62nd Motor Rifle Division

Motor rifle division of the Soviet military

62nd Motor Rifle Division

Active| 1972–1989
Country|  Soviet Union
Branch|  Soviet Army
Type| Motorized infantry
Garrison/HQ| Itatka

Military unit

The 62nd Motor Rifle Division was a motorized infantry division of the Soviet Army. It was originally formed as a mobilization division in 1972 but became a regular division months later. It became a storage base in 1989 and was disbanded in 1994.

## History[edit]

The 62nd Motor Rifle Division was activated on 31 January 1972 in Maykop, part of the 12th Army Corps. It was an unmanned mobilization division and its equipment was co-located with the 9th Motor Rifle Division. In May, the division became a regular unit and moved to Itatka, Tomsk Oblast.[1] It became part of the 33rd Army Corps. During the Cold War, the division was maintained at 23% strength as a Cadre High Strength division, in American terms a Category III division. Between 1987 and 1988 future Ministry of Emergency Situations Lieutenant General Viktor Kapkanschikov served as chief of staff of its 1099th Motor Rifle Regiment.[2] On 1 October 1989, it became the 5352nd Weapons and Equipment Storage Base and moved to Omsk.[3] In June 1991, the base became part of the Siberian Military District and was disbanded in 1994.[4]

## Composition[edit]

In 1988, the division included the following units.[4]

* 1092nd Motor Rifle Regiment
* 1099th Motor Rifle Regiment
* 1100th Motor Rifle Regiment – equipped with BTR
* 107th Tank Regiment
* 619th Artillery Regiment
* 676th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
* 1258th Separate Missile Battalion
* 1263 Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion
* 1263rd Separate Reconnaissance Battalion
* Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion
* 1770th Separate Communications Battalion
* Separate Chemical Defense Company
* 685th Separate Equipment Maintenance and Recovery Battalion
* Separate Medical Battalion
* Separate Material Supply Battalion

## References[edit]

### Notes[edit]

1. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 139.
2. ^ "Начальником Дальневосточного регионального центра назначен генерал-лейтенант Виктор Капканщиков" [Lieutenant General Viktor Kapkanschikov appointed director of Far Eastern Regional Center] (in Russian). Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. 8 February 2005. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
3. ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 563.
4. ^ a b Holm, Michael. "62nd Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 17 January 2016.

### Bibliography[edit]

* Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.

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