8th Fortified Area

8-й Укреплённый Район

Military Unit: 47995

Activated 5.70 in Batumi (Erge), Adzharskaya ASSR, from the 51st Fortified Area (existed since 1945).

Organisation 1970-1992:

• 4th independent Machine-Gun Artillery Battalion
• 7th independent Machine-Gun Artillery Battalion
• 8th independent Machine-Gun Artillery Battalion
• 9th independent Machine-Gun Artillery Battalion
• 000 independent Engineer-Sapper Company
• 000 independent Communications Company

Disbanded 5.92.

Subordination:

• 31st Army Corps, 5.70 - 5.92

Main base:

• Batumi (Erge), Adzharskaya ASSR, 5.70 - 5.92 [41 33 47N, 41 41 24E]