33rd Guards Missile Army
Identification
This site is best identified as the Omsk headquarters/garrison of the 33rd Guards Missile Army, military unit 43189, within Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces. Open sources consistently associate v/ch 43189 with the 33rd Guards Missile Army in Omsk; separate registry snippets place v/ch 43189 in Omsk’s 16th Military Town, and a 1999 federal property order links v/ch 43189 facilities to that garrison area. The supplied coordinates are consistent with an Omsk command/garrison location, but I did not find an authoritative public source that pins the exact plotted building as the army headquarters building rather than another structure inside the same military area. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/rvsn/33gvma.htm?utm_source=openai))
Lineage
The formation’s lineage runs back to the 7th Independent Guards Missile Corps, which used the same military unit number 43189. Open historical directories state that the 33rd Guards Missile Army was formed in Omsk on 8 June 1970 from that corps; in early 2025, the Omsk missile formation publicly marked its 65th anniversary, indicating the command still emphasizes its pre-1970 predecessor lineage. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/rvsn/7ogvmk.htm?utm_source=openai))
Command
Verified public reporting indicates the commander is Vladimir V. Kvashin and that the rank in the supplied metadata is outdated. President Putin’s decree of 19 February 2024 promoted Kvashin to lieutenant general, and 2024-2025 reporting continued to identify him as commander of the Omsk/33rd missile formation and chief of the Omsk territorial garrison. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20028721))
Subordinate force
Recent open-source force reporting indicates the Omsk-based army commands four active missile formations: Uzhur, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, and Barnaul. In a 2025 Strategic Rocket Forces control inspection of the Omsk missile association, the Uzhur formation was checked in full while launchers from the Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, and Barnaul formations were sent onto combat patrol routes; a CNA force inventory identifies these as the 62nd Missile Division at Uzhur, 39th Guards Missile Division at Novosibirsk, 29th Guards Missile Division at Irkutsk, and 35th Missile Division at Barnaul. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/25267789?utm_source=openai))
Posture
This location is a command-and-control hub for a dispersed Siberian ICBM grouping rather than a known launch site itself. Open sources indicate a mixed force under its control: road-mobile RS-24 Yars units in the Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, and Barnaul formations, and a silo-based force at Uzhur that retained RS-20V/SS-18 missiles while undergoing conversion to RS-28 Sarmat. Russian official statements in December 2023 and November 2024 said a Sarmat regiment at Uzhur was due to enter combat duty and that work on bringing Sarmat onto duty was still continuing. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2024/01/The-Nuclear-Programs-of-Russia-China-North-Korea-and-Iran.pdf?utm_source=openai))