202nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

202-я зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 84557; from 5.91: 43034

Activated 1959 in Baranovichi, Brest Oblast, as the 472nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, from the 472nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

1960's with three battalions in Magdeburg, Bernburg and Quarmbeck.

1.8.74 renamed 202nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1988:

• 579th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Magdeburg) - military unit: 65463
• 583rd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Rathenow, from 1984 Mahlwinkel) - military unit: 65477
• 882nd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Altengrabow) - military unit: 68410

Headquarters:

• Baranovichi, Brest Oblast, 1959 - 2.63
• Magdeburg, Germany, 2.63 - 5.91 [52 06 51N, 11 41 03E]
• Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, 5.91 - today [55 24 25N, 36 44 09E]

Equipment:

• S-75 (SA-2), 1959 - 1974
• Krug (SA-4), 1974 - 1989
• S-300V (SA-12), 1989 - today [converted 8.89 to 12.89 in Orenburg]

Subordination:

• 28th Combined Arms Army, 1959 - 2.63
• 3rd Combined Arms Army, 2.63 - 2.69
• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 2.69 - 1.6.89
• Western Group of Forces, 1.6.89 - 5.91
• Moscow Military District, 5.91 - today