52nd Ternopolsko-Berlinskaya orders of Red Star and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Division

52-я ракетная Тернопольско-Берлинская, орденов Красного Знамени и Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия

Military Unit: 54090

Commanders:

• Colonel Georgy Vladimirovich Stoppe, 27.8.60 - 7.7.61

• Major-General Zinovy Trifonovich Ivanov, 22.7.61 - 1.4.66

• Colonel Pavel Sergeevich Parshin, 1.4.66 - 7.5.69

• Major-General Pavel Ivanovich Kabanov, 7.5.69 - 26.2.73

• Major-General Anatoly Aleksandrovich Drukarev, 26.2.73 - 20.9.76

• Major-General Valery Andreevich Kozlov, 20.9.76 - 9.12.80

• Major-General Veniamin Valentinovich Belousov, 9.12.80 - 21.6.84

• Major-General Ivan Mikhaylovich Balabolkin, 24.6.84 - 29.6.89

• Major-General Yury Fedorovich Kirillov, 29.6.89 - 4.11.93

• Major-General Aleksey Gavrilovich Subbotin, 4.11.93 - 16.6.99

• Major-General Boris Vladimirovich Sinenko, 16.6.99 - 2002

Activated 6.60 in Bershet, Perm Oblast, as the 206th Missile Brigade, from the 98th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division RVGK. Initially under the 24th Artilley Range Administration, but from 10.3.61 under the 5th Independent Missile Corps.

Initial organisation:

• 721st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast)

• 723rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast)

• 730th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast)

• 734th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast)

30.5.61 renamed 52nd Missile Division.

In March 1964 all R-16 battalions were upgraded to regiments:

• 723rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads

• 730th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads

• 589th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 R-16 silos

• 176th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads

• 684th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads

• 811th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads

• 721st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with no missiles

• 734th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with no missiles

In 8.65 the 734th Missile Regiment were transferred to Zhangiz Tobe, Semipalatinsk Oblast, under the 57th Missile Division.

1965 began conversion to the UR-100 (SS-11) missile.

From 8.6.70 attached to the 31st Missile Army.

Organisation 1972 (80 UR-100 silos, 10 R-16 pads and 3 R-16 silos):

• 589th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 4 R-16 pads and 3 R-16 silos

• 811th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 6 R-16 pads

• 721st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 598th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 608th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 263rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 730th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 684th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 176th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

• 723rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

The R-16 missile was phased out in 1976.

Organisation 1984 (60 UR-100K silos):

• 721st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 598th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 608th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 263rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 730th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 684th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 176th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 723rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

Two regiments were disbanded in 1989, while the division was converting to the RT-23 (SS-24) rail-based missile.

Organisation 1992 (50 UR-100K silos and 12 RT-23UTTKh rail-mobile launchers):

• 598th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 263rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 730th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 176th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 723rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 10 UR-100K silos

• 223rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

• 174th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

• 161st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

• 721st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

Organisation 2000:

• 223rd Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

• 174th Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

• 161st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

• 721st Missile Regiment (Bershet, Perm Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

Disbanded 2002.

Support Units:

• 159th independent Helicopter Squadron

• 1539th Repair-Technical Base

• 0000 Technical Missile Base

• 000 Communications Center

Bershet ICBM complex coordinates (for Type IIID silos, see individual regiments):

• Bershet ICBM Complex - 1964 map - 1968 map

• HQ Command & Control Facility (57 44 09N, 56 18 59E)

• Complex Support Facility (57 42 15N, 56 19 02E) - drawing - drawing (1964)

• Rail-to-Road Transfer Point (57 41 59N, 56 17 18E) - drawing (1964)

• Training site - Type IIID training silo 60X (57 41 49N, 56 16 41E)

• Alternate Command & Control Facility (57 31 24N, 56 44 02E)

• Transmitting Facility (57 56 46N, 56 19 26E)