16th Verkhnedneprovskiy order of the Red Star Pontoon-Bridge Regiment

16-й понтонно-мостовой Верхнеднепровский ордена Красной Звезды полк

Military Unit: 75110

Activated 20.8.45 in Kiev, Kiev Oblast, as the 16th Pontoon-Bridge Regiment, from the 122nd independent Motorised Pontoon-Bridge Battalion.

10.12.79 mobilised, and deployed to Termez, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast, for bridgelaying operations over the river Amu Darya - later stationed in Mazar-Sharif, Afghanistan - returned home 28.8.80.

29.4.86 to 13.11.90 partly deployed to Orane, Kiev Oblast (51 03 18N, 30 06 52E) for clean-up operations after the Chernobyl disaster

1.10.91 renamed 210th Pontoon-Bridge Brigade.

19.1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Headquarters:

• Kiev, Kiev Oblast, 1945 - 1.92

Subordination:

• Kiev Military District, 1945 - 1.92

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 7 IRM

Regiment coordinates:

• Kiev barracks: 50 30 39N, 30 28 00E (Gorodok 41)