This article is an (incomplete) listing of Soviet Ground Forces divisions in 1990, and corresponding information about their later status in 2006.

The Soviets maintained their units at varying degrees of readiness in peacetime, and divided their ground units into two broad readiness categories:

Развернутая – Ready (expanded, filled up) A unit was considered Ready, if it could conduct combat operations with little or no mobilisation.Michael Holm, The Soviet Readiness System Неразвернутая – Not Ready

Some divisions are referred to as 'Reserve' (there is a Russian article for reserve unit at :ru:Запасная часть). The Russian word for reserve (:ru:Запас) literally translates as 'Spare'. The personnel went on the reserve rolls, and for officers and NCOs this means they add 'v zapase' to their rank (e.g. kapitan v zapase). The unit itself changes readiness status from A, to either B (Б), V (В) or G (Г). This means a higher degree of equipment conservation, lower training and operational performance, etc.

The abbreviation BKhVT means Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.

Motor rifle divisions

DivisionLocation, Status 1990Location, Status 2006Origin1st Guards "Moscow-Minsk" Motor Rifle Division 11th Guards Army, Kaliningrad, Baltic MDReduced to a brigade 2002, regiment in 2009 1st Guards Rifle Division (second formation)2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division Alabino, Moscow Military District No change; brigade 2009–2013 2nd Guards Rifle Division. 1957–64 23 Guards MRD.3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division Coastal defence division, Baltic Fleet, Klaipėda Disbanded 1 September 1993.3rd Guards Rifle Division, to MRD June 1957. October 1989 transferred to Baltic Fleet.4th Guards Motor Rifle Division Turkestan Military District, Termez Disbanded 19894th Guards Mechanised Corps, Kiev Military District, then 4th Guards Mech Div, then 63rd Guards MRD, 4 Gds MRD 1964. Moved from Lugansk to Termez in February 1980.4th Motor Rifle Division Buzuluk, Orenburg Oblast, Ural Military District Disbanded July 1959 4th Rifle Division, formed June 1957.5th Guards Motor Rifle Division 40th Army, Shindand, Afghanistan, 1989 Withdrawn back to base 1989–91, Kushka, now Military of Turkmenistan 5th Guards Mechanized Corps, 53rd Guards Motor Rifle Division 1957, 1965 became 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division6th Guards Motor Rifle Division (I) Bernau, East Germany, 20th Guards Army Redesignated 90th Guards Tank Division, February 1985. Formed Bernau, East Germany, from 6th Guards Mechanised Division, May 1957.6th Guards "Vitebsko-Novgorodskaya" Motor Rifle Division(II) Northern Group of Forces, Borne Sulinowo, Poland After redesignation as 6 GMRD in 1985, became storage base, Moscow Military District Activated 25 June 1957 in Borne Sulinovo, Poland, as the 38th Guards Tank Division, from the 26th Guards Mechanised Division.8th Guards Motor Rifle Division (I)Haapsalu, EstoniaDisbanded March 1960 Formed June 1957 from 8th Guards Rifle Division. Disbanded March 1960, with 2–3 regiments transferred to 36th Guards Motor Rifle Division. 36 GMRD renamed 8 GMRD (II) in May 1960.8th Guards Panfilovtsy Motor Rifle Division (II) 17th Army Corps, Frunze, Turkestan Military District Part of Kyrgyz armed forces Formed Klooga, Estonia, as 36 GMRD, from 36 Gds Mech Div, June 1957. Renamed 8 GMRD (II) May 1960. In May 1967 moved to Frunze. Taken over by Kyrgyzstan, June 1992.Holm, 8th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (II) Not Ready Division – Cadre High Strength.9th Guards Motor Rifle Division Sayn-Shand, Mongolia, 6th Guards Tank Army, Transbaikal Military DistrictDisbanded 1958 9th Guards Mechanised Corps Formed from 9th Guards Mech Division, June 1957.9th Motor Rifle Division 12th Army Corps, Maykop, North Caucasus Military District 1992 became 131 MRB, now 7th Military Base, Gudauta9th Infantry Division10th Guards Motor Rifle Division 31st Army Corps, TCMD, Akhaltsikhe, Georgia Disbanded March 199210th Guards Rifle Division. Not Ready Division – Reduced Strength II11th Guards Motor Rifle Division Transbaikal Military District (Bezrechnaya), 55th Army Corps Became 5890 BKhVT 1 December 1989, disbanded 1992 7th Guards Mechanised Corps (WW2)12th Motor Rifle Division (I) Belogorsk, Far Eastern Military DistrictDisbanded 195812th Amurskaya Rifle Division12th Motor Rifle Division (II) Boganuur, Mongolia (1979–1992), 39th Army5517 BKhVT 1992, disbanded 1993.Formed 1960 (Holm/Feskov 2015)13th Motor Rifle Division (I)Ulan-Ude, Transbaikal Military District Disbanded 1958 Established 1957 from 13 TD, originally 61 TD (Second World War)(Holm/Feskov 2015)13th Motor Rifle Division (II)Biysk, Altai Krai, 33rd Army Corps, Siberian Military District 5351 BKhVT 1989, 13 Gds MRD, July 1992, 5349 Guards BKhVT 1998 Activated 1 September 1960.14th Guards Motor Rifle Division Juterbog, East Germany, 20th Guards Army, 1957–82 Became 32nd GTD 15th Motor Rifle Division 7th Guards Army, Kirovakan, Transcaucasian Military District Disbanded 1992, some equipment handed over to Armenia. 15th Rifle Division. Previously 26th Mech Div and 100th MRD. Became 15th MRD 1965.16th Guards Motor Rifle Division Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Baltic Military District 1957–196016th Guards Rifle Division16th Guards Karachevskaya Lenin Red Banner Suvorov MRD, accessed March 2015.17th Guards Motor Rifle Division Khmelnitskiy, Carpathian Military District, 13th Army Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces 40th Guards Rifle Division, World War II18th Guards Motor Rifle Division Mladá Boleslav CGF, Czechoslovakia Baltic Fleet Ground Forces, Kaliningrad 18th Guards Rifle Division. 30 Guards MRD 1957–64.19th Motor Rifle Division 42nd Army Corps, North Caucasus Military District, Vladikavkaz Resubordinated to 58th Army, 1995 19th MRD 1965 ← 92nd MRD 1957 <- 19th Rifle Division20th Guards Motor Rifle Division 1st Guards Tank Army, Grimma, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Withdrawn to Volgograd, North Caucasus MD, June 1993. 8th Guards Mechanised Corps, 8th Guards Mechanised Division. Became 20 Gds MRD May 1957.Michael Holm, 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2015.21st Motor Rifle Division 2nd Guards Tank Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Perleberg Omsk, Siberian Military District? 416th Rifle Division (World War II). 416 RD (II) became 18 Mech Div -> 18 MRD (1957) -> 21 MRD 1965, went back to Omsk, became 180 MRB, and finally became a storage site in 1997, and then disbanded only in 2007.22nd Motor Rifle Division Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 25th Army Corps, Far Eastern Military District Became 40th independent Motor Rifle Brigade, 1 June 2002, Naval Infantry 2007. 22nd Rifle Division23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division Kirovabad, 4th Army, Transcaucasian Military District Disbanded July 1992, all weapons to Azerbaijan armed forces 14th Guards Cavalry Division and 16th Guards Cavalry Division, then 31st Guards Mechanised Division. 23 Guards MRD 17 November 1964 (25 Guards MRD June 1957).Michael Holm, 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division, 2015. 24th Motor Rifle Division 13th Army, Carpathian Military District, Yavoriv Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces 24th Rifle Division25th Guards Motor Rifle Division Lubny, 1st Guards Army, Kiev Military District Part of Ukrainian Ground Forces 25th Guards Rifle Division. 115 Guards 1957–64.26th Guards Motor Rifle Division 11th Guards Army, Baltic Military District, Gusev Disbanded 1991 26th Guards Rifle Division27th Guards Motor Rifle Division Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Halle Totskoye, Volga-Ural Military District 27th Guards Rifle Division. 1957–64 21st Guards MRD.28th Guards Motor Rifle Division Chernomorskoye, Odessa Military DistrictFeskov et al 2013, pp. 491492 Became 28th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine) circa 2001 28th Guards Rifle Division 29th Guards Motor Rifle DivisionKaunas, Baltic Military District, 10th Army Corps Redesignated 31 Guards MRD 1965 From 29 Guards Mech Div 31 Guards MRD 1965; 21 Guards TD May 1977.29th Motor Rifle Division Kamen-Rybolov, Far Eastern Military District, 5th Army Disbanded 1994. 29th Rifle Division (63 Mech Div; 110 MRD 1957). Moved from Shikhany to Far East in 1968.30th Guards Motor Rifle Division Central Group of Forces, Zvolen, Czechoslovakia Disbanded at Marina Gorka, Belarus 55th Guards Rifle Division32nd Guards Motor Rifle Division Kalinin, Moscow Military District 1989 BKhVT, disbanded 1993. 32nd Guards Rifle Division. 1975-64 11 Guards MRD. 33rd Guards Motor Rifle Division Kishinev, Moldova, Odessa Military District Disbanded 1960 33 Guards Mech Division33rd Motor Rifle Division Khomutovo, Far Eastern Military District Now storage base 342nd Rifle Division34th "Simpheropolskaya" Motor Rifle Division Ural Military District, Sverdlovsk Volga-Ural Military District, Yekaterinburg 34 MRD 1965 < 126th MRD 1957 < 1955 77th Rifle Division35th Motor Rifle Division 20th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Krampnitz (Potsdam) Disbanded 199235 MRD 1965, 19th MRD 1957, by 1955 1st Mech Div from 1st Mechanised Corps36th Guards Motor Rifle Division Klooga, Estonia, 4th Guards Army Corps Disbanded May 1960 36 Guards Mechanised Division36th Motor Rifle Division Artemovsk, 64th Army Corps, Kiev Military DistrictFeskov et al 2013, p. 489 Disbanded 1990Formed 196638th Guards Motor Rifle Division 36th Army, Transbaikal Military District, Sretensk MG Artillery Division38th Guards Rifle Division, 38 Guards MRD 1965; 131 MGAD 1989.39th Guards Motor Rifle Division 8th Guards Army, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, Ohrdruf Disbanded 1992 39th Guards Rifle Division40th Motor Rifle Division 5th Guards Army, Far Eastern Military District, Smolyaninovo To Pacific Ocean Fleet as coastal defence division 40th Rifle Division41st Motor Rifle Division 39th Army, Mongolia, ChoirDisbanded 1992Formed 1967 from elements of 52nd MRD42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division North Caucasus Military District, Grozny Became 173rd Training Centre, then disbanded 1992 24th Guards Rifle Division43rd Training Motor Rifle Division Volga Military District, Kuybyshev Became 469th District Training Centre43 RD (WW2), 130 MRD 1957, 43 MRD 196545th Guards Motor Rifle Division 30th Guards Army Corps, Leningrad Military District, Kamenka By 2005 had become 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 45th Guards Rifle Division, World War II, to MRD 195746th Motor Rifle Division 64th Army Corps,