73rd Reserve Tank Division

73-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 31635

Activated 1973 in Kazan, Tatarskaya ASSR, as a mobilisation division.

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

Organisation 1987:

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

Disbanded 1.10.89.

Headquarters:

• Kazan, Tatarskaya ASSR, 1973 - 10.89

Subordination:

• Volga Military District, 1973 - 10.89

Divisional coordinates:

• Kazan storage: 55 42 42N, 49 11 05E

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