Strategic Missile Troops - Organization
A Rocket Army (RA raketnaya armiya) is an operational formation of the Strategic Missile Forces, designed to solve problems in a nuclear war in one or more strategic aerospace directions. Rocket armies were formed in 1960 on the basis of air armies and in 1970 on the basis of individual missile corps with the aim of increasing the combat readiness of troops, strengthening their combat power, and also increasing the effectiveness of the use of missile formations (missile divisions) and units (missile regiments). In total, 6 missile armies were created in the USSR: two in 1960 - on the basis of the air armies of Long-Range Aviation (VA DA) and four in 1970 - on the basis of separate missile corps (ORK). At present, 3 missile armies remain in the Russian Federation from those inherited by the USSR.
A Missile Division [RD raketnaya diviziya] is a combat unit of the Strategic Missile Forces designed to prepare and deliver nuclear missile strikes against strategic enemy targets located in one or more strategic aerospace directions. Combat units of the RD are missile regiments. Missile regiments can be armed with combat missile systems of various types: separate launches (OS), self-propelled launchers (SPU), combat railway missile systems (BZHRK), etc.; depending on the weapons of the missile regiments, missile divisions can be: OS, SPU and BZHRK, as well as mixed divisions. As the formations of the Strategic Missile Forces the first RD were formed in 1960–1961 on the basis of missile brigades, as well as artillery brigades and divisions and aviation divisions. In addition to the combat strength, missile divisions include units and subunits of special forces and the rear of the missile division.
Strategic Missile Forces Command | Vlasikha settlement, Moscow Region |
27th Guards Missile Vitebsk Red Banner Army | Vladimir |
| 7th guards missile Rezhitskaya Red Banner division | ZATO Ozerny Bologoe-4, (Vypolzovo, Bologoye), Tver region |
| 14th Kiev-Zhitomir missile order of Kutuzov 3rd degree division | Yoshkar-Ola |
| 28th Guards missile Red Banner division | Kozelsk, Kaluga region |
| 54th Guards Missile Order of Kutuzov Division | Krasnye Sosenki microdistrict, Teikovskoe, Teykovo, Ivanovo Region |
| 60th Taman missile order of the October Revolution, Red Banner division | ZATO Svetly (Tatishchevo), Saratov region |
31st Missile Army | Orenburg (planned to be disbanded) |
| 8th missile Melitopol Red Banner division | ZATO "Pervomaisky" (Yurya-2 / Yuryansk) Kirov region |
| 13th Red Banner Missile Division | ZATO Dombarovsky (Yasny / Yasnenskoe), Orenburg region. |
| 42nd missile division | ZATO Svobodny, 35 km from Nizhny Tagil |
33rd guards missile Berislavsko-Khingan twice Red Banner, Order of Suvorov army | Omsk, 16th military town |
| 29th Guards Missile Vitebsk Order of Lenin, Red Banner Division | Zeleny microdistrict (Irkutsk) |
| 35th missile Red Banner orders of Kutuzov, 2nd degree and Alexander Nevsky division | ZATO Siberian (Barnaul) |
| 39th Guards missile Glukhovskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner, orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and B. Khmelnitsky division | ZATO Gvardeisky (Novosibirsk) |
| 62nd Red Banner missile division | vil. Solnechny (Uzhur) Krasnoyarsk Territory |
Research institutes and polygons | |
| 4th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation | |
| State central interspecific training ground of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (4 GTSMP) | Kapustin Yar |
| 10th state test site of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation | Sary-Shagan, Kazakhstan |
| Proving ground Kura | Ust-Kamchatsky district, Kamchatka region |
Educational institutions, centers, school of technicians | |
| Peter the Great Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces | Moscow |
| Serpukhov Military Institute of Missile Forces | Serpukhov |
| Rostov Military Institute of Missile Forces | Rostov-on-Don |
| Stavropol Military Institute of Missile Forces Communications | Stavropol |
| 90th inter-service regional training center for communications of the Strategic Missile Forces | Yaroslavl Region |
| Interspecies Regional Training Center of Strategic Missile Forces | Pskov Region |
| 161st school of technicians of the Strategic Missile Forces | Astrakhan region |
Arsenals, storage bases for weapons and military equipment, repair plants | |
Aviation of the Strategic Missile Forces | |
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