116th Motorised Rifle Division

116-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 03542

Activated 1968 in Murmansk (Nagornyy), Murmansk Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1988:

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

1.10.89 renamed 5187th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 1993.

Storage Areas:

• Murmansk (Nagornyy), Murmansk Oblast, 1968 - 1993

Subordination:

• 6th Combined Arms Army, 1968 - 1992

Equipment 12.85:

• 0 men, 102 T-54/55, 157 GT-S, 62 GT-T, 69 MT-LB, 18 122mm M-30

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 40 T-55, 39 PT-76, 12 BM-21 Grad, 12 PM-38, 18 BTR-50PUM, 2 BTR-50PU, 4 R-145BM, 1 R-156BTR, 2 UR-67, 4 MTU and 96 MT-LBT

Divisional coordinates:

• Murmansk storage [US designation: Murmansk Army Barracks Nagornovskiy AL 5]: 68 53 54N, 33 06 06E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division), Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing.