48th independent Landing-Assault Battalion

48-й отдельный десантно-штурмовой батальон

Military Unit: 45476

Activated 1.80 in Khyrov, Lvov Oblast, from a battalion of the 39th independent Landing-Assault Brigade.

25.2.80 deployed over the Afghan border, and had arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, before 24.3.80.

1.5.80 absorbed by the 66th independent Motorised Rifle Brigade - now stationed at Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Bases:

• Khyrov, Lvov Oblast, 1.80 - 31.1.80 [49 31 37N, 22 50 49E]

• Termez, Surkhandar'inskaya Oblast, 31.1.80 - 25.2.80

Subordination:

• 39th independent Landing-Assault Brigade, 1.80 - 2.80

• 40th Combined Arms Army, 2.80 - 1.3.80

• 66th independent Motorised Rifle Brigade, 1.3.80 - 1.5.80