2nd Separate Special Police Brigade
Identification
Open-source verification matches this record to Belarus Internal Troops military unit 3310 in the military town of Okolitsa, Minsk District. A Minsk Oblast MVD recruitment/contact page lists the address as “223055, Минский район, в/г Околица, в/ч 3310,” and the Internal Troops official channel still referred to v/ch 3310 as “в/г Околица, Минский р-н” in May 2025. This is the best-supported match for the brigade headquarters/base and fits the main placemark. ([para2022.org](https://para2022.org/materials/802e4601-7662-4c15-80bc-cb57b41db796/))
Mission
Open reporting ties v/ch 3310 to internal-security and public-order tasks in the Minsk area. State media reported that conscripts from the unit were assigned to patrol Minsk city districts and nearby suburbs, and another state report quoted the unit as ensuring public security and law and order in Minsk Region while a sapper-pyrotechnic group handled explosive-item detection/disposal. More recent Internal Troops reporting shows a 3rd separate rifle battalion from v/ch 3310 tasked with guarding a correctional institution, and the brigade has conducted joint drills with Colony No. 14 and the penitentiary system. ([sb.by](https://www.sb.by/articles/sluzhim-otechestvu.html?utm_source=openai))
Force posture
v/ch 3310 also functions as a training and readiness hub inside the Internal Troops system. The Internal Troops officially announced formation of the special-purpose detachment “Tornado” on the unit’s base in December 2023; by 2024-2025 the site was hosting squad-leader courses for all Internal Troops formations, professional competitions for guard/unit-duty cadres, and tactical-special training that included response to mass disorder and defense of guarded facilities against sabotage-reconnaissance threats. ([t.me](https://t.me/s/vvmvdrb?before=40151))
Infrastructure
The Okolitsa compound is a permanent garrison with notable ceremonial and memorial infrastructure. The regimental church of St. John the Warrior on the unit grounds was built in 1998-1999 and is described in Belarusian state media as the first regimental church in sovereign Belarus; the Internal Troops official channel marked its 26th anniversary in 2025. The unit also maintains an Alley of Glory/Valor, where a memorial to Chernobyl liquidators was opened in 2011 and new busts were unveiled during the unit’s 93rd-anniversary events in August 2025. ([sb.by](https://www.sb.by/video/25-let-voinskomu-khramu-vo-imya-svyatogo-muchenika-ioanna-voina-na-territorii-v-ch-3310.html?utm_source=openai))
Footprint
A 2025 EBRD environmental assessment for the proposed R-80 bypass around Okolitsa identified 2.2 hectares of v/ch 3310 land and 7.67 hectares of adjoining Internal Troops command land as potentially affected, indicating a sizable forested footprint around the base. A detached 3rd separate rifle battalion of v/ch 3310 is publicly evidenced, and a 2025 procurement notice places its checkpoint at Novosady, Borisov District. I did not find a primary-source confirmation for the Soligorsk patrol-company placemark in this research pass, so that detached-site attribution should be treated cautiously. ([ebrd.com](https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/documents/owcs-archive/Admin/esia-49312-eia-update-rus.pdf?utm_source=openai))