Later, in 1955, the regiment would relocate to Cherekha, Pskov Oblast and become a part of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division.

On November 26, 1979, it was awarded the pennant of the Minister of Defense of the USSR "For courage and military valor".

From 1988 to 1993, the regiment was involved in multiple peacekeeping operations across the Caucasus, and was stationed in Yerevan in 1988, Baku from 1988 to 1989, Osh, Fergana in 1990, and Transnistria and South Ossetia from 1992 to 1993.

From August 1999 to 2004, the regiment conducted counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya, where famously the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion fought until the last man at the Battle for Height 776.

[4] On 7 June 2022, Ukraine's 80th Air Assault Brigade claimed that they had destroyed the regiment in a battle on a highway in the Donbas.