4th Rocket Division

The 4th Kharbin Rocket Division was a military formation of the Soviet and Russian Strategic Rocket Forces between 1960 and 2002.

[1] Initially under the 57th Artillery Range Administration, it became part of the 8th Independent Missile Corps in March 1961, and in 1965 moved its headquarters to Gorny (Drovyanaya) in Chita Oblast.

In October 1961 it gained the honorific 'Harbin', drawn from the 46th Tank Division, originally the 300th Rifle Division (II).

In 1988-9 it gave up its last RSD-10 Pioneer mobile ICBMs, and by 1990 it had 50 UR-100K silos divided among five regiments.

[2] This Russian military article is a stub.