61st Reserve Tank Division

61-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 30669

Activated 1972 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (34th Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, 1972 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Ural Military District, 1972 - 10.89

Divisional coordinates:

• Sverdlovsk storage: 56 46 12N, 60 34 40E - co-located with the 34th Motorised Rifle Division

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