10th Guards Red Banner order of Suvorov Missile Division

10-я гвардейская ракетная Краснознаменная ордена Суворова дивизия

Military Unit: 34029

Commanders:

• Major-General Yakov Samoylovich Dyachenko, 22.7.60 - 22.7.61
• Major-General Afanasy Petrovich Shilin, 22.7.61 - 11.9.64
• Major-General Nikolay Vasilevich Tarasov, 11.9.64 - 7.5.67
• Major-General Yury Konstantinovich Pylaev, 7.5.67 - 5.8.70
• Major-General Boris Pavlovich Tokarev, 5.8.70 - 17.3.72
• Major-General Igor Georgievich Boytsov, 17.3.72 - 18.12.75
• Major-General Viktor Mikhaylovich Shmonov, 18.12.75 - 5.7.83
• Major-General Igor Vasilevich Pustovoy, 5.7.83 - 6.8.87
• Major-General Rudolf Romanovich Shmykov, 6.8.87 - 29.6.90
• Major-General Yury Aleksandrovich Gordeev, 29.6.90 - 3.9.96
• Major-General Vladimir Dmitrievich Ubakin, 3.9.96 - 12.11.97
• Major-General Gennady Dmitrievich Bazhenov, 12.11.97 - 22.7.2003
• Major-General Sergey Vasilevich Bondarenko, 22.7.2003 - 28.1.2005
• Major-General Ivan Nikolaevich Kuzichkin, 28.1.2005 - 1.12.2005

Activated 20.7.60 in Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast, as the 165th Missile Brigade, from the 26th Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade.

Initial organisation:

• 575th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast)
• 590th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast)
• 592nd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast)
• 593rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast)

30.5.61 renamed 10th Guards Missile Division.

The 593rd Missile Regiment was transferred to Plesetsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast in 1961.

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

• 575th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads
• 590th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads
• 592nd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads
• 487th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads
• 314th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads
• 681st Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 2 R-16 pads
• 105th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 3 R-16 silos
• 489th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with no missiles

In 1965 the 489th Missile Regiment was transferred to Kartaly, Chelyabinsk Oblast.

1966 began conversion to the UR-100 (SS-11) missile.

In 1968 the 131st and 527th Missile Regiments arrived in Kostroma from Yurya (8th Missile Division). The 131st Missile Regiment went on to Uzhur, Krasnoyarsk Kray, under the 62nd Missile Division.

22.2.68 awarded the Red Banner.

In 1969 the 143rd Missile Regiment arrived from the 8th Missile Division.

Organisation 1972 (90 UR-100 silos, 12 R-16 pads and 3 R-16 silos):

• 590th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with R-16
• 592nd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with R-16
• 681st Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with R-16
• 141st Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 173rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 227th Guards Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 233rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 314th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 487th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 575th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 105th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 143rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

The R-16 missile was phased out in 1976.

Four regiments converted to the MR-UR-100 (SS-17) from 1977 to 1979.

Organisation 1984 (10 MR-UR-100U silos, 30 MR-UR-100 silos and 50 UR-100 silos):

• 141st Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 MR-UR-100U silos
• 173rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 227th Guards Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 MR-UR-100 silos
• 233rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 MR-UR-100 silos
• 314th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 487th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 MR-UR-100 silos
• 575th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 105th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos
• 143rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 10 UR-100 silos

The UR-100 missile was phased out 1985-1987, followed by the MR-UR-100 1988-1989.

Four new regiments were formed in 1983/85 for the new rail-mobile RT-23UTTKh (SS-24) missile.

Two additional regiments were formed in 1986 (188th and 202nd), but were transferred to Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Kray in 1989 (36th Guards Missile Division).

Organisation 1998:

• 780th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh
• 149th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh
• 153rd Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh
• 158th Missile Regiment (Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast) with 3 RT-23UTTKh

Disbanded 1.12.2005.

Subordination:

• 46th Artilley Range Administration, 20.7.60 - 10.3.61
• 3rd Independent Guards Missile Corps, 10.3.61 - 8.6.70
• 27th Guards Missile Army, 8.6.70 - 1.12.05

Support Units:

• 31st independent Helicopter Squadron
• 1530th Repair-Technical Base
• 2425th Technical Missile Base
• 288th Communications Center

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

• Kostroma ICBM Complex - 1964 map - 1968 map
• Kostroma ICBM Complex Command Post Bunker (57 45 57N, 40 58 27E)
• Kostroma ICBM Division Command Post Bunker Hardened (58 06 12N, 41 36 40E)
• Kostroma ICBM HQ Radcom Transmitter Station (57 40 50N, 41 04 19E)
• Kostroma ICBM HQ Radcom Transmitter Station/Bunker Northeast (58 09 31N, 41 37 09E)
• Kostroma ICBM HQ Radcom Receiver Station/Bunker (57 52 40N, 41 16 21E)
• Kostroma ICBM Complex Support Facility (57 46 24N, 41 00 55E) - drawing (1964)
• Kostroma ICBM Division Nuclear Payload Handling Facility (57 50 50N, 41 14 34E)
• Kostroma ICBM Division Technical Missile Base (57 50 59N, 41 14 40E)
• Kostroma ICBM Division Rail-to-Road Transfer Point (57 51 17N, 41 14 29E) - drawing (1964)
• Training site - Type IIID training silo 51X (57 51 23N, 41 14 16E)
• Dummy silo site (57 58 37N, 41 14 55E)
• Helicopter Base (57 48 41N, 41 01 39E)