72nd Reserve Tank Division

72-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 11900

Activated 1973 in Varfolomeevka, Primorskiy Kray, as a mobilisation division.

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

Organisation 1987:

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

Equipped with 300 T-54, T-34/85, SU-100 and ISU-152.

Disbanded 1.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Varfolomeevka, Primorskiy Kray, 1973 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 1973 - 10.89

Divisional coordinates:

• Varfolomeevka storage: 44 16 12N, 133 23 45E

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