879th Red Banner Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

879-й зенитно-ракетный Краснознаменний полк

Military Unit: 11287

Activated 1960 in Tuapse, Krasnodar Kray, from the 879th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.

Organisation:

• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (44 18 44N, 39 42 02E) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (44 23 42N, 40 07 45E) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (44 51 02N, 39 08 50E) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles (from 1970)
• Technical Battalion

21.2.78 awarded the Red Banner.

1993 reduced to a mobilisation (cadre) regiment - the personnel was demobilised, and the equipment withdrawn to a central storage base.

5.98 transferred to Klenovo, Moscow Oblast, and was absorbed by the 549th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.

Headquarters:

• Tuapse, Krasnodar Kray, 1960 - 1998

Subordination:

• 12th Air Defence Corps, 1960 - 1998