- State affiliation · Latvia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Latvia.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
The National Guard’s brigade for Latgale, the region on the Russian and Belarusian border, seated at Rēzekne. Founded on 30 June 1992, reorganised as a district on 1 December 2003 and renamed the 3rd Latgale Brigade on 3 January 2018. Its published task is the defence of the land territory in support of the armed forces; its battalions are published and sit below this module’s floor.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 1 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Latgale, south-eastern Latvia, whose outer edge is the Latvian frontier with Russia and Belarus; the brigade page does not draw its boundary.
- Notable history
- Founded on 30 June 1992 in the National Guard’s first year, reorganised into the district structure on 1 December 2003 and restored as the 3rd Latgale Brigade on 3 January 2018. Nothing in its published lineage is unusual; what makes it matter is where it is. It is the territorial formation of the region that the Latvian eastern frontier records in this module describe, and the one whose peacetime and wartime tasks overlap with the border most directly.
- Strengths
- A territorial brigade of local citizens in the frontier region, with six published battalions and a published peacetime role in emergency response. In this module’s terms it is the standing element between the State Border Guard and the regular brigade at Ādaži on the eastern border.
- Limitations
- The brigade publishes battalions, a seat and a commander and no more; strength is published and deliberately not carried, and readiness, equipment and the brigade’s relationship to the State Border Guard are not published on its page.
Sensitivity: Public · structural Confidence: High Sources: Latvian National Guard (Zemessardze) official pages↗ Methodology Corrections
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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