200th Motorised Rifle Division

200-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 18626

Activated 1981 in Piryatin, Poltava Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (25th Guards Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1988:

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

1.12.87 renamed 850th Territorial Training Center.

1.7.89 renamed 5196th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

1.6.91 absorbed by the 4214th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Storage Areas:

• Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, 1981 - 8.82
• Piryatin, Poltava Oblast, 8.82 - 6.91

Subordination:

• 1st Guards Combined Arms Army, 1981 - 6.91

Equipment 12.85:

• 2000 men, 3 BTR-152

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 187 T-64, 11 BMP-1, 15 BRM-1K, 12 BM-21 Grad, 30 R-145BM, 3 RKhM-4, 2 UR-67, 6 MT-55A and 22 MT-LBT

Divisional coordinates:

• Belaya Tserkov barracks [US designation: Belaya Tserkov Army Barracks AL 2]: 49 49 46N, 30 04 36E
• Piryatin barracks/storage [US Designation: Piryatin Army Barracks AL 2]: 50 12 44N, 32 29 19E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Base). Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing. Upgraded with newer weapons in 1989-1990 from the 25th Guards Motorised Rifle Division.