196th Coastal Defence Brigade

196-я бригада кораблей охраны водного района

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 1968 in Postovaya Bay (Sovetskaya Gavan), Khabarovsk Kray.

Organisation:

• 91st Anti-Submarine Warfare Battalion [Project 50, 159 and 1124]
• 38th Minesweeper Battalion [military unit: 09850]

4.91 disbanded, and the 38th Minesweeper Battalion became independent as the 38th independent Coastal Defence Battalion.

Bases:

• Postovaya Bay (Sovetskaya Gavan), Khabarovsk Kray, 1968 - today [49 01 26N, 140 15 40E]

Warships attached:

Not all of the smaller minesweepers has been identified.

• Project 50 [Riga class]:
  • SKR-4, 1968 - 4.5.89
  • SKR-75, 1968 - 25.6.88
  • SKR-74, 1968 - 25.6.88
  • SKR-10, 1968 - 20.6.87
  • SKR-61, 1968 - 4.5.89
• Project 159 [Petya class]:
  • SKR-11, 1968 - 15.2.91
  • SKR-46, 1968 - 4.5.89
  • SKR-135, 2.73 - 12.84
• Project 1124 [Grisha I class]:
  • Sovetskaya Gavan (MPK-214), from 5.94
  • Kholmsk (MPK-191), from 3.86
  • MPK-178, 4.85 - 2010(?)
• Project 266 [Yurka class]:
  • MT-242, 1972 - 1984
  • MT-263, 1.4.84 - 30.6.93
• Project 257 [Vanya class]:
  • BT-277, 1974 - 4.90
  • BT-316, 11.70 - 22.12.84
• Project 1265 [Sonya class]:
  • BT-256, from 4.91
  • BT-215, from 2.92
  • BT-245, from 12.89
  • Komsomolets Buryatii (BT-325), 1.86 - 1994