33rd Guards Berislav-Khingan Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rocket Army () is one of the three rocket armies that exist today within the Russian

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. It is headquartered at

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in Southwestern

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. The 33rd Guards Rocket Army was formed in April 1970 from the 7th Separate Guards Berislav Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rocket Corps, which inherited the honors of the

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Composition

In 1971, the army comprised the 36th Guards Rocket Division (Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Kray); the 39th Guards Rocket Division (Pashino, Novosibirsk Oblast); the

41st Guards Rocket Division The 41st Guards Rocket Division () was a division of the Soviet and Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, active from 1961 to 2001. The division traced its lineage to the formation of the Red Army's 68th Anti-Aircraft (AA) Artillery Division during ...

(Aleysk, Altai Kray); the 57th Rocket Division (Zhangiz Tobe, Semipalatinsk Oblast); the 62nd Rocket Division (Uzhur, Krasnoyarsk Kray); the 93rd Rocket Brigade (Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast); the 97th Rocket Brigade (Itatka, Tomsk Oblast); and the 290th Independent Rocket Regiment (Omsk, Omsk Oblast). The 290th Independent Rocket Regiment and the 93rd Rocket Brigade were disbanded in 1976. The 35th Rocket Division became attached to the Army in 1981. There are four rocket divisions that were in 2009 under command of the 33rd Army: * 62nd Rocket Division * 39th Guards Rocket Division * 35th Rocket Division *

29th Guards Rocket Division The 29th Guards Vitebsk Order of Lenin Red Banner Rocket Division is an intercontinental ballistic missile division of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces. The division was formerly part of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and has been active si ...

From 1993 to 1996 the 38th Rocket Division at Derzhavinsk, Turgay Oblast, Kazakhstan was under the control of the 33rd Guards Rocket Army. From 16 September 2002 to 2007, the 23rd Guards Orlovsko-Berlinskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Rocket Division (

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21201) was under the command of the 33rd Army.

Equipment

The 33rd Army is equipped with R-36M2 and

RT-2PM Topol The RT-2PM Topol (; NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle; GRAU designation: 15Ж58 ("15Zh58"); START I designation: RS-12M Topol) was a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile designed in the Soviet Union and in service with Russia's Strategic Miss ...

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Commanders

*27 June 1970 – 12 June 1977: Lieutenant General Alexandr I. Khlopov *12 June 1977 – 21 April 1980: Major General Viktor M. Yegorov * 21 April 1980 – 12 June 1984: Lieutenant General Stanislav G. Kochemasov * 12 June 1984 – 6 January 1989: Lieutenant General Yuri I. Plotnikov * 6 January 1989 – 20 May 1993: Lieutenant General Vitaly V. Moroz * 20 May 1993 – 14 August 1995: Lieutenant General Alexey A. Kasyanov * 14 August 1995 – 14 May 2002: Lieutenant General Alexandr L. Konarev * 14 May 2002 –16 June 2006: Lieutenant General Andrey A. Shvaichenko * 16 June 2006 – 2010: Lieutenant General Gennady Privalov * 2010–March 2017: Major General (promoted to Lieutenant General 2013) Aleksandr Ponomarenko * 9 March 2017–July 2020: Major General (promoted to Lieutenant General 2019) Igor Afonin * July 2020–March 2021: Major General Oleg Glazunov * since 2021: Major General (Guards) Vladimir Viktorovich Kvashin

Composition

Equipment

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References

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