62nd_Rocket_Division

62nd Rocket Division

62nd Rocket Division

Military unit


The 62nd Red Banner Rocket Division is a formation of the 33rd Guards Rocket Army, Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, which is located near Uzhur, in Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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This division deployed in the base of an operational group formed by the directive of the General Staff of the Strategic Rocket Forces on 24 July 1964. Colonel Vasilii Trofimovich Kuts was entrusted with the group's formation. On 12 June 1964, the unit was handed its battle flag, and on 8 September 1964, Colonel Pyotr Mikhailovich Prikhodko, arrived and assumed his duties as the first divisional commander.[1][2]

Equipment

The division was equipped with the stationary type R-36M and R-36UTTH intercontinental ballistic missiles.[1] In 1989 the unit received R-36M2 missiles.[2]

Commanders

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Structure

Structure of the unit as of 2010:[2]

  • 229th Rocket Regiment
  • 269th Rocket Regiment
  • 302nd Rocket Regiment
  • 735th Rocket Regiment

References

  1. Конарев, A. L. (1999). Omskaya policy years 1959–1999. Omskaya Printing House. p. 77.
  2. "62-я ракетная дивизия (г. Ужур)". rvsn.ruzhany.info (in Russian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  • Michael Holm, [www.ww2.dk/new/rvsn/62md.htm 62nd Missile Division]



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