The 62nd Motor Rifle Division is the post-war motorized rifle formation of the Ground Forces of the USSR Armed Forces , stationed in the Siberian Military District. Headquarters - p. Itatka of the Tomsk region of the Tomsk region.
| 62nd Motor Rifle Division | |
|---|---|
| Years of existence | 1972-1994 |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Subordination | Siberian Military District |
| Included in | 33rd Army Corps |
| Type of | motorized rifle division |
| Function | motorized rifle troops |
| Dislocation | Itatka |
| Successor | 5352nd armament and equipment storage base |
History
In 1960-1972 in the Itatka region (60 km from the city of Tomsk ), units of the 97th Strategic Missile Forces missile brigade were deployed [1] . Earlier, a prison camp was located at the indicated location, which was transferred from there at the request of the rocket launchers. The missile units armed with R-16 complexes entered combat duty in mid-1962.
In connection with the removal from service in 1972, the R-16 missile began to be disbanded.
In mid-1972, due to the sharp deterioration of the military-political situation on the Soviet-Chinese border and serious provocations of China , the 9th Motorized Rifle Division of the North Caucasus Military District was fully equipped with personnel, military equipment and weapons, and redeployed (as 113 -th Motor Rifle Division) in the Itatki region, where it was located all the following time, having been numbered 62nd. The 9th motorized rifle division in the North Caucasian Military District was recreated on the second state of the division.
All subsequent time, the headquarters and all parts of the division were stationed in the village of Itatka in the Tomsk Region.
The division was subordinate to the headquarters of the 33rd Army Corps until its disbandment [2] .
In the late 1980s. the military left the unit, the division was reorganized into the 5352nd storage base for weapons and equipment, relocated to Omsk , where it was disbanded in 1994.
Division Composition
In 1989, she was transferred to Omsk and reorganized into the 5352nd BHVT. The division was maintained according to the reduced staff and had the following units [3] :
- division headquarters (Itatka);
- 1092nd Motorized Rifle Regiment ( Itatka village );
- 1099th Motor Rifle Regiment (Itatka village);
- 1100th Motor Rifle Regiment (Itatka village);
- 107th Tank Regiment (Itatka village);
- 619th artillery regiment (village Itatka);
- 676th anti-aircraft artillery regiment (village Itatka);
- 1258th Separate Missile Division (Itatka village)
- separate anti-tank division (Itatka village);
- 1263rd separate reconnaissance battalion (Itatka village);
- separate engineering and combat engineer battalion (village Itatka);
- a separate chemical defense company (Itatka village);
- 665th separate repair and restoration battalion (Itatka village);
- 1770th separate communications battalion (village Itatka);
- separate medical battalion (village Itatka);
- separate battalion of material support (s. Itatka);
- OVKR (s. Itatka) [4]
Division Commanders
- in 1973-1976 - Major General Mayram Georgievich Abayev [5] ;
- 1976-1987 - Major General I. Nedelchuk
- 1987-1988 - Colonel Kolegaev
- 1988-1990 - Colonel Kalugin
- in 1990 - Colonel Zabbarov
Notes
- β The abandoned shield of the empire. The village of Tomsk or Tomsk-43. Part 2 - Offroad Local Lore
- β 33rd Army Corps
- β 62nd Motorized Rifle Division
- β Feskov V.I., Golikov V.I., Kalashnikov K.A., Slugin S.A. Armed Forces of the USSR after the Second World War: from the Red Army to the Soviet. Part 1: Ground Forces. - T .: Publishing house of Tomsk University, 2013. - P. 563. - 640 p. - ISBN 978-5-89503-530-6 .
- β Tomsk Marshals, Generals and Admirals - Toviks
Literature
- Feskov V.I., Golikov V.I., Kalashnikov K.A., Slugin S.A. Armed forces of the USSR after the Second World War: from the Red Army to the Soviet. - Tomsk: NTL Publishing House, 2013. - ISBN 978-5-89503-530-6 .
- Feskov V.I. 62nd Motorized Rifle Division // Encyclopedia of the Tomsk Region (in two volumes). - Tomsk: TSU Publishing House, 2009. - Vol.2. - S. 917-918. - ISBN 978-5-7511-1917-1 .