Russian invasion of Ukraine The 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Sevastopol Red Banner named after the Latvian Riflemen is a brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, which traces its history to the 13th Guards Rifle Regiment (ru:13-й гвардейский стрелковый полк).

Margelov was to take a leading role in the development of the Soviet Airborne Forces decades after the end of the war.

In February 1944, the division and the 2nd Guards Army was transferred to the area of the Perekop Isthmus and in April-May took part in the Crimean strategic operation.

In forty minutes, the regiment overcame four trenches, an anti-tank ditch, five rows of barbed wire and minefields.

The detachment swiftly pursued the enemy, cutting off his escape routes, and defeated eight rearguard barriers.

[1] From May 1956 the 13th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment was stationed in Adazi (Adazi-2, now Kadaga) near the capital of Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic – Riga.

In accordance with the Directive of the First Deputy Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States on 11 March 1992 No.

453/4/01002-25[3] 25th Guards Motor Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner separate brigade named after the Latvian Riflemen was relocated from Latvia to Strugi Krasnye (Vladimirsky Lager), Pskov Oblast, Russia, becoming part of the troops of the Leningrad Military District.