113th Motorised Rifle Division

113-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 30169

Activated 1978 in Goryachiy Klyuch, Krasnodar Kray, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (9th Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1988:

• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Tank Regiment (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Artillery Regiment (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Communications Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Medical Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)
• 0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Molkino, Krasnodar Kray)

Disbanded 10.87.

Storage Areas:

• Goryachiy Klyuch, Krasnodar Kray, 1978 - 1981
• Molkino, Krasnodar Kray, 1981 - 1987

Subordination:

• 12th Army Corps, 1978 - 1987

Equipment 12.85:

• 1000 men, 187 T-54/55, 12 BMP-1, 60 BTR-40, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Divisional coordinates:

• Molkino storage [US designation: Bakinskaya Army Barracks Northwest AL 1]: 44 47 39N, 39 13 22E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older types, substantial equipment shortfalls. During 1980's slowly upgraded to a Not Ready Division - Low-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).