23rd Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya order of Lenin Red Banner Missile Division

23-я гвардейская ракетная Орловско-Берлинская ордена Ленина Краснознаменная дивизия

Military Unit: 21201; from 5.93: 93971

Commanders:

• Major-General Nikolay Kuzmich Spiridenko, 19.6.59 - 30.6.62
• Major-General Semen Yakovlevich Tyurmenko, 30.6.62 - 30.9.69
• Major-General Leonid Vasilevich Orekhov, 30.9.69 - 26.9.75
• Major-General Vitaliy Vasilevich Moroz, 3.10.75 - 12.6.81
• Major-General Boris Ivanovich Kondrashov, 12.6.81 - 6.8.87
• Colonel Petr Petrovich Tikhonov, 6.8.87 - 25.6.89
• Major-General Anatoliy Sergeevich Borzenko, 25.6.89 - 1.12.92
• Major-General Gabtunur Gabdulbarovich Abdulin, 1.12.92 - 14.8.95
• Major-General Vladimir Grigorevich Gagarin, 14.8.95 - 8.99
• Major-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Martynov, 16.9.99 - 6.00
• Major-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Padyushkin, 4.7.00 - 31.8.05
• Major-General Sergey Stepanovich Ivanitskiy, 31.8.05 - 8.07

Activated 1.4.59 in Vypolzovo, Tver oblast, as the 25th Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya Red Banner Aviation (Missile) Division, from the 11th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.

Initial organisation:

• 258th Aviation (Missile) Regiment (Vypolzovo, Tver oblast) with R-2 missiles
• 253rd Aviation (Missile) Regiment (Vypolzovo, Tver oblast) with R-2 missiles

15.3.60 relocated to Valga, Estonia.

Organisation 5.60:

• 94th Engineering Regiment (Khaansalu, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
• 846th Engineering Regiment (Valga, Estonia) with R-12 missiles

1.7.60 renamed 23rd Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya Red Banner Missile Division.

Organisation 1963:

• 30th Guards Missile Regiment (Aluksne, Latvia) with R-12 missiles
• 94th Missile Regiment (Khaansalu, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
• 304th Guards Missile Regiment (Rakvere, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
• 305th Guards Missile Regiment (Vyry, Estonia) with R-12 missiles
• 846th Missile Regiment (Valga, Estonia) with R-12 missiles

22.2.68 awarded the order of Lenin.

30.4.82 ordered to relocate to Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray - the division stood down 28.9.82.

15.5.83 arrived in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray.

Organisation 1985:

• 846th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 778th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 24th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 434th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RSD-10 Pioner missiles

The last RSD-10 Pioner missile regiment stood down 15.12.88, and the division began preparations to convert to the RT-2PM (SS-25) missile.

Organisation 1994:

• 189th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
• 55th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
• 778th Guards Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
• 24th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles
• 434th Missile Regiment (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray) with 9 RT-2PM missiles

From 16.9.02 attached to the 33rd Guards Missile Army.

Disbanded 2007.

Subordination:

• 50th Air Army, 1.4.59 - 3.60
• 50th Missile Army, 15.3.60 - 4.83
• 53rd Missile Army, 5.5.83 - 9.02
• 33rd Guards Missile Army, 16.9.02 - 2007

Support Units:

• 261st independent Helicopter Squadron
• 856th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 94th Missile Regiment)
• 1053rd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 846th Missile Regiment)
• 1607th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 305th Guards Missile Regiment)
• 1503rd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 304th Guards Missile Regiment)
• 1606th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 30th Guards Missile Regiment)
• 1739th Repair-Technical Base (from 1983)
• 1662nd Technical Missile Base
• 000 Communications Center

Headquarters:

• Valga, Estonian SSR, 3.60 - 5.83
• Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray, 5.83 - 2007

Divisional coordinates (Valga):

• Valga IR/MRBM Division Command Post Bunker (57 47 40N, 25 59 31E)
• Valga IR/MRBM Radcom Transmitter Station (57 39 48N, 25 51 26E)
• Valga IR/MRBM Division Support Complex (57 47 42N, 25 59 44E)

Divisional coordinates (Kansk):

• Kansk Mobile IRBM/ICBM Division Command Post & Radcom Receiver Bunker (56 15 21N, 95 39 03E)
• Kansk Mobile IRBM/ICBM Division Support Facility (56 15 29N, 95 39 21E)
• Kansk Mobile IRBM/ICBM Division Rail-to-Road Transfer Point (56 15 35N, 95 37 30E)
• Kansk Mobile IRBM/ICBM Division Nuclear Payload Handling Facility (56 16 09N, 95 39 27E)
• Kansk Mobile IRBM/ICBM Division Technical Missile Base (56 16 16N, 95 38 40E)
• Helicopter Base (56 12 30N, 95 38 04E)