255th Reserve Motorised Rifle Division

255-я запасная мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 21554

Activated 1979 in Kursk, Kursk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1987:

• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 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)
• 000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Communications Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 000 independent Medical Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)
• 0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Kursk, Kursk Oblast)

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Kursk, Kursk Oblast, 1979 - 1987

Subordination:

• Moscow Military District, 1979 - 1987

Divisional coordinates:

• Kursk barracks/storage [US designation: Kursk Training Area and Barracks River Seym]: 51 42 16N, 36 17 56E - co-located with the 196th Motorised Rifle Division

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