List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–91
This article is an (incomplete) listing of Soviet Ground Forces divisions in 1990, and corresponding information about their later status in 2006. The primary source is Table 2.5, pages 104–106, V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004. However, it is not totally accurate, as some other information from it has been shown to be incorrect. Alternate information and corrections are welcome.
The Soviets maintained their units at varying degrees of readiness in peacetime, and divided their ground units into two broad readiness categories:
- Развернутая - Ready (expanded, filled up) A unit was considered Ready, if it could conduct combat operations with little or no mobilisation.[1]
- Неразвернутая - Not Ready
Some divisions are referred to as 'Reserve' (there is a Russian article for reserve unit at ru:Запасная часть). The Russian word for reserve (ru:Запас) literally translates as 'Spare'. The personnel went on the reserve rolls, and for officers and NCOs this means they add 'v zapase' to their rank (e.g. kapitan v zapase). The unit itself changes readiness status from A, to either B (Б), V (В) or G (Г). This means a higher degree of equipment conservation, lower training and operational performance, etc.
VKhVT = Weapons and Equipment Storage Base
Motor Rifle Divisions
| Division | Location, Status 1990 | Location, Status 2006 | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Guards "Moscow-Minsk" Motor Rifle Division | 11th Guards Army, Kaliningrad, Baltic MD | Reduced to a brigade 2002, regiment in 2009 | 1st Guards Rifle Division (second formation) |
| 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Alabino, Moscow Military District | No change; brigade 2009-2013 | 2nd Guards Rifle Division. 1957-64 23 Guards MRD. |
| 3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Coastal defence division, Baltic Fleet, Klaipėda | Disbanded 1 September 1993. | 3rd Guards Rifle Division, to MRD June 1957. October 1989 transferred to Baltic Fleet. |
| 4th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District, Termez | Disbanded 1989 | 4th Guards Mechanised Corps, КВО, then 4th Guards Mech Div, then 63rd Guards MRD, 4 Gds MRD 1964. Moved from Lugansk to Termez in February 1980.[2] |
| 4th Motor Rifle Division | Buzuluk, Orenburg Oblast, Ural Military District | Disbanded July 1959 | 4th Rifle Division, formed June 1957. |
| 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 40th Army, Shindand, Afghanistan, 1989 | Withdrawn back to base 1989–91, Kushka, now Military of Turkmenistan | 5th Guards Mechanized Corps, 53rd Guards Motor Rifle Division 1957, 1965 became 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division |
| 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division (I) | Bernau, East Germany, 20th Guards Army | Redesignated 90th Guards Tank Division, February 1985.[3] | Formed Bernau, East Germany, from 6th Guards Mechanised Division, May 1957. |
| 6th Guards "Vitebsko-Novgorodskaya" Motor Rifle Division(II) | Northern Group of Forces, Borne Sulinowo, Poland | After redesignation as 6 GMRD in 1985, became storage base, Moscow Military District | Activated 25 June 1957 in Borne Sulinovo, Poland, as the 38th Guards Tank Division, from the 26th Guards Mechanised Division. |
| 8th Guards Motor Rifle Division (I) | Haapsalu, Estonia | Disbanded March 1960 | Formed June 1957 from 8th Guards Rifle Division. Disbanded March 1960, with 2-3 regiments transferred to 36th Guards Motor Rifle Division. 36 GMRD renamed 8 GMRD (II) in May 1960. |
| 8th Guards Panfilovtsy Motor Rifle Division (II) | 17th Army Corps, Frunze, Turkestan Military District | Part of Kyrgyz armed forces | Formed Klooga, Estonia, as 36 GMRD, from 36 Gds Mech Div, June 1957. Renamed 8 GMRD (II) May 1960. In May 1967 moved to Frunze. Taken over by Kyrgyzstan, June 1992.[4] Not Ready Division - Cadre High Strength. |
| 9th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Sayn-Shand, Mongolia, 6th Guards Tank Army, Transbaikal Military District | Disbanded 1958 | 9th Guards Mechanised Corps Formed from 9th Guards Mech Division, June 1957. |
| 9th Motor Rifle Division | 12th Army Corps, Maykop, North Caucasus Military District | 1992 became 131 MRB, now 7th Military Base, Gudauta | 9th Infantry Division |
| 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 31st Army Corps, TCMD, Akhaltsikhe, Georgia | Disbanded March 1992 | 10th Guards Rifle Division. Not Ready Division - Reduced Strength II |
| 11th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District (Bezrechnaya), 55th Army Corps | Became 5890 VKhVT 1 December 1989, disbanded 1992 | 7th Guards Mechanised Corps (WW2) |
| 12th Motor Rifle Division (I) | Belogorsk, Far Eastern Military District | Disbanded 1958 | 12th Amurskaya Rifle Division |
| 12th Motor Rifle Division (II) | Boganuur, Mongolia (1979-1992), 39th Army | 5517 VKhVT 1992, disbanded 1993. | Formed 1960 (Holm/Feskov 2015) |
| 13th Motor Rifle Division (I) | Ulan-Ude, Transbaikal Military District | Disbanded 1958 | Established 1957 from 13 TD, originally 61 TD (Second World War)(Holm/Feskov 2015) |
| 13th Motor Rifle Division (II) | Biysk, Altai Krai, 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District | 5351 VKhVT 1989, 13 Gds MRD, July 1992, 5349 Guards VKhVT 1998 | Activated 1 September 1960.[5] |
| 14th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Juterbog, East Germany, 20th Guards Army, 1957-82 | Became 32nd GTD | |
| 15th Motor Rifle Division | 7th Guards Army, Kirovakan, Transcaucasian Military District | Disbanded 1992, some equipment handed over to Armenia. | 15th Rifle Division. Previously 26th Mech Div and 100th MRD. [6]Became 15th MRD 1965.[7] |
| 16th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Baltic Military District | 1957-1960 | 16th Guards Rifle Division[8] |
| 17th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Khmelnitskiy, Carpathian Military District, 13th Army | Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces | 40th Guards Rifle Division, World War II |
| 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Mladá Boleslav CGF, Czechoslovakia | Baltic Fleet Ground Forces, Kaliningrad | 18th Guards Rifle Division. 30 Guards MRD 1957-64. |
| 19th Motor Rifle Division | 42nd Army Corps, North Caucasus Military District, Vladikavkaz | Resubordinated to 58th Army, 1995 | 19th MRD 1965 ← 92nd MRD 1957 <- 19th Rifle Division |
| 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Tank Army, Grimma, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, | Withdrawn to Volgograd, North Caucasus MD, June 1993. | 8th Guards Mechanised Corps, 8th Guards Mechanised Division. Became 20 Gds MRD May 1957.[9] |
| 21st Motor Rifle Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Perleberg | Omsk, Siberian Military District? | 416th Rifle Division (World War II). 416 RD (II) became 18 Mech Div -> 18 MRD (1957) -> 21 MRD 1965, went back to Omsk, became 180 MRB, and finally became a storage site in 1997, and then disbanded only in 2007. |
| 22nd Motor Rifle Division | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 25th Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District | Became 40th independent Motor Rifle Brigade, 1 June 2002, Naval Infantry 2007. | 22nd Rifle Division |
| 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Kirovabad, 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District | Disbanded July 1992, all weapons to Azerbaijan armed forces | 14th Guards Cavalry Division and 16th Guards Cavalry Division, then 31st Guards Mechanised Division. 23 Guards MRD 17 November 1964 (25 Guards MRD June 1957).[10] |
| 24th Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army, Carpathian Military District, Yavoriv | Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces | 24th Rifle Division |
| 25th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Lubny, 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District | Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces | 25th Guards Rifle Division. 115 Guards 1957-64. |
| 26th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 11th Guards Army, Baltic Military District, Gusev | Disbanded 1991 | 26th Guards Rifle Division |
| 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Halle | Totskoye, Volga-Ural Military District | 27th Guards Rifle Division. 1957-64 21st Guards MRD. |
| 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Chernomorskoye, Odessa Military District | Became 28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) circa 2001 | 28th Guards Rifle Division |
| 29th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Kaunas, Baltic Military District, 10th Army Corps | Redesignated 31 Guards MRD 1965 | From 29 Guards Mech Div[11] 31 Guards MRD 1965; 21 Guards TD May 1977. |
| 29th Motor Rifle Division | Kamen-Rybolov, Far Eastern Military District, 5th Army | Disbanded 1994. | 29th Rifle Division (63 Mech Div; 110 MRD 1957). Moved from Shikhany to Far East in 1968.[12] |
| 30th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Central Group of Forces, Zvolen, Czechoslovakia | Disbanded at Marina Gorka, Belarus | 55th Guards Rifle Division |
| 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Kalinin, Moscow Military District | 1989 VkhVT, disbanded 1993. | 32nd Guards Rifle Division. 1975-64 11 Guards MRD. |
| 33rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Kishinev, Moldova, Odessa Military District | Disbanded 1960 | 33 Guards Mech Division |
| 33rd Motor Rifle Division | Khomutovo, Far Eastern Military District | Now storage base | 342nd Rifle Division |
| 34th "Simpheropolskaya" Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Sverdlovsk | Volga-Ural Military District, Yekaterinburg | 34 MRD 1965 < 126th MRD 1957 < 1955 77th Rifle Division |
| 35th Motor Rifle Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Krampnitz (Potsdam) | Disbanded 1992 | 35 MRD 1965, 19th MRD 1957, by 1955 1st Mech Div from 1st Mechanised Corps |
| 36th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Klooga, Estonia, 4th Guards Army Corps | Disbanded May 1960 | 36 Guards Mechanised Division |
| 36th Motor Rifle Division | Artemovsk, Kiev Military District | Disbanded 1992 | Formed 1966 |
| 38th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army, Transbaikal Military District, Sretensk | MG Artillery Division | 38th Guards Rifle Division, 38 Guards MRD 1965; 131 MGAD 1989. |
| 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division ru:39-я гвардейская мотострелковая дивизия | 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Ohrdruf | Disbanded 1992 | 39th Guards Rifle Division |
| 40th Motor Rifle Division | 5th Guards Army, Far Eastern Military District, Smolyaninovo | To Pacific Ocean Fleet as coastal defence division | 40th Rifle Division |
| 41st Motor Rifle Division | 39th Army, Mongolia, Choir | Disbanded 1992 | Formed 1967 from elements of 52nd MRD |
| 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | North Caucasus Military District, Grozny | Became 173rd Training Centre, then disbanded 1992 | 24th Guards Rifle Division |
| 43rd Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Kuybyshev | Became 469th District Training Centre | 43 RD (WW2), 130 MRD 1957, 43 MRD 1965 |
| 45th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 30th Guards Army Corps, Leningrad Military District, Kamenka | By 2005 had become 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade[13] | 45th Guards Rifle Division (WW2), to MRD 1957 |
| 46th Motor Rifle Division | Kiev Military District, Voroshilovgrad | Disbanded 1989 | Formed 1980 |
| 47th Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Army, Konotop | Became storage base 1989 | |
| 47th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Dalnerechensk, Primorskiy Kray, 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District | Disbanded November 1959 | 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps[14] |
| 48th Motor Rifle Division | Central Group of Forces, Vysoké Mýto, Czechoslovakia | Withdrawn to Chuguev, under KGB control, later disbanded | 48th Rifle Division,[15] 118 MRD 1957-November 1964. |
| 50th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Belorussian Military District, Brest | Part of Armed Forces of Belarus | 50th Guards Rifle Division (ru:50-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия) |
| 51st Guards Motor Rifle Division (I) | 10th Army Corps, Baltic Military District, Ventspils | Disbanded January 1959 | 76th Rifle Division, which became 51st Guards Rifle Division (51 GRD) (Feskov et al. 2013, 162) |
| 51st Guards Motor Rifle Division (II) | 13th Army, Carpathian Military District, Vladimir-Volynskiy | Became Ukrainian Ground Forces' 51st Mechanized Brigade | 15th Guards Rifle Division (ru:15-я гвардейская стрелковая дивизия) |
| 52nd Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District, Nizhneudinsk | Storage base, later disbanded | 347th Rifle Division |
| 53rd Guards Training Motor Rifle Division | Kovrov, Moscow Military District | Became 26 GTTD 1979 | 62 Gds Mech Div; 1957 62 Gds MRD; 1960 62 Gds Training MRD; 1964 53 Gds Training MRD. |
| 54th Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army, Leningrad Military District, Alakurtti | Reduced to storage base | 341st Rifle Division (ru:341-я стрелковая дивизия (2-го формирования)) |
| 56th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Omsk | Reorganised as District Training Centre, later disbanded | 56th Rifle Division |
| 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Naumburg | Disbanded 1993 at Chelyabinsk | 57th Guards Rifle Division |
| 58th Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army Corps, Turkestan Military District, Kyzyl-Arvat | Formed 1957 Kyzyl-Arvat, became part of Turkmenistan armed forces | 344th Rifle Division |
| 59th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 14th Guards Army, Odessa Military District, Tiraspol | Became 8th Motor Rifle Brigade, later disbanded | 59th Guards Rifle Division, World War II |
| 60th Motor Rifle Division | 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District, Lenkoran | Formed Lenkoran, became part of Military of Azerbaijan | 406th Rifle Division |
| 61st Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District, Ashkabad | Part of Turkmenistan armed forces | 357th Rifle Division |
| 62nd Motor Rifle Division | 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District, Itatka | Disbanded 1994 Omsk | Formed 1972 at Maykop, effectively as a mobilisation division. Upgraded to a regular division May 1972 and moved to Itatka. Reduced to storage base 1989, moved to Omsk. Disbanded 1994.[16] |
| 63rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Leningrad Military District, Sertolovo | Became 56th District Training Centre | 63rd Guards Rifle Division |
| 64th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 30th Guards Army Corps, Leningrad Military District (Sapernoye) | Reduced to 36 VKhVT 1997,[17] disbanded 2007. | 64th Guards Rifle Division |
| 65th Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Chelyabinsk | Storage base, later disbanded | 368th Rifle Division |
| 66th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division | Carpathian Military District, Chernovtsy | 110 Gds DTC 1987, then Ukrainian armed forces | 66th Guards Rifle Division |
| 67th Training Motor Rifle Division | Omsk, Siberian Military District | 1957-65[18] | From 67 Mechanised Division; became 56 TMRD. 1980 mobilisation division at Vologda, formed 1970, reorganised as regular division and moved to Skovorodino in Far East.[19] Became 115 Gds MRD 1992, and a VKhVT in 2002. |
| 68th Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District, Sary Ozek | Part of Military of Kazakhstan | Former 372nd Rifle Division |
| 69th "Sevskaya" Motor Rifle Division | 26th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District, Vologda | Reduced to storage base | 69th "Sevskaya" Rifle Division; became MR formation at Vologda. |
| 70th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Carpathian Military District, Ivano-Frankovsk | 1991 857 Military Equipment Storage Base | 70th Guards Rifle Division |
| 71st Motor Rifle Division | Semipalatinsk, Semipalatinsk Oblast, 1 AK/40th Army | Taken over by Kazakhstan 3.1992. | Formed 1984 from parts of 155 MRD. |
| 72nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District, Belaya Tserkov | Became Ukrainian 72nd Mechanised Division | 72nd Guards Rifle Division |
| 73rd Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District, Novoe | Disbanded 1989 | 73rd Rifle Division. Formed Novorossiysk 1957, to Far East 1968.[20] |
| 74th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Krasnoyarsk | Disbanded 1959 | Formed 1957. |
| 75th Motor Rifle Division | 7th Guards Army, Transcaucasian Military District, Nakhichevan | KGB control 1989-91, disbanded 1992 | 75th Rifle Division |
| 77th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 26th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District, Arkhangelsk | 1989, converted to coastal defence division, 1991 disbanded | 77th Guards Rifle Division, June 1957[21] |
| 78th Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Chebarkul | Converted to District Training Centre, then reduced to storage base | 417th Rifle Division |
| 79th Motor Rifle Division | 51st Army, Far Eastern Military District, Leonidovo | Disbanded 1994. | |
| 80th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District, Otar | Became part of Kazakh armed forces | 80th Guards Rifle Division (WW2). 90 Gds MRD 1957 (16 Gds MD); 1962 90 Gds Training MRD; 1965 80 Gds Training MRD. |
| 81st Guards Krasnograd Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Bikin | Reduced to brigade 2009 | 81st Guards Rifle Division, converted to MRD in Bucharest, 1957.[22] |
| 82nd Motor Rifle Division | 34th Army Corps, North Caucasus Military District, Volgograd | Storage Base 1990; upgraded to division 1992; Disbanded 1993 | Formed 1969 from 266 MRD cadres at Volgograd |
| 83rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army, Carpathian Military District, Rovno | Disbanded 1959 | 8th Guards Cavalry Division (10 Gds MD) |
| 84th Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army Corps, Turkestan Military District, Ashkabad | Became part of Turkmenistan's armed forces | Formed 1981 from 58 MRD cadre |
| 85th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Novosibirsk | Brigade 2009 | 85th MRD 1957 < to 1955 85th Rifle Division. Formed Novosibirsk 1957. |
| 86th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 14th Guards Army, Odessa Military District, Beltsy | 1.12.89 renamed 5381st Equipment Storage Base. | 86th Guards Rifle Division. Formed Beltsy 1957. |
| 88th Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army Corps, Turkestan Military District, Kushka | Became part of Turkmenistan's armed forces | Formed 1980 from elements of 5 GMRD |
| 91st Motor Rifle Division | 29th Army, Transbaikal Military District, Nizhneudinsk | 497 TTC 1987; VKhVT 1989. | Shevi-Gobi, Mongolia, 1979–87;[23] |
| 92nd Guards Training Motor Rifle Division | Odessa Military District, Nikolaev | Became Ukrainian 92nd District Training Centre | 92nd Guards Rifle Division. 34 Guards MRD 1957-60; 34 Guards Training MRD 1960-65. |
| 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Southern Group of Forces, Kecskemét, Hungary | Withdrawn to Ukraine, became part of Ukrainian Ground Forces | 93rd GRD |
| 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Schwerin | Withdrawn to Yurga, Siberian Military District, became 74th Motor Rifle Brigade | Formed Schwerin 1957 from 94th GRD. |
| 96th Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Kazan | Became storage base, later disbanded | 96th Rifle Division |
| 97th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army, Carpathian Military District, Slavuta | Became Ukrainian 97th Mechanized Brigade | 97th Guards Rifle Division |
| 99th Motor Rifle Division | 25th Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District, Anadyr | Reduced to 3840 Storage Base, 1990 or 1999, storage base disbanded, 2002 | Formed 1983-84[24] from 23 Ind MR Bde. |
| 100th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division | Transcaucasian Military District, Tbilisi | Became 171st District Training Centre in September 1987 | Disbanded June 1992. Holm/Feskov 2015 |
| 107th Motor Rifle Division | Baltic Military District, Vilnius | Became 18 MRB 1993 | Formed 1968 from cadres of 265th MRD |
| 108th Motor Rifle Division | 40th Army, Bagram, Afghanistan | Withdrawn to Termez, became part of Uzbek armed forces | 360th Rifle Division |
| 111th Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army, Leningrad Military District, Sortavala | Became 23rd Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment 1997 | 367th Rifle Division |
| 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Belorussian Military District, Minsk | Became Belarus 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade | 120th Guards Rifle Division, September 1943; |
| 121st Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Monastyrishche | Became District Training Centre | Formed 1970 |
| 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army, Transbaikal Military District, Dauriya | Machine-Gun Artillery Division 1989, Motor Rifle Division 2001; brigade 2009 | From 5th Guards Tank Corps, 29 June 1957[25] |
| 123rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Barabash | Became 129 Gds MG Artillery Division 1989; 17 Gds MRD 2001; brigade 2009.[26] | 17th Guards Rifle Division |
| 126th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army Corps, Odessa Military District, Simferopol | Became Ukrainian coastal defence formation | 126th Rifle Division. Formed 17 April 1957 in Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, as the 101st Motor Rifle Division, from the 28th Mechanised Division (Holm). |
| 127th Motor Rifle Division | Seventh Guards Army, Transcaucasian Military District, Leninakan | Became Russian 102nd Military Base | 261st Rifle Division |
| 128th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Carpathian Military District, Mukachevo | Now 128th Mechanized Brigade, part of Ukrainian Ground Forces | 128th Guards Mtn Rifle Division |
| 129th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District, Knyaz-Volkonka (ru:Князе-Волконское) | Became 392 District Training Centre 1 December 1987 | 39th Rifle Division |
| 131st Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army, Leningrad Military District, Pechenga | By 2005 had become 200th Motor Rifle Brigade[13] | 45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) |
| 134th Motor Rifle Division | Central Asian Military District, Dushanbe | Disbanded 1989 | Formed 1980 |
| 135th Motor Rifle Division | 15th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Lesozavodsk | Became Machine-Gun Artillery Division | Formed 1960 as mobilisation division at Lugansk, Kiev MD; became a line division 1968 and moved to Far East. |
| 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Baltic Military District, Tallinn | Withdrawn to Yelnya, Moscow Military District, reduced to storage base | 29th Guards Rifle Division |
| 145th Motor Rifle Division | 31st Army Corps, Transcaucasian Military District, Batumi | Became 12th Military Base | Soviet 89th "Tamanyan" Rifle Division |
| 147th Motor Rifle Division | 31st Army Corps, Transcaucasian Military District, Akhalkalaki | Became 62nd Military Base | |
| 150th Training Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District, Borzya | Became District Training Centre | |
| 155th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army, Turkestan Military District, Ust-Kamenogorsk | Became part of Kazakh Armed Forces 1992. Activated at Semipalatinsk 1970, to Ust-Kamenogorsk 1984[27] | |
| 157th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army Corps, Odessa Military District, Feodosiya | Reduced to territorial training centre and then to storage base | |
| 161st Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army, Carpathian Military District, Izyaslav | Became part of Ukrainian Ground Forces | 161st Rifle Division, briefly 24th Mech Div and 99th MRD until 1965. Later 161st Mechanised Brigade (Ukraine). |
| 164th Motor Rifle Division | 7th Guards Army, Transcaucasian Military District, Yerevan | Became part of Armenian armed forces | 164th Rifle Division, briefly 69th Mech Div and 121st MRD until November 1964 |
| 180th Motor Rifle Division | Odessa Military District, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky | Became Ukrainian 27th Mechanised Brigade after 1992 | 180th 'Kievskaya' Rifle Division, Second World War |
| 192nd Motor Rifle Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Blagoveshchensk | Reduced to Motor Rifle Brigade | |
| 197th Motor Rifle Division | Uryupinsk, Volgograd Oblast, North Caucasus Military District | 1987 reduced to territorial training centre, then road construction training brigade | Formed June 1966 |
| 198th Motor Rifle Division | 29th Army, Divizionnaya, Buryat ASSR | Disbanded 1992 | First formed 1979 |
| 199th Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Krasny Kut | Reduced to storage base 1989 | Formed 1970 |
| 201st Motor Rifle Division | 40th Army, Kunduz, Afghanistan | Dushanbe, Tajikistan | Formed 1960 as 124th MRD from an independent mountain rifle regiment, became 201 MRD 1965. |
| 203rd Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army, Turkestan Military District, Karaganda | Reduced to storage base, became part of Kazakh Armed Forces | 102nd Motor Rifle Division (1957-1965) |
| 207th Motor Rifle Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Stendal | Storage Base 1991, Disbanded 1992 | 207th Rifle Division, formed 1942 |
| 213th Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Totskoye | Merged with 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division 1991 | Formed 1968 |
| 242nd Motor Rifle Division | 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District, Abakan | Reduced to storage base 1989, disbanded 2009 | First Formed Abakan 1972. Reportedly disbanded June 1, 2009, with base area handed over to civilian officials.[28] |
| 245th Motor Rifle Division | 29th Army, Transbaikal Military District, Gusinoozyorsk | Storage Base 1997; Guards Motor Rifle Division 2001; disbanded 2005; reformed 2006 as storage base | First formed 1967 |
| 254th Motor Rifle Division | Southern Group of Forces, Székesfehérvár,Hungary | Withdrawn to Artemovsk, Ukraine, became Ukrainian Ground Forces mechanised division | 254th Rifle Division |
| 265th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District, Vozzhaevka | Reduced to storage base 1989, disbanded 1993 | 265th Rifle Division, 119 MRD 1957-January 1965. Moved from Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, in 1968, to Vozzhaevka (Belogorsk-15). |
| 266th Motor Rifle Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Raychikhinsk/Raichikhinsk | Reduced to storage base 1989, disbanded 1993 | 266th Rifle Division. 117 MRD 1957-February 1965. |
| 270th Motor Rifle Division | 15th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Komsomolsk-na-Amure | Storage Base 2010 | 270th Rifle Division |
| 272nd Motor Rifle Division | 43rd Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District, Babstovo | Became MG Artillery division 1989; Brigade 1993; MG Artillery division 1997; Brigade 2009 | 272nd Rifle Division |
| 277th Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Sergeyevka | Became 127th MG Artillery Division 1990; Brigade 2009 | 66th Rifle Division |
| 295th Motor Rifle Division | 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District, Baku (Baku-1?) | Became part of Azerbaijani Land Forces | Former 49th (295th to 1955) Rifle Division, 49th Motor Rifle Division 25 June 1957; 295th Motor Rifle Division (1965) |
- 65th Motor Rifle Division formed at Kungar, Perm Oblast, June 1957, disbanded January 1959.[29]
- 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Uruche
- 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Dauriya
- 123rd Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Barabash
- 126th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Simferopol
- 127th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Leninakan
- 128th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Mukachevo
- 134th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Dushanbe
- 145th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Batumi
- 147th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Akhalkalaki
- 180th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Belgorod-Dnestrovskyi
- 192nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Blagoveshchensk
- 203rd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Karaganda
- 207th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Stendal GSFG
- 213th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Totsk
- 157th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Feodosiya
- 161st Motor Rifle Division first formed at Izyaslav
- 219th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Zavitinsk
- 258th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Fevralsk
- 297th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Krasnoyarsk
Mobilisation divisions
| Division | Location, Status 1990 | Location, Status 2006 | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16th Motor Rifle Division (mobilisation) | 6th Army, Leningrad Military District, Petrozavodsk(Vilga) | Storage Base 1989; Disbanded 1993[30] | Formed 1968 [31] |
| 37th Motor Rifle Division | Chernaya Rechka, Leningrad Oblast, 30th Guards Army Corps, Leningrad Military District | Disbanded | Activated 1969, disbanded 1993.[32] |
| 49th Motor Rifle Division | Disbanded 1987 | Disbanded | Activated 1978 as mobilization division in 4th Army, Baku, disbanded 1987[33] |
| 65th Motor Rifle Division | Volga–Urals Military District, Perm | Disbanded | Activated 1967 as mobilization division, became 5078th VKhVT 1989, disbanded 1990[34] |
| 74th Motor Rifle Division | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1968 as mobilization division, Siberian MD, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, disbanded 1987[35] | |
| 83rd Motor Rifle Division | Disbanded 1989 | Activated 1972 as mobilization division, Turkestan Military District, Ashgabat, disbanded 1989 | |
| 84th Motor Rifle Division | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1968 as mobilization division, 28th Army, Grodno, disbanded 1987 | |
| 87th Motor Rifle Division (mobilisation) | 25th Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | Disbanded 1989 Formed 1968 from elements of 22 MRD | |
| 89th Motor Rifle Division | 13th Guards Army Corps, Tambov | Territorial Training Center 1987, Storage Base 1987, disbanded 1996 | activated 1966 as mobilization division[36] |
| 95th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Omsk (Stepnoy), Omsk Oblast | Tank storage base 1991, Disbanded 1997 | 1968-91 as mobilisation division, 1991-1997 as 6295th Central Tank Reserve Base[37] |
| 114th Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District,Samarkand | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1978 |
| 115th Motor Rifle Division | 26th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District, Ivanteevo | Storage Base 1989, disbanded 1993 | Activated 1968 |
| 118th Motor Rifle Division | 43rd Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District, Birobidzhan | Disbanded 1987 | Formed 1970 |
| 146th Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Yarmolyntsi | Territorial Training Center 1987, Storage Base 1989, absorbed 1991 by 6242nd VKhVT | Activated 1981 |
| 149th Motor Rifle Division | Moscow Military District, Klintsy | Territorial Training Center 1987, Storage Base 1987, disbanded 1993 | Activated 1979[38] |
| 152nd Motor Rifle Division | 31st Army Corps, Transcaucasian Military District, Kutaisi | Storage Base 1989, disbanded 1992 | Activated 1972 |
| 153rd Motor Rifle Division | Baltic Military District, Pabradė | Storage Base 1989, disbanded 1992 | Activated 1972 at Vilnius from 597th Motor Rifle Regiment of 107th Motor Rifle Division, moved to Pabradė 1981 |
| 156th Motor Rifle Division | 12th Army Corps, Novorossiysk | Territorial Training Center 1987, Storage Base 1989, Disbanded 1992 | Activated 1968 to replace 73rd Motor Rifle Division, which was transferred to the Far East |
| 163rd Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Belebey | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1975 |
| 166th Motor Rifle Division | Volga-Ural Military District, Alkino | Territorial Training Center 1987, disbanded 1989 | Activated 1978 |
| 167th Motor Rifle Division[39] | 33rd Army Corps, Biysk | Territorial Training Center 1987, Storage Base 1989, Disbanded 1992 | Activated 1978 |
| 194th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District, Svobodny, Amur Oblast | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1976 |
| 196th Motor Rifle Division | Moscow Military District, Kursk | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1978 |
| 208th Motor Rifle Division | 14th Guards Army, Beltsy, Moldavian SSR | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1980 |
| 218th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Kyzyl | Became VKhVT 1989, disbanded 1993 | Activated 1978 |
| 225th Motor Rifle Division | 13th Guards Army Corps, Mulino | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1978 |
| 227th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Svetly, Omsk | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1978 |
| 248th Motor Rifle Division | Volga-Ural Military District, Sarapul | Territorial Training Center 1987, disbanded 1989 | Activated 1978 |
| 249th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Volga Military District, Yoshkar-Ola | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 251st Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Carpathian Military District, Chernivtsi | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 252nd Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Odessa Military District, Nikolayev | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 253rd Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Transcaucasus Military District, Tbilisi | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 255th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Moscow Military District, Kursk | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 256th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Volga Military District, Orenburg | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 257th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Ural Military District, Chebarkul | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 258th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Belorussian Military District, Grodno | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 259th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | North Caucasus Military District, Grozny | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1979 |
| 260th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Volga-Ural Military District, Shadrinsk | Storage Base 1989, disbanded 1993 | Activated 1979 |
| 261st Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Volga Military District, Omsk | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1980 |
| 262nd Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Far Eastern Military District, Svobodny | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1981 |
| 263rd Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Far Eastern Military District, Knyaze-Volkonskoye | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1981 |
| 264th Motor Rifle Division (Reserve) | Far Eastern Military District, Ussuriysk | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1981 |
| 267th Motor Rifle Division | 7th Tank Army, Borisov | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1968 |
| 268th Motor Rifle Division | 12th Army Corps, Prokhladny | 1987 territorial training centre; storage base 1989, disbanded 1992 | Mobilisation division formed 1978 |
| 269th Motor Rifle Division | Central Asian Military District, Gvardeysky | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1978 |
| 271st Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District, Belogorsk | Storage Base 1989, disbanded 1992 | Activated 1978 |
| 274th Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Kryazh | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1970 |
| 275th Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army, Isyaslav | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1970 |
| 276th Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Uzhgorod | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1970 |
| 278th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District, Fevralsk | Disbanded 1987 | Activated 1981 |
- 132nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Chiornaya Rechka
- 250th Reserve Motor Rifle division
- 273rd Reserve Motor Rifle division
- 276th Reserve Motor Rifle division
- 279th Reserve Motor Rifle division
Tank Divisions
Earlier designations of 1989 units include the 27th Guards Tank Division (79 GTD), 33rd Gds TD (15 GTD), and 35th Gds (41st), 10th (1945-57 designation of 34th Tank Division), 15th (later 78th Tank Division.[40]
Tank divisions later reorganised as motor rifle divisions include the 2nd/32nd/66th, which finally became the 277th Motor Rifle Division, and the 61st/13th, which became the 13th Motor Rifle Division in 1957.
Divisions active 1946-59 include the 1st Guards Tank Division (1945–47), 3rd, and the 111th/16th, redesignated as the 16th in 1955 and disbanded in 1957. Heavy tank divisions active 1957-60 include the 5th,[41] and the 17th (1956–60). Divisions active 1945-47 include the 5th (ex 5th Tank Corps), the 11th Tank Division (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast), the 18th (1945–47, Gaysin), and the 19th (Ploesti, Romania, and Odessa).
| Division | Location, Status 1990 | Location, Status 2006 | Origins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Tank Division | 11th Guards Army, Kaliningrad, Baltic MD | Reduced to Tank Brigade 1993; Storage Base 1998, disbanded 2008 | 1st Tank Corps |
| 2nd Guards Tank Division | 39th Army, Mongolia | Withdrawn to Siberia; Reduced to storage base 2001 and disbanded 2005 | 2nd Tatsinskaya Guards Tank Corps |
| 3rd Guards Tank Division | 7th Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Zaslonovo | Reduced to storage base, disbanded 1989[42] | 3rd Guards Tank Corps |
| 3rd Tank Division | 25th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Pokrovka | Became 46th Tank Division 1957. | Formed 14 April 1946 from 300th Rifle Division. Disbanded by redesignation 30 April 1957 as 46th Tank Division.[43] |
| 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division | Moscow Military District, Naro-Fominsk | Became brigade 2009-2013 | 4th Guards Tank Corps |
| 5th Guards Tank Division | Transbaikal Military District, Kyakhta | Now part of Siberian Military District; became motor rifle brigade 2009 | 5th Guards Cavalry Corps |
| 6th Guards Tank Division | 28th Army, Belorussian Military District, Grodno | Reorganised as mechanised brigade, became part of the Armed Forces of Belarus | 6th Guards Tank Corps |
| 7th Guards Tank Division | 3rd Shock Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Dessau–Rosslau | Reduced to storage base 1990, became part of Armed Forces of Ukraine | 7th Guards Tank Corps |
| 8th Guards Tank Division | 5th Guards Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Pukhovichi(?) | Reduced to storage base 1990, became part of Armed Forces of Belarus | 8th Guards Tank Corps |
| 9th Tank Division | 1st Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Riesa/Zeithain | Withdrawn to Smolensk, Disbanded in 1992 | 9th Tank Corps |
| 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division(Volunteers) | 3rd Red Banner Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Altengrabow | Withdrawn to Boguchar, Moscow MD; Storage Base 2009; Brigade 2015 | 10th Guards Tank Corps |
| 11th Guards Tank Division | 1st Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Dresden | Withdrawn to Slonim, Belarus, became an Armed Forces of Belarus mechanised brigade | 11th Guards Tank Corps |
| 12th Guards Tank Division | 3rd Shock Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Neuruppin | Disbanded at Vladikavkaz in 1991 | 12th Guards Tank Corps |
| 13th Guards Tank Division | Southern Group of Forces, Veszprém, Hungary | Disbanded in 1989 | 13th Guards Rifle Division |
| 14th Tank Division | North Caucasian MD, Novocherkassk | Became 100th Division of Operational Designation of MVD 1 October 1989;[44] Brigade 2007[45] | Formed 1974 |
| 15th Guards Tank Division | Central Group of Forces, Milovice, Czechoslovakia | Disbanded at Chebarkul, Volga-Ural Military District, 1990[46] | 15th Guards Cavalry Division |
| 16th Guards Tank Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Neustrelitz | Withdrawn to Chaykovsky, Volga-Ural MD, reduced to storage base | 9th Guard Tank Corps |
| 17th Guards Tank Division | 6th Guards Tank Army, Kiev Military District, Krivoy Rog | Became Ukrainian 17th Guards Tank Brigade | 20th Guards Rifle Division 1945 |
| 19th Guards Tank Division | Southern Group of Forces, Hungary, Esztergom | Withdrawn to Belarus, reduced to storage base | 2nd Guards Mechanised Corps |
| 20th Zvenigorodskaya Tank Division | Northern Group of Forces, Żagań, Poland | Disbanded in 1991 | 20th Tank Corps |
| 21st Guards Tank Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Belogorsk | probably disbanded 2009; one regiment became brigade | 31st Guards Rifle Division |
| 22nd Guards Tank Division | 6th Guards Tank Army, Kiev Military District, Cherkaske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast | Disbanded 1990 to make room for the 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 7th Guards Airborne Division became 115th Guards Rifle Division 1945 (Feskov et al 2013) |
| 23rd Tank Division | 8th Tank Army, Carpathian Military District, Ovruch | Reduced to storage base, became part of Ukrainian armed forces | 23rd Tank Corps |
| 24th Tank Division | Baltic MD, Dobele | Withdrawn to Strugi Krasne, Leningrad MD, as Motor Rifle Brigade | Formed 1957 |
| 25th Tank Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Vogelsang | Disbanded 1989 | 25th Tank Corps |
| 26th Guards Training Tank Division | Moscow Military District, Kovrov | 26 GTTD Dec 1979; 467th Guards District Training Centre 14 September 1987[47] | 53rd Guards 'Tartus' Red Banner Rifle Division |
| 27th Tank Division | Far Eastern Military District, Zavitinsk | Reduced to storage base | Formed 1969[48] |
| 28th Tank Division | 28th Army, Belarus Military District, Slonim | Reduced to equipment base, became part of Belarus armed forces | 8th Mechanised Corps |
| 29th Tank Division | 5th Guards Tank Army, Belarus Military District, Slutsk | Reduced to storage base | 29th Tank Corps |
| 30th Guards Tank Division | 8th Tank Army, Carpathian Military District, Novograd-Volinsky | Now 30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) | 13th Guards Cavalry Division |
| 31st Tank Division | 28th Army Corps, Central Group of Forces, Bruntál | Withdrawn to Moscow MD, amalgamated with another division | 31st Tank Corps |
| 32nd Guards Tank Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Jüterbog | Disbanded 1989 | 116th Guards Rifle Division |
| 34th Tank Division | 7th Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Borisov | Reduced to storage base, became part of Belarus armed forces | 10th Tank Corps |
| 37th Tank Division | 7th Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Polotsk | Reduced to storage base, became part of Belarus armed forces | |
| 40th Guards Tank Division | 11th Guards Army, Baltic Military District, Sovetsk | Reduced to tank brigade, then storage base | |
| 41st Guards Tank Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District, Uman | Reduced to storage base, became part of Ukrainian armed forces | 41st Guards Rifle Division |
| 42nd Guards Tank Division | 6th Guards Tank Army, Kiev Military District, Dnepropetrovsk | Reduced to storage base, became part of Ukrainian armed forces | 42nd Guards Rifle Division |
| 44th Tank Training Division | Ural Military District, Kamyshin | Reorganised as district training centre | 279th Rifle Division |
| 45th Guards Tank Training Division (I) | Belorussian Military District | Disbanded 1960 | 69th Guards Rifle Division |
| 45th Guards Tank Division (II) | Belorussian Military District, Pechi | Reorganised as 72nd Guards Training Centre, became part of Belarus armed forces | 6th Guards Rifle Division |
| 47th Guards Tank Division | 1st Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Hillersleben | Withdrawn to Moscow Military District, amalgamated | 47th Guards Rifle Division |
| 48th Guards Tank Division | Desna, Kiev Military District | Became 169th District Training Centre, Ukrainian Ground Forces | 5th Guards Airborne Division |
| 49th Tank Division | Transbaikal Military District, Chita | Became 212th District Training Center | Formed 1967 as 243rd MRD (mobilisation); 1969 became 49th Tank Training Division[49] |
| 50th Tank Division | 8th Tank Army, Carpathian Military District, Zhitomir | Reduced to storage base 1989, disbanded 1990 | Mobilization unit activated 1969[48] |
| 51st Tank Division | 39th Army, Bogandur, Mongolia | Withdrawn and disbanded 1989 | Formed 1968 |
| 52nd Tank Division | 6th Guards Tank Army, Kiev Military District, Zhdanovka | Territorial training center 1987, Storage base 1989, disbanded 1991 | Mobilization unit formed 1969[48] |
| 56th Tank Division (Reserve) | Far Eastern Military District, Zavitinsk | Disbanded 1989 | Mobilization unit activated 1971[48] |
| 57th Tank Division (Reserve) | Far Eastern Military District, Blagoveshchensk | Disbanded 1989 | Mobilization unit activated 1971 |
| 60th Tank Division | Dzerzhinsk, 13th Guards Army Corps, Moscow Military District | Disbanded 1990 as storage base | Formed from 60th Rifle Division as 43rd Tank Div 1957, 60th Tank Div 1965.[50] Become 5409 VKhVT 1989, disbanded 1990. |
| 61st Tank Division (Reserve) | Ural Military District, Sverdlovsk | Disbanded 1989 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 62nd Tank Division (Reserve) | Carpathian Military District, Berdichev | Disbanded 1989 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 63rd Tank Division (Reserve) | Ural Military District, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, | Disbanded 1989 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 64th Tank Division (Reserve) | Kiev Military District, Chuguyev | Storage Base 1989; disbanded 1991 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 65th Tank Division (Reserve) | Moscow Military District, Ryazan | Disbanded 1989 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 67th Tank Division
(Reserve) |
Siberian Military District, Novosibirsk | Disbanded 1993 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 68th Tank Division (Reserve) | Siberian Military District; Biysk | Disbanded 1993 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 69th Tank Division | Turkestan Military District, Ust-Kamenogorsk | Storage Base 1989; Disbanded 1992 | Mobilization unit activated 1972 |
| 75th Guards Tank Division | Kiev Military District, Chuguyev | Storage base 1989; Disbanded 1990 | 75th Guards Rifle Division, 1965(?) |
| 76th Tank Division | Belorussian Military District, Brest, 28th Army | Reduced to storage base, 1989 | Created 31 October 1968 as a mobilisation division (parent division 50 Gds MRD). 1 February 1987 became 514th Territorial Training Centre, 1 October 1989 became 5356 VKhVT, taken over by Belarus 1993.[51] |
| 77th Tank Division | Lyalichi, Primorskiy Krai, 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District | Reduced to storage base, 1989 | Created as 119th Motor Rifle Division (mobilisation), 1976, converted to tank division (mobilisation) 20 January 1982, became 1008th Territorial Training Centre on 1 December 1987, became 5510 VKhVT 1 October 1989, disbanded 1993.[52] |
| 78th Tank Division | Ayaguz, Turkestan Military District | Became part of Kazakh armed forces | 78th Rifle Division |
| 79th Guards Tank Division | 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Jena | Disbanded 1992 | 79th Guards Rifle Division |
| 90th Guards Tank Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Bernau | Withdrawn to Soviet Union; Storage Base 1997; disbanded 2005 | 6th Guards Mechanised Corps |
| 117th Guards Tank Division | Carpathian Military District, Berdychiv | Became 119th District Training Centre of the Ukrainian Ground Forces | 111th Guards Rifle Division |
| 193rd Tank Division | Belorussian Military District | Reduced to storage base | 193rd Rifle Division, 36th Tank Div 1957-1965. |
Mobilisation tank divisions included the 69th (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and the 70th-74th Reserve ("Spare") Tank Divisions.
Artillery Divisions
- 2nd Guards Artillery Division, Pushkin, Leningrad Military District, disbanded 1993
- 3rd Guards Artillery Division, Pushkin, Leningrad Military District (Feskov, 58)
- 4th Guards Training Artillery Division/468th District Training Centre, Mulino, Moscow Military District
- 12th Artillery Division, Шелехов/Shelekhov, Transbaikal Military District
- 15th Guards Artillery Division, Красная Речка (Khabarovsk), Far East Military District
- 20th Training Artillery Division, Mulino, Moscow Military District, 468th District Training Center 1987, disbanded 1994
- 26th Artillery Division, Ternopol, Carpathian Military District (66th Artillery Corps)
- 34th Guards Artillery Division, Potsdam, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (formed 25 June 1945 to July 9, 1945 in Germany)
- 51st Guards Artillery Division, Osipovichi, Belarussian Military District (Feskov et al. 2004, 53.)
- 55th Artillery Division, Zaporozhia, Odessa Military District (Feskov, 57)
- 81st Artillery Division, Виноградов/Vinogradov, Carpathian Military District (66th Artillery Corps)
- 110th Guards Artillery Division, Buinaksk, North Caucasus Military District
- 149th Artillery Division, Kaliningrad, Baltic Military District [53]
Divisions of the Airborne Forces
- 7th Guards Cherkassy Airborne Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
- 76th Guards Chernigov Airborne Division (Pskov, RSFSR)
- 98th Guards Svir Airborne Division (Bolgrad & Kishinev, Moldovan SSR)
- 103rd Guards Airborne Division (Vitebsk, Belorussian SSR)
- 104th Guards Airborne Division (Kirovabad, Azerbaijan SSR)
- 105th Guards Vienna Airborne Division (disbanded c.1979)
- 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division (Tula, RSFSR)
- 242nd District Training Centre of the Airborne Forces (Gaižiūnai/Jonava, Lithuanian SSR) created from the 44th Training Airborne Division, 1987.
Divisions Disbanded 1945–89
- Disbanded 1958(?)← 1957 7th MRD<-7th Mech Div <-1946/55← 7th Mech Corps
- 343 (55) Rifle Division 1946–55, 136 MRD 1957, disbanded 1958
- Disbanded 1958←137 MRD 1957 ←345 (57) RD 1946–55
- Disbanded 1959←138 MRD 1957 ←358 (59) RD 1946–55
- Disbanded 1960←139 MRD 1957 ←349 (60) RD 1946–55
- Disbanded 1959←140 MRD 1957 ←374 (70) RD 1946–55
- Disbanded 1958←142 Mtn RD 1957 ←376 (72) RD 1955
- Disbanded 1960←143 Gds MRD 1957←72G Mech Div 1946(1955) ←110 GRD
- Disbanded 1958<144 MRD 1957<97 RD 1946 (1955)
Notes
- ↑ Michael Holm, The Soviet Readiness System
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "4th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "6th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, 8th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (II)
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "13th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, p. 205
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, p. 165
- ↑ 16th Guards Karachevskaya Lenin Red Banner Suvorov MRD, accessed March 2015.
- ↑ Michael Holm, 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2015.
- ↑ Michael Holm, 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2015. Feskov et al. 2004 said located at Shamkor.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "31st Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "29th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- 1 2 Robinson, Colin (2005). "The Russian Ground Forces: A Structural Status Examination". Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Philadelphia, PA: Taylor & Francis, Inc.) 18 (2): 196. doi:10.1080/13518040590944421. ISSN 1351-8046.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, 162.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "48th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "62nd Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/64gvmsd.htm
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "56th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "67th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, 73rd Motorised Rifle Division
- ↑ http://specnaz.pbworks.com/w/page/17658020/77-обрмп and Michael Holm.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ↑ Michael Holm 91st Motorised Rifle Division, and Feskov et al 2013.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, 596.
- ↑ Michael Holm, 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "123rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ↑ Holm/Feskov 2015, 155th Motor Rifle Division
- ↑ "В Абакане будет ликвидирована воинская часть". www.newslab.ru. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "65th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "16th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2014
- ↑ Michael Holm, 37th Motor Rifle Division, and "Вооруженные Силы СССР после Второй мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)" by V.I. Feskov, V.I. Golikov, K.A. Kalashnikov and S.A. Slugin, Tomsk 2014, 640 pages. The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces).
- ↑ "49th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "65th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ "74th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "89th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "95th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "149th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
- ↑ See also http://www.soldat.ru/forum/?gb=3&id=35468 (Russian)
- ↑ Holm 2015
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "5th Heavy Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "3rd Guards Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "3rd Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/VD3462/mvd6691/troops/vv.htm
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "100th Motorised Division for Special Use VV MVD SSSR". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "15th Guards Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Holm. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "53rd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- 1 2 3 4 Feskov et al 2013, p. 203
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "49th Training Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "60th Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
- ↑ Holm, 76th Tank Division, 2015.
- ↑ Holm, 77th Tank Division, 2015.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, p. 443
References
- V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004
- Note: this source has significant inaccuracies, as some other information from it has been shown to be incorrect. Alternate information is welcome!
Further reading
- V.I. Feskov, Golikov V.I., K.A. Kalashnikov, and S.A. Slugin, The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces). (В.И. Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)) Томск, 2013. Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected.
See also
External links
- http://www.soldat.ru/force/sssr/sp/division/through.html – expanded list of divisions from updated sources (Russian)
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