223rd order of Aleksandr Nevskiy Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

223-я зенитно-ракетная ордена Александра Невского бригада

Military Unit: 45334, From 1975: 48282; from 1984: 20152

Activated 1960 in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast as the 213th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.

1960's and early 1970's with battalions in Kietz Island, Fankfurt/Oder and Drachhausen.

1975 renamed 223rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1988:

• 000 independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 000 independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 000 independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• Technical Battalion

1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Headquarters:

• Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, 1960 - 1961
• Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, East Germany, 1961 - 1975 [52 19 53N, 14 30 42E]
• Raukhovka, Odessa Oblast, 1975 - 1984 [47 10 04N, 30 49 06E]
• Terebovlya, Ternopol Oblast, 1984 - 1.92 [49 17 20N, 25 41 42E]

Equipment:

• S-75 (SA-2), 1960 - 1975
• Krug (SA-4), 1975 - 1992

Subordination:

• Baltic Military District, 1960 - 1961
• 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, 1961 - 1975
• Odessa Military District, 1975 - 1984
• 38th Combined Arms Army, 1984 - 1.92