It forms part of the 41st Combined Arms Army (CAA), and has its headquarters in a former Strategic Rocket Forces installation at Aleysk in Altai Krai.

When the 41st Guards Rocket Division of the Strategic Rocket Forces disbanded in 2001, "for a long time" there was no decision on the future use of the empty Aleysk military garrison, containing housing, a school, three kindergartens, a swimming pool, and "an enormous amount of equipment that was discarded outside the city limits."

[8] Major Leonid Shchotkin, a deputy battalion commander in the 35th Brigade, was reportedly captured in Chernihiv by Ukrainian forces on 26 February 2022.

[8][9] Ukrainian forces claimed to have captured the commander of a tank platoon of the 35th Brigade after repelling an attempted Russian breakthrough near Chernihiv on 27 February.

[10] A member was of the brigade was sentenced to imprisonment in a Ukrainian court for allegedly robbing and threatening to kill a civilian in the village of Khaliavyn [uk], Chernihiv Oblast in early March 2022.

[8] In February 2025, the brigade suffered a heavy loss with a Ukrainian missile strike on their headquarters in occupied Donetsk wiping out the entire command.