84th Motorised Rifle Division

84-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 55770

Activated 10.68 in Grodno, Grodno Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (8th Guards Tank Division).

Organisation 1988:

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

Disbanded 1987.

Storage Areas:

• Grodno, Grodno Oblast, 10.68 - 8.79
• Marina Gorka, Minsk Oblast, 8.79 - 1987

Subordination:

• 28th Combined Arms Army, 10.68 - 8.79
• 5th Guards Tank Army, 8.79 - 1987

Equipment 12.85:

• 2150 men, 75 T-54/55, 136 BTR-40, 2 BTR-50, 11 BTR-152, 36 122mm M-30, 18 152mm D-1

Divisional coordinates:

• Grodno barracks/storage [US designation: Grodno Army Barracks Kelbasin AL 6]: 53 39 02N, 23 46 10E
• Marina Gorka barracks/storage [US designation: Marina Gorka Army Barracks AL 1]: 53 30 24N, 28 10 20E

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