165th Motorised Rifle Division

165-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 31612

Activated 1978 in Poroshino (Elanskiy), Sverdlovsk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1988:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Poroshino (Elanskiy), Sverdlovsk Oblast, 1978 - 1987

Subordination:

• Ural Military District, 1978 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Poroshino storage: 56 49 55N, 62 29 58E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division) - manning was 0%. Equipment set present, older types, substantial equipment shortfalls.