124th Motorised Rifle Division

124-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 21432

Activated 1970 in Ussuriysk, Primorskiy Kray, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (123rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Ussuriysk, Primorskiy Kray, 1970 - 1987

Subordination:

• 5th Combined Arms Army, 1970 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Ussuriysk storage: 43 49 12N, 131 55 23E

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