It was established in 2004 along with the establishment of the
State Transport Special Service. In 2012, it took part in the "Perspektyva-2012" exercise, constructing a railway pontoon bridge 500 meters long. Following the start of the
War in Donbass, it saw action. In October 2017, it constructed the Tomashivskyi bridge crossing over the
Siverskyi Donets between
Novodruzhesk and
Rubizhne, in June 2018, it constructed a bridge over the
Luhan river between
Popasna and
Troitske, and in November 2018, it built an overpass over the railway line on the Pokrovsk-Bakhmut-Mykhailivka highway, previously destroyed by separatist militants. In January–February 2019, it completed the construction of a military dormitory in Kaidaki for the
Air Command East. In July 2019, it constructed a military camp at the 239th Combined Arms training ground. In February 2020, it constructed a modular military camp near the frontlines in Donbas, then another such camp in
Zaporizhzhia Oblast in September and a modular field camp "Novooleksiivka" in December in
Kherson Oblast. On 28 December 2020, it was awarded the honorary name "Dniprovska". In December 2021, it received a battle banner. Since the beginning of the full-scale
Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has seen heavy action. In February 2022, its forces were deployed to protect important military and civilian infrastructure facilities and strategically important bridges in the
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Its sapper units carried out extensive mining, barricading, sabotage, destruction and restoration of bridges and dams and demining. It has constructed fortification positions, barriers, dugouts, trenches, communication lines, anti-tank ditches, engineering and mine barriers, bridges and pontoon crossings in the
Kharkiv,
Donetsk,
Kherson and
Mykolaiv Oblasts. It also helped to construct bomb shelters in
Kherson and built aircraft hangars. It also helped in disaster relief following the destruction of
Nova Kharkovka Dam. From 12 to 20 January 2024, it cleared 106.6 hectares and demined 706 hectares of land, neutralizing 97 explosive devices. On 31 May 2024, a soldier of the brigade (Mukoyida Volodymyr Viktorovych) was killed in
Zaporizhzhia Oblast. On 11 June 2024, two soldiers of the brigade (Lashko Maksym Andryovych and Hetmanets Serhii Mykolayovych) were killed in combat in
Stepnohirsk. On 13 September 2024, a soldier of the brigade (Khaustov Andrey Vasylovych) was killed in combat. On 23 September 2024, a soldier of the 1936th Separate Mechanization Battalion (Brodovsky Vitaly Anatolyovych) of the brigade was killed by a drone strike in
Novopavlivka. ==Structure==