27th Training Tank Division

27-я учебная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 30644; from 1981: 57483

Activated 2.78 in Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast, as the 125th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation).

14.9.81 converted to a regular division, and renamed 27th Training Tank Division.

Organisation 1981:

• 121st Training Tank Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 451st Training Tank Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 453rd Training Tank Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 1120th Training Motorised Rifle Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 1077th Training Artillery Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 0000 Training Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 41st independent Training Tank Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast) - equipped with amphibious tanks
• 000 independent Training Missile Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 339th independent Training Reconnaissance Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 615th independent Training Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Training Communications Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Training Chemical Defence Company (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Training Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 361st independent Training Medical Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Motor Transport Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)

3.10.87 renamed 395th District Training Center.

Organisation 1988:

• 121st Training Tank Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 451st Training Tank Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 453rd Training Tank Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 1120th Training Motorised Rifle Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 1077th Training Artillery Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 0000 Training Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 41st independent Training Tank Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast) - equipped with amphibious tanks
• 000 independent Training Missile Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 339th independent Training Reconnaissance Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 615th independent Training Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Training Communications Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Training Chemical Defence Company (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Training Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 361st independent Training Medical Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)
• 000 independent Motor Transport Battalion (Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast)

Disbanded 1994.

Headquarters:

• Zavitinsk, Amur Oblast, 2.78 - 1994

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 2.78 - 1994

Divisional coordinates:

• Zavitinsk barracks [US designation: Zavitinsk Army Barracks AL 1]: 50 05 15N, 129 25 37E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division) - manning was 0%, but from 1981 maintained as a Not Ready Division - High-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).