Based at Feodosia in Crimea, the regiment is part of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division.

[5] The 3rd Air Assault battalion was airlifted by helicopter into Afghanistan and captured Rabat-Mirza-Kushka Pass on the next day.

The 2nd Air Assault Battalion was attached to the 70th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in March.

In August 1999, a battalion sized task force of the regiment was deployed to fight in the Second Chechen War.

[4] In January 2016, VDV commander General Colonel Vladimir Shamanov announced that a new range near Kamyshin would be built in the spring of that year due to the higher intensity of combat training.

These circumstances explain a lot of the poor facilities, chaos, and undermanning described in Pavel Filatyev's memoir text.

[10] In November, 2021 it was confirmed that the new regiment would become a component of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division effective as of December 2021.