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62nd Rocket Red Banner Division | |
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Active | 1964–present |
Country | Soviet Union (1964–1991) Russia (1991–present) |
Branch | Strategic Rocket Forces |
Garrison/HQ | Uzhur, Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Decorations | 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]
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]
No. | Name | From | To |
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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 of the unit as of 2010: [2]
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