74th Motorised Rifle Division

74-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 22305; from 1987: 20641

Activated 11.68 in Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, as a mobilisation division, replacing the 18th Guards Motorised Rifle Division, which was transferred to Czechoslovakia.

Organisation 1987:

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

1.12.87 renamed 000 Territorial Training Center.

Disbanded 6.90.

Storage Areas:

• Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, 1968 - 1987

Subordination:

• Baltic Military District, 1968 - 1987

Equipment:

• 12.85: 2100 men, 143 T-54/55, 71 T-62, 50 BTR-60, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Divisional coordinates:

• Chernyakhovsk barracks [US designation: Chernyakhovsk Army Barracks Angrapa River AL 1]: 54 38 17N, 21 49 43E

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