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List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–1991

This article is an (incomplete) listing of Soviet Ground Forces divisions in 1990, and corresponding information about their later status in 2006.

The Soviets maintained their units at varying degrees of readiness in peacetime, and divided their ground units into two broad readiness categories:

  • Развернутая – Ready (expanded, filled up) A unit was considered Ready, if it could conduct combat operations with little or no mobilisation.
  • Неразвернутая – Not Ready

Some divisions are referred to as 'Reserve' (there is a Russian article for reserve unit at ). The Russian word for reserve () literally translates as 'Spare'. The personnel went on the reserve rolls, and for officers and NCOs this means they add 'v zapase' to their rank (e.g. kapitan v zapase). The unit itself changes readiness status from A, to either B (Б), V (В) or G (Г). This means a higher degree of equipment conservation, lower training and operational performance, etc.

The abbreviation BKhVT means Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Motor rifle divisions

Mobilisation divisions

  • 250th Reserve Motor Rifle Division (not listed by Holm)
  • 279th Reserve Motor Rifle Division (?)

Tank divisions

Earlier designations of 1989 units include the 27th Guards Tank Division (79 GTD), 33rd Gds TD (15 GTD), and 35th Gds (41st), 10th (1945–57 designation of 34th Tank Division), 15th (later 78th Tank Division).

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

Divisions active 1946–59 include the 1st Guards Tank Division (1945–47), 3rd, and the 111th/16th, redesignated as the 16th in 1955 and disbanded in 1957. Heavy tank divisions active 1957–60 include the 5th, and the 17th (1956–60). Divisions active 1945–47 include the 5th (ex 5th Tank Corps), the 11th Tank Division (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast), the 18th (1945–47, Gaysin), and the 19th (Ploesti, Romania, and Odesa).

Mobilisation tank divisions included the 69th (Ust-Kamenogorsk), and the 70th–74th Reserve ("Spare") Tank Divisions.

Artillery divisions

Mobilization artillery divisions

Divisions of the airborne forces

Rear divisions

Anti-aircraft artillery divisions

Anti-aircraft rocket and artillery divisions

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
  • 34 Ind Motor Rifle Battalion 1962<-71 MRD ←427 MRR 1958 ←376th Mountain Rifle Division ← 48 Ind Rifle Brigade <- 376th Rifle Division
  • Disbanded 1960←143 Gds MRD 1957←72G Mech Div 1946(1955) ←110 GRD
  • Disbanded 1958 < 144 MRD 1957 < 97th Rifle Division 1946 (1955)

Divisions of the Air Forces

List of aviation divisions that existed in the Soviet Air Forces at the beginning of 1989. It includes military formations of the Long-Range Aviation, Military Transport Aviation, Fighter-Bomber Aviation and Fighter Aviation.

  • Notes:
  1. The list contains Second World War air divisions, which are the predecessors of the listed formations.
  2. The list does not include the 17th Fighter Aviation Division, which, according to some sources, is subordinate to the 73rd Air Army (49th Air Army to 1989) Turkestan Military District, and in others – 12th Independent Air Defence Army.

Divisions of the Internal Troops

Sources:

See also

Notes

References

  • V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004
  • Note: this source has significant inaccuracies, as some other information from it has been shown to be incorrect. Alternate information is welcome!
  • https://shop.eastview.com/results/item?SKU=990862B Improved version of 2004 work with many inaccuracies corrected.

See also

External links

  • http://www.soldat.ru/force/sssr/sp/division/through.html&nbsp;– expanded list of divisions from updated sources (Russian)