37th Motorised Rifle Division

37-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 02592

Activated 1969 in Chernaya Rechka, Leningrad Oblast, as a mobilisation division, from the 14th independent Machine-Gun Artillery Regiment.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (63rd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1988:

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

1.10.89 renamed 3807th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 1993.

Storage Areas:

• Chernaya Rechka, Leningrad Oblast, 1969 - 1993

Subordination:

• 30th Guards Army Corps, 1969 - 1993

Equipment 12.85:

• no data

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 94 T-54, 23 MT-LBT, 32 100mm BS-3, 12 130mm M-46 and 1 BTR-50PUM

Divisional coordinates:

• Chernaya Rechka /barracks/storage [US designation: Leningrad Army Barracks Chernaya Rech AL 19]: 60 10 49N, 30 09 11E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division) - manning was 0%. Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing.