29th Guards Vitebskaya order of Lenin Red Banner Missile Division

29-я гвардейская ракетная Витебская ордена Ленина Краснознаменная дивизия

Military Unit: 42341

Commanders:

• Major-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kolesov, 1.7.60 -

• Major-General Leonid Ilich Kokin

• Major-General Vilhelm Petrovich Glukhovsky

• Major-General Gennady Fedorovich Eriskovsky

• Major-General Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Tonkikh

• Colonel Viktor Nikolaevich Lazarev

• Major-General Viktor Vasilevich Dremov

• Major-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Gontarenko

• Major-General Vladimir Vasilevich Antsiferov

• Major-General Sergey Viktorovich Siver

• Colonel Anatoly Grogorevich Kulay

Activated 1.7.60 in Taurage, Lithuania, from the 85th Engineer Brigade RVGK, attached to the 50th Missile Army.

Honours and rewards were taken over from the disbanded 51st Guards Motorized Rifle Division.

1.9.61 relocated to Shaulyay, Latvia.

Initial organisation:

• 115th Missile Regiment (Paplaka, Latvia) with R-5M missiles

• 79th Guards Missile Regiment (Plunge, Lithuania) with R-12 missiles

• 307th Missile Regiment (Elgava, Latvia) with R-12 missiles

• 867th Guards Missile Regiment (Dobele, Latvia) with R-12 missiles

• 344th Guards Missile Regiment (Priekule, Latvia) with R-14 missiles

115th Missile Regiment stood down 1.5.66, and was later relocated to Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast (46th Missile Division).

79th Guards Missile Regiment stood down 15.3.78, and was transferred to Yurya, Kirov Oblast (8th Missile Division).

Organisation 1982:

• 307th Missile Regiment (Elgava, Latvia) with R-12 missiles

• 867th Guards Missile Regiment (Dobele, Latvia) with R-12 missiles

• 344th Guards Missile Regiment (Priekule, Latvia) with R-14 missiles

The 307th Missile Regiment stood down 24.5.82, followed by the 867th Guards Missile Regiment 7.6.82.

The last regiment, 344th Guards Missile Regiment, stood down 1.3.83.

In 1986 the division was transferred to Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, now attached to the 53rd Missile Army, and was to have controlled 5 regiments with RSD-10 Pioner (SS-20) missiles. This never took place due to the INF treaty, and instead the first RT-2PM (SS-25) regiment became operational 27.5.88.

Organisation 1991:

• 92nd Missile Regiment (Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast) with RT-2PM missiles

• 344th Guards Missile Regiment (Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast) with RT-2PM missiles

• 586th Guards Missile Regiment (Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast) with RT-2PM missiles

• 345th Missile Regiment (Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast) with RT-2PM missiles

From 16.9.02 attached to the 33rd Guards Missile Army.

Support Units:

• 185th independent Helicopter Squadron (from 1989)

• 264th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 115th Missile Regiment)

• 1018th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 79th Guards Missile Regiment)

• 1058th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 867th Guards Missile Regiment)

• 1507th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 344th Guards Missile Regiment)

• 1511th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 307th Missile Regiment)

• 1893rd Technical Missile Base

• 738th Communications Center