5th independent Missile Corps

5-й отдельный ракетный корпус

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Major-General Efim Vasilevich Boychuk, 30.10.57 - 4.61
• Major-General Pavel Trofimovich Guborev, 8.4.61 - 17.12.63
• Lieutenant-General Stepan Fedotovich Shtanko, 17.12.63 - 8.6.70

Activated 10.57 in Kirov, Kirov Oblast, as Object Volga - 1.59 renamed the 24th Artilley Range Administration (24th UAP).

Organisation 1959:

• 21st Combat Starting Station (Slobodskoy, Kirov Oblast)
• 33rd Combat Starting Station (Slobodskoy, Kirov Oblast)
• 836th independent Repair-Technical Base (Slobodskoy, Kirov Oblast)

10.3.61 renamed 5th independent Missile Corps.

Initial organisation (1961):

• 8th Missile Division (Yurya, Kirov Oblast)
• 18th Guards Missile Division (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)
• 42nd Missile Division (Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 52nd Missile Division (Bershet, Perm Oblast)

The 18th Guards Missile Division was disbanded 10.62, with the 703rd Missile Regiment becoming independent. In November 1964 the regiment was expanded to the 17th Missile Brigade. The 14th Missile Division (Yoshkar-Ola, Mari-El Republic) was attached to the corps in June 1963.

Organisation 1963:

• 8th Missile Division (Yurya, Kirov Oblast)
• 14th Missile Division (Yoshkar-Ola, Mari-El Republic)
• 42nd Missile Division (Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 52nd Missile Division (Bershet, Perm Oblast)
• 703rd independent Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)

The 60th Missile Division (Tatischevo, Saratov Oblast) was attached to the corps in 1964, followed by the 13th Missile Division, and the 59th Missile Division in February-April 1965.

Organisation 1965:

• 8th Missile Division (Yurya, Kirov Oblast)
• 13th Missile Division (Dombarovskiy, Orenburg Oblast)
• 14th Missile Division (Yoshkar-Ola, Mari-El Republic)
• 42nd Missile Division (Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 52nd Missile Division (Bershet, Perm Oblast)
• 59th Missile Division (Kartaly, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 60th Missile Division (Tatischevo, Saratov Oblast)
• 17th Missile Brigade (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)

Three divisions (13th, 59th and 60th) were transferred to the new 18th independent Missile Corps on 1.6.65.

Organisation 1969:

• 8th Missile Division (Yurya, Kirov Oblast)
• 14th Missile Division (Yoshkar-Ola, Mari-El Republic)
• 42nd Missile Division (Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 52nd Missile Division (Bershet, Perm Oblast)
• 17th Missile Brigade (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)

Disbanded 8.6.70.