It is located in Kyzyl, Tyva Republic, as part of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District.

Colonel Andrei Shelukhin, head of the organizing group, and many of his subordinates arrived in Tuva from mountainous Tajikistan "so they had experience in conquering peaks.

The head of government in Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool, reportedly ordered that each of the future mountain rifle candidates also had a recommendation signed by the relevant district official.

[6] Main articles: Russo-Ukrainian War and 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On March 3, 2022, the troops of the brigade entered the village of Yahidne near Chernihiv.

In August 2022, social media posts revealed that the brigade was operating in the direction of Siversk, a town in the Donetsk Oblast.