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36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (2009–present) 131st Guards Motor Rifle Division (2001–2009) 131st Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division (1989–2001) 38th Guards Motor Rifle Division (1957–1989) 38th Guards Rifle Division (1942–1957)
Active	1942–present
Country	Soviet Union (1942-1991)  Russia (1991-present)
Branch	Red Army (1942–1946)  Soviet Army (1946–1991)  Russian Ground Forces (1991–present)
Type	Motorized infantry brigade
Part of	29th Army
Garrison/HQ	Borzya
Engagements	World War II Russo-Ukrainian War
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner
Battle honours	Lozovaya
Commanders
Current commander	unknown

The 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade is an infantry brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, which traces its heritage to the creation of the 38th Guards Rifle Division from the 4th Airborne Corps during World War II. The division gained its honorific on 23 September 1943 for its part in the seizure of Lozovaya in Ukraine.

In June 1957, the 38th Guards Rifle Division was reorganised as the 38th Guards Motor Rifle Division.^[1] The division was moved to SretenskinChita Oblast in 1967. In 1989 the division was reorganised as the 131st Guards Machine-Gun Artillery Division.

The division moved its headquarters to OlavyannayainOlovyanninsky District in Chita Oblast in 1992. In 2001 it was converted into a motor rifle division. In June 2009 the division was reorganised as a motor rifle brigade and moved to Borzya.

The brigade took part in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

• 2018—2020 Major General (Guards) Oleg Lvovich Moyseev
• 2020—2022 Lieutenant Colonel (Guards) Andrei Vladimirovich Voronkov
• 2022—20.02.2024 Colonel (Guards) Gusein Vilayatovich Musayev (killed in Ukraine^[2])