Military Exercise Composition of the Assault Landing Formations

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COMPOSITION OF THE ASSAULT LANDING FORMATIONS

Assault landing formation Nº 1 composed of:

A. Assault transport equipment:

the 171^st bdk: three Project 1171 bdk's and one Project 775 bdk

[Translator's note: the abbreviation bdk found in these documents can expand to both "brigada of landing ships" and "large landing ship"; here it's the latter]

the 729^th ddk [Divizion of Landing Ships] (with eight Project 770 and 773 dk's [landing ship] and three Project 1176 dka's)

the 277^th ddk (three Project 770 and 771 sdk's [medium landing ship] and five Project 1785 dka's)

the 150^th ddk ( five Project 1232 mdk's [small landing ship])

the 17^th ddk (15 Project 1205 dka's and four Project 1206 dka's)

a brigada of transports (10 roll-on/roll-off transports, 15 transports, six ferries, and eight cutters on PK [?border guard boats?])

a squadron of assault helicopters

B. OKOP

the 186^th behm [Destroyer Brigada (six destroyers)

four Project 50 escort vessels from the 157^th dpk

the 117^th draka [expansion unknown, but probably some type of long-range gunboats] (10 [Project] 1236 aka's [gunboat])

C. Security forces:

the 228^th brk [Brigada of River Ships] (one bpk [large ASW vessel], four Project 1135 escort vessels)

the 30^th obskr [Independent Brigada of Escort Vessels] (12 pka's [Patrol Boats]

the 209^th dpka [Divizion of Border Cutters] (four mpk's)

the 135^th dtshch (12 mt's [small trawlers])

D. Rescue detachment

from the VS i ASS [Emergency Rescue Service] of the B [possibly Baltiysk] Naval Base:

one SB [salvage and rescue tug], two mb [seagoing tug], one pzhs [firefighting ship], two vm [diving ship], two pzhk [firefighting boat] and one kil [crane-equipped ship].

from the VS i ASS of the Liepaya Naval Base:

two mb.

E. A detachment of NGO [navigation and hydrographic support] ships

from the 703^rd OD [of] GISU [hydrographic vessels], four hydrographic vessels

from the 51^st RGS [Regional Hydrographic Service], three BGK's [large hydrographic ship]

from the 41^st RGS, two BGK's

F. Detachment of supply ships

from the 564^th dmso [probably Divizion of Naval Support Vessels], one tn [tanker] and two Vtr's [?military transport?]

The commander of assault landing formation Nº 1 is the commander of the 171^st bdk.

Assault landing formation Nº 1 is to concentrate at Wismar by the end of 25.1.2 [SIC]

Assault landing formation Nº 2 composed of:

the 22^nd bdk composed of 21 dks's [medium landing ship], 14 dka's (15 dks's for the operational assault group)

An otr [detachment of transports] composed of 10 Tr, four ferries, and six cutters on PK's.

An air squadron of Mi-8 assault helicopters [of the] PF

OKOP composed of the destroyer Varshava, four Project 56 and Project 30-bis destroyers from the 186^th behm.

Security forces composed of:

the 25^th dpk of the 28^th FOP, five Project 620 escort vessels and seven Project 912 mpk's

the 23^rd dtshch of the 28^th FOP, eight trawlers

A rescue detachment composed of:

three sb, two mb [seagoing tug], three vm, one Gisu, and three bgk.

The detachment of support vessels: one tank[er], two transports, one hospital ship.

Assault formation Nº 3

A. The 31^st bdk (17 Project 108 sdk's)

OTr (three transports, two ferries, and three cutters on PK)

A detachment of assault helicopters

B. OKOP

the 157^th dpk (four Project 50 escort vessels)

C. Security forces

the 34^th bkovr [Brigada of Offshore Defense Ships] (eight mpk's, and 10 tshchb [coastal trawler])

the 33^rd dskr [Divizion of Escort Vessels] (three Project 1150 escort vessels)

D. Rescue detachment

Two tugs and two vm from the 31^st Flotilla

E. Detachment of NGO vessels

One Gisu and three bgk's

F. Detachment of support ships

One tanker and two transports from the 31^st Flotilla

The commander of formation Nº 3 is the commander of the 31^st Flotilla

Assault landing formation Nº 3 is to concentrate in Hohwacht Bay by 1600 24 January

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typed [by] BF/16.1.1980

Nº PF-30/1