Currently, the brigade consists of:[1] It was established at Kapchagai in the Turkestan Military District on 22 July 1976.

Part of the brigade began fighting in April 1985, having stood in the way of caravans of weapons and drugs coming from Pakistan and Iran.

Formed in December 1986, the 411th detachment, deployed in the province of Farah, was responsible for controlling the caravan routes from Iran.

Elements of the brigade have participated in the Black January, the First Chechen War, where it took part in the Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis.

In June 1992, the brigade moved to Stepnoy, Rostov Oblast[3] in the Southern Military District, where it is still located today.