List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–91
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Motor Rifle Divisions
Division | Location, Status 1990 | Location, Status 2006 | Origin |
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1st Guards "Moscow-Minsk" Motor Rifle Division | 11th Guards Army, Kaliningrad, Baltic MD Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... |
Now Motor Rifle Brigade | 1st Guards Rifle Division (second formation) |
2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle 'Tamanskaya' Order of October Revolution, Red Banner,, Order of Suvorov Division named after M.I. Kalinin, also known as the Tamanskaya Division, Taman Division and Taman Guards The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle 'Tamanskaya' Order of October Revolution, Red Banner,, Order of... |
Alabino, Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... |
No change | 2nd Guards Rifle Division |
3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division 3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division The 3rd Volnovaskyi Guards Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Army from 1957 to around 1992. It traced its history from the highly decorated 3rd Guards Rifle Division of World War II... |
Coastal defence division, Baltic Fleet Baltic Fleet The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - is the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea. In previous historical periods, it has been part of the navy of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union. The Fleet gained the 'Twice Red Banner' appellation during the Soviet period, indicating two awards of... , Klaipėda Klaipeda Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Nemunas River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County.... |
Disbanded | 3rd Guards Rifle Division, to MRD 1957 |
4th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Termez Termez Termez is a city in southern Uzbekistan near the border with Afghanistan.Some link the name of the city to thermos, "hot" in Greek, tracing its name back to Alexander the Great. Others suggest that it came from Sanskrit taramato, meaning "on the river bank". It is the hottest point of Uzbekistan... |
Disbanded 1989 | 4 Guards Mech Corps (WW2), КВО, then 4 Guards Mech Div, then 63 гв.мсд, 4 Gds MRD 1965. |
5th Guards Motor Rifle Division 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 5th Guards Zimovnikovskaya order Kutuzov II degree Motor Rifle Division , named on the 60th anniversary of the USSR, was a military formation of the Soviet Ground Forces. It traces back to the 6th Mechanised Corps created in 1940, and destroyed in 1941 in the beginning of Operation Barbarossa... |
40th Army 40th Army (Soviet Union) The 40th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1945 and then again from 1979 to circa 1990.It was first formed, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had commenced, from elements of the 26th and 37th Armies under the command... , Shindand, Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world... , 1989 |
Withdrawn back to base 1957-79, and 1989–91, Kushka Kushka Kushka may refer to:*Serhetabat, Turkmenistan*Kushka, Balkh, Afghanistan... |
5th Guards Mechanized Corps, 53 гв.мсд, 1965 - 5 гв.мсд |
6th Guards "Vitebsko-Novgorodskaya" Motor Rifle Division | Northern Group of Forces Northern Group of Forces The Northern Group of Forces was the military formation of the Soviet Army stationed in Poland from the end of Second World War in 1945 until 1993 when they were withdrawn in the aftermath of the fall of Soviet Union... , Borne Sulinowo Borne Sulinowo Borne Sulinowo is a town in Poland's Western Pomeranian Voivodship, in the Powiat of Szczecinek. It is a capital of a separate gmina and home to 4149 inhabitants... , Poland |
Now storage base, Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... |
90th Guards Rifle Division 90th Guards Rifle Division The 90th Guards Rifle Division was a Soviet infantry division of the Second World War.The division traces its history back to 8 September 1941 when the 325th Rifle Division was formed in the Orel Military District... (WW2) |
7th Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... |
Disbanded 1958 | 7th Mechanized Corps Mechanized Corps (Soviet) A mechanised corps was a Soviet armoured formation used prior to the beginning of World War II.- Pre-war development of Soviet mechanised forces :... , World War II |
8th Guards Panfilovtsy Panfilovtsy Not to be confused with the Panfilovtsy in general.The Panfilov Division's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen , commonly referred to simply as Panfilov's Men , were a group of soldiers from the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division that took part in the defense of Moscow during the Great Patriotic War... Motor Rifle Division |
17th Army Corps, Frunze Bishkek Bishkek , formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan.Bishkek is also the administrative centre of Chuy Province which surrounds the city, even though the city itself is not part of the province but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.The name is thought to... , Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... |
Part of Kyrgyz armed forces | 316th Rifle Division->8th Guards Rifle Division 8th Guards Rifle Division The 8th Guards Panfilov Division originally the 316th Rifle Division, is a motorized infantry division of the Military of Kyrgyzstan,... |
9th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... |
Disbanded (расформирована) | 9th Guards Mechanised Corps |
9th Motor Rifle Division | 12th Army Corps, Maykop Maykop Maykop is the capital city of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located on the right bank of the Belaya River . Population: -History:... , North Caucasus Military District North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.... |
Now 131st MR Bde, Maykop Maykop Maykop is the capital city of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located on the right bank of the Belaya River . Population: -History:... |
9th Infantry Division 9th Infantry Division (Soviet Union) The 9th Kursk Infantry Division was created on the 20 July 1918 as one of the first divisions of the Soviet Union during the Russian Civil War. The division was stationed in the Caucasus region, later the Transcaucasian Military District and soon renamed 9th Infantry, and later 9th Rifle division... |
10th Guards Motor Rifle Division 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Ground Forces. The full name of its predecessor division was the "10th Guards Rifle Pechengskii twice Red Banner, Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Red Star division"... |
31st Army Corps, TCMD Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Akhaltsikhe Akhaltsikhe Akhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as "new fortress".- History... , Georgia |
Part of Military of Georgia Military of Georgia The Georgian Armed Forces , is the name of the unified armed forces of Georgia. The Georgian military is a defence force consisting of the Georgian Land Forces, Georgian Air Force and a paramilitary organization Georgian National Guard... |
10th Guards Rifle Division |
11th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... (Bezreche?) |
Now storage base | 7th Guards Mech Corps (WW2) |
12th Motor Rifle Division | 39th Army, Mongolia | Converted to storage base, Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga... |
12th Amurskaya Rifle Division 12th Amurskaya Rifle Division The 12th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army which participated in combat operations during World War II. It was formed 5 October 1923 in Omsk . On 18 February 1924, it was given the name of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee. It was part of the Western Siberian Military... |
13th Motor Rifle Division | 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... , Biysk |
Storage base, Biysk Biysk Biysk is a city in Altai Krai, Russia. It is the second largest city of the krai . Population: -Geography:Biysk is situated in southwestern Siberia, on the Biya River . The city is called "the gates to the Altai Mountains", because of its position comparatively not far from this range... |
Newly formed 1960 |
15th Motor Rifle Division | Seventh Guards Army, Kirovakan Vanadzor -Industry:Vanadzor is dominated by large chemical plants which include: "Prometey-Khimprom", "Vanadzor Chemical Plant", "Vanadzor Khimprom" and "Vanadzor Chemical Fiber Plant". Another big enterprise is the "Vanadzor Thermal Power Plant.... , Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... |
Part of Armenian armed forces | 15th Rifle Division 15th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 15th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army formed by renaming the Red Army's Inzensk Revolutionary Division on 30 April 1919... |
16th Motor Rifle Division | Baltic Military District Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... , Latvia |
Disbanded 1991 | 16th Guards Rifle Division |
17th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army 13th Army (Soviet Union) The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War... , Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... |
Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... |
40th Guards Rifle Division, World War II |
18th Guards Motor Rifle Division 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as 133rd Rifle Division at Novosibirsk or Biysk in 1939. It was redesignated as the 18th Guards Rifle Division in March 1942 with the 51, 53, 58 Guards Rifle Regiments and 52 Guards Artillery Regiment. The division fought in the East... |
Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, on the left bank of the Jizera river about 50 km northeast of Prague.Founded in the second half of the 10th century by King Boleslav II as a royal castle... CGF Central Group of Forces The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.... , Czechoslovakia |
Baltic Fleet Baltic Fleet The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - is the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea. In previous historical periods, it has been part of the navy of Imperial Russia and later the Soviet Union. The Fleet gained the 'Twice Red Banner' appellation during the Soviet period, indicating two awards of... Ground Forces, Kaliningrad |
18th Guards Rifle Division |
19th Motor Rifle Division 19th Motor Rifle Division The 19th Motor Rifle Division appears to have been formed originally in July 1922 at Tambov in the Moscow Military District as a territorial formation. In 1923 it was awarded the 'Tambov' placename and renamed the 19th Voronezh Rifle Division.... |
42nd Army Corps, North Caucasus Military District North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.... , Vladikavkaz Vladikavkaz -Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:... |
No change | 19th MRD 1965 ← 92nd MRD 1957 <- 19th Rifle Division |
20th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Tank Army, Grimma Grimma Grimma is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany on the left bank of the Mulde, southeast of Leipzig. Founded in c. 1170, it is part of the Leipzig district.- Location :... , Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , |
Withdrawn to Volgograd Volgograd Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River... , North Caucasus MD North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.... |
8th Guards Mechanised Corps 3rd Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union) The 20th Motor Rifle Division is a formation of the Russian Ground Forces, originally formed within the Soviet Red Army as the 3rd Mechanised Corps.... |
21st Motor Rifle Division | Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Perleberg |
Omsk Omsk -History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes... , Siberian Military District? |
416th Rifle Division (World War II) |
22nd Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... |
Became Motor Rifle Brigade, 1 June 2002 | 22nd Rifle Division |
23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... |
Part of Azerbaijan armed forces | 7th Guards Cavalry Corps 8th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) The 8th Cavalry Corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a cavalry corps active during the Second World War.It was created on 18 January 1942 at Tula. General Lieutenant P.P. Korzun took command... , then 31st Guards Mechanised Division |
24th Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army 13th Army (Soviet Union) The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War... , Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Yavoriv Yavoriv Yavoriv is a city located in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Yavoriv Raion and rests approximately 50 km west of the oblast capital, Lviv.... |
Part of Ukrainian armed forces | 24th Rifle Division 24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) style="float: right; clear: right; background-color: transparent"| The 24th Samaro-Ulyanovsk Division was a rifle, then a motor-rifle division of the Red Army of the USSR... |
25th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... , Chernigov |
Part of Ukrainian armed forces | 25th Guards Rifle Division 25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 25th Rifle Division 'Chapayevskaya was a Russian, and later Soviet, Red Army formation formed during the Russian Civil War. It was named after its civil war commander, Vasily Chapayev... |
26th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 11th Guards Army, Baltic Military District Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... , Gusev Gusev Gusev is a town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near the border with Poland and Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk. Population: -History:... |
Disbanded 1989 | 26th Guards Rifle Division |
27th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Halle Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Halle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia... |
Totskoye, Volga-Ural Military District | 27th Guards Rifle Division 27th Guards Rifle Division The 27th Guards Rifle Division was a Red Army rifle division in World War II which later became a Soviet Army motor rifle division.The division draws its history from the 75th Naval Rifle Brigade formed in the end of 1941. As part of the 3rd Shock Army, Kalinin Front in 1942 the brigade... |
28th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... |
Became 28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) The 28th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the Brigade is the 28th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade.... circa 2001 |
28th Guards Rifle Division |
29th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... |
No change? | 29th Rifle Division |
30th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Central Group of Forces Central Group of Forces The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.... , Zvolen Zvolen Zvolen |Slatina]] rivers, close to Banská Bystrica. With its ancient castle, the town has a historical center, which represents the seat of an okres .-History:... , Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992... |
Disbanded in Belarus | 55th Guards Rifle Division |
32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... |
Disbanded early 1990s | 32nd Guards Rifle Division |
33rd Motor Rifle Division 33rd Motor Rifle Division Originally formed as a fortified region, the 33rd Motor-Rifle Order of the Red Banner Division was a rifle division of the Soviet Union's Red Army... |
Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... |
Now storage base | 342nd Rifle Division |
34th "Simpheropolskaya" Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Sverdlovsk | Volga-Ural Military District, Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's... |
34 MRD 1965 < 126th MRD 1957 < 1955 77th Rifle Div |
35th Motor Rifle Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Krampnitz Potsdam Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre.... |
Disbanded 1992 | 35 MRD 1965, 19th MRD 1957, by 1955 1st Mech Div from 1st Mechanised Corps |
36th Motor Rifle Division | Artemovsk, Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... |
Disbanded 1992 | Formed 1966 |
37th Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army 6th Army (Soviet Union) The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces up until 1998... , Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... |
Disbanded | 25 RD (WW2), 156 MRD 1957, 37 MRD 1965 |
38th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army, Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... , Sretensk |
MG Artillery Division | 38 Gds RD (WW2), 38 Guards MRD 1965 |
39th Guards Motor Rifle Division :ru:39-%D1%8F %D0%B3%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F %D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F %D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8F | 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Ohrdruf Ohrdruf Ohrdruf is a small town in the German federal state of Thuringia. It lies some 30 km southwest of Erfurt.-Medieval settling:Ohrdruf was founded in 724–726 by Saint Boniface, as the site of the first monastery in Thuringia, dedicated to Saint Michael. It was the first of several religious... |
Disbanded 1992 | 39th Guards Rifle Division 39th Guards Rifle Division The 39th Guards Rifle Division of the Workers and Peasant's Red Army was formed during the German-Soviet War as part of the 62nd Army and assigned to the defense of Stalingrad, officially arriving in the theater in August 1942... |
40th Motor Rifle Division | 5th Guards Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Smolyaninovo Smolyaninovo Smolyaninovo is an urban locality and the administrative center of Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located from Vladivostok; by road. Population: It became the administrative center of Shkotovsky District in 2004.... |
To Pacific Ocean Fleet as coastal defence division | 40 Rifle Division |
41st Motor Rifle Division | 39th Army, Mongolia, Choyr(?) | Disbanded 1992 | Formed 1967 from elements of 52nd MRD |
42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | North Caucasus Military District North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.... , Grozny Grozny Grozny is the capital city of the Chechen Republic, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 271,596; up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Census. but still only about two-thirds of 399,688 recorded in the 1989... |
Became 173rd Training Centre, then disbanded 1992 | 24th Guards Rifle Division 42nd Motor Rifle Division The 42 Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as the 111th Rifle Division in Vologda in 1940, and became 24th Guards Rifle Division in March 1942 Based in the North Caucasus following World War II, it seems to have become 42nd Guards MRD in 1957, while at Grozny.In 1987 it became 173... |
43rd Guards(?) Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Kuybyshev Samara, Russia Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast... |
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 Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Kamenka Kamenka Kamenka may refer to:People*Eugene Kamenka, an Australian philosopher, socialistPlaces*Kamenka, Russia, name of several inhabited localities in Russia*Kamenka, an alternative name of the town of Taskala, Kazakhstan... |
Became 138th Motor Rifle Brigade | 45 Guards Rifle Division (WW2), to MRD 1957 |
46th Motor Rifle Division | Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... , Voroshilovgrad |
Disbanded 1989 | Formed 1980 |
47th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District | Disbanded 1959 | 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps |
48th Motor Rifle Division | Central Group of Forces Central Group of Forces The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.... , Vysoké Mýto Vysoké Mýto Vysoké Mýto is a town in the Pardubice Region, Czech Republic. Founded in 1262 by the Bohemian king, Přemysl Otakar II, it is situated near its original location, called Vraclav. Vysoké Mýto is a centre of tourism, due to its architectural monuments and the nature that surrounds it. Industrial... , Czechoslovakia |
Withdrawn to Smolensk Smolensk Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River. Situated west-southwest of Moscow, this walled city was destroyed several times throughout its long history since it was on the invasion routes of both Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Smolensk... , under KGB control, later disbanded |
48th Rifle Division |
50th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Belorussian Military District Belorussian Military District The Byelorussian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally in the times of Russian Civil War it formed as the Western Front, and in April 1924 it was renamed to the Western Military District. In October 1926 it was redesignated the Belorussian Military... |
Part of Armed Forces of Belarus Armed Forces of Belarus The Armed Forces of Belarus consist of the Army and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus... |
50th Guards Rifle Division |
51st Guards Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army 13th Army (Soviet Union) The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War... , Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... |
Became Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... ' 51st Mechanized Brigade |
76th Rifle Division 76th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The Soviet 76th "K. E. Voroshilov" Division known also as the 76th Armenian Mountain Division, was a Soviet infantry fighting unit of the Red Army that fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The 76th was made up primarily of Armenians from the newly established Soviet Socialist... , which became 51st Guards Rifle Division |
52nd Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... , Nizhneudinsk Nizhneudinsk Nizhneudinsk is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Uda River , northwest of Irkutsk. It stands on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and is served by a small airport, ICAO code UINN. Population: 39,700 .... |
Storage base, later disbanded | 347th Rifle Division |
54th Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army 6th Army (Soviet Union) The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces up until 1998... , Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Alakurtti Alakurtti Alakurtti may refer to:* Alakurtti , a naval air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia* Alakurtti, Murmansk Oblast, a rural locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia... |
Reduced to storage base | 341st Rifle Division |
56th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... , Omsk Omsk -History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes... |
Reorganised as District Training Centre, later disbanded | 56th Rifle Division |
57th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Naumburg |
Disbanded 1992 | 57th Guards Rifle Division |
58th Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army Corps, Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Kyzyl-Arvat Kyzyl-Arvat Serdar is a location in Turkmenistan, located north-west of the capital, Ashkhabad on the road to the Caspian Sea. The population of Serdar is 50,000 people, mainly Turkmen. The languages spoken in the region are mainly Turkmen.Serdar is close to the old Persian city of Farava... |
Became part of Turkmenistan armed forces | 344th Rifle Division |
59th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 14th Guards Army, Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... , Tiraspol Tiraspol Tiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River... |
Now 8th Motor Rifle Brigade | 59th Guards Rifle Division 59th Guards Rifle Division The 59th Guards Kramatorsk Order of Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor-Rifle Division of the Soviet Union's Red Army was initially formed near Krasnodar in March 1942 as the 197th Rifle Division . On the division's formation Colonel M. I... , World War II |
60th Motor Rifle Division | 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Lenkoran Lankaran -History:The city was built on a swamp along the northern bank of the river bearing the city's name. There are remains of human settlements in the area dating back to the Neolithic period as well as ruins of fortified villages from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Lankaran's history is rather recent,... |
Became part of Military of Azerbaijan | 406th Rifle Division |
61st Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Ashkabad |
Part of Turkmenistan armed forces | 357th Rifle Division |
62nd Motor Rifle Division | 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... , Itatka |
Now Omsk Omsk -History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes... ? |
Formed 1971 |
63rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Sertolovo Sertolovo Sertolovo is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located north of St. Petersburg. Population: It was founded in 1936 on the place of a former settlement of Ingrian Finns, whose inhabitants were deported. Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 1977 and town status—in 1999.-External... |
Became 56th District Training Centre | 63rd Guards Rifle Division |
64th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 30th Guards Army Corps, Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Sapernoe |
Reduced to storage base | 64th Guards Rifle Division |
65th Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwestern side of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River. Population: -History:... |
Storage base, later disbanded | 368th Rifle Division |
66th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Chernovtsy Chernivtsi Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the upper course of the River Prut, a tributary of the Danube, in the northern part of the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine... |
Part of Ukrainian armed forces | 66th Guards Rifle Division 66th Guards Rifle Division The 66th Guards Rifle Division was a formation of the Red Army and later of Ukrainian Ground Forces.After October 1999, full name of the Division became 66th Guards Mechanized Bukovyna, Poltava Red Banner Division of the 38th Army Corps of the Western Operational Command of the Armed Forces of... |
67th Motor Rifle Division | 35th Army 35th Army (Soviet Union) The 35th Red Banner Army is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces.The 35th Army was originally formed within the Soviet Red Army in July 1941 on the basis of 18th Rifle Corps, and joined the Far Eastern Front. Within Far Eastern Front it comprised 35th, 66th, 78th Rifle Divisions, the 109th... , Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Skovorodino Skovorodino Skovorodino is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 10,100 ; 10,566 ; 13,824 .-Geography:The town is located in the upper stream of the Bolshoy Never River some 669 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk... |
1992 redesigned 115th Guards MRD | Formed 1968 |
68th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Sary Ozek |
Part of Military of Kazakhstan Military of Kazakhstan The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan... |
Former 372nd Red Banner Red Banner Red Banner was a symbol of the USSR associated with the Soviet state flag.Military units, institutions and organizations awarded with the Order of the Red Banner are referred to with the honorific title "of the Red Banner" Red Banner was a symbol of the USSR associated with the Soviet state... Novgorod Rifle Division |
69th "Sevskaya" Motor Rifle Division | 26th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Vologda Vologda Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage... |
Reduced to storage base | 69th "Sevskaya" Rifle Division |
70th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Ivano-Frankovsk |
Disbanded in 1991 | 70th Guards Rifle Division |
71st Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army, Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Petrozavodsk Petrozavodsk Petrozavodsk is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It stretches along the western shore of the Lake Onega for some . The city is served by Petrozavodsk Airport. Municipally, it is incorporated as Petrozavodsky Urban Okrug . Population:... |
Reduced to storage base | 71st Rifle Division |
72nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... , Belaya Tserkov Bila Tserkva Bila Tserkva is a city located on the Ros' River in the Kiev Oblast in central Ukraine, approximately south of the capital, Kiev. Population 203,300 Area 34 km².-Administrative status:... |
Became Ukrainian 72nd Mechanised Division | 72nd GRD |
73rd Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Novoe |
Disbanded 1989 | 73rd Rifle Division |
74th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... , Yurga Yurga Yurga is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Tom River. Population: It was founded in 1886. Work settlement status was granted to it in 1942; town status was granted in 1949.... |
Disbanded 1989 | 227th Rifle Division |
75th Motor Rifle Division | Seventh Guards Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Nakhichevan Nakhichevan The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan. The region covers 5,363 km² and borders Armenia to the east and north, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest... |
KGB control 1989-91, disbanded 1992 | 75th Rifle Division |
77th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 26th Army Corps, Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river... |
1989, converted to coastal defence division, 1991 disbanded | 77th Guards Rifle Division |
78th Motor Rifle Division | Ural Military District, Chebarkul Chebarkul Chebarkul is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Chebarkul Lake west of Chelyabinsk. Population: Founded in 1736 as a fortress on the border between Russian and Bashkir lands, it later grew into a large Cossack stanitsa... |
Converted to District Training Centre, then reduced to storage base | 417th Rifle Division |
79th Motor Rifle Division | 51st Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Poronaisk |
Reduced to storage base | 79th Rifle Division |
80th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Otar |
Became part of Kazakh armed forces Military of Kazakhstan The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan... |
80th Guards Rifle Division (WW2) |
81st Guards Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Bikin |
No change | 81st Guards Rifle Division |
82nd Motor Rifle Division | 34th Army Corps, North Caucasus Military District North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.... , Volgograd Volgograd Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River... |
Disbanded after 1989 | Formed 1969 from 266 MRD cadres |
83rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army, Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Rovno |
Disbanded 1986 or '89 | 8th Guards Cavalry Division |
84th Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army Corps, Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Ashkabad |
Became part of Turkmenistan's armed forces Military of Turkmenistan The armed forces of Turkmenistan consist of an Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Border Troops, and Internal Troops, and a National Guard. After the fall of the Soviet Union, significant elements of the Soviet Armed Forces Turkestan Military District remained on Turkmen soil... |
Formed 1981 from 58 MRD cadre |
85th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... , Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District... |
No change | 85th MRD 1957 < to 1955 85th Rifle Division 85th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 85th Leningrad-Pavlovsk Red Banner Motor Rifle Division was a infantry division of the Soviet Red Army active from 1931 and converted to a motorised formation in 1957. It is now part of the Russian Ground Forces.... |
86th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 14th Guards Army, Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... , Beltsy |
Disbanded after 1990 | 86th Guards Rifle Division |
87th Motor Rifle Division | 25th Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Petropavlovsk Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the main city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Population: .-History:It was founded by Danish navigator Vitus Bering, in the service of the Russian Navy... |
Disbanded 1989 | Formed 1968 from elements of 22 MRD |
88th Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army Corps, Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Kushka Kushka Kushka may refer to:*Serhetabat, Turkmenistan*Kushka, Balkh, Afghanistan... |
Became part of Turkmenistan's armed forces Military of Turkmenistan The armed forces of Turkmenistan consist of an Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Border Troops, and Internal Troops, and a National Guard. After the fall of the Soviet Union, significant elements of the Soviet Armed Forces Turkestan Military District remained on Turkmen soil... |
Formed 1980 from elements of 5 GMRD |
91st Motor Rifle Division | 29th Army 29th Army (Soviet Union) The Soviet Red Army's 29th Army was a field army of the Red Army and later the Russian Ground Forces.- History :It was first formed in July 1941 in the Moscow Military District on the basis of 30th Rifle Corps. The 245th, 252nd, 254th and 256th Rifle Divisions, and a number of smaller units made up... , Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... , Bratsk Bratsk Bratsk is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir. Population: Although the name sounds like the Russian word for 'brother' , it actually comes from 'bratskiye lyudi', an old name for the Buryats.-History:The first Europeans in the area arrived... |
Reformed as 497th territorial educational center 1987, 5209 VKhVT 1989 | Formed Dec 1, 1981 Nizhneudinsk; 1986 relocated in settlement Padun of the city of Bratsk |
92nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... , Nikolaev |
Became Ukrainian 92nd District Training Centre | 92nd Guards Rifle Division |
93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | Southern Group of Forces Southern Group of Forces The Southern Group of Forces was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.... , Kecskemét Kecskemét Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two... , Hungary |
Withdrawn to Ukraine, became part of Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... |
93rd GRD |
94th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Schwerin Schwerin Schwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The population, as of end of 2009, was 95,041.-History:... |
Withdrawn to Yurga Yurga Yurga is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Tom River. Population: It was founded in 1886. Work settlement status was granted to it in 1942; town status was granted in 1949.... , Siberian Military District, became 74th Motor Rifle Brigade Russian 74th Motorized Brigade The 74th Motor Rifle Brigade is a military formation of the Russian Ground Forces's 41st Army, part of Siberian Military District, stationed in Yurga, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.... |
94th GRD |
96th Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Kazan Kazan Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the... |
Became storage base, later disbanded | 96th Rifle Division |
97th Guards Motor Rifle Division 97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine.... |
13th Army 13th Army (Soviet Union) The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War... , Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Slavuta Slavuta Slavuta is a city in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine, located on the Horyn River. Serving as the administrative center of the Slavutsky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located approximately 80 km from the oblast capital,... |
Became Ukrainian 97th Mechanized Brigade 97th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) The 97th Mechanized Brigade was a rifle, and then a motor-rifle division of the Soviet Union's Army, before becoming a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, based in Slavuta in western Ukraine.... |
97th Guards Rifle Division |
99th Motor Rifle Division | 25th Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Anadyr Anadyr (town) Anadyr is a port town and the administrative centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the extreme north-eastern region of Russia. It is at the mouth of the Anadyr River, on the tip of the southern promontory that sticks out into Anadyrskiy Liman... |
Reduced to 3840 Storage Base, 1 June 1999, storage base disbanded, 2002 | Formed 1968(?) |
100th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Tbilisi Tbilisi Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936... |
Became 173rd District Training Centre | Soviet 1st Guards Mechanized Corps Soviet 1st Guards Mechanized Corps The 1st Guards Mechanized Corps was a Red Army armoured formation that saw service during World War II on the Eastern Front. After the war it continued to serve with Soviet occupation forces in Central Europe. It was originally the 1st Guards Rifle Division... |
105th Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... |
Disbanded 1958 | From WW2 era 36 MRD |
107th Motor Rifle Division | Baltic Military District Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... , Vilnius Vilnius Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County... |
Disbanded 1992 | Formed 1968 from cadres of 265th MRD |
108th Motor Rifle Division 108th Motor Rifle Division The 108th Nevelskaya Twice Red Banner Motor Rifle Division was a military formation of the Soviet Ground Forces. During the Great Patriotic War, the 360th Rifle Division Nevelskaya Order of the Red Banner, the predecessor to the 108th MRD, was created... |
40th Army 40th Army (Soviet Union) The 40th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was an army-level command active from 1941 to 1945 and then again from 1979 to circa 1990.It was first formed, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had commenced, from elements of the 26th and 37th Armies under the command... , Bagram Bagram Bagram , founded as Alexandria on the Caucasus and known in medieval times as Kapisa, is a small town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir... , Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world... |
Withdrawn to Termez, became part of Uzbek armed forces | 360th Rifle Division |
111th Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army 6th Army (Soviet Union) The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces up until 1998... , Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Sortavala Sortavala Sortavala is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga. Population: It is an important station of the Vyborg-Joensuu railroad.-History:... |
Became 23rd Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment | 367th Rifle Division |
115th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Valdai Valday Valday is a town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Valdaysky District. It lies on the federal highway M10 connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, from Moscow and from Veliky Novgorod... |
Became storage base | 67th Guards Rifle Division |
118th Motor Rifle Division | 43rd Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Birobidzhan Birobidzhan Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China.... |
Became MG Artillery division | Formed 1969 |
120th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Belorussian Military District Belorussian Military District The Byelorussian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally in the times of Russian Civil War it formed as the Western Front, and in April 1924 it was renamed to the Western Military District. In October 1926 it was redesignated the Belorussian Military... , Minsk Minsk - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened... |
Became Belarus 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade The 120th Guards Mechanised Brigade is a mechanised infantry brigade of the Belarusian Ground Forces. It is the heir to the traditions of the Red Army 120th Guards Rifle Division which became the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division around 1957.... |
120 Guards Rifle Division, September 1943 |
121st Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Sibirtsevo |
Became District Training Centre | 10th Mechanised Corps 10th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union) The 10th Mechanized Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Initially formed in March 1941 in response the German victories of 1940 it was attached to the Leningrad Military District, & held in reserve near Leningrad fortified region in Soviet Union It was under... , WW2 |
122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 36th Army, Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... , Dauriya |
No change? | 5th Guards Tank Corps |
123rd Guards Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Barabash |
Became MG Artillery division | 17th Guards Rifle Division |
126th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army Corps, Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... , Simferopol Simferopol -Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the... |
Became Ukrainian coastal defence formation | 126th Rifle Division |
127th Motor Rifle Division | Seventh Guards Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Leninakan |
Became Russian 102nd Military Base | 261st Rifle Division |
128th Guards Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Mukachevo |
Now 128th Mechanized Brigade 128th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) The 128th Guards Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.Full name of the Brigade is 128th Separate Guards Mechanized Turkestan-Zakarpattia twice Order of Red Banner Brigade, .-History:... , part of Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... |
128th Guards Mtn Rifle Division |
129th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Knyaz-Volkonka |
Became 392 District Training Centre 1 December 1987 | Formed 1969 |
131st Motor Rifle Division | 6th Army, Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Pechenga Pechenga River Pechenga is a river in Murmansk Oblast, Russia . It is the namesake for the Pechenga settlement, Pechenga Monastery and the Pechenga District. The river discharges into the Pechenga Bay by the Barents Sea coast.... |
Became 200th Motor Rifle Brigade | 45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) 45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 45th Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division formed originally during the Russian Civil War that fought in World War II and then served through the Cold War in the Leningrad Military District.... |
134th Motor Rifle Division | Central Asian Military District, Dushanbe Dushanbe -Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River... |
Disbanded 1989 | Formed 1980 |
135th Motor Rifle Division | 15th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Lesozavodsk Lesozavodsk Lesozavodsk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Ussuri River , about north of Vladivostok. Population: 37,000... |
Became Machine-Gun Artillery Division | Former 39th Rifle Тихоокеанской Division |
136th Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District, Piryatin Pyriatyn Pyriatyn is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 16,664 .-See also:*Piryatin Airport... |
Became part of Ukrainian armed forces | 343rd Rifle Division |
144th Guards Motor Rifle Division | Baltic Military District Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... , Tallinn Tallinn Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list... |
Withdrawn to Yelnya, Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , reduced to storage base |
29th Guards Rifle Division 32nd Rifle Division The 32nd Rifle Division was first raised in 1934 at Vladivostok and organized as a Siberian Rifle Division. The division initially served Far Eastern Military District as part of the 39th Rifle Corps. It took part in a number of border skirmishes on the Manchurian border near Lake Khasan... |
145th Motor Rifle Division | 31st Army Corps, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Batumi Batumi Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. Sometimes considered Georgia's second capital, with a population of 121,806 , Batumi serves as an important port and a commercial center. It is situated in a subtropical zone, rich in... |
Became 12th Military Base | Soviet 89th "Tamanyan" Rifle Division |
146th Motor Rifle Division | Leningrad Military District Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , Chernaya Rechka |
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147th Motor Rifle Division | 31st Army Corps, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Akhalkalaki Akhalkalaki Akhalkalaki is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60,975. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Volcanic Plateau. The city is located about 30 km from the border with Turkey. 90 percent of the city's population are ethnic Armenians... |
Became 62nd Military Base | |
149th Motor Rifle Division | 39th Army, Mongolia | Withdrawn to Borzya Borzya Borzya is a town and the administrative center of Borzinsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Population: -Geography:The town is located on the Borzya River, a right-hand tributary of the Onon, southeast of Chita about from the border of Mongolia to the south, and from the border of China... , became Motor Rifle Brigade |
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150th Motor Rifle Division | Transbaikal Military District, Borzya Borzya Borzya is a town and the administrative center of Borzinsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Population: -Geography:The town is located on the Borzya River, a right-hand tributary of the Onon, southeast of Chita about from the border of Mongolia to the south, and from the border of China... |
Became District Training Centre | |
152nd Motor Rifle Division | Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Kutaisi Kutaisi Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:... |
Disbanded 1991 | |
155th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army, Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... , Ust-Kamenogorsk |
Became part of Kazakh armed forces Military of Kazakhstan The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan... 1992 |
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157th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army Corps, Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... , Kerch Kerch Kerch is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine. Kerch, founded 2600 years ago, is considered as one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine.-Ancient times:... |
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161st Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army 13th Army (Soviet Union) The 13th Army was a name given to several field armies of the Soviet Union's Red Army, first created during the Russian Civil War... , Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Izyaslav |
Became part of Ukrainian armed forces | 161st Rifle Division, briefly 24th Mech Div and 99th MRD until 1965 |
164th Motor Rifle Division | 7th Guards Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Yerevan Yerevan Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country... |
Became part of Armenian armed forces Armed Forces of Armenia The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia comprise two services: the Army, and the Air Force and Air Defense . It was partially formed out of the former Soviet Army forces stationed in the Armenian SSR... |
164th Rifle Division, briefly 69th Mech Div and 121st MRD until 1965 |
167th Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army, Turkestan Military District, Semipalatinsk | Became part of Kazakh armed forces Military of Kazakhstan The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan... 1992 |
167th Rifle Division, briefly in 1950s until 1957 153rd MRD |
172nd Motor Rifle Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... , Konotop Konotop Konotop is a city in northern Ukraine within the Sumy Oblast. Konotop is the center of the Konotop Raion , and is located about 129 km from Sumy, the Oblast capital. It is host to Konotop air base.-History:... |
Reduced to storage base | 172nd Rifle Division, World War II |
180th Motor Rifle Division | Odessa Military District Odessa Military District The Odessa Military District was a military administrative division of the Imperial Russian military, the Soviet Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces and was known under such name from around 1862 to 1998. It was reorganized as part of the Military of Ukraine and the Military of Moldova in... , Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is a city situated on the right bank of the Dniester Liman in the Odessa Oblast of southwestern Ukraine, in the historical region of Bessarabia... |
Became part of Ukrainian armed forces 1992 | 180th 'Kievskaya' Rifle Division, World War II |
192nd Motor Rifle Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Blagoveshchensk Blagoveshchensk Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers... |
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194th Motor Rifle Division | 15th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Khabarovsk Khabarovsk Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia... |
Reduced to Motor Rifle Brigade | |
199th Motor Rifle Division | 5th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Krasny Kut |
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201st Motor Rifle Division | 40th Army, Kunduz Kunduz Kunduz also known as Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, the capital of Kunduz Province. It is linked by highways with Mazari Sharif to the west, Kabul to the south and Tajikistan's border to the north... , Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world... |
Dushanbe Dushanbe -Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River... , Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east.... |
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203rd Motor Rifle Division | 32nd Army, Turkestan Military District, Karaganda Karaganda Karagandy , more commonly known by its Russian name Karaganda, , is the capital of Karagandy Province in Kazakhstan. It is the fourth most populous city in Kazakhstan, behind Almaty , Astana and Shymkent, with a population of 471,800 . In the 1940s up to 70% of the city's inhabitants were ethnic... |
Reduced to storage base, became part of Kazakh armd forces | |
206th Motor Rifle Division | 13th Army Corps, Moscow MD Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , Tambov Tambov Tambov is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers southeast of Moscow... |
Reduced to storage base | 206th Rifle Division |
207th Motor Rifle Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Stendal Stendal Stendal is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of Stendal District and unofficial capital of the Altmark. Its population in 2001 was 38,900. It is located some west of Berlin and around east of Hanover... |
Disbanded 1992 | 207th Rifle Division, formed 1942 |
213th Motor Rifle Division | Volga Military District, Totsk | Disbanded | |
216th Motor Rifle Division | 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Saatl? |
Disbanded 1989 | 216th Rifle Division 216th Rifle Division The 216th Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was descended from the 216th Rifle Division, a Soviet infantry division of the Red Army. It was established at Staro Konstantinov in May 1941... |
218th Motor Rifle Division | Siberian Military District, Abakan Abakan Abakan is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. Population: -History:... |
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219th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Vozhaevka |
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242nd Motor Rifle Division | 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District, Abakan Abakan Abakan is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. Population: -History:... |
Reduced to storage base | Formed 1972 |
245th Motor Rifle Division 245th Motor Rifle Division The 245th Motor Rifle Division was a division of the Soviet Army and later the Russian Ground Forces, active from 1967 to 1997 and later from 2001 to 2006.On 31 August 1967 in the city of Kursk the 245th Motor Rifle Division was formed... |
29th Army 29th Army (Soviet Union) The Soviet Red Army's 29th Army was a field army of the Red Army and later the Russian Ground Forces.- History :It was first formed in July 1941 in the Moscow Military District on the basis of 30th Rifle Corps. The 245th, 252nd, 254th and 256th Rifle Divisions, and a number of smaller units made up... , Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... , Gusinoozyorsk Gusinoozyorsk Gusinoozyorsk is a town and the administrative center of Selenginsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Gusinoye, southwest of Ulan-Ude. Population: 13,800 .-History:... |
No change | First formed 1967 |
254th Motor Rifle Division | Southern Group of Forces Southern Group of Forces The Southern Group of Forces was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.... , Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár is a city in central Hungary and is the 9th largest in the country. Located around southwest of Budapest. It is inhabited by 101,973 people , with 136,995 in the Székesfehérvár Subregion. The city is the centre of Fejér county and the regional centre of Central Transdanubia... ,Hungary |
Withdrawn to Artemovsk Artemovsk Artemovsk may refer to:* Artemivsk, city in Ukraine * Artemivsk, city in Ukraine * Artyomovsk, city in Russia... , Ukraine, became Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... mechanised division |
254th Rifle Division |
262nd Motor Rifle Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Vozhaevka |
Later disbanded | 262nd Rifle Division |
265th Motor Rifle Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Yekaterinovka |
Reduced to storage base | 265th Rifle Division |
266th Motor Rifle Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Raichikhinsk |
Reduced to storage base | 266th Rifle Division |
270th Motor Rifle Division | 15th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Komsomolsk Komsomolsk Komsomolsk may refer to:Places*Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia*Komsomolsk, Russia, name of several inhabited localities in Russia*Komsomolsk, Ukraine, a city in Poltava Oblast, UkraineOther... |
No change | 270th Rifle Division 270th Rifle Division The 270th Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division formed twice during World War II, in 1941 and 1942. After World War II it became a motor rifle division and became part of the Russian Ground Forces after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.... |
272nd Motor Rifle Division | 43rd Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Babstovo |
Became MG Artillery division | 272nd Rifle Division |
277th Motor Rifle Division 127th Machine Gun Artillery Division The 127th Order of Kutuzov Second Degree Machine-Gun Artillery Division was a division of the Russian Ground Forces, which traced its history to the 66th Rifle Division of World War II.... |
5th Army, Far East MD Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Sergevka |
Became 127th MG Artillery Division | 66th Rifle Division |
287th Motor Rifle Division | 38th Army, Carpathian Military District, Yarmolints | Became part of Ukrainian armed forces | 287th Rifle Division |
295th Motor Rifle Division | 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District Transcaucasian Military District The Transcaucasian Military District, a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, traces its history to May 1921 and the incorporation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into the USSR... , Baku Baku Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal... |
Became part of Azerbaijani armed forces | 295th Rifle Division |
- 12th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Boganur (Chita)
- 17th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at KhmelnitskiyKhmelnytskyi, UkraineKhmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western...
- 21st Motor Rifle Division first formed at Perleberg GSFG
- 22nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at DolinskDolinskDolinsk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Dolinsky District. In Japanese, it is known as Ochiai . Population: 12,555 ; 15,653 .-Geography:...
- 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Shamkhor
- 25th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at LubnyLubnyLubny is a city in the Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Lubensky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast...
- 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at HalleHalle, Saxony-AnhaltHalle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia...
GSFG - 28th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Chernomorskoye
- 29th Motor Rifle Division Kamen-RybolovKamen-RybolovKamen-Rybolov is a village on the shore of Khanka Lake, and the administrative center of Khankaysky District, Primorsky Krai, Russia. It was founded by peasants who migrated from the Western areas of Russia and by the Cossacks in 1865. Population: 11,769 ....
- 30th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at ZvolenZvolenZvolen |Slatina]] rivers, close to Banská Bystrica. With its ancient castle, the town has a historical center, which represents the seat of an okres .-History:...
- 32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division KalininKalininKalinin , or Kalinina , is a Russian surname, derived from the word kalina , and may refer to:People with the surname...
- 33rd Motor Rifle Division Khomutovo
- 34th Motor Rifle Division first formed at SverdlovskYekaterinburgYekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
- 35th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KrampnitzPotsdamPotsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
GSFG - 36th Motor Rifle Division first formed at ArtemovskArtemovskArtemovsk may refer to:* Artemivsk, city in Ukraine * Artemivsk, city in Ukraine * Artyomovsk, city in Russia...
- 37th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Nagorniy (Murmansk)
- 38th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at SretenskSretenskSretensk is a town and the administrative center of Sretensky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Shilka River , east of Chita.Population: It was founded in 1689 and granted town status in 1926....
- 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at OhrdrufOhrdrufOhrdruf is a small town in the German federal state of Thuringia. It lies some 30 km southwest of Erfurt.-Medieval settling:Ohrdruf was founded in 724–726 by Saint Boniface, as the site of the first monastery in Thuringia, dedicated to Saint Michael. It was the first of several religious...
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- 47th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KonotopKonotopKonotop is a city in northern Ukraine within the Sumy Oblast. Konotop is the center of the Konotop Raion , and is located about 129 km from Sumy, the Oblast capital. It is host to Konotop air base.-History:...
- 48th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Vysoke MytoVysoké MýtoVysoké Mýto is a town in the Pardubice Region, Czech Republic. Founded in 1262 by the Bohemian king, Přemysl Otakar II, it is situated near its original location, called Vraclav. Vysoké Mýto is a centre of tourism, due to its architectural monuments and the nature that surrounds it. Industrial...
CGFCentral Group of ForcesThe Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.... - 49th Motor Rifle Division first formed at SaatlySaatlySaatly , established in 1943. It has 87.000 population....
- 50th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at BrestBrest, BelarusBrest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
- 51st Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Vladimir-VolynskiyVolodymyr-VolynskyiVolodymyr-Volynsky is a city located in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative centre of the Volodymyr-Volynsky District, the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast...
- 52nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at NizhneudinskNizhneudinskNizhneudinsk is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Uda River , northwest of Irkutsk. It stands on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and is served by a small airport, ICAO code UINN. Population: 39,700 ....
- 53rd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Piryatin
- 54th Motor Rifle Division first formed at AlakurttiAlakurttiAlakurtti may refer to:* Alakurtti , a naval air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia* Alakurtti, Murmansk Oblast, a rural locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia...
- 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at NaumburgNaumburgNaumburg is a town in Germany, on the Saale River. It is in the district Burgenlandkreis in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. It is approximately southwest of Leipzig, south-southwest of Halle, and north-northeast of Jena....
GSFG - 58th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Kyzyl-ArvatKyzyl-ArvatSerdar is a location in Turkmenistan, located north-west of the capital, Ashkhabad on the road to the Caspian Sea. The population of Serdar is 50,000 people, mainly Turkmen. The languages spoken in the region are mainly Turkmen.Serdar is close to the old Persian city of Farava...
- 59th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at TiraspolTiraspolTiraspol is the second largest city in Moldova and is the capital and administrative centre of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic . The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River...
- 60th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Lenkoran
- 62nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Itatka
- 64th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Sapernoye
- 65th Motor Rifle Division first formed at PermPermPerm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....
- 67th Motor Rifle Division first formed at SkovorodinoSkovorodinoSkovorodino is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 10,100 ; 10,566 ; 13,824 .-Geography:The town is located in the upper stream of the Bolshoy Never River some 669 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk...
- 68th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Sary-OzekSary-OzekSary-Ozek may refer to one of the following, related to places in Kazakhstan.*Sary-Ozek station, a railway station*Sary-Ozek, Kazakhstan, a settlement*Sary-Ozek military range, witnessed demolition of Soviet ICBMs *Sary-Ozek...
- 69th Motor Rifle Division first formed at VologdaVologdaVologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...
- 70th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Ivano-Frankovsk
- 71st Motor Rifle Division first formed at PetrozavodskPetrozavodskPetrozavodsk is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It stretches along the western shore of the Lake Onega for some . The city is served by Petrozavodsk Airport. Municipally, it is incorporated as Petrozavodsky Urban Okrug . Population:...
- 72nd Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Belaya Tserkov
- 73rd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Novoye
- 75th Motor Rifle Division first formed at NakhichevanNakhichevanThe Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan. The region covers 5,363 km² and borders Armenia to the east and north, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest...
- 77th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at ArkhangelskArkhangelskArkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...
- 79th Motor Rifle Division first formed at PoronayskPoronayskPoronaysk is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located on the Poronay River some 288 km north of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It is the administrative center of Poronaysky District. Population: 17,400 ; 17,954 ; 25,971 ....
- 81st Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Bikin
- 82nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at VolgogradVolgogradVolgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
- 83rd Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Rovno
- 85th Motor Rifle Division first formed at NovosibirskNovosibirskNovosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
- 86th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Beltsy
- 87th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Petropavlovsk-KamchatskyPetropavlovsk-KamchatskyPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the main city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. Population: .-History:It was founded by Danish navigator Vitus Bering, in the service of the Russian Navy...
- 88th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KushkaKushkaKushka may refer to:*Serhetabat, Turkmenistan*Kushka, Balkh, Afghanistan...
- 91st Motor Rifle Division first formed at Padun (Bratsk)
- 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division It first formed at KecskemétKecskemétKecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...
SGFSouthern Group of ForcesThe Southern Group of Forces was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.... - 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at SchwerinSchwerinSchwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The population, as of end of 2009, was 95,041.-History:...
GSFG - 96th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KazanKazanKazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...
- 97th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at SlavutaSlavutaSlavuta is a city in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of western Ukraine, located on the Horyn River. Serving as the administrative center of the Slavutsky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located approximately 80 km from the oblast capital,...
- 99th Motor Rifle Division first formed at AnadyrAnadyr (town)Anadyr is a port town and the administrative centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the extreme north-eastern region of Russia. It is at the mouth of the Anadyr River, on the tip of the southern promontory that sticks out into Anadyrskiy Liman...
- 107th Motor Rifle Division first formed at VilniusVilniusVilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
- 108th Motor Rifle Division first formed at BagramBagramBagram , founded as Alexandria on the Caucasus and known in medieval times as Kapisa, is a small town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir...
(Afghanistan) - 111th Motor Rifle Division first formed at SortavalaSortavalaSortavala is a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga. Population: It is an important station of the Vyborg-Joensuu railroad.-History:...
- 114th Motor Rifle Division first formed at SamarkandSamarkandAlthough a Persian-speaking region, it was not united politically with Iran most of the times between the disintegration of the Seleucid Empire and the Arab conquest . In the 6th century it was within the domain of the Turkic kingdom of the Göktürks.At the start of the 8th century Samarkand came...
- 118th Motor Rifle Division first formed at BirobidzhanBirobidzhanBirobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China....
- 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 SimferopolSimferopol-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
- 127th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Leninakan
- 128th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at Mukachevo
- 131st Motor Rifle Division first formed at PechengaPechenga RiverPechenga is a river in Murmansk Oblast, Russia . It is the namesake for the Pechenga settlement, Pechenga Monastery and the Pechenga District. The river discharges into the Pechenga Bay by the Barents Sea coast....
- 132nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Chiornaya Rechka
- 134th Motor Rifle Division first formed at DushanbeDushanbe-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
- 135th Motor Rifle Division first formed at LesozavodskLesozavodskLesozavodsk is a town in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Ussuri River , about north of Vladivostok. Population: 37,000...
- 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division first formed at TallinnTallinnTallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
- 145th Motor Rifle Division first formed at BatumiBatumiBatumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. Sometimes considered Georgia's second capital, with a population of 121,806 , Batumi serves as an important port and a commercial center. It is situated in a subtropical zone, rich in...
- 146th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Yarmolintsy
- 147th Motor Rifle Division first formed at AkhalkalakiAkhalkalakiAkhalkalaki is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60,975. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Volcanic Plateau. The city is located about 30 km from the border with Turkey. 90 percent of the city's population are ethnic Armenians...
- 149th Motor Rifle Division first formed at ErdenetErdenetErdenet is the third-largest city in Mongolia and the capital of the aimag of Orkhon.Located in the northern part of the country, it lies in a valley between the Selenge and Orkhon rivers about 150 miles northwest of Ulan Bator, the capital...
- 152nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at KutaisiKutaisiKutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...
- 155th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Ust-Kamenogorsk
- 156th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Novorossisk
- 157th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Feodosiya
- 161st Motor Rifle Division first formed at Izyaslav
- 163rd Motor Rifle Division first formed at SarapulSarapulSarapul is a city and a river port in the Udmurt Republic, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kama River, southeast of Izhevsk. Population: -History:...
- 164th Motor Rifle Division first formed at YerevanYerevanYerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
- 166th Motor Rifle Division first formed at BelebeyBelebeyBelebey is a town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the bank of the Usen River, from Ufa. Population: .-Demographics:Ethnic composition: Russian people: 46.9%; Tatar people: 23.6%; Chuvash people: 12%; Bashkir people: 11%....
- 167th Motor Rifle Division first formed at BiyskBiyskBiysk is a city in Altai Krai, Russia. It is the second largest city of the krai . Population: -Geography:Biysk is situated in southwestern Siberia, on the Biya River . The city is called "the gates to the Altai Mountains", because of its position comparatively not far from this range...
- 180th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Belgorod-DnestrovskyiBilhorod-DnistrovskyiBilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is a city situated on the right bank of the Dniester Liman in the Odessa Oblast of southwestern Ukraine, in the historical region of Bessarabia...
- 192nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at BlagoveshchenskBlagoveshchenskBlagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...
- 194th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KhabarovskKhabarovskKhabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...
- 196th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KurskKurskKursk is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym Rivers. The area around Kursk was site of a turning point in the Russian-German struggle during World War II and the site of the largest tank battle in history...
- 198th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky
- 199th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Krasny KutKrasny KutKrasny Kut is a town and the administrative center of Krasnokutsky District of Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Yeruslan River , southeast of Saratov...
- 201st Motor Rifle Division first formed at KunduzKunduzKunduz also known as Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, the capital of Kunduz Province. It is linked by highways with Mazari Sharif to the west, Kabul to the south and Tajikistan's border to the north...
(Afghanistan) - 203rd Motor Rifle Division first formed at KaragandaKaragandaKaragandy , more commonly known by its Russian name Karaganda, , is the capital of Karagandy Province in Kazakhstan. It is the fourth most populous city in Kazakhstan, behind Almaty , Astana and Shymkent, with a population of 471,800 . In the 1940s up to 70% of the city's inhabitants were ethnic...
- 206th Motor Rifle Division first formed at TambovTambovTambov is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers southeast of Moscow...
- 207th Motor Rifle Division first formed at StendalStendalStendal is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of Stendal District and unofficial capital of the Altmark. Its population in 2001 was 38,900. It is located some west of Berlin and around east of Hanover...
GSFG - 213th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Totsk
- 218th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KyzylKyzyl-External links:*** in Kyzyl, Russia*...
- 219th Motor Rifle Division first formed at ZavitinskZavitinskZavitinsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: It is host to Zavitinsk air base....
- 225th Motor Rifle Division first formed at MulinoMulinoMulino may refer to:*Mulino, Kirov Oblast, a village in Kirov Oblast, Russia*Mulino, Kostroma Oblast, a village in Kostroma Oblast, Russia*Mulino , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a settlement in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia...
- 242nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at AbakanAbakanAbakan is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. Population: -History:...
- 245th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Gusinoozersk
- 254th Motor Rifle Division first formed at SzékesfehérvárSzékesfehérvárSzékesfehérvár is a city in central Hungary and is the 9th largest in the country. Located around southwest of Budapest. It is inhabited by 101,973 people , with 136,995 in the Székesfehérvár Subregion. The city is the centre of Fejér county and the regional centre of Central Transdanubia...
SGFSouthern Group of ForcesThe Southern Group of Forces was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.... - 258th Motor Rifle Division first formed at FevralskFevralskFevralsk is an urban-type settlement in Selemdzhinsky District of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: 4,904 ; -Geography:The settlement is located between the Selemdzha River and its tributary the Byssa, about north-east of Blagoveshchensk, the oblast's administrative center, and south-west of...
- 262nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Vozzhaevka
- 265th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Ekaterinovka
- 266th Motor Rifle Division first formed at RaychikhinskRaychikhinskRaychikhinsk is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia. 2002 population—24,498.-Geography:Raychikhinsk lies in the Zeya-Bureya basin in the Russian Far East, around 40 km from the Amur River and the border to China...
- 268th Motor Rifle Division first formed at ProkhladnyProkhladnyProkhladny is a town and the administrative center of Prokhladnensky District of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, located on the Malka River, north of Nalchik. Population:...
- 270th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Komsomolsk-na-Amure
- 272nd Motor Rifle Division first formed at Babstovo
- 277th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Sergeevka
- 295th Motor Rifle Division first formed at Baku-1
- 297th Motor Rifle Division first formed at KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarskKrasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...
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Tank Divisions
Division | Location, Status 1990 | Location, Status 2006 | Origins |
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1st Guards Tank Division | 11th Guards Army, Kaliningrad, Baltic MD Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... |
Reduced to Tank Brigade | 1st Tank Corps |
2nd Guards Tank Division | 39th Army, Mongolia | Withdrawn to Siberia | 2nd Guards Tank Corps |
3rd Guards Tank Division | 7th Tank Army, Belorussian Military District Belorussian Military District The Byelorussian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally in the times of Russian Civil War it formed as the Western Front, and in April 1924 it was renamed to the Western Military District. In October 1926 it was redesignated the Belorussian Military... , Zaslonovo |
Reduced to storage base, became part of Belarus armed forces | 3rd Guards Tank Corps |
4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division The 4th Guards "Kantemirovskaya" Tank Division , more usually known as the Kantemirovskaya Division or Kantemir Division, is an elite armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces... |
Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , Naro-Fominsk Naro-Fominsk Naro-Fominsk is a town and the administrative center of Naro-Fominsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated southwest from Moscow, on the Nara River. The Moscow – Kiev railway passes through the town. Population: -History:... |
No change | 4th Guards Tank Corps |
5th Guards Tank Division 5th Guards Tank Division The 5th Guards Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Ground Forces and Russian Ground Forces, active from around 1945 to 2009. It drew its heritage from a illustrious Soviet World War II cavalry formation, the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps... |
Transbaikal Military District, Kyakhta Kyakhta Kyakhta is a town in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Kyakhta River near the Russian-Mongolian border. Population: The town stands directly opposite the Mongolian border town of Altanbulag.-History:... |
Now part of Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... |
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 Armed Forces of Belarus The Armed Forces of Belarus consist of the Army and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus... |
63rd Cavalry Division |
7th Guards Tank Division | 3rd Shock Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Dessau Dessau Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it is part of the merged town Dessau-Roßlau. Population of Dessau proper: 77,973 .-Geography:... –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 Armed Forces of Belarus The Armed Forces of Belarus consist of the Army and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus... |
8th Guards Tank Corps |
9th Tank Division 9th Tank Division The 9th Tank Division was a division of the Red Army that saw action briefly in 1941. It was formed in the Central Asian Military District in the summer of 1940. In April 1941 the Division joined the newly formed 27th Mechanised Corps... |
1st Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Riesa Riesa Riesa is a town in the district of Meißen in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is located at the river Elbe, approx. 40 km northwest of Dresden.The world's first 110 kV power line was inaugurated between Riesa and Lauchhammer in 1912.... /Zeithain Zeithain Zeithain is a municipality in the district of Meißen, in Saxony, Germany.During World War II a large prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag IV-B/H, was located here.A memorial and museum commemorate it.-Municipality subdivisions:... |
Disbanded in 1991 (вч пп 60990 позывной-Стрелка выведена в Смоленск) | 9th Tank Corps |
10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division The 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Volunteer Tank Division, also known at the Ural-Lvov Tank Division, is a tank division of the Russian Ground Forces and part of the Moscow Military District's 20th Army, under the command of Lt. General Andrey Tretyak. The division traces its heritage back to 1943,... (Volunteers) |
3rd Shock Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Altengrabow |
Withdrawn to Boguchar, Moscow MD Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... |
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11th Guards Tank Division | 1st Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area.... |
Withdrawn to Slonim Slonim Slonim is a city in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, capital of the Slonim District. It is located at the junction of the Shchara and Isa rivers, 143 km southeast of Hrodna. The population in 2008 was 50,800.-Etymology and historical names:... , Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... , became a Armed Forces of Belarus Armed Forces of Belarus The Armed Forces of Belarus consist of the Army and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus... mechanised brigade |
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12th Guards Tank Division 12th Guards Tank Division The 12th Guards Uman, Orders of Lenin, Red Banner and Suvorov Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Ground Forces. It drew its history from the World War II 16th Tank Corps. It was redesignated successively as 12th Guards Tank Corps and 12th Guards Tank Division .The division was... |
3rd Shock Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Neuruppin Neuruppin Neuruppin is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. Located on the shore of Ruppiner See , it is the capital of the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin. Population: 32,800 .-Overview:... |
Disbanded at Vladikavkaz Vladikavkaz -Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:... in 1991 |
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13th Guards Tank Division | Southern Group of Forces Southern Group of Forces The Southern Group of Forces was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.... , Veszprém Veszprém Veszprém is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county of the same name.-Location:... , Hungary |
Disbanded in 1989 | 13th Guards Rifle Division 13th Guards Rifle Division The 13th Guards Rifle Division was a Soviet Union Red Army infantry division that served with distinction during the Second World War.-Formation:The unit's origin lies with the 87th Rifle Division, a pre-war division, which was established in 1929... |
14th Tank Division | North Caucasian MD North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also includes the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.... , Novocherkassk Novocherkassk Novocherkassk is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Tuzlov River and on the Aksay River. Population: 169,039 ; 170,822 ; 178,000 ; 123,000 ; 81,000 ; 52,000 .... |
Became 100th Division of MVD 1989 | Formed 1972 |
15th Guards Tank Division | Central Group of Forces Central Group of Forces The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.... , Milovice Milovice (Nymburk District) Milovice is a town in the Czech Republic in the Nymburk District located about 38 km northeast of Prague. Towards the end of the year of 2007 the total population has reached 7,500 people.The village was first mentioned in 1396... , Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992... |
Withdrawn to Chebarkul Chebarkul Chebarkul is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Chebarkul Lake west of Chelyabinsk. Population: Founded in 1736 as a fortress on the border between Russian and Bashkir lands, it later grew into a large Cossack stanitsa... , Volga-Ural MD |
15th Guards Cavalry Division |
16th Guards Tank Division | 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Neustrelitz Neustrelitz Neustrelitz is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 1738 until 1918 it was the capital of the duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz... |
Withdrawn to Chaykovsky, Volga-Ural MD, reduced to storage base | 16th Guard Tank Corps |
17th Guards Tank Division | 6th Guards Tank Army, Kiev Military District, Krivoy Rog | Became Ukrainian 17th Guards Armoured Brigade 17th Armored Brigade (Ukraine) The 17th Guards Armored Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Full name of the Brigade is 17th Separate Guards Kryvyi Rih orders of Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade. It was formally known as 17th Guards Tank Division.... |
20th Guards Rifle Division 1945 |
19th Guards Tank Division | Southern Group of Forces, Hungary, Esztergom Esztergom Esztergom , is a city in northern Hungary, 46 km north-west of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom county, on the right bank of the river Danube, which forms the border with Slovakia there.... |
Withdrawn to Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... , reduced to storage base |
2nd Guards Mechanised Corps |
20th Zvenigorodskaya Tank Division | Northern Group of Forces Northern Group of Forces The Northern Group of Forces was the military formation of the Soviet Army stationed in Poland from the end of Second World War in 1945 until 1993 when they were withdrawn in the aftermath of the fall of Soviet Union... , Żagań Zagan Zagan may refer to:*Zagan - a demon in the Ars Goetia*Żagań - a town in west Poland... , Poland |
Disbanded in 1991 | 20th Tank Corps |
21st Guards Tank Division | 35th Army, Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Belogorsk Belogorsk Belogorsk may refer to:*Belogorsk, Amur Oblast, a town in Amur Oblast, Russia*Belogorsk, Kemerovo Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia*Bilohirsk , also known as Belogorsk, a town in Crimea, Ukraine... |
No change | 31st Guards Rifle Division 31st Guards Rifle Division The 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division is a unit of the Russian Ground Forces, within the Far East Military District, formed from the Red Army 31st Guards Rifle Division, an infantry division of World War II which subsequently became a motor-rifle, and ultimately a tank division.-Overview:The... |
23rd Tank Division | 8th Tank Army, Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Ovruch Ovruch Ovruch is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Ovruch Raion . The current estimated population is around 17,000 . It is home to Ovruch air base.... |
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24th Tank Division | Baltic MD Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... , Dobele Dobele Dobele is a town in the cultural region Zemgale in Latvia, and is located near the center of Latvia on the banks of the river Bērze. It received town rights in 1917 whilst being a part of the German occupied Courland Governorate during the First World War... |
Withdrawn to Strugi Krasne, Leningrad MD Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:... , as Motor Rifle Brigade |
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25th Tank Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Vogelsang Templin Templin is a small town in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg, Germany. Though it has a population of only 17,127 , it is with 377.01 km2 the second largest town in Brandenburg and the seventh largest town in Germany by area... |
Disbanded 1989 | |
26th Guards Tank Division | Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , Kovrov Kovrov Kovrov is a city and the administrative center of Kovrovsky District of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, situated on the right bank of the Klyazma River . Kovrov's population as of the preliminary results of the 2010 Census was 145,492; down from 155,499 recorded in the 2002 Census, and further down from... |
Reorganised as District Training Centre | 53rd Guards 'Tartus' Red Banner Rifle Division |
27th Tank Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... , Zavatinsk |
Reduced to storage base | |
28th Tank Division | 28th Army, Belarus Military District, Slonim Slonim Slonim is a city in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, capital of the Slonim District. It is located at the junction of the Shchara and Isa rivers, 143 km southeast of Hrodna. The population in 2008 was 50,800.-Etymology and historical names:... |
Reduced to equipment base, became part of Belarus armed forces | 8th Mechanised Corps |
29th Tank Division | 5th Guards Tank Army, Belarus Military District, Slutsk Slutsk Slutsk is a town in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400).-Geography:The town is situated in the south-west of its Voblast, not too far from from the city of Soligorsk.-History:... |
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30th Guards Tank Division | 8th Tank Army, Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Novograd-Volinsky Novohrad-Volynskyi Novohrad-Volynskyi is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine... |
Now 30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) 30th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) The 30th Mechanized Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.The full name of the Brigade is 30th Separate Guards Mechanized Novohrad-Volynskyi Rivne Orders of the Red Banner and Suvorov Brigade, .-World War II:... |
13th Guards Cavalry Division |
31st Tank Division | 28th Army Corps, Central Group of Forces Central Group of Forces The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions: in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968.... , Bruntál Bruntál Bruntál is a town located near the western boundary of Moravian-Silesian Region, in Czech Silesia. A suitable position in the middle of the Jeseníky Mountains provides an ample number of touristic opportunities to the town... |
Withdrawn to Moscow MD Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , amalgamated with another division |
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32nd Guards Tank Division | 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Jüterbog Jüterbog Jüterbog is a historic town in north-eastern Germany, located in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg. It is located on the Nuthe river at the northern slope of the Fläming hill range, about southwest of Berlin.-History:... |
Disbanded 1989 | 116th Guards Rifle Division |
34th Tank Division | 7th Tank Army, Belorussian Military District, Borisov Barysau Barysaw , also transliterated Barysau, is a city in Belarus situated near the Berezina River in the Minsk Voblast.-History:... |
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 Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.... , Sovetsk Sovetsk Sovetsk may refer to:*Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia: formerly named Tilsit*Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast, a town in Kirov Oblast, Russia*Sovetsk, Tula Oblast, a town in Tula Oblast, Russia... |
Reduced to tank brigade, then storage base | |
41st Guards Tank Division | 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District, Uman Uman Uman is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine, to the east of Vinnytsia. The city rests on the banks of the Umanka River at around , and serves as the self-governing administrative center of the Umanskyi Raion .... |
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 Division | Ural Military District, Kamyshin Kamyshin Kamyshin is a city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volgograd Reservoir of the Volga River, in the estuary of the Kamyshinka River. Population: 101,000 ; 24,000 .... |
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 Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Hillersleben |
Withdrawn to Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , amalgamated |
47th Guards Rifle Division |
48th Guards Tank Division | Oster, Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... |
Became 169th Dist Trng Centre, Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... |
5th Guards Airborne Division |
49th Tank Division | Transbaikal Military District Transbaikal Military District The Transbaikal Military District was a military district of first the Military of the Soviet Union and then the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formed on May 17, 1935 and included the Buryat Republic, Chita Oblast, and Yakutia. Chita was the headquarters of the district... , Chita Chita -Places:* Chita, Aichi, a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan* Chita District, Aichi, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan* Chita Peninsula, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan* Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, a city in Russia... |
Became 212th Dist Trng Centre | Formed 1965 as MR training division; by 1989 49 TD |
51st Tank Division | 39th Army, Bogandur, Mongolia | Withdrawn, reduced to storage base | Formed 1967 |
60th Tank Division | Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... |
Disbanded 1990 | Formed from 60 RD? 1947 |
65th Tank Division | Moscow Military District Moscow Military District The Moscow Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District.-History:In the beginning of... , Ryazan? |
'Spare' division (cadre?) | |
67th Tank Division | Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... |
'Spare' division (cadre?) | Reduced to storage base, post 1989 |
68th Tank Division | Siberian Military District Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.- History :... |
'Spare' division (cadre?) | Reduced to storage base, post 1989 |
75th Guards Tank Division | Kiev Military District Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District was a Russian unit of military-administrative division of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Ukrainian Army, RKKA, and Soviet Armed Forces... , Chuguyev |
Disbanded 1989 | 75th Guards Rifle Division 75th Guards Rifle Division The 75th Guards Rifle Division was a Red Army infantry division during World War II and afterwards, which later became the 75th Guards Tank Division and was finally disbanded in the 1990s.-Background:The Division was formed in the Tula area in September 1942 on the basis of units of the 13th... , 1965(?) |
76th Tank Division | Belorussian Military District Belorussian Military District The Byelorussian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally in the times of Russian Civil War it formed as the Western Front, and in April 1924 it was renamed to the Western Military District. In October 1926 it was redesignated the Belorussian Military... , Brest Brest, Belarus Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet... |
Reduced to storage base, 1989 | |
77th Tank Division | Far Eastern Military District Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific Fleet and part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Eastern Military District.... |
Reduced to storage base, post 1989 | 264th Rifle Division |
78th Tank Division | Ayaguz Ayaguz Ayagoz or Ayakoz City of regional submission in Kazakhstan, administrative centre Ayagoz districts of the East Kazakhstan area. It's located in eastern Kazakhstan, till both parties of the proceeding river Ayagoz. The population is over 40,000 .... , Turkestan Military District Turkestan Military District The Turkestan Military District was a military district of both the Imperial Russian Army and the Soviet Armed Forces, with its headquarters at Tashkent. The District was first created during the 1874 Russian military reform when by order of Minister D.A. Milyutinym the territory of Russia was... |
Became part of Kazakh armed forces Military of Kazakhstan The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan , is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan... |
78th Rifle Division 78th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 78th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed in 1932, in Novosibirsk, in the Siberian Military District. After being used to provide cadres for new divisions, in September 1939 the division was reformed for the second time... |
79th Tank Division | 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Jena Jena Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document... |
Disbanded 1992 | 79th Guards Rifle Division |
90th Guards Tank Division 90th Guards Tank Division The 90th Guards Tank Division was a division of the Soviet Army, and then of the Russian Ground Forces. It was first activated in 1932 as the 82nd Rifle Division. In 1939 it was renamed the 82nd Motorized Rifle Division, and the same year took part in the Battle of Khalkin Gol. It was renamed the... |
20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany and the Western Group of Forces were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany.... , Bernau Bernau bei Berlin Bernau bei Berlin is a German town in the Barnim district. The town is located about northeast of Berlin.-History:... |
Withdrawn to Soviet Union | 6th Guards Mechanised Corps |
117th Guards Tank Division | Carpathian Military District Carpathian Military District The Carpathian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1945 after the conclusion of the Second World War to 1990-91. It became part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command later in the 1990s.Two... , Berdychiv Berdychiv Berdychiv is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion , the city itself is of direct oblast subordinance, and is located south of the oblast capital, Zhytomyr, at around .The current estimated population is around... |
Became 119th District Training Centre of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces are the land force component of the Military of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Army formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts , that were on Ukrainian soil when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990-92.Between the fall of the USSR and... |
111th Guards Rifle Division |
193rd Tank Division 193rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 193rd Tank Division was originally a Red Army infantry division that was reorganised after World War II as a mechanised and finally a tank division of the Soviet Army.- 1st Formation :... |
Belorussian Military District Belorussian Military District The Byelorussian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally in the times of Russian Civil War it formed as the Western Front, and in April 1924 it was renamed to the Western Military District. In October 1926 it was redesignated the Belorussian Military... |
Reduced to storage base | 193rd Rifle Division |
Divisions of the Airborne Forces
- 7th Guards Cherkassy Airborne Division (KaunasKaunasKaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...
, Lithuanian SSRLithuanian SSRThe Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Lithuanian SSR, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union...
) - 76th Guards Chernigov Airborne Division (PskovPskovPskov is an ancient city and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population: -Early history:...
, RSFSR) - 98th Guards Svir Airborne Division98th Guards Airborne DivisionThe 98th Guards Airborne Division is an airborne division of the Russian Airborne Troops, stationed in Ivanovo. It took part in the 2008 South Ossetian War....
(BolgradBolhradBolhrad sometimes known as Bolgrad is a small city in Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Bolhrad Raion , and is located at around ....
& KishinevChisinauChișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...
, Moldovan SSR) - 103rd Guards Airborne Division (VitebskVitebskVitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...
, Belorussian SSR) - 104th Guards Airborne Division (KirovabadKirovabadKirovabad can refer to:* The former name of Ganja, the second largest city in Azerbaijan.* The former name of Panj or Pyandzh a city in Tajikistan.* Kirovabad pogrom - pogrom in Kirovabad formerly Ganja....
, Azerbaijan SSRAzerbaijan SSRThe Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Azerbaijan SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union....
) - 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division106th Guards Tula Airborne Division (Russia)The 106th Guards Tula Red Banner Twice Order of Kutuzov Airborne Division, more generally referred to as the Tula Division, was one of the four airborne divisions of the Russian Airborne Troops, the VDV...
(TulaTula, RussiaTula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...
, RSFSR) - 242nd District Training Centre of the Airborne Forces242nd Training CentreThe 242nd Training Centre of the Airborne Forces is a brigade-sized training formation of the Russian Airborne Troops.To prepare sergeants and junior specialists for airborne units in accordance with a directive of the Commander Soviet Ground Forces, the 4th Training Airborne Division was formed...
(GaižiūnaiGaižiūnaiGaižiūnai is a village in Jonava district municipality, Lithuania. It is situated on the Taurosta River, tributary of Neris, about southeast of Jonava and northeast of Kaunas. The railroad from Šiauliai forks into Kaunas and Vilnius near the village...
/JonavaJonavaJonava is the ninth largest city in Lithuania with a population of ca 35,000.It is located in Kaunas County in central Lithuania, north east of Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. It is served by Kaunas International Airport. The largest fertilizer factory in the Baltic states is...
, Lithuanian SSRLithuanian SSRThe Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Lithuanian SSR, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union...
) 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)
Sources and 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 is not totally accurate, as some other information from it has been shown to be incorrect. Alternate information is welcome!
External links
- http://www.soldat.ru/force/sssr/sp/division/through.html - expanded list of divisions from updated sources (Russian)