51st Guards Vitebskaya order of Lenin Red Banner Motorised Rifle Division imeni K.E. Voroshilov

51-я гвардейская мотострелковая Витебская ордена Ленина Краснознамённая дивизия имени К.Е. Ворошилова

Military Unit: 24502

Activated 25.6.57 in Ventspils, Latvian SSR, from the 51st Guards Rifle Division.

Organisation 1960:

• 154th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 156th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 158th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 246th Guards Tank Regiment (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 000 Guards Artillery Regiment (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 000Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 00 independent Guards Sapper Battalion (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 00 independent Guards Communications Battalion (Volkovysk, GroVentspils, Latvian SSR)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 00 independent Medical-Sanitary Battalion (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)
• 000 independent Motor Transport Battalion (Ventspils, Latvian SSR)

Disbanded 10.1.59.

Headquarters:

• Ventspils, Latvian SSR, 6.57 - 1.59

Subordination:

• 10th Army Corps, 6.57 - 1.59