50th Tank Division

50-я танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 75098

Activated 28.12.68 in Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast, to replace the 31st Tank Division, which had been transferred to Czechoslovakia.

Activated as a mobilisation division, unmanned, with a unit equipment set in storage.

Organisation 1987:

• 469th Tank Regiment (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 521st Tank Regiment (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 559th Tank Regiment (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 0000 Artillery Regiment (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 0000 Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Communications Battalion (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 000 independent Medical Company (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)

1.12.87 renamed 686th Territorial Training Center.

1.7.89 renamed 5358th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 1.6.90.

Headquarters:

• Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast, 12.68 - 6.90

Subordination:

• 8th Tank Army, 12.68 - 6.90

Equipment 1.12.85:

• 1900 men, 313 T-64A, 57 BMP-1, 18 BTR-60, 36 122mm D-30, 18 122mm M-30

Divisional coordinates:

• Zhitomir barracks/storage [US designation: Zhitomir Army Barracks Northwest AL 2]: 50 17 06N, 28 36 45E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing. During the early 1980's slowly upgraded to a Not Ready Division - Low-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).