List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–91

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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, 53 Gds MRD, 1965 - 5 гв.мсд
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 32 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. Became 15th MRD 1965.(Holm/Feskov 2015)
16th Guards Motor Rifle Division Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Baltic Military District 1957-1960 16th Guards Rifle Division[6]
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.[7]
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).[8]
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[9] 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.[10]
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 Became 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 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[11]
48th Motor Rifle Division Central Group of Forces, Vysoké Mýto, Czechoslovakia Withdrawn to Chuguev, under KGB control, later disbanded 48th Rifle Division,[12] 118 MRD 1957-November 1964.
50th Guards Motor Rifle Division Belorussian Military District, Brest Part of Armed Forces of Belarus 50th Guards Rifle Division
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
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
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 Now 8th Motor Rifle Brigade 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.[13]
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,[14] 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[15] 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.[16] Became 115 Gds MRD 1992, and a VKhVT in 2002.
68th Guards Motor Rifle Division[17] 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.[18]
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[19]
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. 79th Rifle Division
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 No change 81st Guards Rifle Division, converted to MRD in Bucharest, 1957.[20]
82nd Motor Rifle Division 34th Army Corps, North Caucasus Military District, Volgograd Disbanded after 1989 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 No change 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;[21]
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 Scherin 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[22] 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 No change? From 5th Guards Tank Corps, 29 June 1957[23]
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. (Holm 2015) 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 Became 200th Motor Rifle Brigade 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[24]
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 TTC, 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
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 armd forces 102nd Motor Rifle Division (1957-1965)
207th Motor Rifle Division 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Stendal Disbanded 1992 207th Rifle Division, formed 1942
213th Motor Rifle Division Volga Military District, Totsk Disbanded
242nd Motor Rifle Division 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District, Abakan Reduced to storage base First Formed Abakan 1972. Reportedly disbanded June 1, 2009, with base area handed over to civilian officials.[25]
245th Motor Rifle Division 29th Army, Transbaikal Military District, Gusinoozyorsk No change 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 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 266th Rifle Division. 117 MRD 1957-February 1965.
270th Motor Rifle Division 15th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Komsomolsk-na-Amure No change 270th Rifle Division
272nd Motor Rifle Division 43rd Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District, Babstovo Became MG Artillery division 272nd Rifle Division
277th Motor Rifle Division 5th Army, Far East MD, Sergevka Became 127th MG Artillery Division 66th Rifle Division
295th Motor Rifle Division 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District, Baku (Baku-1?) Became part of Azerbaijani Land Forces Former 49th Rifle Division, 49 MRD 25 JUne 1957; 295 MRD (1964-5?)
  • 65th Motor Rifle Division formed at Kungar, Perm Oblast, June 1957, disbanded January 1959.[26]
  • 111th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Sortavala
  • 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
  • 164th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Yerevan
  • 219th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Zavitinsk
  • Motor Rifle Division first formed at Abakan
  • 245th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Gusinoozersk
  • 254th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Székesfehérvár SGF
  • 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) Formed 1968, disbanded 1993. (Feskov et al. 2014)
37th Motor Rifle Division Chernaya Rechka, Leningrad Oblast, 30th Guards Army Corps, Leningrad Military District Disbanded Activated 1969, disbanded 1993.[27]
49th Motor Rifle Division Disbanded 1987 Disbanded Activated 1978 as mobilization division in 4th Army, Baku, disbanded 1987[28]
65th Motor Rifle Division Volga–Urals Military District, Perm Disbanded Activated 1967 as mobilization division, became 5078th VKhVT 1989, disbanded 1990[29]
74th Motor Rifle Division Disbanded 1987 Activated 1968 as mobilization division, Siberian MD, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, disbanded 1987[30]
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 Storage base 1987, disbanded 1996 activated 1966 as mobilization division, 13th Guards Army Corps, Tambov, became 1042nd Territorial Training Centre then 5347th VKhVT 1987, disbanded 1996[31]
95th Reserve Motor Rifle division Omsk (Stepnoy), Omsk Oblast Disbanded 1997 1968-91 as mobilisation division, 1991-1997 as 6295 Central Tank Reserve Base[32]
114th Motor Rifle Division Samarkand
115th Motor Rifle Division Leningrad Military District, Ivanteevo Activated 1968
118th Motor Rifle Division 43rd Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District, Birobidzhan Formed 1969
146th Motor Rifle Division Leningrad Military District, Chernaya Rechka Reduced to storage base
149th Motor Rifle Division 39th Army, Mongolia Withdrawn to Borzya, became Motor Rifle Brigade
152nd Motor Rifle Division Transcaucasian Military District, Kutaisi Disbanded 1991
153rd Motor Rifle Division
167th Motor Rifle Division[33] Biysk
194th Motor Rifle Division Far Eastern Military District, Svobodny, Amur Oblast Disbanded 1987
196th Motor Rifle Division Kursk
218th Motor Rifle Division Siberian Military District, Kyzyl Became VKhVT 1989 disbanded 1993
262nd Motor Rifle Division 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District, Vozhaevka Later disbanded
268th Motor Rifle Division Prokhladny 1987 became a territorial training centre? Mobilisation division formed 1978
  • 132nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Chiornaya Rechka
  • 146th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Yarmolintsy
  • 149th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Erdenet
  • 156th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Novorossisk
  • 163rd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Sarapul
  • 166th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Belebey
  • 167th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Biysk
  • 218th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Kyzyl
  • 225th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Mulino[34]
  • 227th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 249th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 250th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 251st Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 252nd Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 253rd Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 255th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 256th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 257th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 259th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 260th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 261st Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 263rd Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 264th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 267th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 269th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 271st Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 273rd Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 274th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 275th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 276th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 278th Reserve Motor Rifle division
  • 279th Reserve Motor Rifle division

Tank Divisions

A tank division, additional to those listed below, identified by Feskov et al 2013 and Holm 2015 (http://www.ww2.dk/new) is the 22nd Guards Tank Division (1957–90, Novomoskovsk, formed from the 115th Guards Rifle Division).

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.[35]

Tank divisions later reorganised as motor rifle divisions include the 2nd/32nd/66th, which finally became the 277th Motor Rifle Division, the 61st/13th, which became the 13th Motor Rifle Division in 1957.

Divisions active 1946-59 include the 3rd (ex 300th Rifle Division), and the 111th/16th, redesignated as the 16th in 1955 and disbanded in 1957. Heavy tank divisions active 1957-60 include the 5th,[36] 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 1st Tank Corps
2nd Guards Tank Division 39th Army, Mongolia Withdrawn to Siberia 2nd Tatsinskaya Guards Tank Corps
3rd Guards Tank Division 7th Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Zaslonovo Reduced to storage base, became part of Armed Forces of Belarus 3rd Guards Tank Corps
4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division Moscow Military District, Naro-Fominsk No change 4th Guards Tank Corps
5th Guards Tank Division Transbaikal Military District, Kyakhta Now part of Siberian Military District
6th Guards Tank Division 28th Army, Belorussian Military District, Grodno Reorganised as mechanised brigade, became part of the Armed Forces of Belarus
7th Guards Tank Division 3rd Shock Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Dessau–Rosslau Disbanded 1990 7th Guards Tank Corps
8th Guards Tank Division 5th Guards Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Pukhovichi(?) Reduced to storage base, 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 Disbanded in 1991 (вч пп 60990 позывной-Стрелка выведена в Смоленск) 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 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[37] Formed 1974
15th Guards Tank Division Central Group of Forces, Milovice, Czechoslovakia Disbanded at Chebarkul, Volga-Ural MD, 1990 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 No change 31st Guards Rifle Division
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
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[38] 53rd Guards 'Tartus' Red Banner Rifle Division
27th Tank Division Far Eastern Military District, Zavitinsk Reduced to storage base
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 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 Dist Trng Centre Formed 1967 as 243 MRD (mobilisation); 1969 became 49 Tank Training Division (Holm 2015)
51st Tank Division 39th Army, Bogandur, Mongolia Withdrawn, reduced to storage base Formed 1968
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.[39] Become 5409 VKhVT 1989, disbanded 1990.
65th Tank Division Moscow Military District, Ryazan? 'Spare' division (cadre?)
67th Tank Division Siberian Military District 'Spare' division (cadre?) Reduced to storage base, post 1989
68th Tank Division Siberian Military District 'Spare' division (cadre?) Reduced to storage base, post 1989
75th Guards Tank Division Kiev Military District, Chuguyev Disbanded 1990 as VKhVT 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.[40]
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.[41]
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 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

Divisions of the Airborne Forces

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

  1. ↑ Michael Holm, The Soviet Readiness System
  2. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/4gvmsd.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/6gvmsd.htm
  4. ↑ Holm, 8th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (II)
  5. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/13msd.htm
  6. ↑ 16th Guards Karachevskaya Lenin Red Banner Suvorov MRD, accessed March 2015.
  7. ↑ Michael Holm, 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2015.
  8. ↑ Michael Holm, 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2015. Feskov et al. 2004 said located at Shamkor.
  9. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/31gvmsd.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/29msd.htm
  11. ↑ FEskov et al 2013, 162.
  12. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/48msd.htm
  13. ↑ Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/62msd.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/64gvmsd.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/56msd.htm
  16. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/67msd.htm
  17. ↑ See also http://www.soldat.ru/forum/?gb=3&id=54651
  18. ↑ Holm, 73rd Motorised Rifle Division
  19. ↑ http://specnaz.pbworks.com/w/page/17658020/77-обрмп and Michael Holm.
  20. ↑ Michael Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/81gvmsd.htm
  21. ↑ Michael Holm 91st Motorised Rifle Division, and Feskov et al 2013.
  22. ↑ Feskov et al 2013, 596.
  23. ↑ Michael Holm, 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
  24. ↑ Holm/Feskov 2015, 155th Motor Rifle Division
  25. ↑ http://www.newslab.ru/news/280293
  26. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/65msd.htm
  27. ↑ 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).
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  32. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/95msd.htm
  33. ↑ See also http://www.soldat.ru/forum/?gb=3&id=35468 (Russian)
  34. ↑ There are two settlements named Mulino in this oblast; it is not clear which the division was located in.
  35. ↑ Holm 2015
  36. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/td/5ttd.htm
  37. ↑ http://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/VD3462/mvd6691/troops/vv.htm
  38. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/53gvmsd.htm
  39. ↑ http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/td/60td.htm
  40. ↑ Holm, 76th Tank Division, 2015.
  41. ↑ Holm, 77th Tank Division, 2015.

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.[1] Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected.

See also

External links

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