196th Motorised Rifle Division

196-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 52299

Activated 1978 in Kursk, Kursk Oblast, initially as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1987:

• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 595th Motorised Rifle Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 Tank Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 Artillery Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 353rd independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 455th independent Communications Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 99th independent Medical Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)

Equipped with T-62, ISU-152, 85mm SD-44, 120mm PM-38, Frog-7, BTR and trucks.

In 9.87 renamed 1045th Territorial Training Center.

25.1.89 disbanded.

Storage Areas:

• Kursk, Kursk Oblast, 1978 - 1989

Subordination:

• Moscow Military District, 1978 - 1989

Equipment 12.85:

• 1400 men, 120 T-54/55, 94 T-62, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Divisional coordinates:

• Kursk barracks/storage [US designation: Kursk Training Area and Barracks River Seym]: 51 42 16N, 36 17 56E

The division was maintained as a Not Ready Division - Low-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).