33rd Guards Svirskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov Kutuzov and Aleksandr Nevskiy Missile Division

33-я гвардейская ракетная Свирская Краснознаменная орденов Суворова Кутузова и Александра Невского дивизия

Military Unit: 14225

Commanders:

• Major-General Grigory Lavrentevich Osyukov, 30.9.59 - 31.3.66
• Major-General Georgy Mikhailovich Merzlyakov, 31.3.66 - 17.12.74
• Major-General Evgenny Semenovich Borodunov, 17.12.74 - 9.12.80
• Major-General Igor Ilich Molozhaev, 9.12.80 - 6.8.87
• Major-General Valery Pimenovich Yuschenko, 6.8.87 - 29.6.90
• Major-General Gennady Aleksandrovich Kunarev, 29.6.90 - 6.8.94
• Major-General Gennady Nikolaevich Kovalenko, 6.8.94 - 14.6.95
• Major-General Vladimir Dmitrievich Uvakin, 14.6.95 - 3.9.96

Activated 9.59 in Myshanka, Gomel Oblast, as the 15th Guards Engineer Brigade RVGK, from the 7th Guards Mortar Brigade (BM-24).

Initial organisation:

• 396th Engineer Regiment RVGK (Myshanka, Gomel Oblast)
• 981st Mobile Repair-Technical Base (Myshanka, Gomel Oblast)
• 398th Engineer Regiment RVGK (Kozenki, Gomel Oblast)
• 982nd Mobile Repair-Technical Base (Kozenki, Gomel Oblast)

1.7.60 renamed the 33rd Guards Missile Division, now at Mozyr, Gomel Oblast.

Organisation 1961:

• 85th Guards Missile Regiment (Pinsk, Brest Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 104th Missile Regiment (Lapichi, Mogilev Oblast) with no missiles
• 369th Guards Missile Regiment (Zhitkovichi, Gomel Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 396th Missile Regiment (Petrikov, Gomel Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 398th Missile Regiment (Kozenki, Gomel Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 404th Missile Regiment (Gomel, Gomel Oblast) with R-12 missiles

1.10.61 the 156th independent Missile Regiment was formed at Zhitkovichi, Gomel Oblast, for service in East Germany, but was disbanded again 12.7.62.

1.10.62 the 85th Guards Missile Regiment were transferred to the 31st Guards Missile Division, while in 1964 the 104th Missile Regiment left for Tatischevo, Saratov Oblast.

In 1980 the 306th Missile Regiment was added from the 49th Guards Missile Division.

Organisation 1985:

• 369th Guards Missile Regiment (Zhitkovichi, Gomel Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 396th Missile Regiment (Petrikov, Gomel Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 398th Missile Regiment (Kozenki, Gomel Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 404th Missile Regiment (Rechitsa, Gomel Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner missiles
• 306th Missile Regiment (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast) with RSD-10 Pioner missiles

The 398th Missile Regiment was disbanded 2.90.

Organisation 1993:

• 369th Guards Missile Regiment (Zhitkovichi, Gomel Oblast) with RT-2PM Topol missiles
• 396th Missile Regiment (Petrikov, Gomel Oblast) with RT-2PM Topol missiles
• 404th Missile Regiment (Rechitsa, Gomel Oblast) with RT-2PM Topol missiles
• 306th Missile Regiment (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast) with RT-2PM Topol missiles

The division was disbanded in May 1997.

Subordination:

• RVGK, 9.59 - 7.60
• 50th Missile Army, 1.7.60 - 3.70
• 43rd Missile Army, 19.3.70 - 3.93
• 27th Guards Missile Army, 3.93 - 5.97

Support Units:

• 212th independent Helicopter Squadron
• 966th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 369th Guards Missile Regiment)
• 981st Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 396th Missile Regiment)
• 982nd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 398th Missile Regiment; from 1976 the 33rd Guards Missile Division)
• 1513th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 404th Missile Regiment)
• 534th Technical Missile Base
• 739th Communications Center

Divisional coordinates:

• Mozyr MRBM Division Command Post Bunker (52 04 28N, 29 06 33E)
• Mozyr MRBM Division HQ Radcom Reciver Bunker Hardened (52 04 31N, 29 06 44E)
• Mozyr MRBM Division HQ Radcom Transmitter Station (52 05 36N, 29 17 02E)
• Mozyr MRBM Division Technical Missile Base (52 02 33N, 29 11 05E)
• Mozyr MRBM Division Support Facility (52 02 15N, 29 11 18E)