10th independent Special Forces Brigade GRU

10-я отдельная бригада специального назначения ГРУ

Military Unit: 65564; from 2003: 51532

Activated 4.10.62 in Karagoz, Crimean Oblast, as the 10th Special Forces Brigade GRU.

Organisation:

• 1st Battalion (Karagoz, Crimean Oblast)

• 2nd Battalion (Feodosiya, Crimean Oblast)

• 325th independent Special Forces Unit (Feodosiya, Crimean Oblast)

3.4.78 renamed 10th independent Special Forces Brigade GRU.

The 186th independent Special Forces Unit was partly staffed by the 10th independent Special Forces Brigade, while in Afghanistan.

1.1.92 taken over by Ukraine (directive issued 11.10.91).

Re-activated 1.5.03 in Molkino, Krasnodar Kray.

Organisation:

• 85th independent Special Forces Unit (2009 transferred to the 100th independent Reconnaissance Brigade)

• 95th independent Special Forces Unit (disbanded 2009)

• 104th independent Special Forces Unit

• 107th independent Special Forces Unit

• 551st independent Special Forces Unit

2004 operated in Chechnya, and august 2008 in Georgia.

8.8.2011 awarded the order of Zhukov.

Headquarters:

• Karagoz, Crimean Oblast, 10.62 - 1.92 [45 04 03N, 35 11 03E] - Feodosiya: 45 03 36N, 35 22 52E

• Molkino, Krasnodar Kray, 5.03 - today [44 47 39N, 39 13 21E]

Subordination:

• Odessa Military District, 1962 - 1992

• North Caucasus Military District, 2003 - today