7th Guards Missile Division
Identification
This record matches the 7th Guards Missile Division (military unit 14245) of Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces, based at ZATO Ozyorny/Bologoye-4 in the Vypolzovo area of Tver Oblast and subordinate to the 27th Guards Missile Army. The supplied regiment placemark coordinates are consistent with open-source placements of the division’s two active missile regiments: the 41st Missile Regiment at about 57.86305N, 33.65167E and the 510th Guards Missile Regiment at about 57.78825N, 33.86542E. ([russianforces.org](https://russianforces.org/blog/2015/01/tracking_down_road-mobile_miss.shtml?utm_source=openai))
Force posture
Open-source order-of-battle material consistently identifies the 41st Missile Regiment and 510th Guards Missile Regiment as the division’s active road-mobile ICBM regiments at Vypolzovo/Ozyorny. FRS assessed both regiments as being in Yars modernization in 2022, indicating that this site remained an operational ICBM field rather than a legacy or dismantled base. ([frstrategie.org](https://www.frstrategie.org/web/documents/programmes/observatoire-de-la-dissuasion/bulletins/2022/99.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Modernization status
Russian official reporting said in September 2016 that the division near Bologoye was Russia’s westernmost ICBM division and would be rearmed from Topol to RS-24 Yars. Subsequent official and specialist reporting stated that the Bologoye/Vypolzovo division was the last SS-25 Topol division and that its mobile-force rearmament was completed by the end of 2023, including a regiment entering combat duty with Yars in December 2023. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/901039?utm_source=openai))
Support infrastructure
Specialized support elements are also documented in open sources at Vypolzovo/Ozyorny: the 281st communications center is listed under the division from 1961, the 2423rd technical missile base is listed at Vypolzovo from 1966, and the 1501st repair-technical base is described as providing special support to the 7th division; one reference states the 1501st RTB was transferred to the 12th Main Directorate in 2009. A historical RVSN reference also lists the 509th separate engineer-sapper battalion at Vypolzovo/Ozyorny, but its current status is not publicly confirmed in the sources reviewed. ([rvsn.info](https://rvsn.info/communications/us_281.html?utm_source=openai))
Geographic relevance
The division is tightly bound to the closed settlement of Ozyorny: local administration materials continue to treat "Day of the Division" and "Day of Ozyorny" as a joint civic-military event, underscoring the garrison’s centrality to the town. In March 2025, the Bologoye missile formation conducted a command-staff exercise in which Yars launchers maneuvered on new combat patrol routes, emphasizing the site’s road-mobile dispersal, camouflage, security, and field-support functions. ([ozerny.ru](https://ozerny.ru/about/info/news/0/DendiviziiDenOzyernogo2019/?utm_source=openai))