The 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Sevastopol Red Banner named after the Latvian Riflemen is a brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, which traces its history to the 13th Guards Rifle Regiment.

Vasily Filippovich Margelov was a Red Army General who was the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero of the Soviet Union.