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Originally Posted by chico20854
January 8, 1998
STAVKA (or the remnants thereof) orders the deployment of the 260th Motor-Rifle Division in the Ural Military District. The mobilization-only division, located at Shadrinsk on the steppes of Siberia, has been forming since July, although other divisions were higher priority in receiving men and equipment.
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Actually, this website (
http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/260msd.htm) lists the division as a category III (or "C") division, not a mobilization-only division. But, that might be nitpicking.