209th Motorised Rifle Division

209-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 35668

Activated 1980 in Azadbash, Tashkent Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Azadbash, Tashkent Oblast, 1980 - 1987

Subordination:

• Turkestan Military District, 1980 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Azadbash storage: 41 33 39N, 69 40 35E

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