146th Motorised Rifle Division

146-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 20666

Activated 1.12.81 in Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (17th Guards Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1988:

• 1035th Motorised Rifle Regiment (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 Motorised Rifle Regiment (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 Tank Regiment (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 Artillery Regiment (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 0000 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 0000 independent Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Reconnaissance Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Communications Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Chemical Defence Company (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 000 independent Medical Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 0000 independent Material Supply Battalion (Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)

1.12.87 renamed 664th Territorial Training Center.

1.7.89 renamed 5194th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

1.6.91 absorbed by the 6242nd Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Storage Areas:

• Yarmolintsy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast, 12.81 - 6.91

Subordination:

• 13th Combined Arms Army, 12.81 - 6.85
• 38th Combined Arms Army, 6.85 - 6.91

Equipment 1.12.85:

• 1750 men, 214 T-54/55, 106 BTR-60, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1, 18 100mm T-12/MT-12 (used as artillery)

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• 43 T-64, 123 BTR-70, 30 BTR-60, 36 BMP-1, 15 BRM-1K, 12 BM-21 Grad, 38 PM-38, 5 MTU, 28 R-145BM, 2 R-156BTR, 6 RKhM and 1 UR-67

Divisional coordinates:

• Yarmolintsy barracks/storage [US designation: Yarmolintsy Army Barracks AL 1]: 49 10 43N, 26 47 40E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Base). Equipment set present, older types, with some APC and most trucks missing. Upgraded with newer weapons in 1989-1990.