87th Motorised Rifle Division

87-я мотострелковая дивизия

Military Unit: 03541; from 1987: 75152

Activated 1976 in Gusinoozersk, Buryatskaya ASSR, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned, except for some pre-assigned officers, serving with the parent division (22nd Motorised Rifle Division).

Organisation 1987:

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

1.10.87 renamed 978th Territorial Training Center.

Disbanded 1989.

Storage Areas:

• Gusinoozersk, Buryatskaya ASSR, 1976 - 1989

Subordination:

• Transbaykal Military District, 1976 - 1989

Divisional coordinates:

• Gusinoozersk barracks [US designation: Gusinoozersk Army Barracks AL 1]: 51 19 16N, 106 27 06E

The division was maintained as a Mobilisation Division (US terms: Mobilisation Division). Equipment set present, older types, substantial equipment shortfalls.