262nd Reserve Motorised Rifle Division

262-я запасная мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 21489

Activated 1981 in Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast, 1981 - 1987

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 1981 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Svobodnyy storage: 51 23 51N, 128 05 31E

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