23rd Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya order of Lenin Red Banner Missile Division
23-я гвардейская ракетная Орловско-Берлинская ордена Ленина Краснознаменная дивизия
Military Unit: 21201
Commanders:
Major-General Nikolay Kuzmich Spiridenko, 19.6.59 - 30.6.62
Major-General Semen Yakovlevich Tyurmenko, 30.6.62 - 30.9.69
Major-General Leonid Vasilevich Orekhov, 30.9.69 - 26.9.75
Major-General Vitaliy Vasilevich Moroz, 3.10.75 - 12.6.81
Major-General Boris Ivanovich Kondrashov, 12.6.81 - 6.8.87
Colonel Petr Petrovich Tikhonov, 6.8.87 - 25.6.89
Major-General Anatoliy Sergeevich Borzenko, 25.6.89 - 1.12.92
Major-General Gabtunur Gabdulbarovich Abdulin, 1.12.92 - 14.8.95
Major-General Vladimir Grigorevich Gagarin, 14.8.95 - 8.99
Major-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Martynov, 16.9.99 - 6.00
Major-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Padyushkin, 4.7.00 - 31.8.05
Major-General Sergey Stepanovich Ivanitskiy, 31.8.05 - 8.07
Activated 1.4.59 in Vypolzovo, Tver oblast, as the 25th Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya Red Banner Aviation (Missile) Division, from the 11th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.
Initially under the Air Force (VVS, 50th Air Army), but transferred to the RVSN in 15.3.60, attached to the 50th Missile Army.
Initial organisation:
258th Aviation (Missile) Regiment (Vypolzovo, Tver oblast) with R-2 missiles
253rd Aviation (Missile) Regiment (Vypolzovo, Tver oblast) with R-2 missiles
August 1959 relocated to Valga, Estonia.
Organisation 5.60:
94th Engineering Regiment (Khaansalu, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
846th Engineering Regiment (Valga, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
1.7.60 renamed 23rd Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya Red Banner Missile Division.
Organisation 1963:
30th Guards Missile Regiment (Aluksne, Latvia) with R-12 missiles
94th Missile Regiment (Khaansalu, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
304th Guards Missile Regiment (Rakvere, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
305th Guards Missile Regiment (Vyry, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
846th Missile Regiment (Valga, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
The order of Lenin was awarded in 22.2.68.
30.4.82 ordered to relocate to Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray - division stood down 28.9.82.
15.5.83 arrived in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray, and became attached to the 53rd Missile Army.
Organisation 1985:
846th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
778th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
24th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
434th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
The last RSD-10 Pioner missiles stood down 15.12.88, and the division began preparations to convert to the RT-2PM (SS-25) missile.
Organisation 1994:
189th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
55th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
778th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
24th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
434th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
From 16.9.02 attached to the 33rd Guards Missile Army.
Disbanded 2007.
Support Units:
856th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 94th Missile Regiment)
1053rd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 846th Missile Regiment)
1607th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 305th Guards Missile Regiment)
1503rd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 304th Guards Missile Regiment)
1606th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 30th Guards Missile Regiment)
1739th Repair-Technical Base (from 1983)
166th Technical Missile Base
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