The 76th Tank Division was a mobilization tank division of the

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. It was based in

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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

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, which became part of the Central Group of Forces after

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. The division was an unmanned mobilization division, consisting only of an equipment set. Its pre-assigned officers served with the

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. 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,

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holdings reported that the storage base's equipment set was mostly composed of T-62 tanks.Feskov et al 2013, p. 231

References

* {{Soviet Union divisions Military units and formations established in 1968 Military units and formations disestablished in 1987 Tank divisions of the Soviet Union