253rd Reserve Motorised Rifle Division

253-я запасная мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 21449

Activated 1979 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (100th Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1988:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, 1979 - 1987

Subordination:

• Transcaucasus Military District, 1979 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Tbilisi storage: 41 41 03N, 44 50 47E - co-located with the 100th Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division

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