159th Motorised Rifle
Division
159-я мотострелковая
дивизия
Military Unit: 00000
Activated 1980 in Simferopol (Perevalnoye), Crimean Oblast, as a mobilisation
division.
Initially with T-55, no APC, 100mm AT guns as artillery and
BM-24.
Organisation 1988:
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000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 Tank Regiment (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 Artillery Regiment (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Missile Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Communications Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Sovetskoye,
Crimean Oblast)
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000 independent Medical Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
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0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast)
1.12.87 renamed 711th Territorial Training Center.
Disbanded 1989.
Storage Areas:
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Simferopol (Perevalnoye), Crimean Oblast, 1980 - 8.82
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Sovetskoye, Crimean Oblast, 8.82 - 1989
Subordination:
Equipment 12.85:
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1300 men, 217 T-54/55, 3 BTR-40, 3 BTR-60
Divisional coordinates:
- Perevalnoye barracks [US designation: Simferopol Army Barracks Angara AL
6]: 44 50 23N, 34 19 45E
- Sovetskoye storage/barracks [US designation: Sovetskiy Army Barracks AL
1]: 45 20 59N, 34 56 07E
The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms:
Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older types,
with some APC and most trucks missing.