Converted to a storage base in 1989, it was taken over by Kazakhstan with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The mobilization division was redesignated as a territorial training center and later became the 5202nd Weapons and Equipment Storage Base on 1 November 1989.

[1] The equipment of the base was used to form the Kazakh Military Unit 30217 at Semey, whose first post-independence commander was Major General Aleksandr Martynov.

Open source data identifies the unit as the 8th Separate Mechanized Brigade.

[2] The unit is part of Regional Command East.