12th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment arrived from Kaliningrad and joined the division. On February 15, 1989, the last units of the 40th Combined Arms Army, along with Gromov, left Afghanistan to the west. Withdrawal was carried out by two methods: by air (5,142 people) and land (6,986 people). 10 colonies from 4 garrisons were withdrawn (Shindand, Adraskan, Herat, Turgundi). During the Afghan war, four soldiers from the division were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, and 12,825 in total were awarded orders and medals. From May 1988 the division, under the Geneva conventions, prepared to withdraw from Afghanistan. The withdrawal of the 5th GMRD began as scheduled on 29 January 1989, and ended 15 February 1989. The division was relocated permanently to the city of Kushka. Total number of killed in the division from 27 December 1979 to 15 February 1989 was 1135 (910 of them in combat). The division was absorbed into the 88th Motor Rifle Division in March 1989. Organisation In Afghanistan war (1979–1989), the 5th GMRD comprised Divisional Headquarters – Shindand. Agitotryad. Headquarters company. Bakery. 795th Station courier mail service. 251st Battery Management and artillery reconnaissance. 814th military fire brigade. 582nd-second bath and laundry item Field establishment of the State Bank of the USSR 164th Separate flame thrower Company(before March 1985 – 164th Separate Company of Chemical Protection). 101st Motor Rifle Regiment – Herat 371st Guards Berlin Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor Rifle Regiment – Shindand. 12th Guards Red Banner Order of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor Rifle Regiment – Herat. 24th Guards Prague Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Tank Regiment – Shindand. 1060th Artillery regiment Shindand. 1122nd Sevastopol Redflag Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment – Shindand. 1377th Separate Antitank Artillery Battalion Shindand. 650th separate Prague Order of Alexander Nevsky reconnaissance battalion. Shindand. 68th Guards separate engineering battalion. pos. Adraskan. 388th separate battalion. Shindand. 307th separate missile division. Herat. 177th separate repair battalion of recovery Shindand. 375th independent battalion of material support Shindand. 46th separate medical-sanitary battalion Herat. After the withdrawal from Afghanistan After the collapse of the Soviet Union, 'Zimovnikovskoy,' a unit of Turkmenistan's Ministry of Defense was established with the honorary title of "Turkmenbashi Saparmurat Niyazov's" located in Kushka, based on the 5th GMRD. Heroes of the Soviet Union awarded to the 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division Source: Captain Kuchkin Gennady Pavlovich, Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Vladimir Neverov Lavrentyevich, Hero of