115th Motorised Rifle Division

115-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 22188; from 1987: 20717

Activated 1968 in Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1988:

501st Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
504th Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
507th Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 Tank Regiment (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 Artillery Regiment (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Missile Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Communications Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
000 independent Medical Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)
0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast)

1.12.87 renamed 000 Territorial Training Center.

1.10.89 renamed 5188th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 1993.

Storage Areas:

Ivanteevo, Novgorod Oblast, 1968 - 1993

Subordination:

26th Army Corps, 1968 - 1993

Equipment 12.85:

1000 men, 59 T-54/55, 3 GT-T, 3 MT-LB, 18 122mm M-30

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

33 T-55, 39 PT-76, 12 BM-21 Grad, 16 BTR-50PUM, 6 R-145BM and 4 MTU

Divisional coordinates [the division was divided between two locations]:

Vladimirskiy Lager barracks [US designation: Strugi Krasnyye Army Barracks Vladimirskiy Lager AL 1]: 58 13 18N, 29 03 42E
Ivanteevo storage [US designation: Yedrovo Barracks] : 57 47 13N, 33 09 15E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing.