The 131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade was a motorised infantry unit of the Soviet Army and of the Russian Ground Forces.
1st Caucasian Rifle Division (1922–1931) 1st Caucasian Mountain Rifle Division (1931–1936) 8th Rifle Brigade (1946–1949) 9th Mountain Rifle Division (1936–1943; 1949–1954) 80th Motor Rifle Division (1957–1964) 9th Motor Rifle Division (1964–1992) 131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (1992–2009)
Colonel Alexander Dorofeyeev in Maykop, 1988.
Battle of Grozny (1994–1995)
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The First Battle of Grozny was the Russian Army's invasion and subsequent conquest of the Chechen capital, Grozny, during the early months of the First Chechen War. The attack would last from December
131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade
…the 9th transferred to the Russian Ground Forces and reorganized as the 131st Separate Motor Rifle Brigade in late 1992. The brigade fought in the Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War, and elements of it served in the Second Chechen War. In 2009, after the Russo-Georgian War, it was relocated to Gudauta…
Two Chechen militia fighters take cover behind a burned-out Russian BMP-2 armoured vehicle
A Chechen fighter during the Battle of Grozny, January 1995
Road from Khankala ("Group East" route)
A Chechen civilian prays in Grozny, January 1995. The flame in the background is coming from a gas pipeline hit by air-burst shrapnel.