The Separate Guards Motor Rifle Assault Battalion "Somalia" named after M. S. Tolstykh (OShB Somalia, MUN 08828; Russian: Отдельный гвардейский мотострелковый штурмовой батальон «Сомали» имени М. С. Толстых, ОШБ Сомали, в/ч 08828), often known as Somalia Battalion, is a military unit of Russian Ground Forces.

The name of the unit supposedly derived from the "irregular" look of its first fighters, and got its name because when fighters lined up for the first time "…they were dressed in all manner of civilian clothes, such as shorts and trainers, did not look like a combat force, and, in their view, resembled Somali pirates".

In September 2015, during another reorganization, the unit was reformed into the Separate Motor Rifle (Assault) Battalion "Somalia".

[5] In February 2017, the unit's commander, Mikhail Tolstykh, was assassinated in his office with a RPO-A Shmel rocket launcher.

[2] In 2022, while being decorated by the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, Senior Lieutenant of the Somalia Battalion Roman Vorobyov was shown wearing a Totenkopf and a valknut symbol on his arm patch; both symbols are associated with Nazi Germany.