53rd Missile Army

53-я ракетная армия

Military Unit: 74102

Commanders:

• Colonel-General Yury Petrovich Zabegaylov, 8.6.70 - 15.7.74
• Colonel-General Nikolay Nikiforovich Kotlovtsev, 15.7.74 - 8.5.81
• Lieutenant-General Vyacheslav Fedorovich Egorov, 8.5.81 - 10.12.87
• Colonel-General Vladimir Aleksandrovich Muravev, 10.12.87 - 24.11.92
• Colonel-General Nikolay Evgenevich Solovtsov, 24.11.92 - 20.6.94
• Colonel-General Yury Fedorovich Kirillov, 20.6.94 - 21.12.96
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Vladimirovich Khutortsev, 21.12.96 - 1.9.97
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Vasilevich Dremov, 1.9.97 - 30.5.00
• Major-General Leomid Evgenevich Sinyakovich, 30.5.00 - 6.11.01
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Grigorevich Gagarin, 6.11.01 - 16.9.02

Activated 8.6.70 in Chita, Chita Oblast, from the 8th independent Missile Corps.

Organisation 1970:

• 4th Missile Division (Drovyanaya, Chita Oblast)
• 47th Missile Division (Olovyannaya, Chita Oblast)
• 27th Missile Division (Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast)

In 1.74 the 36th Guards Missile Division became attached to the Army.

Organisation 1980:

• 4th Missile Division (Drovyanaya, Chita Oblast)
• 47th Missile Division (Olovyannaya, Chita Oblast)
• 27th Missile Division (Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast)
• 36th Guards Missile Division (Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Kray)

In 1983 the 23rd Guards Missile Division became attached to the Army, followed by the 29th Guards Missile Division in 1986.

Organisation 1990:

• 4th Missile Division (Drovyanaya, Chita Oblast)
• 47th Missile Division (Olovyannaya, Chita Oblast)
• 27th Missile Division (Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast)
• 36th Guards Missile Division (Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Kray)
• 23rd Guards Missile Division (Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Kray)
• 29th Guards Missile Division (Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast)

The 47th Missile Division was disbanded in 1991, followed by the 27th Missile Division in 1993.

Disbanded 16.9.02.

Support Units:

• 137th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron
• 000 Communications Center

Headquarters:

• Chita, Chita Oblast, 6.70 - 9.02 [52 03 58N, 113 28 15E]

Army coordinates:

• Chita SRF Army HQ Radcom Transmitter Bunker Hardened (52 03 01N, 113 11 20E)
• Chita SRF Army Command Post Bunker Hardened (52 09 11N, 113 32 10E)