- Service ensign · official · carried by Airborne Forces (VDV)
- State affiliation · Russia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Flag of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) — carried by Airborne Forces (VDV), not issued to this record. The service flag of the Airborne Forces, adopted 2004 — a blue and green bicolour charged with the VDV emblem. The design itself is not an object of copyright: Article 1259(6) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation excludes official symbols and signs. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Flag of the Russian Airborne Troops.svg", released under PD-RU-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Russia.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
Separate air-assault brigade from Buryatia in the Far East, one of the VDV's independent brigades; documented in the war from the 2022 northern operation onward and employed as line assault infantry since.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The northern axes in 2022; eastern sectors since, by public tracking. No current disposition is authored.
- Notable history
- One of the separate brigades the VDV keeps outside its divisions, based near Ulan-Ude and drawn from the Far East, it was among the formations moved across the country for the 2022 invasion and documented in the northern operation in its first weeks. Its later war is that of the branch as a whole: withdrawn, reconstituted and recommitted as assault infantry on eastern sectors, at a distance from its home station that few formations in this atlas match.
- Strengths
- VDV selection and a brigade structure that has been rebuilt rather than disbanded through the war.
- Limitations
- Light equipment and the attrition of the experienced core that the branch's employment as line infantry has cost every one of its formations. Nothing below the brigade is authored.
Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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