Training Center for Junior Specialists (Kazakhstan)
Kazakh Army training center
The Training Center for Junior Specialists of the Kazakh Ground Forces named after Karasai Batyr (Military Unit Number 30212) is a Ground Forces formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the Cold War it was a training formation of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was originally formed as the 80th Guards Rifle Division on 1 March 1943 from the second formation of the 298th Rifle Division after the Battle of Stalingrad. After which it remained in reserve until August, when it joined the 4th Guards Army, taking part in the Battle of the Dnieper, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky Offensive, and the Uman–Botoșani Offensive.
The division became part of the Central Group of Forces after the end of the war. On 1 November 1945, it was converted into the 16th Guards Mechanized Division, before relocating to Samarkand in the Turkestan Military District. On 11 January 1965, the division was renumbered as the 80th Guards, restoring its World War II designation. In May 1970, after the Central Asian Military District was formed, the 80th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division (Russian: 80-я гвардейская учебная мотострелковая дивизия) transferred to Otar-2 (renamed Gvardeysky) near Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan and became part of the new district. In 1987, the division was renamed the 210th Guards District Center when all training divisions became training centers. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the center became part of the Kazakh Ground Forces in 1992.
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