Marine Corps of the Russian Federation. Marines of the Russian Federation Training of Russian Marines

1st Marine Corps pacific ocean appeared in 1806, when a naval company was formed at the port of Okhotsk. But in 1817, the company was abolished, and in the future, the functions of the Marine Corps were performed by sailors of naval crews and ships. On August 18-24, 1854, they repulsed the English landing on the Petropavlovsk port. The enemy, who had a triple superiority, was defeated. In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, sailors defended the embassy quarter of Beijing and seized seaports. Landing companies from the sailors of the 1st Pacific squadron and the Kwantung naval crew covered themselves with unfading glory during the defense of Port Arthur in 1904, repelling Japanese attacks on the land front. In stubborn battles, out of 11 thousand sailors, 3 thousand were killed, 4800 were injured. Many were awarded St. George's crosses.

In 1935 naval forces Far East were merged into the Pacific Fleet. During the Great Patriotic War over 147,000 Pacific sailors fought against the Nazis as part of naval rifle brigades near Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, in the Arctic, in the Caucasus. In battles, they showed examples of military prowess, courage and heroism. The name of the foreman of the 1st article V.G. became known to the whole country. Zaitsev. Having occupied the ruins of one of the Stalingrad houses, he destroyed more than 200 fascists with sniper fire, including an instructor from the German sniper school specially called in to fight the sailor. With the outbreak of hostilities against Japan, marines landed in the ports of North Korea, liberated southern part Sakhalin, captured the Kuril Islands. During the fighting, one brigade and two battalions of the marines of the Pacific Fleet became guards.

In August 1963, the 390th Marine Corps was reorganized and included in the Pacific Fleet as the 390th Marine Regiment. In 1967, the formation of the 55th Marine Division began. By the end of 1967, the 390th Marine Regiment was included in the 55th DMP. By the end of 1967, the 390th Marine Regiment was included in the 55th DMP. In the period from August 1967 to December 1, 1968, the following were formed:

• management of the 55th DMP;
• anti-aircraft missile division;
• 390,106 and 165 Marine Regiments;
• jet division;
• 150 tank regiment;
• self-propelled artillery battalion;
• separate parts:
• airborne engineer battalion;
• communications battalion;
• repair and restoration battalion;
• reconnaissance battalion;
• medical company.

During the period 1968 -1995, the Marines carried over 52 times military service in the Pacific and Indian Oceans: assisted the armed forces of the PDR Yemen, participated in joint exercises in Ethiopia and Vietnam, visited Iraq, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Guinea, Maldives, Seychelles, Angola, Mozambique. More than 300 officers, ensigns, sergeants and sailors have been awarded orders and medals.

The formation and development of the division took place in difficult international conditions: there was a war in Vietnam, there were conflicts on the border with China. The first long-distance sea voyage was made by a landing group from 390 infantry regiment from 03/14/68. to 07/25/68. in the amount of 23 people under the leadership of the commander of art. Lieutenant LAN-DICK A.B. on the cruiser D. POZHARSKY" with calls at the ports of countries: Pakistan, Iraq, India, Africa.

From 08/07/69. on 02/13/70, for military service in the Indian Ocean, a reinforced company of marines departed from 390 PMP, landing commander Lieutenant Colonel Nikolaenko M.I.

In the period from 1974-1976. personnel performed special combat missions in Ethiopia, NDRY.

For the performance of combat missions to provide international assistance, many marines received military awards, and landing commanders: Mr. Ushakov S.K. awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War, Major Tikhonchuk VV., p / p-k Osipenko V., majors Oseledets E.G. and Zhevako V.N. - Orders of the Red Star.

Two parts of the division were awarded (150tp in 1972 and Z90pmpv 1990) with a pennant of the USSR Ministry of Defense "For courage, military prowess and high sea skills." In February 1978, to ensure the tasks of evacuating the Soviet diplomatic mission, a reinforced company of marines with a tank platoon under the command of Major Ushakov V.K. was landed. to the port of Massu (Ethiopia), which successfully completed the task. In 1978, units of the Marine Corps ensured the evacuation of Soviet specialists, a logistics center and a communications center. from Somalia

A significant event in the life of the personnel of the formation was the solemn presentation (in December 1969) to units of the division of combat banners.

The division took part in the exercises: "Metelitsa"? 1969; "Ocean - 70"; "Vostok - 72"; "Spring - 75"; "Ocean - 75"; "Amur - 75"; "West - 81"; "Cooperation from the sea - 96.98"; at the exercises of the Far Eastern Military District on about. Iturup in June 1998 were rated "good" and noted in the order of the RF Ministry of Defense. The joint Russian-American exercises held in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 became a test of the skills, knowledge and skills, and preparedness of the division's military personnel. According to the experience of these exercises, the training of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet turned out to be much higher than the American one, which they themselves admitted.

From January to June 1995, units of the Marine Division carried out a combat mission in the North Caucasus region. The 106th and 165th Marine Regiments took part in the fighting. Did 63 Marines die? The title of Hero of Russia was awarded to 5 people (posthumously. More than 2,400 people were awarded orders and medals.

Marines liberated the cities: Grozny, Argun, Shali; settlements: Chernorechye, Aldy, Belgatoy, Germenchuk, Mesker-Yurt, Chechen-Aul, Komsomolskoye, Makhkety, Kirov-Yurt, Khattuni, Elistan-zhi, Vedeno, Khorachoy.

Since the formation of the division, the personnel of the Marine Corps annually takes part in parades in Vladivostok.

On December 01, 2009, the 55th Marine Division was disbanded, and the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet was formed on its basis.

Already in August 2010, the 155th Marine Brigade showed its good training at the Vostok 2010 exercises, operating in naval and airborne assault forces to capture the enemy's bridgehead. Together with two 2nd companies of 876 odshb 61 marine corps regiments of the Northern Fleet and 879 odshb of the 336th brigade of marine corps BF at the Clerk training ground south of the village of Slavyanka.

The servicemen of the brigade honorably fulfill their military duty in the hot spots of the planet. Particularly in the SAR.

On the given time - The 155th Marine Brigade is one of the best formations in the RF Armed Forces.

Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation

• A. Garchenko
• B. Borovikov
• P. Gaponenko
• A. Dneprovskiy
• A. Zakharchuk
• C. Firsov

Based on the directive of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces OSH / 2 / 285110 of July 19, 1963 and the Commander of the Far Eastern Military District No. 3/11/00113 of July 3, 1963, the 390th motorized rifle regiment of the 56th motorized rifle division of the Far Eastern Military District was renamed into the 390th separate regiment of marines Pacific Fleet (staff No. 91/301 letter "A") and since August 1, 1963 it was redeployed from the city of Aniva, Sakhalin Region. in the village of Slavyanka, Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai

From August 17, 1963 to April 9, 1965, the 390th separate regiment of the Marine Corps was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Stepanov Mikhail Alekseevich, a front-line soldier who was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees, the Order of the Red Star, the medals "For the Defense of Leningrad" and "For the Victory over Germany"; previously served as chief of staff of the same regiment.

390 OPMP was accepted into the Pacific Fleet in accordance with the order of the Fleet Commander dated November 23, 1963 No. 0455. Until December 30, 1963, the organizational period was set for the regiment.

The arrangement of the regiment in a new place, the organization of service and combat training in it, the formation as a regiment of marines took place under the tireless control of the naval command.

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In 1964, after graduating from the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School, Lieutenant Viktor Nikolayevich Samsonov arrived in the regiment as a platoon commander; soon became a company commander. In 1969-1972 - a student of the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze; after her - chief of staff motorized rifle regiment, regiment commander, chief of staff of a tank division. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff - commander of a motorized rifle division, chief of staff of the army, commander of the army, chief of staff of the Transcaucasian Military District, commander of the Leningrad Military District (1990).

In December 1991, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, in February 1992 - Chief of Staff for Coordinating Military Cooperation of the Commonwealth Member States independent states. In October 1996, he was again appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (now the Russian Federation).

Since January 1996 - General of the Army.

From April 9, 1965 to July 17, 1967, the regiment was commanded by Colonel Savateev Arkady Ilyich. The regiment's chief of staff since 1963 is Lieutenant Colonel Kharitonov Ivan Yakovlevich. Lieutenant Colonel Nissenbaum Vladimir Yakovlevich was appointed head of the tank technical service in January 1965, by that time he had repeatedly performed harvesting tasks in the consolidated self-supporting separate automobile battalion of the Pacific Fleet, and had already been twice awarded the medal "For the development of virgin and fallow lands", as well as medal "For labor valor".

Colonel Savateev A.I., born in 1924, has been a participant in the Great Patriotic War of 19451-1945 since May 1942, when he, being a cadet of the Higher Naval School, was sent to the North Caucasian Front as part of the 148th separate battalion of marines.

He began his officer service in 1944 in the Baltic Fleet. Then in the Pacific Fleet: commander of 982 coastal artillery battery Island sector BO of the main base of the Pacific Fleet (1948), commander of 203 separate artillery battalion Suchansky sector of the BO of the main base of the Pacific Fleet (1954).

He came to the 390th Marine Regiment from the post of commander of the 528th separate coastal missile regiment, armed with a mobile coastal missile system Sopka.

Subsequently, since 1967 - Deputy Commander of the 55th Marine Division, Head of the Coastal Rocket and Artillery Troops of the Baltic Fleet, Major General of Artillery. During the period of hostilities, he was awarded the Orders of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Defense of Leningrad", and "For Victory over Germany" ". In peacetime, he was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and Combat, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, "For Service in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree and many medals.

217 parachute regiment, was checked by the Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union Moskalenko K.S.

According to the results of the inspection by the commission of the Main Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the regiment was rated "good". Per nice results in the combat and political training of the 390th separate regiment of the marine corps, the Minister of Defense of the USSR announced gratitude; regiment commander Colonel Savateev A.I. was awarded a personalized wrist watch.

In 1966, a graduate of the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School, Lieutenant Sheregeda Alexander Arsentievich, came to serve in the regiment, and in 1967, Lieutenant Kanishchev Nikolai Ivanovich.

Sheregeda A.A.

Due to the lack of positions of platoon commanders of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant Sheregeda A.A. is appointed to the post of commander of a mortar platoon of a mortar battery, becomes a battery commander; then appointed to the post of chief of staff of a battalion of marines. From this position, he enters the combined arms military academy named after M.V. Frunze. Then he continues to serve in the 336th Separate Guards Marine Corps Regiment of the Baltic Fleet: he becomes regiment commander, deputy and commander of the 336th Separate Guards Marine Brigade, head of the BRAV and MP of the Northern Fleet, and already a major general in 1988 comes to the post of chief of the Coastal Troops of the Pacific Fleet.

Kanishchev N.I. commanded a platoon and a company of marines, was replaced for service in the Carpathian military district. In 1984 Kanishchev N.I. - Chief of Staff of the division in the Leningrad Military District. After serving in Syria as a military adviser, he is appointed to the post of military commissar of the Vologda region. Discharged from military service in 2000. In 2005, he was gone.

The formation of the regiment took place in conditions of significant aggravation international relations in the area of ​​responsibility of the Pacific Fleet.

From April 17, 1967, in accordance with the directive of the General Staff of the Navy 390, a separate regiment of marines is transferred to the direct subordination of the Chief of the Coastal Rocket and Artillery Troops and Marines (BRAV and MP) of the Pacific Fleet. From April 16, 1965, this position was filled by Colonel (then Major General of Artillery) Chirkov Viktor Fedorovich - a graduate of the Naval Coastal Defense School named after the Lenin Communist Youth Union of Ukraine, a participant in the defense of Sevastopol. Subsequently, in 1974-1987, he was the head of the Department of Coastal Artillery and Ground Forces Tactics at the Naval Academy.

On May 12, 1967, in accordance with the directive of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the formation of the 55th Marine Division (3458 military personnel and 56 employees) began, with its subordination to the Head of the BRAV and MP Pacific Fleet and the end of the formation on December 1, 1968. The regiment is deprived of the name "separate" and is part of the division.

The formation of division units is carried out in several places: in the Gnev Valley, on the coast of Gornostai Bay and in the Snegovaya Pad of the city of Vladivostok - division headquarters, 165th Marine Regiment and 150th Tank Regiment; near the positions of 305mm of the 122nd tower artillery division of the 125th oap (“Voroshilov Battery”) and in the village of Ayaks of the Russky Island of the city of Vladivostok - 129 jet, 331 self-propelled artillery and 336 anti-aircraft separate divisions.

In the garrison of the village of Slavyanka, the 509th separate engineer-landing battalion and a separate medical-sanitary company are being formed; the formation of the 106th Marine Regiment begins (it completed the formation already at 6 km of the city of Vladivostok).

Lieutenant Sergei Alexandrovich Remizov, who arrived from the Baltic 336th Separate Guards Marine Regiment to the 106th Marine Regiment, shares his impressions: “The orders in the 390th regiment were quite tough. Regiment commander Colonel Savvateev A.I. achieved such a state of military discipline, in which the sergeant was actually the right hand of the officer. The sailors, passing by the sergeant, saluted him. The battalion duty officer was a sergeant, and he was both a king and a god and a military commander for the rank and file of the battalion.

With the beginning of the formation of the 55th Marine Division, Colonel Savateev Arkady Ilyich continues to serve as deputy division commander.

1st Marine Division Commander

major general
Shapranov Pavel Timofeevich

On July 17, 1967, the command of the 390th Marine Regiment was taken by the regiment's chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Kharitonov Ivan Yakovlevich; he commands

July 27, 1970 In the post of chief of staff of the regiment, he is replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Dziuba Petr Petrovich.

According to available information, Colonel I. Ya. Kharitonov was soon dismissed from the Armed Forces for health reasons.

Commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (from September 1974 - 1st Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, from February 17, 1984 - Hero of the Soviet Union), Head of the BRAV and MP Pacific Fleet, Major General of Artillery Chirkov Viktor Fedorovich and commander of the 55th airborne infantry regiment, General Major Kazarin Pavel Fedorovich.

From July 27, 1970 to August 1974, the 390th Marine Regiment was commanded by Colonel Timokhin Albert Semenovich; later he headed the Baranovichi United City Military Commissariat in the Brest region.

First left - Colonel Timokhin A.S.

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In August 1974, Colonel Timokhin A.S. was replaced by major (at the time of appointment - captain) Petrushchenkov Mikhail Nikolaevich, born in 1939. Interestingly, from the moment of appointment and until the actual arrival in the regiment, Captain Petrushchenkov M.N. was sent on leave to wait for the assignment of the military rank of "major".

He began his service, including as an officer after the Kharkov Tank School, in the Baltic Fleet.

After graduating from the academy, he was appointed to the Directorate of the BRAV and MP of the Pacific Fleet.

After commanding the 390th Marine Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Petrushchenkov M.N. served as Chief of Staff of the 55th Marine Division;

after graduating from the military academy of the General Staff, he commanded the 41st Guards Tank Division of the 1st Combined Arms Army of the Red Banner Kyiv Military District in the city of Cherkassy, ​​was chief of staff - first deputy commander of the 1st Guards Army in the city of Chernigov, chief military adviser in Nicaragua (senior Miguel Vargas) when he was President of the Republic Daniel Ortega, at his own request for family reasons - the military commissar of the Chernihiv region.

Currently, retired major general Petrushchenkov M.N. - First Secretary of the Chernihiv City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a member of the Bureau of the Chernihiv Regional Organization.

In 1976, the 390th PMP was declared the best marine regiment of the BRAV and MP of the Pacific Fleet (regiment commander - Major Petrushchenkov Mikhail Nikolaevich; his deputy for political affairs - Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Pavlovich Novikov).

The regiment at that time was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Amirkhanyan Vladimir Stepanovich.

Former Senior Lecturer-Commander of Training Company 299, Marine Corps Training Center Black Sea Fleet, after graduating from the military academy named after M.V. Frunze, he arrived at the post of deputy chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 55th marine division.

Having gained experience in staff work and the practice of preparing and conducting regimental exercises, at the end of 1977, Major Amirkhanyan V.S. was promoted to the post of commander of the 390th Marine Regiment.

Subsequently, he commanded a training battalion of the Higher Naval School of Radio Electronics named after A.S. Popov, where he switched to teaching.

In 1980, apparently in connection with the re-equipment on the BMP-1, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Pavlovich Trofimenko arrived to the post of commander of the 390th Marine Regiment from the 150th Tank Regiment of the 55th Marine Division. He began his officer service, gained experience in long-distance sea voyages as a commander of a tank platoon in the 336th Separate Guards Bialystok Order of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky Marine Regiment. From there he entered the Military Academy of the Armored Forces named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky. After graduating from the academy, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 150th tank regiment of the 55th marine division.

In 1983, Colonel Trofimenko V.P. assumed the position of chief of staff

55th Marine Division.

In 1986, he was appointed division commander in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (renamed the Western Group of Forces in 1989). In 1992, when the Western Group of Forces was withdrawn from Germany, from the post of chief of staff of the corps (in the city of Volgograd) and in the military rank of major general, he was appointed military commissar of the Krasnodar Territory.

After his dismissal from the Armed Forces, he headed the Krasnodar regional branch of the All-Russian public organization of marines "Typhoon".

In 1979, Major Shilov Pavel Sergeevich, born in 1948, a graduate of the Baku Higher Combined Arms Command School in 1970, arrives for the post of deputy regiment commander from the M.V. Frunze Military Academy. He began his officer service as a platoon commander of the 810th Marine Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet. Before entering the academy, he served as a teacher at the 299th Marine Corps Training Center of the Navy "Saturn". With the re-equipment of the regiment on the BMP-1, the main efforts are concentrated on the construction of the director of the BMP and the creation of an appropriate training and material base. As a result of "hardware" decisions, vacating the post of deputy regiment commander for the commander of the 2nd battalion of the Marine Corps "Red Banner", Lieutenant Colonel V.K. Ushkov, who distinguished himself in combat service, Major Shilov P.S. in 1981, he moved to the post of chief of staff of the same, 390th Marine Regiment.

In 1982, he accepted the post of commander of the 106th Marine Regiment (cadre) of the 55th Marine Division, and in 1983 he returned to the village of Slavyanka again as the commander of the 390th Regiment.

From 1986 to 1990, Colonel Shilov P.S. - Chief of Staff of the 55th Marine Division; from 1990 to 1997 - Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff of the Coastal Forces of the Russian Navy. From 1997 to 2003 Major General (since 1998 Lieutenant General) Shilov P.S. - Head of the ground and coastal troops of the Navy of the Russian Federation.

In 1971 and 1972 he served in the Egyptian Port Said as a platoon commander of the 810th Marine Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet. In 1980, as deputy commander of the 390th Marine Regiment, he led the landing force in combat service and at international exercises aboard the BDK of project 1174 "Ivan Rogov". He took part in both Chechen companies.

He was awarded the orders: "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree, "For Military Merit" and the Order of Courage.

After his dismissal from the Armed Forces in 2004, Shilov P.S. elected Vice-President of the All-Russian Public Organization of the Marine Corps "Typhoon". Since 2007, he has been working as the head of the Approval Department of the Marins Group Union.

In 1980, a graduate of the Leningrad Higher Artillery Command School named after Red October, Lieutenant Pleshko Mikhail Grigorievich, born in 1959, came to the regiment as commander of a mortar platoon. He commands a platoon, a mortar battery and, in the end, is appointed to the combined arms position of chief of staff of a marine battalion.

In 1990, Captain Pleshko M.G. enters the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. After graduating from the academy in 1993, he returned to the village of Slavyanka to the post of chief of staff of the 390th Marine Regiment.

From 1998 to 2000 he commanded a regiment.

In 2000, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 55th Marine Division; since 2002 - the commander of the same division.

On July 3, 2004, Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, congratulated Colonel Pleshko M.G. with the assignment of the rank of senior officers "major general". Since 2005, Major General Pleshko M.G. - Chief of the Coastal Troops of the Pacific Fleet. From this position, he departs as a military adviser to the Republic of Nicaragua.

Since June 1986, the 390th Marine Regiment has been commanded by Lieutenant Colonel

(from January 30, 1990 - Colonel) Vitaly Semenovich Kholod - grew up from lieutenant shoulder straps in the system of the Coastal Forces of the Pacific Fleet.

A graduate of the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Rokossovsky K.K. in 1971, he was initially appointed commander of a machine gun platoon of the 253rd separate machine gun company of the 1st UR Pacific Fleet; from November 1975 to September 1978 he commanded this company. For diligence in the installation of defensive structures of the fortified area, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit".

Since September 1978, Captain Kholod V.S. - battalion commander of the 106th Marine Regiment 55 DMP. In September 1980, he graduated from the Higher Officer Courses "Shot" in the city of Solnechnogorsk near Moscow. In February 1981, he was appointed commander of the airborne assault battalion of the 165th Marine Regiment; in the same year he enters the Frunze Military Academy M.V. After graduating from the academy, he returns to the division to the post of chief of staff of the 165th Marine Regiment.

In October 1985, Lieutenant Colonel Kholod B.C. appointed commander of the 106th Marine Regiment.

He commands the 390th Marine Regiment until September 1990 - until his appointment as deputy commander of the 55th Marine Division. On May 14, 1990, Colonel Kholod V.S. For great services in maintaining high combat readiness of the troops, he was awarded the Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree.

On January 5, 1994, Colonel Kholod V.S. appointed commander of the 55th Marine Division of the Pacific Fleet. From December 1994 to May 1995, in the course of hostilities during the restoration of constitutional order in Chechnya, he led a group of marines. On February 22, 1995, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 189, Colonel V.S. Kholod was awarded military rank"major general". For the skillful leadership of personnel, personal courage, diligence and high professionalism shown in carrying out the tasks of disarming illegal armed formations on the territory of the Chechen Republic, Major General Kholod B.C. was awarded a firearms- PM pistol.

In the history of the Marine Corps, he remains a competent, demanding, caring and highly cultured officer. Demanding on himself and a developed sense of self-esteem allowed him to maintain self-control and respect for others in any situation.

Grozny city, 21.04.1995

At the "presidential" palace. From left to right: Colonel Sergei Sorokin, Colonel Alexander Fedorov, Major General Vitaly Kholod, Colonel Sergei Kondratenko, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Novikov, Senior Warrant Officer Vladimir Pisarev.

Commander of the 390th Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Dosugov A.S. Slav.

Captain Dosugov Anatoly Sergeevich, after completing tasks as part of a limited contingent of troops in Afghanistan, in 1981 served as chief of staff of the 2nd battalion of the 390th marine regiment.

In 1982 he was transferred to the post of deputy chief of staff of the regiment

From this position in 1984, he, in the military rank of "major", entered the military academy named after M.V. Frunze.

After graduating from the academy in 1987, Lieutenant Colonel Dosugov A.S. returned

in the 55th Marine Division as commander of the 106th Marine Regiment (frame); in 1990 he was transferred to the post of commander of the 390th Marine Regiment.

In 1992 he was appointed to the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He was awarded the military rank of Major General.

After his dismissal from the Armed Forces, retired Major General Dosugov A.S. worked in the Moscow public organization of veterans of the Marine Corps "Saturn".

The regiment during the period of "creation", "reform", "modernization", "optimization" and "giving a new look"

Indiscriminate reductions in the units of the division began already in 1991. The officers began to serve the equipment, to serve as guards. There was a moment when the number of sailors, sergeants, ensigns and officers equaled the number of the regiment - 390.

Cases of sending officers to field guards to escort equipment handed over by the 55th Marine Division have become more frequent.

Major General Veretennikov S.V. in the Chechen village of Nozhai-Yurt

Lieutenant Colonel Veretennikov Sergei Valentinovich, deputy regiment commander for political affairs, who began his service in the 336th separate guards Bialystok Order of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky of the Marine Corps Brigade of the Baltic Fleet, in 1993 was appointed head of the combat training department of the 55th Marine Division; As part of the operational group of the division was in Chechnya. After the introduction of the institute of deputy commanders for work with personnel (for educational work), he became deputy commander of the 55th Marine Division and in 1998 entered the General Staff Academy. Then he accepted the offer to become the commandant of the Gudermes special region and in this position received the military rank of Major General.

Since 1992, the 390th Marine Regiment has been commanded by the former deputy commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Konstantinovich Rusakov. He graduated from the Leningrad Suvorov Military School in 1971, a graduate of the Leningrad Higher Combined Arms Command School named after S.M. Kirov in 1975, he began officer service in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany - in the 197th Guards Tank Vapnyar-Warsaw Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Regiment of the 47th Guards Tank Division.

He continued in the Far Eastern Military District, in the village of Cheremkhovo, Amur Region, not far from the city of Blagoveshchensk. In 1985 he entered the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze.

After graduating from the academy in 1988, he joined the 55th Marine Division as deputy commander of the 390th Marine Regiment.

The most important milestone in the career of the regiment commander Rusakov V.K. began to carry out activities to form units in the 165th and 106th regiments of the marine corps, departing for the Chechen Republic, to ensure their coordination and combat training.

In 1993, after completing his studies at the academy, Major Pleshko M.G. arrived at the post of chief of staff of the regiment.

In 1998, Colonel Rusakov V.K. retired to the reserve and from 1998 to 2000 the regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Pleshko M.G.

In 1992, having graduated with honors from the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky, Lieutenant Biryukov Oleg Vladimirovich arrived in the regiment. Until 2002, he successively served as commander of a platoon and company of the Marine Corps, chief of staff and commander of a battalion of the Marine Corps.

As a commander of a marine corps company as part of the 165th Marine Regiment, he participated in the restoration of constitutional order on the territory of the Chechen Republic.

In 2002 Biryukov O.V. entered and in 2004, also with honors, graduated from the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Upon completion of training, Major Biryukov O.V. For several months he served as Deputy Chief of Operations at the Headquarters of the 55th Marine Division and in April 2005 was appointed Chief of Staff of the 390th Marine Regiment.

From 2007 to 2009, Lieutenant Colonel Biryukov O.A. - Senior Officer of the Operational Directorate of the Volga-Urals Military District. After being transferred to the reserve on February 20, 2010, at a general meeting he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Sverdlovsk regional public organization "Union of Marines" in the city of Yekaterinburg

The 390th Marine Regiment did not officially participate in the hostilities on the territory of Chechnya. However, ninety percent of the officers, warrant officers, sergeants and sailors of the regiment were part of and participated in the hostilities of the 165th and 106th regiments of the 55th Marine Division of the Pacific Fleet. So: the 165 regiment entered without changes

9 company of marines; The 1st battalion of the 390th Marine Regiment was simply renamed the Airborne Assault Battalion of the 106th Regiment.

In connection with the refusal of the full-time commander, the airborne assault battalion of the 165th Marine Regiment was commanded by the commander of the battalion of the 390th Marine Regiment, Major Oleg Nikolaevich Khomutov, for the entire period of the regiment's tasks in the Chechen Republic.

From February 1995 until the end of the regiment's stay in Chechnya, the chief of staff of the 390th Marine Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Pleshko M.G. replaced Lieutenant Colonel Rytikov A.V. as chief of staff of the belligerent 165th Marine Regiment.

"Slavs". Officers and ensigns of the 390th Marine Regiment, who fought in Chechnya as part of the 165th and 106th Marine Regiments. April 1995, Chechnya, the area of ​​the river crossing. Argun.

For skillful fighting, courage and courage shown at the same time, many marines of the regiment were awarded government awards. Among them:

Senior Lieutenant Alexander Alexandrovich Anosov - awarded the medal "For Courage".

Senior Lieutenant Biryukov Oleg Vladimirovich - awarded the Order of Courage, the medal "For Distinction in Military Service".

Captain Borodin Andrei Vitalievich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Bukhnyak Andrei Vladimirovich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Vorobyov Maxim Yurievich - awarded the medal of the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" with swords.

Senior Lieutenant Ermachkov Dmitry Grigorievich - awarded the medal "For Courage".

Senior Lieutenant Zhurilov Maxim Borisovich - awarded the medal "For Courage".

Senior Lieutenant Klenov Sergey Mikhailovich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Korchma Vadim Mikhailovich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Kuznetsov Sergey Viktorovich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Senior Lieutenant Levonenko Ivan Ivanovich - awarded the Order of Courage, medals "For Courage" and "For Distinction in Military Service".

Senior Lieutenant Nestrugin Mikhail Alekseevich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Senior Lieutenant Nosov Sergey Alekseevich - awarded the Order of Courage and the medal "For Courage".

Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Grigorievich Pleshko - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Ragulin Oleg Mikhailovich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Rukavishnikov Vadim Leonidovich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Major Khomutov Oleg Nikolaevich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Lieutenant Colonel Khorenko Alexander Yurievich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Captain Shilov Alexander Lvovich - awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland with swords.

Major Shuvatov Nikolai Andreevich - awarded the Order of Courage.

Lieutenant Yatsyuk Andrei Vasilyevich - awarded the Order of Courage.

In the performance of military duty they gave their lives:

• Senior Lieutenant Bukvetsky Andrey Georgievich, born in 1968, graduate of the Far East Higher Educational Institution of Higher Education in 1991 - company commander of the 2nd Marine Battalion; awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously);
• Senior Lieutenant Bolotov Oleg Yuryevich, born in 1969, graduate of the Poltava Air Defense Forces in 1992 - commander of an anti-aircraft artillery platoon;
• Sailor Golubov Oleg Ivanovich - machine gunner; Previously, he was awarded the Medal for Courage.
• Senior warrant officer Desyatnik Alexander Vasilyevich, born in 1971 - senior technician of the company of the 1st battalion of the Marine Corps;
• Sailor Zhuk Anton Aleksandrovich, born in 1976 - senior gunner; awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously);
• Senior Sergeant Komkov Evgeny Nikolaevich, born in 1975 - deputy platoon commander;
• Sergeant Lysenko Yury Yuryevich, born in 1975 - deputy platoon commander;
• Senior Lieutenant Sergey Ivanovich Skomorokhov, born in 1970, graduate of the Far East Higher School of Higher Education in 1992 - company commander of the 1st Marine Battalion; awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously).

In 1998, Hero of the Russian Federation Major Gushchin Andrey Yuryevich, who graduated with honors from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, arrived to the post of chief of staff of the regiment.

The title of Hero of the Russian Federation, he, the first of the marines who performed military duty in Chechnya, was awarded by Decree of the President of Russia dated

A graduate of the Leningrad Higher Combined Arms Command School twice Red Banner named after S.M. Kirov in 1988, by 1995 he was the commander of the 874 separate battalion of the 61 separate Kirkenes Red Banner Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet, who received the military rank of “captain” ahead of schedule, was awarded the medal “For Distinction in the Military service", he agreed to act in the Chechen Republic as deputy commander of the 874th separate marine battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Yury Vikentevich Semenov.

In January 1995, commanding a combined detachment of marines, he successfully completed the task of capturing a number of buildings of the Council of Ministers of the Republic; during the defense of the coast of the Sunzha River, the detachment reliably forbade the use of the bridge across the river by the militants. Only in a day twelve enemy attacks were repelled; in just five days of fighting, a detachment under the command of Captain Gushchin A.Yu. destroyed more than three hundred Dudayevites, their tank, infantry fighting vehicles and MTLB. Of the hundred and fifty Marines, sixty-two survived. Captain Gushchin A.Yu. after a spinal injury and three concussions, he was evacuated to the hospital.

Since 2000, having replaced Lieutenant Colonel Pleshko M.G., until 2003 he became commander of the 390th Marine Regiment.

From 2003 to 2006 Gushchin A.Yu. - Commander of the 336th Separate Guards Bialystok Order of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky of the Marine Corps Brigade. In 2006, he entered and in 2008, again with honors, he graduated from the military academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Until 2009, Colonel Gushchin A.Yu. serves in the General Staff, and since 2009 he has been appointed to the post of Chief of the Coastal Forces of the Northern Fleet. On June 9, 2012, Colonel Gushchin A.Yu. By Decree of the President of Russia No. 800, he was awarded the title of the highest officer staff "major general".

In 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Khomutov Oleg Nikolaevich was appointed commander of the regiment. A graduate of the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky in 1984, before being appointed to the post of chief of staff of the division, he served as an officer in one 390th Marine Regiment. In 1995, due to the refusal of the regular commander, the commander of the battalion of the 390th Marine Regiment, Major Khomutov O.N. headed the airborne assault battalion of the 165th Marine Regiment for the entire period of the regiment's tasks in the Chechen Republic.

Major Khomutov O.N. - second from the left. Shurin Court Height, April 1995.

Having passed all previous positions in the regiment, the commander of the marine battalion, Lieutenant Colonel O.N. Khomutov, entered the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1998, from which he graduated in 2000. After graduating from the academy, he returned to the 390th Marine Regiment as the regiment's chief of staff.

In 2007, Colonel Khomutov O.N. appointed Chief of Staff of the 55th Marine Division. He was awarded the Order of Courage and the medal "For Military Merit" for his skillful leadership of units in the performance of tasks of military service and combat operations.

In 2007, Colonel Khomutov O.N. in the post of commander of the 390th Marine Regiment was replaced by the former chief of staff of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Medvedev Igor Vyacheslavovich.

A graduate of the Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political Tank Artillery / Yekaterinburg Higher Artillery Command School, he entered the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from units of the Joint Command of Troops and Forces in the Northeast. After graduating from the academy in 2002, due to the lack of vacant positions at the regimental level, he was appointed senior assistant to the chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 55th marine division. In 2003, he was transferred to the post of chief of staff of the 390th Marine Regiment.

On December 4, 2006, according to the results of an audit by a comprehensive commission, by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, for the unsatisfactory state of law and order and military discipline in the regiment, Colonel Medvedev I.V. removed from his position as commander of the 390th Marine Regiment and appointed with a demotion (commander of the 106th Marine Regiment of the frame).

Last in recent history Zhaplov became commander of the regiment

Based on the Directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation dated May 20, 2009

No. 314/5/1927, Directives of the Main Headquarters of the Navy of 06/09/2009 No. 730/1/1380 and Directives of the Pacific Fleet Headquarters of 06/29/2009 No. 13/1/1894 Marine Corps (expiring December 1, 2009).

Twelve officers who served in the 390th Marine Regiment were awarded the ranks of senior officers (generals):

- Veretennikov S.V.- major general

- Gushchin A.Yu.- major general

- Dosugov A.S.- major general

- Kanishchev N.I.- major general

- Petrushchenkov M.N.- major general

- Pleshko M.G.- major general

- Savateev A.I.- Major General of Artillery

- Samsonov V.N.- army General

- Trofimenko V.P.- major general

- Kholod V.S.- major general

- Sheregeda A.A.- major general

- Shilov P.S.- lieutenant general

Many children from the families of officers and ensigns of the regiment chose military service. Some of them began their officer career in their native 390th Marine Regiment:

The son of the deputy regiment commander for political affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Pavlovich Novikov, is Valery;

The son of the commander of the marine battalion, captain Evgeny Mikhailovich Verkhozin, is Dmitry;

The son of the head of intelligence of the regiment, Captain Berezhnoy Alexander Ivanovich - Kirill;

Son of the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection service
the regiment of Major Rukavishnikov Vadim Leonidovich - Denis;

The son of the commander of the economic platoon ensign Zhemeruk Anatoly Andreevich - Andrey.

On August 18, 2012, in the 155th separate brigade of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet, the farewell of personnel and veterans of the Marine Corps with the Banners of the 390th Marine Regiment, 165th Marine Regiment, 921 artillery regiment and 923 Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, formerly part of the 55th Marine Division.

Veterans of the division who served under these Banners arrived to say goodbye to the Banners.

At the beginning of the rally, the commanders of the units read out the historical information of the regiments, which told about the history of their creation, participation in hostilities, military services, exercises, awards and commanders. Then the veterans who served in these regiments spoke.

After the speeches, the unit commanders and veterans said goodbye to the Banners. After the end of the rally, the brigade units marched in a solemn march in front of the Battle Banners and veterans.

After laying flowers at the monument to the marines who died in 1995 in Chechnya, the veterans took their last picture at their Battle Banners.

In the near future, the Banners will be transferred to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces for eternal storage.

The history of the 390th Marine Regiment was compiled by Lieutenant Colonel Evgeny Verkhozin

You can download the full history of the regiment from the link:↓

List of officers and ensigns who served in the 390th Marine Regiment throughout the existence of the regiment.

But what is left of our native regiment .... and who will be responsible for this?

July 2 in the area of ​​one of the bays of Aniva Bay on about. Sakhalin hosted another practical stage of the command and staff exercises of the Pacific Fleet to land marines on an unequipped coast.

After the completion of the passage by sea from Primorye to Sakhalin, the marines were tasked with recapturing a foothold on the sea coast from a mock enemy. A feature of this landing, in addition to landing in an unfamiliar place, was the joint participation of marines from Primorye and Kamchatka. In total, more than 50 units of military equipment and about 500 marines were involved in the maneuvers. The landing operation was supported by more than 10 warships.

According to the classical scheme, the naval strike group suppressed the firing points of the enemy who had entrenched themselves on the coast. This was followed by an airborne landing. At the same time, obstacle groups on combat helicopters and special units scouts in fast boats. At the final stage of the landing, the main striking force entered the battle - airborne assault companies on military equipment. Several companies of marines in armored vehicles, having overcome several hundred meters in water, immediately entered into battle with the enemy, in the role of which the military personnel of a separate motorized rifle brigade of the Eastern Military District acted.

An hour later, the battle, which began on the coast, moved to a military training ground near the village. Taranay, where motorized riflemen and marines performed a series of combat exercises with all types of weapons.

December 1 marked the 45th anniversary of the formation of the 55th division - now the 155th Separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet.

The history of the 55th Marine Division is inextricably linked with the history of the coastal troops of the Pacific Fleet, which dates back to 1806. At that time, the first naval company was formed in the port of Okhotsk, which existed for 11 years. The further development of the units of the "soldiers of the sea" dates back to the Soviet era

In 2009, the 55th Marine Division was reorganized into the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet.


The year 2013 was the most difficult and eventful year for the amphibious assault in terms of the volume of tasks performed. last decade. In the course of combat training, the Pacific Fleet marines made more than 4,500 training parachute jumps of varying complexity. About 300 drills and exercises were carried out, during which more than 400 live fire exercises were performed.


According to the command of the Pacific Fleet, the marines showed themselves well during the Russian-Chinese exercise "Naval Interaction - 2013", which took place this summer in the waters of Peter the Great Bay.
Naval units during a sudden inspection and large-scale exercises of the Pacific Fleet in July-September of this year. made an amphibious landing on the unequipped coast of Sakhalin Island. For the first time in the recent history of Russia, servicemen from the formation from Primorye also landed on the islands of the Kuril chain.


The final episode of the maneuvers was the landing of sea and air assault forces on the coast of Providence Bay. On the coast of Chukotka, a counter battle was played between the marines of Kamchatka and Primorye.

Between the end of 1991 and mid. 1994, the Russian marines were in a state of oblivion and woke up only in connection with the first Chechen war of 1994-96. During this period, her condition can be described as "quietly dying." Officers were fired, and there were very few new ones; fewer and fewer conscripts came in, and already without any proper selection; the implementation of all existing plans for its development, adopted in 1989, were stopped.

The first, apparently, "died" a separate unit in the Caspian, however, in 1994, the 332nd separate battalion of the MP in Astrakhan was re-formed there.

The 175th Separate Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet was also disbanded in 1992-93. The rest of the compounds lived out their days poorly. But the war broke out and the successful actions of the marines in Chechnya again drew attention to it. The marines were transferred to Chechnya by aircraft, carrying only light portable weapons. Military equipment (armored personnel carriers, tanks, artillery) was delivered by echelons in 10-15 days. Major General A. Otrakovsky commanded the Marine Corps.

From January to March 1995, the following are fighting in Chechnya: 876th airborne infantry brigade of the 61st brigade of the Northern Fleet, 879th airborne infantry brigade of the 336th guards. brmp BF and 165th infantry regiment of the 55th dmp of the Pacific Fleet.

On January 9, 1995, units of the Marine Corps of the KBF and the Northern Fleet entered Grozny. The Marines had to act as assault groups and detachments, which successively took possession of buildings and quarters, sometimes having no neighbors on the right and left, or even completely isolated. The fighters of the 876th Specialized Brigade of the Northern Fleet fought especially effectively and competently in the city. On the direction of their actions there were serious points of resistance of the militants: the building of the Council of Ministers, the Main Post Office, the Puppet Theater, and many high-rise buildings. Soldiers of the 2nd Airborne Assault Company (DSHR) of the battalion stormed the Council of Ministers. The fighters of the 3rd dshr battalion fought for the building of a nine-story house, which occupied a dominant position and was turned by the militants into a powerful stronghold, blocking the exit to one of the main centers of resistance - the building of the Main Post Office.

On January 14, the building of the Council of Ministers, the high-rise building and the Main Post Office were occupied by marines. On January 15, assault groups of the 3rd company captured the Puppet Theater.

But the hardest part was ahead. The federal troops gradually advanced towards the center of Grozny - to the presidential palace, the buildings of the Council of Ministers and the Kavkaz hotel. The buildings located in the center of the city were defended by elite detachments of militants, in particular the so-called "Abkhazian battalion" of Sh. Basayev.

On the night of January 17, the 3rd dshr to advance in the direction of the Council of Ministers On Komsomolskaya Street, the advance groups of the company were ambushed by 6oeviks. The bandits tried to surround one of the groups of marines. Sergeant V. Molchanov ordered his comrades to retreat, while he himself remained to cover them. The regrouped marines drove the militants back. Bandits were killed around the position where Molchanov remained with a machine gun. The sergeant himself was killed.

On January 19, marines, in cooperation with scouts of the 68th separate reconnaissance battalion (ORB) and motorized riflemen of the 276th MRR, captured the presidential palace. A group of Baltics led by the deputy commander of the battalion Guards. Major A. Plushakov hoisted the Naval and Russian state flags over the palace.

Then, after the fall of Grozny, the 105th consolidated regiment of marines was formed in Chechnya on the basis of the 1st battalion of the 106th regiment of the 55th marine division, according to a separate battalion of marines from the Baltic (877 military regiment) and Northern fleets, engineering sapper unit from the OMIB (separate marine engineering battalion) of the Baltic Fleet, which for another two months, until June 26, 1995, destroyed militants in the Vedensky, Shali and Shatoi regions of Chechnya. During the fighting, more than 40 settlements were liberated from militants, a large number of heavy weapons and weapons were destroyed and captured. military equipment. But here, unfortunately, there were losses, although they were much smaller. In total, during the fighting in 1995 on the territory of Chechnya, 178 marines were killed and 558 were injured of varying severity. 16 people received the title of Hero of Russia (six - posthumously).

In 1994, on the basis of the disbanded 77th Guards. DBO was an attempt to form a new 163rd division. MP brigade. However, the brigade was never deployed and, in fact, resembled the BVHT. In 1996 it was disbanded.

In 1995-96, the 810th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet was reorganized into the 810th Separate Marine Regiment, while the 382nd Separate Marine Battalion and a separate tank battalion were separated from it. Both allocated battalions were redeployed to the village of Temryuk (the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov, Krasnodar region Russia). It should be noted that in the period 1990-91. this brigade did not have a tank battalion at all, and the newly recreated one (originally on T-64A / B tanks) was initially deployed in the village of Temryuk.

In many ways, the Marines managed to achieve high coherence and combat skills due to the transition in the first half of the 1990s to a new organizational structure, which implied: each company, each battalion, unlike the ground ones, should be able to perform tasks independently, in isolation from the main forces, which is due to the very purpose and nature of the actions of the Marine Corps. For example, artillery, a mortar platoon, and a communications unit were assigned to the Marine Corps battalions on a permanent basis, which ultimately turned a typical Marine Corps battalion into a kind of "regiment in miniature." All this made it possible to use the units of the Marine Corps in the Caucasus with high efficiency.

It also helped the "black berets" that the Marine Corps units as a whole constantly worked out and continue to work out the elements of combat on different terrain and in various conditions at the training grounds, since the Marine Corps has accumulated sufficient experience. Indeed, it is not known in advance under what conditions and on what coast the marines will have to land as part of the landing force, where they will have to fight, in what conditions: in mountainous terrain, on the plain, in the jungle, in the desert or in settlements. Even in Russia, amphibious landings in rocky or mountainous terrain are possible in several areas - in the North, the Far East or on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. The same can be said about combat in urban areas, since even the experience of the Great Patriotic War and the Korean War showed that the marines can and should land directly in the port city, seize a bridgehead and hold until the main landing forces approach.

It is interesting that the former head of the marines of the Russian Navy, Colonel Yuri Yermakov, recalled that the Marines of Great Britain and the United States were actively interested in the experience of the Russian marines in urban combat in the 1990s. This was not accidental - subsequently, the knowledge gained was applied by the British and American Marines in practice in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the period from 1996 to 1998, the composition of the 55th Marine Division of the Pacific Fleet underwent changes:

• the 85th regiment of the MP was disbanded, and instead the newly formed 390th separate regiment of the MP with deployment in the village was introduced into the division. Slavyanka, which is southeast. Vladivostok (apparently, initially, it was formed as a separate one and introduced into the 55 dmp later);
• The 26th tank regiment was reorganized into the 84th separate tank battalion;
• The 165th MP regiment was additionally referred to as "Cossack";
• The 84th artillery regiment was renamed the 921st, and the 417th anti-aircraft missile regiment - the 923rd.

In 1999, a decision was made to form a new marine brigade in the Caspian Sea with a permanent deployment in the city of Kaspiysk (Dagestan). For this, specially formed units from various fleets were transferred to the region, incl. 414th OMB (according to other sources - odshb) from the Baltic. However, the outbreak of the Second Chechen War prevented the calm formation of the unit and it was finally formed only by the middle. 2000 The 414th and 600th MP battalions joined the brigade. The brigade received its number and honorary titles as a legacy from the very well-deserved 77th Guards. motorized rifle division and is referred to as the 77th Guards Red Banner Moscow-Chernigov horde. Lenin and Suvorov separate brigade of marines.

After the invasion of Wahhabi extremists into the territory of Dagestan and the start of the counter-terrorist operation, the reinforced 876th detachment from the 61st Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet departed for the North Caucasus from September 10 to 20, 1999. The battalion was transferred to the Caucasus in full strength, with reinforcements. On September 30, after the combat coordination of the units, the battalion marched first to Khasavyurt, and then along the route with the final destination, the village of Aksai. The march took place in conditions of almost constant fire contact with the enemy, the first dead and wounded appeared in the battalion. But the onslaught of the marines did not weaken, and in November one of the main strongholds of the militants, the city of Gudermes, was taken.

In November 1999, the marines carried out combat missions on the plains of Chechnya. In December, marine units were transferred to the mountainous part of the republic - to the Vedeno region. A grouping of marines was formed there under the command of Major General A. Otrakovsky. The main burden of military operations in the Vedeno region fell on the 876th Specialized Brigade of the Northern Fleet under the command of Lieutenant Colonel A. Belezko. The actions of the Marines near the settlements of Kharacha, Vedeno, at the Khaarami Pass and the Andean Gates, the operation to seize the dominant heights over the settlements of Dzhana-Vedeno, Vyshne-Vedeno, Oktyabrsky and Dargo deserved the best marks from the command of the United Forces. During one of the operations in the Vedeno Gorge, the marines captured a canned military equipment bandits: BMD, BMP, tank T-72, an artillery mount based on an armored personnel carrier, a GAZ-66 car filled with artillery shells. The brigade suffered the greatest losses in the course of mastering the height of 1561.1 (Mount Gizcheny, according to other sources, Mount Gulchany) in the Vedeno Gorge. At the end of December 1999, the 1st PDR, the 2nd DSHR and the mortar battery of the 876th Airborne Battalion came to Mount Gizcheny, turned by militants into a well-fortified stronghold. The mountain had an important strategic importance for the further advancement of the troops of the group to the settlements of Vedeno, Dargo and Kharachoy. The 1st PDR secretly took up positions on one side of the Vedeno Gorge, stretching out in a line. The 1st and 2nd paratrooper platoons (pdv) of the company were practically opposite Gizcheny. 3rd airborne company under the command of art. lieutenant A. Abadzherov was located on the right flank, opposite the height of 1406, from which it was separated by a gorge. On December 30, the Marines were tasked with capturing the height of Gizcheny. The idea of ​​the operation was as follows: on the morning of December 31, the 1st and 2nd Airborne Forces advance on the height from the bottom up, squeezing out the militants from there. The 3rd airborne division was supposed to bypass Gizcheny from the rear along the gorge and arrange a fire ambush on the way of the displaced enemy. At the same time, Abadzherov’s platoon was to withdraw to the height of 1406 the platoon of Lieutenant Yu. Kuryagin from the 2nd DSHR and the Black Sea reconnaissance group, who needed to take positions at this height in order to provide support from the right flank in the upcoming operation, without letting militants through here. Abagerov's platoon, performing this task, carefully checked the entire route for the presence of the enemy and successfully led Kuryagin's platoon and reconnaissance group (up to 40 people) to height 1406. the heights of Gischeny. As the Marines began to descend to the bottom of the gorge, on the contrary, at Hill 1406, they heard fierce gunfire and explosions. hand grenades(later it was found that on the morning of December 31, militants numbering up to 200 people made a surprise attack on Kuryagin's group). Hearing the sounds of battle Lieutenant Abadzherov decided to stop the main task and go to the aid of Lieutenant Kuryagin. At the bottom of the gorge, Abadzherov's platoon ran into an ambush of militants, which they shot down on the move, while capturing a disguised cache where equipment and ammunition were located. At the top of height 1406, which in shape resembled the number eight, that is, as if divided into two halves, Abadzherov's platoon climbed first, ahead of the militant detachment returning back by several minutes. The Marines took up positions on the left half of the G8, on a small hill, and met the bandits with intense fire from small arms and underbarrel grenade launchers. A detachment of militants, having met unexpected resistance, suffering losses in killed and wounded, hastily retreated, but from the neighboring mountain of Gizcheny, aimed fire from a machine gun was opened on Abadzherov’s platoon and sniper rifles, and the retreating militants made an attempt to outflank the marines from the flanks (height 1406 is gentle on three sides, only the left side is almost sheer). For four hours, Abadzherov's platoon fought an unequal battle with a numerically superior enemy. Support for the Marines was provided by radio-call helicopters and artillery (up to 30 militants were destroyed by artillery fire). When reinforcements approached Hill 1406, the bandits finally retreated. During the battle on December 31, 1999, 12 people from Kuryagin's group were killed, two were seriously wounded (one later died), the rest, who were on guard, survived, Abadzherov's platoon did not have any casualties. Mount Gizcheny, where the fortified point of the militants was located, was taken a few days later, in the first days of January 2000. Using difficult weather conditions, 1st PDR under the command of Art. lieutenant S. Lobanova with a surprise attack captured an important strategic height, inflicting heavy damage on the bandits in manpower and weapons.

Then there were the settlements of Botlikh, Alleroy, Andes and others. In addition to the Severomors, the reconnaissance company of the 810th Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet and the 414th Marine Corps of the Caspian Flotilla took part in the counter-terrorist operation of 1999-2000 on the territory of Chechnya and Dagestan. During the operation, 36 Marines were killed and 119 were injured. Five "black berets" were awarded the title of Hero of Russia, including three posthumously. Moreover, four Heroes and all three who received this title posthumously were servicemen of the 61st Separate Marine Brigade of the Northern Fleet, and in just two Chechen wars, only the Marine Corps of the Northern Fleet lost dead and died on combat post one general, seven junior officers, a senior warrant officer and 73 sailors and sergeants.

After the grouping of forces of the marine corps created in the Caucasus completed its tasks, the units began to withdraw from Chechnya one by one, the group was disbanded. Of the marines, only the Caspian battalion remained there, but it was also withdrawn at the end of September 2000. However, already in April 2001, by decision of the command, the battalion of the Caspian Marine Brigade was sent to block the border between Dagestan and Chechnya, and from June 2001 to February 2003, the battalion tactical group of the created Caspian Marine Brigade operated on a permanent basis in the mountainous regions of Chechnya and Dagestan , reinforced by Chernomorsk scouts. And even after the withdrawal of the bulk of the troops from the republic, which took part in the last counter-terrorist operation, for another six months, the mountainous sections of the administrative border of Chechnya and Dagestan, as well as the state Russian-Georgian border, were covered by a battalion tactical group from the composition of the youngest brigade of the Navy MP. For a long time the Caspians had to operate almost completely autonomously, in isolation from the main forces and supply bases. But the "black berets" coped with the task assigned to them. Subsequently, the number of marines permanently operating in the Chechen Republic was reduced from a battalion to a company, and then the “black berets” completely returned to their place of permanent deployment.

The dynamics of the composition of the Marine Corps and coastal defense formations in the period 1991-2000 is as follows:

At present, despite the reform and downsizing, the marines still remain one of the most important components of the Russian Navy. Organizationally, it is part of the coastal troops of the Russian Navy, and the direct management of its activities in peaceful and war time carried out by the Chief of the Marine Corps. There are units of the Marine Corps in all fleets - in a separate brigade of the Marine Corps, in the Caspian Flotilla (individual battalions) and even in Moscow (subdivisions of escort of military cargo and security of the Main Staff of the Navy), they report locally to the heads of departments of the coastal troops of the Baltic, Black Sea, Northern and Pacific Fleets.

Years of underfunding and constant reform of the Armed Forces also affected the Marine Corps. The states are literally cut to the quick, there are not enough professionals, including contract soldiers in sailor positions, the ranks of armored vehicles are thinning out and, even more threateningly, the number and combat potential of the fleet's landing forces are declining.

For example, Russian marines today actually do not have floating armored vehicles capable of landing on an unequipped shore in the first echelon of amphibious assault, afloat, ensuring the suppression of fortified points and positions of enemy fire weapons (including conducting accurate fire from the water). All that today can “float” from military equipment is armored personnel carriers of the BTR-80 family and armed with MT-LB machine gun mounts (it’s probably not worth mentioning floating transporters armed with machine guns). A very good armored vehicle, the BMP-3F, which is armed not only with small arms, but also missile armament, - 100 mm gun and launcher ATGMs, a 30-mm automatic cannon and three machine guns, have not yet reached the Marine Corps. But it received high reviews from the military ground forces of the UAE. Passed tests in the Marine Corps and put into service 125-mm self-propelled anti-tank gun 2 S25 "Octopus-SD" is also missing in the required quantities.

According to the recognition of the command staff of the Russian marines, so far a worthy replacement for the retired amphibious tank PT-76, capable of not only landing afloat, but also firing from the water, has not appeared. The existing tanks of the T-72 family, as you know, can be landed from landing ships only at an emphasis or in an equipped port - just like self-propelled units"Carnation" and "Nona-S" and "Nona-SVK", mobile air defense systems and other military equipment.

Some time ago, it seemed that a solution had been found - the Moscow-based Special Engineering and Metallurgy OJSC proposed an option for upgrading the PT-76, in which it was supposed to install a new turret on the machine with a weapon system with a 57-mm automatic cannon placed in it (alteration of the ship's gun mount AK -725 was carried out by the Nizhny Novgorod Design Bureau "Burevestnik"), a new automated control system and a two-plane weapon stabilizer. The combined sight, developed by one of the Belarusian opto-mechanical enterprises, was equipped with a built-in rangefinder, and new complex armament would provide the upgraded PT-76B tank with a threefold increase in firepower compared to its predecessor. So, for example, when firing an armor-piercing tracer at a distance of 1250 m, the gun pierces armor 100 mm thick.

In addition, in order to increase the mobility of the new tank on land, specialists from the Design Bureau of the Volgograd Tractor Plant developed a program for upgrading it. power plant: a more powerful diesel engine UTD-23 and a transmission used on the BMD-3 are installed, as well as new tracks with better grip and a longer service life. A special system for scanning and detecting optical devices, which is similar to devices for detecting snipers, is designed to give an additional opportunity for the survival of the upgraded vehicle on the battlefield. True, so far the matter has not gone further than proposals here either.

However, if technology has more or less recently gone to the Marine Corps, then some of the actions of the reformers in the field of reorganization of the organizational structure of the Marine Corps of the Russian Navy simply defy any logic. For example, the 77th Separate Guards Moscow-Chernigov Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, II degree Marine Brigade of the Caspian Flotilla, created in 1996 on the basis of the 600th Guards and 414th Separate Marine Battalions, was disbanded. On December 1, 2008, the brigade ceased to exist, and its personnel, equipment and materiel, with the exception of two battalions of marines with bases in Kaspiysk and Astrakhan, were transferred to a separate marine brigade newly formed as part of the Black Sea Fleet.

The fact that the Black Sea Marine Brigade (810 Marine Corps), reduced exactly 10 years earlier, was recreated on the basis of the 810th OPMP in 2008 cannot but rejoice, but is it really reasonable to do this by destroying another formation, and at such an important direction, like the Caspian Sea, where so far Russia has not been able to reach an understanding on the issue of delimiting influence on the sea with its neighbors in the region? Many experts have long referred to the Caspian as a “sea of ​​discord”…

A similar, not entirely positive, reorganization was carried out in relation to the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet. Not only was it decided a dozen years ago that the 55th Marine Division, located in the Far East, did not need a separate tank regiment at all, so a decision was made relatively recently to reduce the division itself - from June 1, 2009 it was reorganized to the 165th Separate Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet. Moreover, it is necessary to take into account the fact that one of the primary tasks of the Pacific Marines was to capture the strait zones in order to ensure access to the open ocean of the main forces of the Pacific Fleet, which, with the exception of those ships and submarines that are based in Kamchatka and in some other, "open » to the ocean areas of the coast, literally locked in the Sea of ​​Japan.

However, the situation in other fleets is also no better - in the Russian Navy today there are only four marine brigades left: the already mentioned 165th brigade, the 336th separate guards Bialystok orders of Suvorov and Nakhimov marines brigade of the Baltic Fleet, the 61st separate Kirkenes Red Banner marines brigade of the Northern Fleet and the 810th separate marine brigade infantry of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as several separate regiments, battalions and companies. And this is for the entire fleet, whose task is to defend the vast coastline of Russia from the sea and assist the ground forces in conducting operations in the coastal theater of operations.

Only recently, encouraging news began to appear, allowing us to hope for the restoration of the former power of the Russian marines. Far Eastern Higher Military Command School named after K.K. Rokossovsky (DVVKU), which trains commanders of the Marine Corps, in 2013, for the first time after many years, conducted a full-fledged recruitment. More than 300 cadets have started training, while the previous intakes did not go beyond a few dozen.

At the same time, in 2013, the 3rd Marine Regiment was again reorganized into the 40th Brigade. Landing training began to be carried out in this, until recently, land formation. In the coming years, the fleet will receive landing helicopter-carrying dock ships Vladivostok and Sevastopol. A new combat vehicle for the Marine Corps is being developed (NIR code "BMMP Platform"). Such a machine is really necessary, since the Marine Corps has long been in need of a combat vehicle that has good seaworthiness.

The BMP-3F, designed specifically for marines, was received not by ours, but by Indonesian sailors. And our fleet, unfortunately, expects the arrival of a new amphibious vehicle only "in the long term." This is all the more strange that the Commander-in-Chief of the Airborne Forces still managed to achieve the adoption of the BMD-4M. But the problem of updating the fleet of vehicles and strengthening the firepower of the marines is no less acute.

The other day, the head of the Coastal Forces of the Navy (the marines still belong to them, although we have actually already withdrawn from the CFE Treaty), Major General Alexander Kolpachenko said that in 2014 the 61st Marine Regiment of the Northern Fleet will again be reorganized into a brigade. I would like to hope that these are only the first steps towards the restoration and development of the power of the naval landing forces of the fleet, capable of hitting the enemy on its territory.