16th Artillery Division

16-я артиллерийская дивизия

Military Unit: 53956

Activated 5.82 in Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast, as a mobilisation division, to replace the 12th Artillery Division, which was transferred to the Irkutsk Oblast.

Organisation 1988:

• 000 Howitzer Artillery Brigade (Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast)
• 000 Cannon Artillery Brigade (Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast)
• 000 Reactive Artillery Brigade (Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast)

1.10.89 renamed 1874th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base (Artillery).

Disbanded 1994.

Headquarters:

• Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast, 5.82 - 1994

Subordination:

• Moscow Military District, 5.82 - 1994

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 174 MT-LBT

Divisional coordinates:

• Kalinin (Tver) barracks: 56 51 17N, 35 50 19E