22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade

22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade
	22nd Spetsnaz Brigade Patch
Active	July 24, 1976 – present
Country	Russia
Branch	Russian Ground Forces
Type	Spetsnaz
Role	Special reconnaissance; Special operations; Direct action
Part of	GRU (operational subordination)
Garrison/HQ	Stepnoy, Russia
Anniversaries	July 24th
Engagements	Soviet-Afghan War; Black January; First Nagorno-Karabakh War; Angolan Civil War; First Chechen War; Civil war in Tajikistan; Second Chechen War; Russo-Georgian War; 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; Wagner Group mutiny;
Commanders
Current; commander	Lt. Col. Aleksei Nikolayevich Savchenko
Notable; commanders	Col. Boris Kerimbaev

The 22nd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade (22-я отдельная гвардейская бригада специального назначения) is a special forces (spetsnaz) brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The brigade is currently based at Stepnoy, Rostov Oblast.

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