42nd Missile Division
Identity
The metadata aligns with the 42nd Tagil Missile Division (military unit 34103) at ZATO Svobodny in Sverdlovsk Oblast. Local authorities publicly identify the 42nd Tagil Missile Division as the town’s core military formation, and specialist RVSN histories place the division in the 31st Missile Army. ([xn----7sbbeejeuwxribb5bo5n.xn--p1ai](https://www.xn----7sbbeejeuwxribb5bo5n.xn--p1ai/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F/))
Missile regiments
Official Russian reporting states the Tagil missile formation completed rearmament to the road-mobile RS-24 Yars by 2018. Municipal reporting from December 2018 lists teams from regiments 804, 433, and 142 among servicemen of v/ch 34103, which supports their presence in the Svobodny garrison at that time. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20180329/1517498719.html?utm_source=openai))
Base build-out
In April 2019, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated that first-stage permanent-base infrastructure for the 142nd Missile Regiment at the 42nd Missile Division had been completed, including nine storage facilities for launcher aggregates and four for the mobile regimental command post. The MoD said this build-out enabled the regiment to assume duty in full-table organization. ([vpk.name](https://vpk.name/news/271579_doklad_zamestitelya_ministra_oborony_timura_ivanova_na_edinom_dne_priemki_voennoi_produkcii.html?utm_source=openai))
Field activity
Recent reporting shows the Tagil formation continuing dispersed field operations on patrol routes in Sverdlovsk Oblast. In August 2024, MoD/TASS said a support exercise involved more than 1,500 personnel and up to 300 vehicles and aircraft, with logistics, engineering, CBRN, water supply, and anti-sabotage tasks tied to sustaining Yars units on field positions. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21502291?utm_source=openai))
Uncertainties
Open sources conflict on some subordinates. A 2023 FAS force table still listed a 308th regiment at Nizhny Tagil, but another specialized order-of-battle directory says the 308th was disbanded in 2003; by contrast, municipal and MoD-linked reporting from 2018-2019 points instead to 142, 433, and 804 in the Svobodny garrison. A communications node is clearly present under v/ch 34103, but the exact numbered designation "294th Communications Center" was not independently confirmed in recent official sources reviewed here. ([fas.org](https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Russian-nuclear-weapons-2023.pdf?utm_source=openai))