After arriving in Yurga (near Tomsk) in the Siberian Military District, it was reorganized into the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, where it remains today.

[1] He also said the brigade was one of the most combat ready of the entire Russian military, adding a promise of new barracks construction.

Elements of the brigade have participated in the Russian military intervention on the Syrian Civil War.

On 24 February, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi announced that a reconnaissance platoon of the Russian 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade had surrendered near Chernihiv, with the unit's commander claiming "nobody thought that we were going to kill".

[4][5][6][7] A member of the brigade was accused by Ukrainian prosecutors of detaining a civilian in the village of Sloboda, Chernihiv Oblast [uk] on 6 March.