The 103rd Rocket Red Banner, Orders of Kutuzov and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Brigade (103 RBr), is a tactical surface-to-surface missile formation of the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation.
It traces its history to the creation of the 12th Breakthrough Artillery Division (Russian: 12-я артиллерийская дивизия прорыва) of the Reserve of the High Command in December 1942.
It helped in breaking through the defenses of the Wehrmacht advancing on the Kastornensky direction at the junction of the Bryansk and Voronezh Fronts.
[7] In August 1960 the division was reorganized as the 103rd Rocket Brigade stationed in the Transbaikal Military District as part of the 29th Combined Arms Army.
[2] Other sources trace its immediate existence to its formation at Nizhinernyy in Gorky Oblast, Moscow Military District, in August 1960.
[8] From 1979 the brigade was located at Divizionnaya ([51 54 25N, 107 33 19E], ru:Дивизионная_(Улан-Удэ)), a suburb of Ulan-Ude in the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.