The Commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces () is the

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responsible for leading the

Strategic Rocket Forces The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; ) is a military branch, separate combat arm of the Russian Armed Forces that controls Russia's land-based intercontinenta ...

of the

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History

In the years after

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the development of Soviet

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s was the responsibility of a department with in the Chief Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, which was the basis for creation of the

(RVSN) as a separate branch of the

Soviet Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republi ...

, on 17 December 1959. The branch was given control over all of the Soviet Union's ballistic missiles. The title of the head of the service was changed in 2001 from commander-in-chief to commander, when the

Russian Space Forces The Russian Space Forces () is the space force branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces. It was reestablished following the August 1, 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, after the independent arm of s ...

were split off from the RVSN as a separate combat arm. The Main Staff of the Rocket Forces became the Staff.

List of commanders

Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders

Deputies and chiefs of staff

;First Deputy Commander-in-Chief * Vladimir Tolubko (1960–1968) *

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(1968–1981) * Yuri Yashin (1981–1989) * Aleksandr Volkov (1989–1994) *

Nikolai Solovtsov Nikolai Yevgenievich Solovtsov (; born 1 January 1949) is a retired Russian Strategic Missile Forces colonel general. He joined the Soviet Armed Forces in 1966. He graduated from the Rostov Higher Military Command Engineering School named after ...

(1994–1997) ;Chief of the Main Staff * Mikhail Nikolsky (1960–1962) * Mikhail Lovkov (1962–1966) * Vladimir Vishenkov (1976–1987) * Stanislav Kochemasov (1987–1994) * Viktor Yesin (1994–1997) * Vladimir Yakovlev (1996–1997) ;Chief of the Main Staff and First Deputy Commander-in-Chief *

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(1997–2001) ;Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander *

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(2001–2006) * Andrey Shvaichenko (2006–2009) * Sergey Karakayev (2009–2010) *?

References

Sources

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