List of Soviet military sites in Germany explained

The list of Soviet military sites in Germany contains all military installations and units of the former Soviet Union on German territory. In correlation to Russian native document, original site designations of the Soviet Armed Forces are used as deemed to be necessary (e.g. later changes of site names are avoided). The units and formations were subordinated to the WGF Supreme Commands in Wünsdorf (now in Zossen).

Period	Native designation^[1]		German		English
	Short	Long version	Short	Long version	Short	Long version
1945–1954	ГСОВГ	Группа советских оккупационных войск в Германии	GSBD	Gruppe der Sowjetischen Besatzungstruppen in Deutschland	GSOFG	Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany
1954–1989	ГСВГ	Группа советских войск в Германии	GSSD	Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland	GSFG	Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
			GSTD	Gruppe der Sowjetischen Truppen in Deutschland
1989–1994	ЗГВ	Западная группа войск	WGT	Westgruppe der Truppen	WGF	Western Group of Forces

site designation	real estate designation	user before	unit	year of disbandment	user after	remark
	Pionier-Kaserne			1991–1994			Berlin-Karlshorst
West Berlin	Kammergericht am Kleistpark		Контрольный совет^[2] (Allied Control Council)	1948/1991			Berlin Schöneberg

New states of Germany

The tables below contains the location of military unit and formation of the Western Group of (Soviet) Forces (WGF) on territory of the New federal states of Germany with particularities as follows:

• The English designation of military units and formations of the WGF (column 1) is in line to these in NATO, as deemed to be necessary. Honorary titles, names, or distinctions are omitted. In case of doubt, the original designation in Russian language is authoritative.
• Column 2 contains the original site's designation, in accordance with – Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994, memorial album, edition Moscow, published by «Jang Guard», 1994;, pages 15 to 22.

Supreme Command GSFG (WGF) and direct subordinates

The Supreme Command GSFG (WGF) comprised the staff divisions and direct subordinated units, formations and facilities, as follows (in 1991):

Designation		Site location	Unit		Remark	- ! Number	Code name	-	1		2	3	4	5
Staff GSFG/WGT					also: General Staff, C2 Staff. In part of former German Maybach I and II complex.
	Political Division	Wünsdorf
	Alternate Operations Center		24 382	Redut
	Operations Command Air Defence	Wünsdorf	01 131
	1014th Command Post Air Defence	Wünsdorf	18 178
	Armament Division	Wünsdorf	56 663
	Reconnaissance Division	Wünsdorf	89 430
	CIS Division	Wünsdorf	16 470		also: Communications Division
	Engineer Division	Wünsdorf	24 566
	Medical Division	Wünsdorf	07 365
	Logistics Division	Wünsdorf	71 650
	Chemical Division	Wünsdorf	24 445		also: NBC-Division
Direct subordinates
		Fürstenberg/Havel, Neuthymen 53.2067°N 13.2039°W	83 149		withdrawn to Tolyatti
		Cottbus, Hermann-Loens-Kaserne	16 407	Wesky	withdrawn 1990
			64 944	Morechod		-		133rd Independent Motor Rifle Battalion	Berlin-Karlshorst	81 544
	154th Independent Motor Rifle Battalion	Berlin-Karlshorst	65 007			-		178th Independent Motor Rifle Battalion	Berlin-Karlshorst	65 016
	53rd Independent Tank Battalion	Berlin-Karlshorst
	54th Independent Tank Battalion	Berlin-Karlshorst
	65th Independent Tank Battalion	Berlin-Karlshorst
53rd Guard and Logistics Regiment		Wünsdorf	80 340	Wal
814th Independent Air Defence Missile Regiment			96 574	Rediska
27th Pontoon Bridge Regiment			50 920
57th Military Constructing Brigade		Forst Zinna, to Jüterbog	72 760
Vehicle Repair and Workshop Battalion			55 872
Ensemble vocal music and folk-dance		Wünsdorf	48 251
Editorial staff, news papers: «Sowjetskaja Armya» «Naslednik Pobjedy» until 1991		Wünsdorf	48 251
1249th Independent Logistics Battalion		Potsdam	55 946
199th Independent Medical Battalion		Potsdam	50 642
Central Hospital
Air Force Hospital
Air Force subordinates
239th Independent Guards Helicopter Regiment			79 048	Retutny	Withdrawn to Efremov, Tula Oblast, June 1994.
275th Independent Air Base Support Battalion		Oranienburg	79 048	Retutny
292nd Independent Electronic Warfare Helicopter Squadron		Cochstedt	22 632	Aeroplan	today: Magdeburg–Cochstedt Airport
1780th Independent Air Base Support Company		Cochstedt
345th Independent Helicopter Squadron			62 023	Nagar
366th Independent Air Base Support Company		Cochstedt
39th Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Flight			54 243	Sinonim	Also reported as 39. OAO REB - Aviation Detachment for Radio-Electronic Combat
330th Independent Helicopter Flight			23 299	Mebel, Lira
113th Independent Mixed Aviation Squadron		Oranienburg	42 089	Rutnyi
Artillery subordinates
		Potsdam	55 872	Vyretska	Withdrawn to Mulino (settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, 1994.
		286th Guards Howitzer Artillery Brigade	Potsdam	50 560	Flazhechny
	288th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade		50 618
	303rd Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade		50 432	Ledorez
	307th Missile Artillery Brigade	Chemnitz	80 847	Tsebaka	1987-1989
Repair facility subordinates
120th Tank Repair Factory					to Brandenburg an der Havel
184th Tank Repair Factory		Magdeburg
193rd Tank Repair Factory		Wünsdorf
134th Artillery Repair Factory
511th Artillery Repair Factory
556th Engineer Equipment Repair Factory
133rd Communications Equipment Repair Factory
43rd Vehicle Repair Factory
52nd Vehicle Repair Factory
53rd Vehicle Repair Factory
5th Independent Repair and Restoration Battalion
Units of the Baltic Navy
234th Waters Ship Guard Battalion			09 822		234 DNPLK
Off-shore Special Radio Location Post			99 721
Special Weapons Sites
Special Weapons Depot Brand					52.0118°N 13.7809°W
Special Weapons Depot Finsterwalde		Airfield Finsterwalde			51.5946°N 13.7533°W
Special Weapons Depot Großenhain		Airfield Großenhain			51.3051°N 13.5491°W
Special Weapons Depot Himmelpfort		also: Lychen II, Himmelpfort			53.1766°N 13.2813°W
Special Weapons Depot Stolzenhain		also: SAD Linda, Schönewalde			51.8667°N 13.1633°W

			location	usage		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- ! colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
1st Guards Tank Army (V/Ch 08608)						Albertstadt
	9th Tank Division (V/Ch 60990)					Moved to Smolensk and disbanded.^[3]
							-			1321st Motor Rifle Regiment					-			70th Guards Tank Regiment	Zeithain				-			302nd Motor Rifle Regiment	Riesa				-			96th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
	11th Guards Tank Division		Dresden			Withdrawn to Slonim in Belarus, 1992
		7th Guards Tank Regiment					-			40th Guards Tank Regiment					-			44th Guards Tank Regiment	Königsbrück				-			249th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Dresden				-			841st Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment					-			1018st Air Defence Missile Regiment	Meissen
	20th Guards Motor Rifle Division
		29th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			67th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Grimma				-			242nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			576th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			944st Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment					-			358st Guards Air Defence Missile Regiment	Leisnig
units and formations directly subordinated to the 1st GTA
	225th Independent Helicopter Regiment
	485th Independent Helicopter Regiment					SN 51.3283°N 12.6569°W
	181st Rocket Brigade
	432nd Rocket Brigade		Wurzen
	308st Artillery Brigade		Zeithein
	53rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
	41st Logistic Brigade		Dresden
	235th Independent Radar Control Support Regiment		Merseburg
	68th Pontoon Bridge Regiment		Dresden
	3rd Independent Signal Regiment		Dresden

unit, formation			location	utilisation		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- ! colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
2nd Guards Tank Army
							-			239th Motor Rifle Regiment	Perleberg
		240th Motor Rifle Regiment
		283rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
		568th Motor Rifle Regiment				in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
		1054th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
		1079th Air Defence Missile Regiment	Perleberg
							-			47th Guards Tank Regiment	Neustrelitz
		65th Guards Tank Regiment	Neustrelitz
		60th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Ravensbrück			to Fürstenberg/Havel
		723rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
		724th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Neustrelitz
		66th Air Defence Missile Regiment	Neustrelitz
							-			204th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Schwerin
		286th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Schwerin
		288th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
		74th Guards Tank Regiment	Schwerin
		199th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Wismar
		896th Air Defence Missile Regiment	Schwerin
							-			33rd Motor Rifle Regiment	Stendal
		41st Motor Rifle Regiment
		400th Motor Rifle Regiment
		591st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Staats
		693rd Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Stendal
		75th Guards Air Defence Missile Regiment	Stendal
units and formations directly subordinated to the 2nd GTA
	172nd Independent Helicopter Regiment
	439th Independent Helicopter Regiment		Damm
	112th Rocket Brigade
	458th Rocket Brigade		Neustrelitz
	290th Artillery Brigade		Schwerin
	61st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade		Staats				-			613rd Radar Control Post					-			614th Radar Control Post	Badekow (Gresse)				-			621st Radar Control Post					-			631st Radar Control Post					-			632nd Radar Control Post
	118th Logistics Brigade		Ravensbrück
	250th Independent Radar Control Support Regiment		Stendal
	69th Pontoon Bridge Regiment		Ravensbrück
	5th Independent Signal Regiment		Ravensbrück

unit, formation			location	utilisation		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- ! colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
3rd Army							-		7th Guards Tank Division
		55th Guards Tank Regiment					-			56th Guards Tank Regiment					-			79th Guards Tank Regiment					-			40th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			670th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment					-			278th Guards Air Defence Missile Regiment
	10th Guards Tank Division						-			61st Guards Tank Regiment	Altengrabow				-			62nd Guards Tank Regiment	Altengrabow				-			63rd Guards Tank Regiment	Altengrabow				-			248th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			744th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Altengrabow				-			3598th Guards Air Defence Missile Regiment	Altengrabow
	12th Guards Tank Division						-			48th Guards Tank Regiment	Neuruppin				-			322nd Guards Tank Regiment	Neuruppin				-			353rd Guards Tank Regiment	Neuruppin				-			200th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			117th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment					-			933rd Air Defence Missile Regiment	Burg
	47th Guards Tank Division						-			26th Tank Regiment	Hillersleben				-			153rd Guards Tank Regiment	Hillersleben				-			197th Guards Tank Regiment					-			245th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Mahlwinkel				-			99th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Malwinkel				-			1009th Air Defence Missile Regiment	Hillersleben
units and formations directly subordinated to the 3rd Army
	178th Independent Helicopter Regiment					ST 52.6328°N 11.8317°W	-		440th Independent Helicopter Regiment		Borstel		Stendal-Borstel Aifield		-		36th Rocket Brigade		Altengrabow				-		448th Rocket Brigade						-		49th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade						-			212th Radar Control Post				-			213th Radar Control Post				-			711th Radar Control Post
	385th Artillery Brigade		Planken				-		254th Independent Radar Control Support Regiment		t.b.d.				-		36th Pontoon Bridge Regiment		Magdeburg				-		42nd Logistic Brigade		Magdeburg				-		105th Independent Signal Regiment		Magdeburg

unit, formation			location	utilisation		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- ! colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
							-		27th Guards Motor Rifle Division (V/Ch 35100)					in Saxony-Anhalt. Withdrawn to Totskoye in the Volga-Ural Military District, May 1991.	-			68th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Halle			in Saxony-Anhalt
		243rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Halle			in Saxony-Anhalt
		244th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
		28th Tank Regiment	Halle			in Saxony-Anhalt
		54th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Halle			in Saxony-Anhalt
		286st Guards Air Defence Missile Regiment	Halle			in Saxony-Anhalt
							-			117th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			120th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Ohrdruf				-			172nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			585th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Ohrdruf				-			115st Air Defence Missile Regiment	Orhrdruf				-			87st Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Gotha
		170th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment	Naumburg				-			174th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			241st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			51st Guards Tank Regiment					-			128st Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Zeitz				-			901st Air Defence Missile Regiment	Naumburg
						Remained until July 1992, when withdrawn to Samarkand in the Turkestan Military District. Quickly disbanded there.
		17th Guards Tank Regiment					-			45th Guards Tank Regiment					-			211th Guards Tank Regiment	Jena				-			247th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment					-			172nd Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment					-			1075th Air Defence Missile Regiment	Weimar
units and formations directly subordinated to the 8th GA
	336th Independent Helicopter Regiment		Nohra (Weimar)				-		486th Independent Helicopter Regiment		Altes Lager			BB 51.9961°N 12.9839°W	-		11th Rocket Brigade						-		449th Rocket Brigade						-		18th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade						-			411st Radar Control Post					-			412th Radar Control Post					-			413th Radar Control Post					-			7211th Radar Control Post	Stelzen (Siegmundsburg)			Bleßberg	-			722nd Radar Control Post					-			723rd Radar Control Post					-			733rd Radar Control Post
	116th Logistic Brigade						-		390th Artillery Brigade						-		119th Independent Tank Regiment						-		65th Pontoon Bridge Regiment						-		194th Independent Radar Control Support Regiment		Weimar				-		91st Independent Signal Regiment		Weimar

unit, formation			location	utilisation		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- !colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
Headquarters
	6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division
		31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
		85th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment	Merseburg
		968th Fighter Aviation Regiment	Nobitz Altenburg
		139th Aviation Technical Regiment	Merseburg
	16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division
		33rd Fighter Aviation Regiment
		773rd Fighter Aviation Regiment	Damgarten
		787th Fighter Aviation Regiment
	126th Fighter Aviation Division
		35th Fighter Aviation Regimen	Zerbst
		833dr Fighter Aviation Regimen
	125th Fighter-bomber Aviation Division
		19th Guards Fighter-bomber Aviation Regiment	Lärz		Müritzflugplatz Rechlin-Lärz	MV 53.3064°N 12.7531°W
		20th Guards Fighter-bomber Aviation Regiment	Groß Dölln
		730dr Fighter-bomber Aviation Regiment
	105th Fighter-bomber Aviation Division
		296th Fighter-bomber Aviation Regiment	Großenhain
		559th Fighter-bomber Aviation Regiment
		911th Fighter-bomber Aviation Regiment
Separate units, direct subordinated to the 16th AA
	11th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment
	226th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment		Sperenberg (Am Mellensee)			BB 52.1396°N 13.3052°W
	357th Separate Ground Attack Aviation Regiment
	368th Separate Ground Attack Aviation Regiment
	2140th Aviation Technical Depot		Strausberg			BB 52.5702°N 13.8818°W

unit, formation			location	utilisation		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- !colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
20th Guards Army
		62nd Motor Rifle Regiment
		64th Motor Rifle Regiment	Potsdam
		69th Motor Rifle Regiment
		83rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
		219th Tank Regiment
		283rd Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment	Elstal / Olympisches Dorf
		200th Air Defence Missile Regiment	Krampnitz
		6th Guards Tank Regiment
		68th Guards Tank Regiment	Bernau
		215th Guards Tank Regiment	Bernau
		81st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment
		400st Artillery Regiment	Bernau
		288th Air Defence Artillera Regiment	Bernau
	6th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade		Berlin Karlshorst
units and formations, direct subordinated to the 20th GA
						ST 52.39°N 11.7831°W
	486th Independent Helicopter Regiment
	27th Rocket Brigade
	464th Rocket Brigade
	67th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade		Elstal / Olympisches Dorf
	387th Artillery Brigade		Altes Lager
	117th Logistic Brigade		Eberswalde
	264th Independent Radar Control Support Regiment		Neudenbritz
	44th Pontoon Bridge Regiment		Frankfurt an der Oder
	6th Independent Signal Regiment		Eberswalde
	512th Radar Control Post		Fürstenwalde

Units directly subordinated to the GSFG

The following units were directly subordinated to the GSFG's headquarters.

unit, formation			location	utilisation		remark	- ! until 1945	after 1991-1994	- ! colspan="3" scope="col" class="unsortable"	1 !	2	3	4	5
GSFG headquarters
	157th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
	164th Rocket Brigade
	175th Rocket Brigade
	133rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
	202nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
	40th Radar Control Support Brigade
	45th Radar Control Support Brigade
	1st Engineer Brigade
	118th Signal Brigade		Wünsdorf
	119th Signal Brigade
	132nd Signal Brigade
			Potsdam
	286th Howitzer Artillery Brigade		Potsdam
	288th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade
	303rd Guards Gun Artillery Brigade					MV 52.1573°N 12.2215°W
	307th Missile Artillery Brigade		Chemnitz
	122nd Antitank Artillery Brigade		Königsbrück
	64th Motor Vehicle Brigade
	65th Motor Vehicle Brigade
	27th Pontoon Bridge Regiment		Lutherstadt Wittenberg
	272nd Independent Signal Regiment		Frankfurt an der Oder
	29th Independent Electronic Warfare Regiment
	67th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade		Elstal
	163rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade		Leipzig
	252nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade		Gera
	239th Independent Guards Helicopter Regiment

References / sources

1. Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994, memorial album, edition Moscow, published by «Jang Guard», 1994; .
2. Constituted on 30 July 1945 initially at the US Forces headquarters in the American sector. The Soviet Union rejected the originally planned seat, the former Reich Aviation Ministry on Leipziger Straße in the Mitte district (along with every other proposed location in the Soviet sector). The Allied Control Council for Germany met 82 times before the Soviet Union walked out of the council on 20 March 1948. The principle of unanimity prevailed. Between meetings, the coordinating committee and control staff with 12 directors managed the work. Not a German executive body.
3. Feskov "The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War," 2004, p. 105.

References

• Book: Feskov, V.I.. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской. Golikov. V.I.. Kalashnikov. K.A.. Slugin. S.A.. Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. 2013. 9785895035306. Tomsk. ru. The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces. .
• "Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994", memorial album, edition Moscow, published by «Jang Guard», 1994;, pages 15 – 22.
• "The Radar Control Troops of the German Democratic Republic's Air Defence Forces", history and stories, by Wolf-Rüdiger Stuppe and Siefried Fiedle, 1st edition 2013 (p. 89-95, author L. Pflügner, Colonel r.), Publishing House Steffen/Steffen GmbH, .