62nd Rocket Red Banner Division
Active1964–present
Country Soviet Union (1964–1991)
 Russia (1991–present)
Branch Strategic Rocket Forces
Garrison/HQUzhur, Krasnoyarsk Krai
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Sergei A. Omyotov

The 62nd Red Banner Rocket Division is a formation of the 33rd Guards Rocket Army, Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, which is located near Uzhur, in Krasnoyarsk Krai.

This division deployed in the base of an operational group formed by the directive of the General Staff of the Strategic Rocket Forces on 24 July 1964. Colonel Vasilii Trofimovich Kuts was entrusted with the group's formation. On 12 June 1964, the unit was handed its battle flag, and on 8 September 1964, Colonel Pyotr Mikhailovich Prikhodko, arrived and assumed his duties as the first divisional commander.[1][2]

Equipment

The division was equipped with the stationary type R-36M and R-36UTTH intercontinental ballistic missiles.[1] In 1989 the unit received R-36M2 missiles.[2]

Commanders

Commanders of the 62nd Rocket Division[3]
No. Name From To
1 Colonel Petr M. Prikhodko 1964 1966
2 Major General Sergei I. Ryzleytsev 1966 1968
3 Major General Nikolai N. Kotlovtsev 1968 1973
4 Major General Viktor S. Sedykh 1973 1976
5 Major General Yevgeny I. Smelik 1976 1983
6 Major General Anatoly F. Martynyenko 1983 1988
7 Major General Viktor I. Aschyeulov 1988 1994
8 Major General Andrei A. Shvaychenko 1994 1997
9 Colonel Valery Yu. Churakov 1997 1999
10 Major General Sergei P. Solokhin 1999 2003
11 Major General Aleksander D. Sivachev 2003 2006
12 Major General Aleksander Yu. Zubkov 2006 2008
13 Colonel Yuri G. Kashlev 2008 2011
14 Colonel Vladimir V. Kvashin 2011 2014
15 Colonel Sergei A. Omyotov 2014 present

Structure

Structure of the unit as of 2010:[2]

  • 229th Rocket Regiment
  • 269th Rocket Regiment
  • 302nd Rocket Regiment
  • 735th Rocket Regiment

References

  1. 1 2 Конарев, A. L. (1999). Omskaya policy years 1959–1999. Omskaya Printing House. p. 77.
  2. 1 2 3 "62-я ракетная Краснознаменная дивизия (в/ч 32441)". rsvn.info. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "62-я ракетная дивизия (г. Ужур)". rvsn.ruzhany.info (in Russian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  • Michael Holm, [www.ww2.dk/new/rvsn/62md.htm 62nd Missile Division]


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