44th Kamyshinskaya Missile Division

44-я ракетная Камышинская дивизия

Military Unit: 71369; from 1960: 43291

Commanders:

• Colonel Mikhail Grigorevich Grigorev, 20.12.50 - 30.11.54
• Colonel Fedor Petrovich Tonkikh, 30.11.54 - 1.12.56
• Major-General Ivan Filippovich Dibrova, 10.12.56 - 7.61
• Major-General Nikolay Semenovich Nikiforov, 7.61 - 13.10.70
• Major-General Yury Alekseevich Sapozhenkov, 13.10.70 - 20.1.77
• Major-General Evgeny Grigorevich Fursa, 20.1.77 - 13.12.80
• Major-General Vladimir Alekseevich Fedorov, 13.12.80 - 30.6.82
• Major-General Aleksandr Alekseevich Makarevich, 30.6.82 - 29.10.87
• Major-General Rustam Bakievich Karimov, 29.10.87 - 31.3.90

Activated 20.12.50 in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, as the 23rd Brigade for Special Use RVGK, from parts of the 22nd Special Purpose Brigade RVGK.

1.51 transferred to Kamyshin, Volgograd (Stalingrad) Oblast.

Organisation 1951:

• 1st Launch Battalion (Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast)
• 2nd Launch Battalion (Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast)
• 3rd Launch Battalion (Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast)

15.3.53 renamed 73rd Engineer Brigade RVGK.

Organisation 1954:

• 636th independent Engineer Battalion RVGK (Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast)
• 639th independent Engineer Battalion RVGK (Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast)
• 651st independent Engineer Battalion RVGK (Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast)

7.59 transferred to Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast.

Organisation 1960:

• 40th Engineer Regiment RVGK (Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast)
• 494th Mobile Repair-Technical Base (Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast)
• 76th Engineer Regiment RVGK (Dolina, Lvov Oblast)
• 53rd Mobile Repair-Technical Base (Dolina, Lvov Oblast)
• 101st Engineer Regiment RVGK (Svalyava, Transcarpathian Oblast)
• 410th Mobile Repair-Technical Base (Svalyava, Transcarpathian Oblast)
• 586th Guards Engineer Regiment RVGK (Kamenets-Podolskiy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 1033rd Mobile Repair-Technical Base (Kamenets-Podolskiy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)

1.7.60 renamed 44th Missile Division.

Organisation 1961:

• 151st Missile Regiment (Stryy, Lvov Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 40th Missile Regiment (Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 76th Missile Regiment (Dolina, Lvov Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 586th Guards Missile Regiment (Kamenets-Podolskiy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 101st Missile Regiment (Svalyava, Transcarpathian Oblast) with R-5M missiles

The 101st Missile Regiment was transferred to Sary-Ozek, Turkestan in 1967.

The 76th Missile Regiment was transferred to Yurya, Kirov Oblast 13.3.81 (8th Missile Division).

The 15th Missile Regiment was formed at Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast in 1983, and moved to Glukhov, Sumy Oblast in 1984 (43rd Guards Missile Division).

Organisation 1985:

• 151st Missile Regiment (Stryy, Lvov Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 40th Missile Regiment (Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast) with R-12 missiles
• 586th Guards Missile Regiment (Skala Podolskaya, Ternopol Oblast) with R-12 missiles

The 586th Guards Missile Regiment was transferred to Irkutsk on 1.7.88 (29th Guards Missile Division).

The division was disbanded 31.3.90.

Subordination:

• RVGK, 12.50 - 7.60
• 43rd Missile Army, 7.60 - 31.3.90

Support Units:

• 53rd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 76th Missile Regiment)
• 410th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 101st Missile Regiment)
• 494th Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 40th Missile Regiment)
• 1033rd Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 586th Guards Missile Regiment)
• 1051st Repair-Technical Base (attached to the 151st Missile Regiment)
• 0000 Technical Missile Base
• 000 Communications Center

Headquarters:

• Kolomiya, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast, 7.59 - 3.90

Divisional coordinates:

• Kolomiya MRBM Division Command Post & Receiver Bunker (48 34 58N, 25 06 14E)
• Kolomiya MRBM Division Support Facility (48 35 02N, 25 06 10E))
• Kolomiya MRBM Division Administration and Housing Area (48 32 25N, 25 00 52E)