247th Motorised Rifle Division

247-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 1978 in Drovyanaya, Chita Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Drovyanaya, Chita Oblast, 1978 - 1987

Subordination:

• Transbaykal Military District, 1978 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Drovyanaya storage: 51 33 53N, 113 02 22E

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