204th Motorised Rifle Division

204-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 05780

Activated 1981 in Uman, Cherkasskaya Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (41st Guards Tank Division).

Organisation 1988:

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

1.12.87 renamed 851st Territorial Training Center.

1.7.89 renamed 5193rd Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Storage Areas:

Uman, Cherkasskaya Oblast, 1981 - 1.92

Subordination:

1st Guards Combined Arms Army, 1981 - 1.92

Equipment 12.85:

650 men, 218 T-54/55, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

210 T-54, 11 BMP-1, 11 BRM-1K, 12 9P138 Grad, 27 R-145BM, 1 R-156BTR, 2 UR-67, 6 MT-55A and 22 MT-LBT

Divisional coordinates:

Uman storage/barracks [US designation: Uman Army Barracks AL 2]: 48 46 05N, 30 12 42E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Base). Equipment set present, older types, with APC and most trucks missing.