53rd Rocket Army

Composition 1988

• 4th Rocket Division
• 23rd Guards Rocket Division Assigned 1983–2002; last RSD-10 Pioneer regiment ceased active duties 15 December 1988, and the division began preparations to convert to the RT-2PM Topol intercontinental ballistic missile. Fully converted by 1994, with five regiments. In 2002 the division was reassigned to the 33rd Guards Rocket Army.
• 27th Rocket Division
• 29th Guards Rocket Division - On 1 February 1986, by Directive № 432/3/00846 of the RVSN Commander of 3 December 1985, the division moved to Irkutsk, in the 53rd Rocket Army area, comprising five missile regiments equipped with the 15P653 "Pioneer UTTH" medium-range ballistic missile. However, due to the INF Treaty between the USSR and the U.S., these missiles were not placed on alert. Began to convert to the RT-2PM Topol in 1988.
• 36th Guards Rocket Division
• 47th Rocket Division

Commanders

• General-Lieutenant
• General-Lieutenant
• General-Lieutenant V. F. Yegorov
• General-Lieutenant Vladimir Muravyov
• General-Lieutenant Nikolay Solovtsov
• General-Major
• General-Lieutenant S. V. Khutortsev
• General-Lieutenant V. V. Dremov
• General-Major L. E. Sinyakovich
• General-Major V. G. Gagarin