24th Guards Gomelskaya order of Lenin Red Banner orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Division

24-я гвардейская ракетная Гомельская ордена Ленина, Краснознаменная орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия

Military Unit: 14237

Commanders:

• Major-General Aleksandr Fedorovich, 12.6.46 - 7.8.48

• Major-General Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Gumirov, 7.8.48 - 15.3.50

• Major-General Vasiliy Nikolaevich Ivanov, 3.4.50 - 21.7.58

• Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Kholopov, 21.7.58 - 28.7.62

• Major-General Boris Antonovich Akimov, 28.7.62 - 16.7.71

• Major-General Viktor Mikhaylovich Egorov, 16.7.71 - 29.8.75

• Major-General Vladimir Viktorovich Subbotin, 1.9.75 - 19.12.80

• Major-General Gennadiy Mikhaylovich Polenkov, 20.12.80 - 15.12.86

• Major-General Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kopeykin, 15.12.86 - 12.90

Activated 6.46 in Bad Berka, East Germany, as the 22nd Brigade for Special Use RVGK, from the 92nd Guards Mortar Regiment - formation complete 8.46.

Organisation 1946:

• 1st Launch Battalion (Bad Berka, East Germany)

• 2nd Launch Battalion (Bad Berka, East Germany)

• 3rd Launch Battalion (Bad Berka, East Germany)

8.47 transferred to Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, to test various German V-2 missiles.

2.50 renamed 22nd Special Purpose Brigade RVGK.

10.52 transferred to Medved, Novgorod Oblast, and 3.53 renamed 72nd Engineer Brigade RVGK.

Organisation 1953:

• 635th independent Engineer Battalion RVGK (Medved, Novgorod Oblast)

• 638th independent Engineer Battalion RVGK (Medved, Novgorod Oblast)

• 650th independent Engineer Battalion RVGK (Medved, Novgorod Oblast)

12.58 transferred to Fürstenberg, East Germany.

8.59 transferred to Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast - later Gvardeisk, Kaliningrad Oblast.

Organisation 1959:

• 97th Engineer Regiment RVGK (Gvardeisk, Kaliningrad Oblast)

• 349th Mobile Technical-Repair Base (Gvardeisk, Kaliningrad Oblast)

• 330th Engineer Regiment RVGK (Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast)

• 912th Mobile Technical-Repair Base (Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast)

• 323rd Engineer Regiment RVGK (Chernyshevskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast)

• 847th Mobile Technical-Repair Base (Chernyshevskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast)

1.7.60 renamed the 24th Guards Missile Division, attached to the 50th Missile Army.

Initial organisation:

• 97th Missile Regiment (Gvardeisk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-5M missiles

• 25th Missile Regiment (Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 323rd Missile Regiment (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 330th Missile Regiment (Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 308th Guards Missile Regiment (Neman, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

Organisation 1985:

• 25th Missile Regiment (Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 323rd Missile Regiment (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 330th Missile Regiment (Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast) with R-12 missiles

The division was disbanded 12.90.

Support Units:

• 349th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 97th Missile Regiment)

• 432nd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 25th Missile Regiment)

• 512th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 330th Missile Regiment)

• 847th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 323rd Missile Regiment)

• 1054th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 308th Guards Missile Regiment)

• 0000 Technical Missile Base

• 000 Communications Center