279th independent Engineering & Test Unit

279-я отдельная инженерно-испытательная часть

Military Unit: 49491

Activated 5.82 in Plesetsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, under the 4th Test Department, Plesetsk Test Center (53rd NIIP).

The unit would test rail-mobile solid-propellant missile systems.

From 16.8.83 under the 6th Test Department.

Plesetsk Test Center - Area "Poschina" (62 52 50N, 41 45 05E)

• RT-23UTTKh launch area - 1st launch 18.1.84
• 53km extra railway tracks were laid down
• Preparation area (Area "Borovoye") - possibly at 62 54 46N, 41 40 38E

Disbanded 1994.