36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (2009–present) 131st Guards Motor Rifle Division (2001–2009) 131st Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division (1989–2001) 38th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957–1989) 38th Guards Rifle Division (1942–1957)
Russian:36-я гвардейская мотострелковая Лозовская Краснознамённая бригада
Active	1942–present
Country	Soviet Union (1942-1991)  Russia (1991-present)
Branch	Red Army (1942–1946)  Soviet Army (1946–1991)  Russian Ground Forces (1991–present)
Type	Motorized infantry brigade
Part of	29th Guards Combined Arms Army Eastern Military District
Garrison/HQ	Borzya,Zabaykalsky Krai
Nickname	Lozovskaya
Engagements	World War II Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine Eastern Ukraine campaign Battle of Vuhledar
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner
Battle honours	Guards
Commanders
Current commander	GuardsLieutenant Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Voronkov

The36th Guards LozovskayaRed Banner Motor Rifle Brigade (Russian:36-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Лозовская Краснознамённая бригада;MUN 06705) is an infantry brigade of theRussian Ground Forces, which traces its heritage to the creation of the38th Guards Rifle Division from the4th Airborne Corps duringWorld War II. The division gained its honorific on 23 September 1943 for its part in the seizure ofLozovaya in Ukraine.

The historical predecessor of the military unit is the 47th Special Purpose Airborne Brigade, formed in 1932, on the basis of which the 214th Airborne Brigade was formed in 1938. On the eve of theGreat Patriotic War, the brigade was deployed into the4th Airborne Corps, which took an active part in theOperation Barbarossa. In August 1942, the corps was reformed into the38th Guards Rifle Division, which went through the entire war, meeting its end on the territory ofGermany.

In 1957, the division was reorganized into a motorized rifle division, becoming the 38th Guards Motorized Rifle Lozovskaya Red Banner Division. The location was theChita Oblast on the territory of theTransbaikal Military District, where the division was part of the36th Combined Arms Army.^[1] The division was moved toSretensk inChita Oblast in 1967. In October 1989, the division was reformed into the 131st Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division with a location in the village of Yasnaya in the Chita Oblast. The division moved its headquarters toOlovyannaya inOlovyanninsky District in Chita Oblast in 1992. In August 2001 it was again converted into a motor rifle division.^[2]

Since June 2009, the division has been reformed into the36th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade, while retaining all its combat regalia, military glory, and historical record and moved toBorzya.^[3] In 2011, the brigade was armed withT-72B1 tanks,BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles,2S3 self-propelled howitzers,Grad MLRS,MT-12 anti-tank guns, Shturm-S anti-tank missile systems,Buk-M1,Tunguska,Strela-10,Shilka, MANPADS Igla.^[3]

The brigade took part in theRussia's invasion of Ukraine,^[4] in particular since the fall of 2022 was involved in theBattle of Vuhledar.^[5] On 20 February 2024, theUkrainian Armed Forces launched twoHIMARS missiles at a training ground near the village ofTrudivske while brigade servicemen were forming up there.^[6][7] The 4th, 5th and 6th companies of the brigade came under attack, as a result of the attack, 68 people were killed.^[8][9][10]

• Command;
• 1st motorized rifle battalion;
• 2nd motorized rifle battalion;
• 3rd motorized rifle battalion;
• tank battalion;
• anti-aircraft missile division;
• anti-aircraft division;
• 1st howitzer self-propelled artillery division;
• 2nd howitzer self-propelled artillery division;
• rocket artillery division;
• reconnaissance battalion;
• unmanned aerial vehicle company;
• engineer and sapper battalion;
• communications battalion;
• logistics battalion;
• control and artillery reconnaissance battery;
• anti-tank guided missile battery;
• separate NBC protection company;
• separate electronic warfare company;
• rifle company (snipers);
• commandant company;
• repair company
• medical company;
• military police platoon;
• air defense control platoon;
• orchestra.

• Guards Colonel Evgeny Valerievich Nikiforov (2009–2010)
• Guards Major General Oleg Lvovich Moyseeev (2018–2020)
• Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov (2020–2022; acting)
• Guards Colonel Guseyn Vilayatovich Musayev (2022–20 February 2024)^[11]
• Guards Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Voronkov (2024–present)

• GuardsJunior SergeantVladimir Ivanovich Belokopytov commander of a combat vehicle of a motorized rifle battalion, 2024.

• Heroes of the Russian Federation
• Mechanised infantry brigades of Russia
• Military units and formations established in 2009
• Military units and formations of Russia in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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