7th Guards Water Area Protection Brigade
Identification
Open sources match this record to the 7th Guards Water Area Protection Brigade, military unit 90829, in Polyarny. A ZATO Aleksandrovsk administrative decree lists v/ch 90829 in the Polyarny territorial district, and Northern Fleet/TASS reporting identifies Polyarny as the permanent base area for ships assigned to this brigade. The supplied placemark text is therefore consistent with the brigade’s Polyarny berthing area, but the exact tactical-group pier layout is not publicly confirmed in the authoritative sources retrieved. ([npa-zato.ru](https://npa-zato.ru/2018/01/18/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-%E2%84%96-81-3/))
Lineage
TASS described the formation in 2014 as the only guards surface-ship water-area-protection brigade in the Russian Navy and as successor to the 2nd Pechenga Red Banner division of submarine chasers that fought from Ekaterininskaya Harbor during the Second World War. Local 2025 reporting from a Northern Fleet ceremony in Polyarny stated that the brigade received the Guards honorific in 2013. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/spb-news/1518594?utm_source=openai))
Mission
Retrieved Russian military reporting indicates a close-in fleet defense and sortie-support role. TASS reported that brigade personnel are regularly used to ensure Northern Fleet ship departures from bases on the Barents coast; during Ocean-2024, Kola Flotilla ships associated with this Polyarny brigade in open reporting—base minesweepers Yelnya and Kolomna and MPK Snezhnogorsk—provided mine-countermeasure, anti-submarine, and anti-diversion cover for the SSBN Tula as it exited base. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/spb-news/1518594?utm_source=openai))
Observed elements
Open reporting ties several hulls consistent with the supplied placemarks to this Polyarny-based brigade area. TASS named MPKs Brest and Snezhnogorsk and MRK Rassvet in 2024 Barents Sea drills; a 2020 Northern Fleet parade report identified a brigade minesweeper group including Kotelnich, Solovetsky Yunga, Kolomna, and Yadrin; and TASS described Vladimir Gumanenko as a Kola Flotilla minesweeper whose permanent base is Polyarny. I did not retrieve an authoritative public source confirming every current hull-to-pier assignment in the metadata. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21842855))
Modernization
The clearest recent change at this site is reinforcement of its mine-warfare component. In August 2024 the Project 12700 Aleksandrit-class ship Afanasy Ivannikov arrived in Polyarny and joined the 7th Guards brigade. On 24 April 2025, Navy commander Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev said a second Project 12700 ship, Polyarny, was planned to enter Northern Fleet service before the end of 2025; the retrieved sources do not publicly confirm that delivery had occurred. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/bezopasnost/24863079))