63rd Reserve Tank Division

63-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 21764

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

The division was unmanned - in case of mobilisation, the division would have been manned by personnel from the Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political Tank-Artillery School.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, 1972 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Ural Military District, 1972 - 10.89

Divisional coordinates:

• Verkhnyaya Pyshma: 56 58 41N, 60 36 29E

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