55th Motor Rifle Regiment
Identity
This record can be matched only at the regiment designation level, not to a verified fixed installation. Open sources confirm the existence of Russia’s 6th Motor Rifle Division within the 3rd Army Corps, but the specific subordinate title “55th Motor Rifle Regiment” is not clearly corroborated in the stronger reporting reviewed here. The entry is therefore best treated as a partially verified regiment record under the 6th Motor Rifle Division rather than a confirmed site. ([criticalthreats.org](https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/restructuring-and-expansion-of-the-russian-ground-forces-hindered-by-ukraine-war-requirements))
Parent formation
The parent formation is better documented than the regiment itself. Critical Threats assessed in November 2023 that the 3rd Army Corps included the 6th Motor Rifle Division with the 57th Motor Rifle Regiment, two other then-unidentified motor rifle regiments, the 27th Artillery Regiment, a 52nd air-defense element, and the 10th Tank Regiment. Separate investigative reporting on abuses inside the division later identified the 1008th, 1307th, and 1486th motor rifle regiments within the same division. That inconsistency indicates the division’s public ORBAT has shifted or remains incompletely exposed in open sources. ([criticalthreats.org](https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/restructuring-and-expansion-of-the-russian-ground-forces-hindered-by-ukraine-war-requirements))
Location confidence
No authoritative public source reviewed here fixes a permanent garrison, base address, or coordinates for a distinct 55th Motor Rifle Regiment. Secondary/open-edit sources do show related regiments of the same divisional structure being formed in 2022 for the war, including the 54th Motor Rifle Regiment at Mulino in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the 57th Motor Rifle Regiment from volunteer formations assembled in August 2022. That supports Mulino as a known force-generation hub for this divisional grouping, but not as a verified standalone location for a 55th regiment. ([ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/54-%D0%B9_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BA))
Operational context
Division-level reporting places the 6th Motor Rifle Division on the Bakhmut axis in 2023-2024 and in the Chasiv Yar/Stupochky sector by mid-2024 to 2025. Reporting on criminal cases inside the division also ties divisional elements to occupied Popasna and to Bakhmutske in July 2023. These sources confirm frontline employment of the parent division in Donetsk/Luhansk sectors, but they do not independently prove that the specific subordinate engaged there was a publicly verified “55th Motor Rifle Regiment.” ([zona.media](https://zona.media/article/2024/08/12/suspilne?utm_source=openai))
Assessment
Confidence is moderate on the parent chain—6th Motor Rifle Division, 3rd Army Corps—and low on the exact subordinate identity requested. For production use, this record should be flagged as ambiguous unless additional evidence emerges, such as an official Russian legal act, Ministry of Defense release, court filing, casualty roll, or local administrative notice explicitly naming a 55th Motor Rifle Regiment under the 6th Motor Rifle Division. ([criticalthreats.org](https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/restructuring-and-expansion-of-the-russian-ground-forces-hindered-by-ukraine-war-requirements))