31st Missile Army
Identification
This record matches the headquarters of Russia’s 31st Missile Army within the Strategic Rocket Forces. Public records place military unit 29452 at 3 Mira Street, Orenburg, and institutional nuclear-force references identify the 31st Missile Army headquarters in Orenburg. ([docs.cntd.ru](https://docs.cntd.ru/document/439069223))
Command
Sources reviewed here identify Sergey A. Talatynnik as the army commander and chief of the Orenburg territorial garrison in 2022–2023. A late-2025 veterans’ publication refers to him as lieutenant general rather than major general, which suggests a later promotion, but this review did not locate an official Ministry of Defense biography confirming that rank change. ([orenb-gov.ru](https://orenb-gov.ru/doc/90319))
Order of battle
Institutional references reviewed here attribute two active missile divisions to the army: the 13th Missile Division at Dombarovsky/Yasny in Orenburg Oblast and the 42nd Missile Division at Nizhniy Tagil/Svobodnyy in Sverdlovsk Oblast. CNA assesses the 13th as operating SS-18/RS-20V silo ICBMs and the 42nd as operating RS-24 Yars mobile ICBMs. ([unidir.org](https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/a-new-start-model-for-transparency-in-nuclear-disarmament-individual-country-reports-en-415.pdf))
Modernization
Official Russian reporting indicates continued strategic modernization inside the army’s footprint. The Defense Ministry said infrastructure for Yars and Avangard duty locations in Orenburg Oblast was prepared in 2021; in December 2023 it said another regiment of the Yasny formation had been re-equipped with the silo-based Avangard system; and in 2022 it reported command-staff exercises with the Yars-equipped Tagil formation under the Orenburg missile association. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/13477887?utm_source=openai))
Geographic relevance
The headquarters node is in Orenburg, while the army’s publicly attributable basing areas extend across Orenburg and Sverdlovsk oblasts; UNIDIR specifically places Dombarovsky/Yasny near the Kazakhstan border. That source also records a converted silo there that historically supported Dnepr space launches, indicating specialized launch infrastructure within the army’s area, although no recent launch activity was confirmed in the sources reviewed here. ([unidir.org](https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/a-new-start-model-for-transparency-in-nuclear-disarmament-individual-country-reports-en-415.pdf))