16th Motorised Rifle
Division
16-я мотострелковая
дивизия
Military Unit: 13282
Activated 1968 in Petrozavodsk (Vilga), Karelian ASSR, as a
mobilisation division.
Organisation 1988:
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000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 Tank Regiment (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 Artillery Regiment (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Missile Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Communications Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Petrozavodsk,
Karelian ASSR)
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000 independent Medical Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
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0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
1.10.89 renamed 5186th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.
Disbanded 1993.
Storage Areas:
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Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, 1968 - 11.81
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Petrozavodsk (Vilga), Karelian ASSR, 11.81 - 1993
Subordination:
Equipment 12.85:
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950 men, 120 T-54/55, 94 GT-S, 37 GT-T, 6 MT-LB, 18 122mm M-30
Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):
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40 T-55, 39 PT-76, 12 BM-21 Grad, 14 BTR-50PUM, 7 BTR-50PU, 6
R-145BM, 1 R-156BTR, 4 MTU and 96 MT-LBT
Divisional coordinates:
- Arkhangelsk barracks [US designation: Arkhangelsk Army Barracks
Isakogorka AL 8]: 64 25 10N, 40 38 40E
- Petrozavodsk (Vilga) storage [US designation: Petrozavodsk Ordnance
Depot DO 2]: 61 49 02N, 34 04 11E
The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US
terms: Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older
types, with some APC and most trucks missing.