59th Reserve Tank Division

59-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 30684

Activated 1972 in Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned - in case of mobilisation, the division would have been manned by personnel from the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast, 1972 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Ural Military District, 1972 - 10.89

Divisional coordinates:

• Chebarkul storage: 55 00 14N, 60 23 27E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division) - manning was 0%. Equipment set present, older types, substantial equipment shortfalls.