61st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

61-я зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 44991; from 1992: 31466

Activated 1.7.69 in Slutsk, Minsk Oblast, from parts of the 56th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

1970's battalions in Staats, Gardelegen and Perleberg.

Organisation 1988:

• 412th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Gardelegen)
• 413th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Perleberg)
• 422nd independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Staats)
• 1089th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Stendal) - activated 1988
• Technical Battalion

In 1992 two battalions were transferred to Biysk, Altay Kray (28th Army Corps).

Headquarters:

• Slutsk, Minsk Oblast, 7.69 - 11.69 [53 03 13N, 27 34 52E]
• Staats, East Germany, 28.11.69 - 6.93 [52 32 17N, 11 37 29E] - transferred to Biysk 17.5 to 1.7.93
• Biysk, Altay Kray, 1.7.93 - 2012 [52 39 08N, 85 05 03E]
• Yurga, Krasnoyarsk Kray, 2012 - today

Equipment:

• S-75 (SA-2), 1960 - 1967
• Krug (SA-4), 1967 - 1988
• Buk (SA-11), 1988 - today

Subordination:

• 5th Guards Tank Army, 7.69 - 11.69
• 2nd Guards Tank Army, 28.11.69 - 7.93
• 41st Combined Arms Army, 7.93 - today