27th Guards Vitebsk Red Banner Rocket Army () is one of the 3 rocket armies within Russian

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headquartered at

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in Western Russia. In August 1959, based on the headquarters of the disbanded 10th Breakthrough Artillery Division 'Gumbinnen Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov' of the

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(Russian acronym RVGK), the formation of an organizational group 46th Training Artillery Range (Military Unit No. 43176) temporarily located in Mozyr, Gomel Oblast, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, was begun. It was subsequently relocated to the city of

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. In June 1960, in accordance with a directive of the General Staff dated 5 May 1960, an organizing group of the 46 Training Artillery Range relocated to the city of Vladimir, on the territory of the 7th

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Vitebsk Guards Cannon Artillery Division of the RVGK. RVGK pad was turned on staffing organizational group of 46 Training Artillery Range, the rest of the staff – on staffing three rocket engineering brigades: the 165th (Kostroma), 197th (Vladimir Teykovo), 198th (Kozelsk, became

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). At the same time began the study of new missile technology. On 10 March 1961 based on the 46th ALM HQ 3rd Separate Vitebsk Rocket Corps was formed. Appointed corps commander of the Guards, Major General AD Melekhin. The 27th Army was formed in April 1970 on the base of the 3rd Separate Guards Vitebsk Rocket Corps and the 5th Separate Rocket Corps. The 27th Army is equipped with

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and

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Commanders

* 1970–1976: Lieutenant General (since 27 April 1975 Colonel General) of the Guards Vladimir Mikhailovich Vishenkov * 1976–1985: Lieutenant General (since 16 December 1982 Colonel General) of the Guards Vladimir Petrovich Shilovsky * 1985–1988: Lieutenant General of the Guards Gennadi Alekseyevich Kolesnikov * 1989–1994: Lieutenant General of the Guards Ivan Vasilyevich Vershkov * 1994–1996: Colonel General of the Guards Vladimir Nikolayevich Yakovlev * 1997–2001: Lieutenant General of the Guards Yuri Fyodorovich Kirillov * 2001–2002: Lieutenant General of the Guards Viktor Petrovich Alekseev * 2002–2006: Lieutenant General of the Guards Vladimir Grigoryevich Gagarin * 2006–2008: Lieutenant General of the Guards Sergei Viktorovich Karakayev * 2008–2010: Major General of the Guards Vladimir Vasilyevich Antsiferov * 2010–2016: Major General (since June 2013 Lieutenant General) of the Guards Sergey Viktorovich Siver * 2016–2019: Major General (since December 2018 Lieutenant General) of the Guards Igor Robertovich Fazletdinov * 2019–2021: Lieutenant General of the Guards Andrei Anatolyevich Burdin * since 2021: Major General of the Guards Oleg Leonidovich Glazunov

Composition

1993

Source: *7th Guards Rocket Division (Vypolzovo, Tver Oblast) * 8th Rocket Division (Yurya, Kirov Oblast) – Activated 20.7.60 in Yurya, Kirov Oblast, as the 25th Missile Brigade, from parts of the 24th Artillery Range Administration. Awards and honours from the 91st Motor Rifle Division. *10th Guards Rocket Division (

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Kozelsk Kozelsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Kozelsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Zhizdra (river), Zhizdra River (a tributary of the Oka (river), Oka), southwest of Kaluga ...

, Kaluga Oblast) *32nd Rocket Division (Postavy, Vitebsk Oblast; disbanded 1.12.93) *33rd Guards Rocket Division (Mozyr, Gomel Oblast) *49th Guards Rocket Division (

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, Grodno Region) *54th Guards Rocket Division (Teykovo, Ivanovo Oblast) *60th Rocket Division (Tatischevo, Saratov Oblast). The 33rd and 49th Rocket Divisions were disbanded in 1997, and the 10th Guards Rocket Division in 2005.

2006

Source: *7th Guards Rocket Division (Vypolzovo, Tver Oblast) *8th Rocket Division (Yurya, Kirov Oblast) *14th Rocket Division (Yoshkar-Ola, Mari-El Republic) *28th Guards Rocket Division (Kozelsk, Kaluga Oblast) *54th Guards Rocket Division (Teykovo, Ivanovo Oblast) *60th Missile Division (Tatischevo, Saratov Oblast) *98th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron *65th Communications Center

Current

7th Guards Rocket Division The 7th Guards Missile Rezhitskaya Red Banner division (Military Unit Number 14245), abbreviated as 7 GRD, is a military unit of the 27th Guards Missile Army, Strategic Rocket Forces located in Ozyorny, Bologovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia. ...

(Military Unit Number 14245) (

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(ZATO) Ozyorny,

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) * 14th Kiev-Zhitomir Rocket Division (

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Republic) – resubordinated to 27th Army July 2002. Equipped with

(SS-25) ICBMs. * 28th Guards Red Banner Rocket Division * 54th Guards Order of Kutuzov second degree Rocket Division * 60th Taman Order of October Revolution Red Banner Rocket Division ( Tatishchevsky District)

References

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