- Service ensign · official · carried by Navy
- State affiliation · Russia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: St Andrew's ensign — naval ensign of the Russian Federation — carried by Navy, not issued to this record. Drawn by Vigil to the geometry the 1992 readoption specifies — white field, blue saltire, band width one tenth of the fly, 2:3. Drawn rather than supplied because this geometry is fully specified; no image file is involved in this record.
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
Baltic Fleet naval infantry at Baltiysk, committed to the land war as the 336th Guards Brigade and announced expanded to divisional status in December 2025; the division's own designation is reported, not confirmed.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad exclave as published home; committed on land in Ukraine since 2022, at Kherson and in the Mariupol assault. Nothing about current dispositions is authored.
- Notable history
- The 336th Brigade's lineage runs from a motor-rifle regiment converted to naval infantry in 1963 and raised to a brigade on 20 November 1979. Committed to the land war from its first weeks — Kherson, then the assault on Mariupol — it followed the pattern this atlas documents for every Russian marine brigade: heavy employment as assault infantry, losses, reconstitution and recommitment. On 22 December 2025 the ministry announced its expansion into a division, one regiment keeping the number 336; regional reporting named it the 120th Guards Naval Infantry Division, a designation not publicly confirmed. Lithuania's 2026 threat assessment corroborates at class level that new naval infantry units are being developed in Kaliningrad.
- Strengths
- Priority for expansion inside the exclave that matters most to this module, and a formation the ministry has chosen to enlarge rather than merely refill.
- Limitations
- A division on paper whose manning is not published, built from a brigade that has been through the war's reconstitution cycle; its designation is unconfirmed and nothing about its strength, readiness or current employment is authored.
Related organisations
- Baltic Fleet Institutionally linked to · high confidence
The Baltic Fleet's naval infantry formation; shown in the tree under the Naval Infantry branch, as the atlas places every marine formation.
Lineage & institutional history
Formal parent institution: Baltic Fleet
Predecessors: 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade
Russia's defence ministry announced the formation of a new Baltic Fleet naval infantry division on 22 December 2025, expanding the 336th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade at Baltiysk; one of the division's regiments retains the number 336. Reporting gives the designation as the 120th Guards Naval Infantry Division, which has not been publicly confirmed, so the record is not titled by it. Whether the division is manned to establishment is not published. Records of the brigade's employment before that date stand as written.
Assessed as of — 2025-12 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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