64th Reserve Tank Division

64-я запасная танковая дивизия

Military Unit: 21472

Activated 1972 in Chuguev, Kharkov Oblast, as a mobilisation division.

The division was unmanned - in case of mobilisation, the division would have been manned by personnel from the Kharkov Guards Higher Tank Command School.

Organisation 1987:

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

1.7.89 renamed 5360th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Disbanded 3.91.

Headquarters:

• Chuguev, Kharkov Oblast, 1972 - 3.91

Subordination:

• 6th Guards Tank Army, 1972 - 3.91

Equipment 12.85:

• 100 men, 18 122mm M-30

Equipment 19.11.90 (CFE treaty holdings):

• none reported

Divisional coordinates:

• Chuguev barracks/storage [US designation: Chuguev Army Barracks AL 4]: 49 50 33N, 36 43 39E

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