65th Motorised Rifle Division

65-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 04163

Activated 1967 in Perm, Perm Oblast, initially as a mobilisation division.

Organisation 1988:

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

1.10.89 renamed 5078th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 6.90.

Storage Areas:

• Perm, Perm Oblast, 1967 - 6.90

Subordination:

• Ural Military District, 1967 - 1.89
• Volga-Ural Military District, 1.89 - 6.90

Equipment 12.85:

• 1900 men, 220 T-54/55, 54 122mm M-30

Divisional coordinates:

• Perm barracks/storage [US designation: Perm Army Barracks AL 2 and Ordnance Depot Central DO 1]: 57 59 36N, 56 15 56E

The division was maintained as a Not Ready Division - Low-Strength Cadre (US terms: Category III).