50th Red Banner Missile Division

50-я ракетная Краснознаменная дивизия

Military Unit: 52035

Commanders:

• Colonel Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ladilov, 5.60

• Major-General Petr Andreevich Gnido

• Major-General Boris Andreevich Bondarenko

• Major-General Boris Ivanovich Lobanov

• Major-General Vasily Matveevich Ivanushkin

• Major-General Nikolay Maksimovich Chichevatov

• Major-General Ivan Vasilevich Vershkov

• Major-General Leonid Petrovich Vakhrushev

Activated 5.60 in Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast, as the 80th Missile Brigade, from the 80th Engineer Brigade RVGK - attached to the 43rd Missile Army.

5.61 renamed 50th Missile Division.

Organisation 1960:

• 163rd Missile Regiment (Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 181st Missile Regiment (Lipniki, Zhitomir Oblast) with R-12 missiles

• 432nd Missile Regiment (Korosten, Zhitomir Oblast) with R-12 missiles

The 431st Guards Missile Regiment was added to the division in 1961.

The 60th Missile Regiment was added to the division in 1984.

1985 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1985:

• 163rd Missile Regiment (Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner-K missiles

• 181st Missile Regiment (Lipniki, Zhitomir Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner-K missiles

• 431st Guards Missile Regiment (Vysokaya Rech, Zhitomir Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner-K missiles

• 432nd Missile Regiment (Korosten, Zhitomir Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner-K missiles

• 60th Missile Regiment (Vysokaya Rech, Zhitomir Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner-K missiles

The division was disbanded 30.4.91.

Support Units:

• 84th independent Helicopter Squadron

• 329th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 163rd Missile Regiment)

• 331st Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 181st Missile Regiment; from 1984 the 50th Missile Division)

• 1517th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 431st Guards Missile Regiment)

• 1519th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 432nd Missile Regiment)

• 0000 Technical Missile Base

• 000 Communications Center