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208 BMP182 guns/mortars3

90 helicopters

Regional Orbat

Mozdok Grouping4

General Lieutenant V.M. Chilindin

Moved from the northwest

131st Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade (MRB) 1000 men; 80% casualties in the attack

because after they entered the city unopposed the men left their vehicles unguarded at the

train station. Many proceeded to buy train tickets for the journey home! The Chechensemerged to surround the brigade and wipe it out.

HQ 106th Paratroop Division5

81

st

Motorized Rifle Regiment (90

th

Division). Only 7 of the regiments platoon commanderswere experienced officers the rest were newly commissioned

276th Motorized Rifle Regiment

56th Independent Paratroop Brigade

Left flank: 81st MRR

Center: 131st MRBRight: 276th MRR

Vladikavkaz Axis

General Lieutenant Chindarov

Moved from the west.

693rd

MRB (19th Motorized Rifle Division)1 regiment 76th Paratrooper Division

1 battalion 21st Independent Paratrooper Brigade.

Kizlyar GroupingGeneral Lieutenant Lev Roklin

Moved from the east.

20th Motorized Rifle Division

3 It is unclear if these were heavy mortars only or included calibers less than 120mm.4 The groupings were named after the towns/cities which served as assembly areas.5 The author of the chapter assumes the two MRR were part of 106th Paratroop Division. While the division HQ

may have been used to command the two regiments, there were from other formations.

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Assault Units/Storm Groups

These were divided into four groups.

Map is from Chapter 6

EastGeneral Major Nikolay Staskov

Storm detachments of the 129th MRR1 parachute battalion from the 98th Airborne Division.

Objective: Capture the bridges across the river and link up with the Northern and Western ForceGroup to block the central part of the city.

WestGeneral Major V. Petruk

2 storm detachments of the 19th Motorized Rifle Division (Vladikovkaz)

1 regiment of the 76th Airborne Division (Pskov)

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Objective: Attackalong a zone bordered on the right by the railroad tracks and on the left byPopovicha Street. Their objectives were to capture the train station and then blockade the

presidential palace from the south.

This axis did not make it to its jumping off point when the attack began.

NorthGeneral Major K. Pulikovsky

131st MRB

276th MRR81st MRR

Objective: isolate the Chechen formation from the city proper.

Northeast

General Lieutenant Lev Rokhlin

Objective: isolate north district and Presidential Palace from rest of the city.

255th MRR

Other United Identified

o 74th Brigade: apparently part of North grouping. Stopped to celebrate New Years Eve

and did not move in time to join December 31 attack, which it was supposed to reinforce.

o 503d Regiment: parent formation unidentified, part of North grouping. Did not move as

commander said unit was not prepared for combat and he did not want to risk him men

pointlessly.

o Two Spetsnaz units; sent to south of the city to block Chechen withdrawal routes. Had no

resupply or support; surrendered to Chechens several days after running out of food.

Additional Reading Suggested

o www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1289/MR1289.ch2.pdf

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1289/MR1289.ch2.pdfhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1289/MR1289.ch2.pdf