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76th Tank Division
The 76th Tank Division was a mobilization tank division of the Soviet Army. It was based in Brest and became a territorial training center in 1987. The training center became a storage base in 1989. History The 76th Tank Division was formed on 31 October 1968 as part of the 28th Army to replace the 30th Guards Motor Rifle Division, which became part of the Central Group of Forces after Operation Danube. The division was an unmanned mobilization division, consisting only of an equipment set. Its pre-assigned officers served with the 50th Guards Motor Rifle Division. The division included the 624th and 625th Tank Regiments, and the numbers of the other subunits are not known. On 1 December 1987 it became the 514th Territorial Training Center. On 15 August 1990, it became the 5356th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base. On 19 November 1990, CFE treaty The original Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was negotiated and concluded during the last years of the Cold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
