18th Guards Smolenskaya orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Missile Division

18-я гвардейская ракетная Смоленская орденов Суворова и Кутузова дивизия

Military Unit: 54084

Commanders:

• Major-General Valentin Markovich Osipov, 5.60 - 10.62

Activated 5.60 in Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast, as the 205th Guards Missile Brigade, from parts of the 4th Guards Cannon Artillery Division.

30.5.61 renamed 18th Guards Missile Division.

Organisation 1961:

• 691st Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)
• 703rd Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)
• 707th Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)
• 712th Missile Regiment (Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

8.10.62 transferred to Romny, Sumy Oblast (together with the first three regiments), and renamed 43rd Guards Missile Division.

The 703rd Missile Regiment remained at Shadrinsk, and became independent.

For Shadrinsk ICBM complex coordinates, see the 17th Missile Brigade.

Subordination:

• 24th Artilley Range Administration, 5.60 - 3.61
• 5th independent Missile Corps, 10.3.61 - 10.62

Support Units:

• 0000 Repair-Technical Base
• 0000 Technical Missile Base
• 000 independent Communications Battalion

Divisional coordinates:

• Shadrinsk ICBM Complex - 1964 map
• Shadrinsk ICBM Complex Command Post Bunker (56 09 41N, 63 38 24E)
• Shadrinsk ICBM HQ Radcom Transmitter Station Hardened (56 13 49N, 63 08 12E)
• Complex Support Facility (56 07 59N, 63 40 08E) - drawing (1964)
• Rail-to-Road Transfer Point (56 09 51N, 63 40 00E) - drawing (1964)