156th Motorised Rifle Division

156-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 68194

Activated 6.68 in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray, (initially as a mobilisation division), to replace the 73rd Motorised Rifle Division, which was transferred to the Far East.

Organisation 1988:

• 392nd Motorised Rifle Regiment (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray) - from the 73rd Motorised Rifle Division
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Tank Regiment (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 Artillery Regiment (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Communications Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 000 independent Medical Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)

1.12.87 renamed 880th Territorial Training Center.

1.10.89 renamed 5383rd Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 1992.

Storage Areas:

• Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray, 6.68 - 1992

Subordination:

• 29th Army Corps, 6.68 - 7.69
• 12th Army Corps, 7.69 - 1992

Equipment 12.85:

• 1300 men, 156 T-54/55, 31 T-62, 24 BMP-1, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 38 R-145BM and 49 MT-LBT

Divisional coordinates:

• Novorossiysk barracks/storage [US designation: Novorossiysk Army Barracks West AL 2]: 44 44 08N, 37 44 21E

The division was maintained as a Not Ready Division - Low-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).