5th Guards Motor Rifle Division / 5-я мотострелковая дивизия

[Maj. Shatokhin]

The 5th Guards Zimovnikovskaya order Kutuzov II degree Motor Rifle Division (5gv.msd), named on the 60th anniversary of the USSR, was a military formation of the Soviet Ground Forces.






































































































































In Afghanistan the 5th GMRD comprised:

Divisional Headquarters - Shindand.
 
Agitotryad.

Headquarters company.

Bakery.

795th Station courier mail service.

251st Battery Management and artillery reconnaissance.

814th military fire brigade.

582nd-second bath and laundry item

Field establishment of the State Bank of the USSR

164th Separate flame thrower Company(before March 1985 - 164th Separate Company of Chemical Protection).

101st Motor Rifle Regiment - Herat

371st Guards Berlin Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor Rifle Regiment - Shindand.

12th Guards Red Banner Order of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor Rifle Regiment - Herat.

24th Guards Prague Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Tank Regiment - Shindand.

1060th Artillery regiment Shindand.

1122nd Sevastopol Redflag Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment - Shindand.

1377th Separate Antitank Artillery Battalion Shindand.

650th separate Prague Order of Alexander Nevsky reconnaissance battalion. Shindand.

68th Guards separate engineering battalion. pos. Adraskan.

388th separate battalion. Shindand.

307th separate missile division. Herat.

177th separate repair battalion of recovery Shindand.

375th independent battalion of material support Shindand.

46th separate medical-sanitary battalion Herat