57th Reserve Tank Division

57-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 55613

Activated 1971 in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned - in case of mobilisation, the division would have been manned by personnel from the Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School.

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, 1971 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 1971 - 10.89

Divisional coordinates:

• Blagoveshchensk storage: 50 21 06N, 127 35 04E

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