November 25 is the Russian Military Peacekeeper Day

On November 25 the military personnel of the Russian Peacekeeping Forces celebrate their professional holiday.
The holiday of the Russian “blue helmets” was established in 2016 by the decree of the Russian President.
The Russian peacekeeping forces date back to November 25, 1973. On that day, the first Soviet military observers arrived in Egypt as part of the UN peacekeeping mission. The objective was to maintain the truce in the Suez Canal area after the fifth Arab-Israeli war of the protracted Middle East conflict.
In 1974, Vystrel, the Higher Officer Course, was established near Moscow to train Soviet military observers.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, as the successor state and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, continued to participate in peacekeeping operations.
With the collapse of the USSR, armed conflicts also broke out in the post-Soviet space.
The Russian contingent had been carrying out peacekeeping operations in Transnistria (since 1992), the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone (1992–2008), the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone (1994–2008) and Tajikistan (1993–2001).
Russian peacekeepers have participated in many UN operations during the Yugoslavia crisis and in UN missions in numerous hotspots in Africa.
In 2005, the 15th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade was formed under the auspices of the UN; it is stationed in Roshchinsky township near Samara. Here, servicemen are being trained to take part in peacekeeping operations. The brigade consists of three motorized rifle battalions, a reconnaissance force and a support company. The brigade consists of only contracted personnel, is lightly armed (up to 82 mm caliber), has modern armoured vehicles, reconnaissance and communications equipment and UAVs.
On November 10, 2020, on a trilateral basis, the peacekeeping brigade began separating the conflicting parties in Nagorno-Karabakh.
On November 5, 2019, the CSTO PA adopted Recommendations on Improving the National Legislation of the CSTO Member States in the Area of Operation of Collective Peacekeeping Forces. Additional information about them will be available on November 26.
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