143rd Motorised Rifle Division

143-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 1978 in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, 1978 - 1987

Subordination:

• Transbaykal Military District, 1978 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Irkutsk storage: 52 10 25N, 103 57 45E

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