385th Guards Odesskaya Red Banner order of Bodgan Khmelnitskiy Artillery Brigade

385-я гвардейская артиллерийская Одесская Краснознаменная ордена Богдана Хмельницкого бригада

Military Unit: 25881; from 1993: 32755

Activated 20.5.44 as the 44th Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade.

1960 renamed 98th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment.

1970 with 130mm M-46 (2 battalions) and 152mm D-20 (1 battalion).

25.8.81 renamed 385th Guards Artillery Brigade.

1981 with 36 130mm M-46 (2 battalions) and 36 152mm D-20 (2 battalions).

1982 the 130mm M-46 (2 battalions) was replaced by the 152mm 2s5 Giatsint-S (one battalion).

From 1984 fully equipped with the 152mm 2s5 Giatsint-S, the 152mm D-20 was transferred to the 390th Guards Artillery Brigade.

Headquarters:

• Altengrabow, East Germany, 7.45 - 1960
• Planken, East Germany, 1960 - 1993
• Totskoye-2 (Bershet), Perm Oblast, 1993 - today

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 72 152mm 2s5 Giatsint-S, 5 PRP-3/4, 1 R-145BM and 2 BTR-60

Equipment 1.1.2000 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 64 152mm 2s5 Giatsint-S, 72 152mm 2A65 Giatsint-B and 300 men

Subordination:

• 3rd Shock Army, 7.45 - 1954
• 3rd Combined Arms Army, 1954 - 1.92
• 2nd Guards Tank Army, 1.92 - 11.93
• 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, 11.93 - 5.98
• Volga Military District, 5.98 - 3.2001
• Volga-Ural Military District, 3.2001 - 9.2010
• Central Military district, 9.2010 - today

Brigade coordinates:

• Planken barracks: 52 20 40N, 11 28 35E
• Totskoye-2 barracks: 57 44 02N, 56 18 42E