Structure and Equipment in 1991
The Soviet troops occupied 777 barracks plants at 276 locations on the territory of the GDR. This also included 47 airfields and 116 exercise areas. At the beginning of 1991 there were still about 338,000 soldiers in 24 divisions, distributed among five land armies and an air army in what was by then the WGF. In addition there were still about 208,000 relatives of officers as well as civil employees came, among them were about 90,000 children. Most locations were in the area of today's Brandenburg.
In 1991 there were approximately:
- 4,200 tanks
- 8,200 armored vehicles
- 3,600 artillery pieces
- 106,000 other motor vehicles
- 690 airplanes
- 680 helicopters
- 180 rocket systems
At the end of the 1980s, the primary Soviet formations included:
- 1st Guards Tank Red Banner Army - Dresden
- 9th Tank Division - Riesa
- 11th Guards Tank Division - Dresden
- 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Grimma
- 2nd Guards Tank Army - Fürstenberg/Havel
- 16th Guards Tank Division - Neustrelitz
- 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division - Perleberg
- 94th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Schwerin
- 207th Motor Rifle Division - Stendal (note; earlier Western reporting lists this as a Guards unit; this is incorrect)
- 3rd Shock Army - Magdeburg
- 7th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Dessau-Rosslau
- 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division - Altengrabow
- 12th Guards Tank Division - Neuruppin
- 47th Guards Tank Division - Hillersleben
- 8th Guards Order of Lenin Army - Weimar-Nohra
- 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Halle
- 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Ohrdruf
- 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Naumburg
- 79th Guards Tank Division - Jena
- 20th Guards Red Banner Army - Eberswalde
- 25th Tank Division - Vogelsang
- 32nd Guards Tank Division - Jüterbog
- 35th Guards Motor Rifle Division - Krampnitz
- 90th Guards Tank Division - Bernau bei Berlin
- 16th Air Army - Zossen
- 6th Fighter Aviation Division - Merseburg
- 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division - Ribnitz-Damgarten. Withdrawn 30 October 1993 to Millerovo, North Caucasus Military District, and joined 4th Air Army.
- 105th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division - Großenhain
- 125th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division - Rechlin - disbanded July 1993 or October 1993.
- 126th Fighter Aviation Division - Zerbst
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