1st Separate Special Police Brigade
Identification
The record matches the 1st Separate Special Police Brigade of the Belarusian Internal Troops, military unit 5448, in Minsk. Open sources place unit 5448 on Ulitsa Mayakovskogo: a Minsk district directory lists the unit’s library at Mayakovskogo 97, and the official Internal Troops channel refers to servicemen traveling to the unit on Mayakovskogo. ([t.me](https://t.me/s/vvmvdrb/12667?utm_source=openai))
Mission
Unit 5448 is routinely used for capital-area public-order and urban security duties. Official and state-media reporting describe near-daily public-order service in Minsk, joint traffic-safety patrols with city police, patrol interventions in central-city incidents, and a special-purpose company training for searches and detention of armed offenders. ([t.me](https://t.me/s/vvmvdrb/38716?utm_source=openai))
Force posture
The Mayakovskogo site remains an active force-generation and training base. Internal Troops posts reported more than 550 recruits swearing the oath at unit 5448 in late 2025, more than 300 more in early 2026, and separate reserve-training events there focused on tactical and live-fire refreshers. The base also hosts the "Granit" military-patriotic club and a sports complex used for shooting events. ([t.me](https://t.me/s/vvmvdrb/39706?utm_source=openai))
Recent developments
As of March 2026, unit 5448 is still being used as an Internal Troops coordination and training hub: three weeks ago it hosted a staff/officer methodological gathering on hardening permanent-deployment sites and decision-making in rapidly changing contingencies. Separately, iSANS reported that on September 29, 2025, the Internal Troops press service quoted commander Mikalai Karpiankou as saying 5448 would soon be redesignated the "1st Operational Brigade"; the open sources reviewed here do not publicly confirm that the rename has already been completed. ([t.me](https://t.me/s/vvmvdrb/51229?utm_source=openai))
5529 / "Rys" ambiguity
The second placemark, OOСН "Rys" / unit 5529, should be treated as a separate Minsk site rather than a confirmed sub-element of the Mayakovskogo brigade. Official and state sources present "Rys" as a special-purpose detachment formed in unit 5529 as part of unit 3214 / the 3rd Separate Special Purpose Brigade, and recent reporting says 5529 absorbed the Internal Troops special explosive-technical center in 2025. A competing secondary/opposition source described 5529 as a rifle battalion within 5448, so that subordination remains disputed in open sources. ([t.me](https://t.me/s/AzarenokCTV/3778?utm_source=openai))