PRP-3/4, 3 1V-18, 1 1V-19, 2 R-145 BM, 1 R-156 BTR 216th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Zeithain): in addition to a SAM P-145BM or 1 P-156 armored personnel carrier 13th Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare Battalion (Zeithain): 17 BMP-2, 7 BRM-1K; 1 BMP-1KSH, 2 R-145 BM, 1 R-156 BTR 696th Battalion (Riesa): 10 R-145BM, 1 P-156 armored personnel carriers, 2 P-2AM 109th Engineer Battalion (Oschatz): 2 IRM, 2 MT-55A 112th Chemical Protection Battalion 1071st independent battalion for material support 68th Repair Battalion 200th Medical Battalion On 19 November 1990 the 9th Tank Division had: 238 tanks (T-80 ) 443 BMP (271 BMP-2, 143 BMP-1, 29 BRM-1K) 24 APCs (10 BTR-70, 14 BTR-60) 126 self-propelled guns (72 2C-1, 54 2S5) 36 mortars "Sani" (120 mm) 18 MLRS BM-21 "Grad" Honorifics 9th Bobruisk-Berlin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Tank Division Commanders Major-General of Tank Troops Alexey Kurkin (12 May 1942 – 18 October 1942) Major-General of Tank Troops Alexander Alexandrovich Shamshin (19 October 1942 on 10 March 1943) Major-General of Tank Troops, Semyon Bogdanov (11 March 1943 – 24 August 1943) Promoted to Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops 7 June 1943? or 6 July 1943 Major-General of Tank Troops Gregory S. Rudchenko (25 August 1943 – 1 September 1943) (deceased) Major-General of Tank Troops Boris S. Bakharov (from 2 September 1943 – 16 July 1944) Major-General of Tank Troops Nikolai Ivanovich Voyeikov (12 July 1944 – 17 July 1944) Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Ivan Kirichenko (12 August 1944 on 9 May 1945) References Feskov et al., The Soviet Army in the period of the Cold War, Tomsk University Publishing House, 2004 Niehoster 9th Tank Corps OB 3 Apr 1945 009 009 Military units and formations established in 1940 Military units and formations disestablished in 1991 Military units and formations awarded the Order of the Red Banner