28th Guards Rocket Division

28th Guards Red Banner Missile Division
Active	May 3, 1961
Country	Soviet Union (1961–1991)  Russia (1991–present)
Branch	Strategic Rocket Forces
Type	Missile division
Part of	27th Guards Missile Army
HQ location	Kozelsk, Kaluga Oblast
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner

28th Guards Order of the Red Banner Missile Division (Russian: 28-я гвардейская ракетная Краснознамённая дивизия) is a missile division under command of the 27th Guards Missile Army of the Strategic Rocket Forces of Russia headquartered at Kozelsk in Kaluga Oblast.

History[]

28th Guards Red Banner Missile Division was formed on May 3, 1961, on the base of 198th Engineer Missile Brigade. On August 4, the Division received its colors.

The first training launch (R-2 missile) was performed on August 18.

On May 30, 1964, two regiments armed with R-9 Desna ICBM were formed under command of the 28th Division. Between 1967 and 1969 eleven UR-100 regiments were formed.

On President's order one of the regiments received title Kaluga. On September 12, 2007, one of the regiments (07390) was disbanded.

There were plans to disband the entire division by 2010, but on November 5, 2008 President Dmitry Medvedev during his speech at the joint session of Russia's Parliament announced that the 28th Division will resume its mission.

In 2013, work began on the rearmament of 10 silos of the 28th Missile Division with the silo complex version of the RS-24 "Yars" which completed in 2018.^[1]

Commanders[]

• 1961–1967: Major General Mikhail S. Burmak
• 1967–1975: Major General Vasiliy M. Barabanshikov
• 1975–1977: Major General Vladimir A. Generalov
• 1977–1980: Major General Vladimir M. Timofeyev
• 1980–1986: Major General Vladimir I. Petrov
• 1986–1992: Major General Dmitry N. Bolshakov
• 1992–1995: Major General Boris A. Polyakov
• 1995–1998: Major General Vasiliy G. Karavaytsev
• 1998–2001: Major General Sergey V. Karakayev
• 2001–2004: Major General Victor A. Fyodorov
• 2004–2009: Major General Oleg G. Antsiferov
• 2009–2013: Colonel Edward E. Stefantsov
• Since February 27, 2013: Colonel Valeriy V. Kasyanov

Equipment[]

In 1961-1964 the 28th Division received 15 R-9 Desna ICBM launchers, including 6 silos.

In 1967 the first (out of 11) UR-100 regiment was formed.

By 1978 6 out of 11 UR-100 regiments received modified UR-100N (US DOD: SS-19 Stiletto) missiles. As of 2010 UR-100N remains the only ICBM in service with the division.

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