52nd Tank Division

52-я танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 35462

Activated 1969 in Zhdanovka, Donetsk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (22nd Guards Tank Division).

Organisation 1987:

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

1.12.87 renamed 722nd Territorial Training Center.

1.7.89 renamed 5359th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base - included the T-64 tanks from the 32nd Guards Tank Division.

Disbanded 6.91.

Headquarters:

• Zhdanovka, Donetsk Oblast, 1969 - 6.91

Subordination:

• 6th Guards Tank Army, 1969 - 6.91

Equipment 12.85:

• 650 men, 3 BTR-60, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 314 T-64, 24 BMP-1, 15 BRM-1K, 20 PM-38, 27 R-145BM, 7 R-137B, 2 R-156BTR, 3 BTR-50PUM, 2 PU-12, 1 PRP-3 and 3 UR-67

Divisional coordinates:

• Zhdanovka /barracks/storage [US designation: Zhdanovka Army Barracks AL 1]: 48 08 28N, 38 15 19E (Divisional HQ, and all attached units)

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