hero of the Russian Federation Rumyantsev Alexey Viktorovich (posthumously)

Hero of the Russian Federation Pyotr Karlovich Yatsenko (posthumously)

Awarded for completing combat missions:

Order of St. George - 1 person
Order of Courage - more than 100 people
Order of Military Merit - more than 40 people
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" - 3 people
St. George's Cross - about 40 people
Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree with swords - 60 people
Medal "For Courage" - 174 people
More than 180 people received the Suvorov Medal
More than 60 people received the Zhukov Medal

Regimental combat losses

During participation in hostilities, the regiment lost 43 people killed, more than 80 servicemen were wounded.