Order of Battle in The 1980s
At the end of the 1980s the composition of the 51st Combined Arms Army of the Far East Military District included:
| Formation | Location | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Army Corps | ||
| 33rd Motor-Rifle Red Banner Division | Khomutovo | 192 тп (Анива), 465 мсп (Леонидово), 377 мсп (Анива), мсп, ап, зенап |
| 79th Motor Rifle Division | Poronaysk | 'Sakhalin Red Banner';214 тп, 157 мсп (Гастелло), 398 мсп (Победино), мсп, 284 ап, зенап (Победино) |
| 25th Army Corps | Formed around 1974 | |
| 22nd Motor Rifle Division | Dolinsk, Sakhalin Oblast | 'Krasnodar-Harbin Twice Red Banner'; 59 тп, 211 мсп, 246 мсп, 304 мсп, 157ап, 1006th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment |
| 87th Motor Rifle Division | Petropavlovsk | Disbanded 1987 |
| 99th Motor-Rifle Division | Anadyr, Chukotka | Consisted of 1324th and 1327th MRRs. Division converted on 1 June 1999 to the 3840th Military Technology Storage Base until it was disbanded on 1 December 2002. |
| 18th Machine-gun Artillery Division | Settlement Gor’achiy Kluch (Iturup), Sakhalin | Former 184th Rifle Division;тп, 49 мсп (о. Кунашир), 484 мсп, мсп |
Other Army-level troops reported by Feskov et al. 2004, as of 1988, included the 280 отдельный Уссурийский Engineer-Sapper Bаttalion of the 25th Army Corps (Anadyr), the Staff of the 25th Army Corps, 8th Separate Communications Battalion; 921st Artillery Regiment at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the 75th Rocket Brigade, 166th Separate Communications Regiment, a Separate Engineer-Sapper Regiment; and the 553rd Separate Communications Battalion at Yuzho-Sakhalinsk (Южно-Сахалинск).
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