DEPLOYMENT OF SOVIET GROUND FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND IN THE TURKESTAN MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR, (SANITIZED)
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Deployment of Soviet Ground Forces in
Afghanistan and in the Turkestan Military
District, USSR, (S)
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JULY 1980
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DEPLOYMENT OF SOVIET GROUND FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN
AND IN THE TURKESTAN MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR
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Table 1.
Soviet Ground Forces Activity
(Items keyed to Figure 1)
This table in its entirety is classified SECRET!WNINTEL
Elements of motorized rifle
division and nondivisional units
I Ashkhabad Army Bks AL-2/Hq I signal regiment
I motorized rifle unit
I SA-4 brigade
2 Ashkhabad Army Bks AL-l/ I tank regiment
Kushka/Takhta Bazar Area
3 Kushka Army Barracks AL-1
4 Takhta Bazar Army
Barracks AL-1
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I artillery regiment
1 heavy-lift unit
None
None
SA-4 brigade returned
from Afghanistan
1100mm antitank battalion
and elements of artillery
brigade (2 artillery
regiments) out of garrison
No tanks observed, possibly
in garrison
No howitzers observed,
possibly in garrison
None
Complex
13 alai- b Airfield
14 Ghazni Military Camp SE
Northeast Afghanistan and
Panjar Valley Area
I T-62-equipped tank regt
I artillery regiment
I antitank battalion
2 BMP-equipped motorized rifle
None
None
None
None
Deployment Area
regiments
1 engineer battalion
1 chemical defense battalion
1 recon battalion
1 multiple rocket launcher
battalion
I antiaircraft artillery regiment
I BTR-60PB-equipped motorize
rifle regiment
I BTR-60PB-equipped motorize
rifle regiment
I FROG-3/5 battalion
1 motorized rifle division
None
None
None
None
I motorized rifle regiment
(cadre strength)
I tank regiment
I antitank battalion
I FROG-7 battalion
I BTR-60PB-equipped motorize
rifle regiment
I signal battalion
PPS/PMP bridge
1 motorized rifle regiment
(cadre strength)
I antiaircraft artillery regiment
8 Shaartuz/Khodashi Search Area Roadway bridge
SOVIET GROUND UNITS
IN AFGHANISTAN
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1 airborne division and
major elements of
1 motorized rifle division
Command post
2 motorized rifle regiments
I artillery regiment
None
None
None
None
Newly arrived
Across Amu Daraya
None
Across Amu Daraya
Tank regiment
returned to USSR
17 Eshkashem Search Area
Afghan A474
19 Fevzabad Airfield
20 Shir Khan GOB AF/UR
Bdr Search Area
Western and Southern
Afghanistan Area
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I multiple rocket launcher
battalion
I antiaircraft artillery regiment
2 airborne regiments
I airborne regiment SA-4 brigade and
Elements of chemical FROG-3/5 battalion
defense battalion returned to USSR
I motorized rifle regiment None
I airborne battalion
I motorized rifle regiment,
major elements of 1 motorized
rifle division, and
2 airborne battalions
Command post
I motorized rifle regiment
I motor transport regiment
Command post
Elements of motorized rifle
regiment
2 airborne battalions
I chemical defense battalion
I antiaircraft artillery regiment
I motorized rifle battalion None
Elements of motorized None
rifle regiment
I motorized rifle division,
3 airborne battalions, and
1 multiple rocket launcher
regiment
I motorized rifle regiment None
Command post FROG-3/5 battalion
I motorized rifle regiment returned to USSR;
I tank regiment MRL battalion returned
I artillery regiment from Qandahar
I multiple rocket launcher
battalion
I chemical defense battalion
I multiple rocket launcher
regiment
I airborne battalion
I motorized rifle regiment MRL battalion returned
to Shindand
I airborne battalion
newly deployed
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SA-4 BRIGADE
HEAVY-LIFT UNIT
SIGNAL REGT
MR UNIT
TK REGT
ARTY REGT
ASHKHABAD
1,2
IRAN
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SAMARKAND
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-SIGNAL BN
AAA REGT
3 MR REGT
TK REGT
ARTY REGT
AT BN~
2 MR REGT
ENGR BN
RECON BN~ ?_
AAA REGT
MR REGT
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21
AFGHANISTAN
cDONfll 17
2 ABN BN ESHKASHEM 1
ELMS OF MR REGT MR BN
MR REGT
MT REGT
MR REGT
GHAZNI - 14
22
SHIN GA N ID
COMMAND POST
MR REGT
TK REGT
ARTY REGT
MRL BN
CHEM DEF BN
MRL REGT
ABN BN
MR REGT
-2 ABN BN
QANDAHAR
?I 23
COMMAND POST
2 MR REGT
2 ABN REGT
ARTY REGT
AAA REGT
MRL BN
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ITEMS KEYED TO TABLE 1
FIGURE 1. LOCATIONS OF SOVIET GROUND FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN AND IN THE TURKESTAN MILITARY DISTRICT, USSR,
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AT BN
FROG-7 BN
-PPS/PMP BRIDGE
AAA REGT
15 NAHRIN
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COMMAND POST H
- ABN REGT
ELMS CHEM DEF BN
H
11 ? CHAGHASARAY
10
MR REGTT (MR BN
KABUL I
13
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