62Nd Rocket Division

62nd Rocket Red Banner Division
62nd Rocket Red Banner Division
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

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.

Equipment

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

Commanders

Commanders of the 62nd Rocket Division
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:

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

References

External links

Michael Holm, [www.ww2.dk/new/rvsn/62md.htm 62nd Missile Division]