50th Tank Division

50-я танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 75098

Activated 28.12.68 in Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast, to replace the 31st Tank Division, which had been transferred to Czechoslovakia.

Activated as a mobilisation division, unmanned, with a unit equipment set in storage.

Organisation 1987:

1.12.87 renamed 686th Territorial Training Center.

1.7.89 renamed 5358th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 1.6.90.

Headquarters:

Subordination:

Equipment 1.12.85:

Divisional coordinates:

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing. During the early 1980's slowly upgraded to a Not Ready Division - Low-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).