308th Guards Kenigsbergskiy order of Kutuzov Missile Regiment

308-й гвардейский ракетный Кенигсбергский ордена Кутузова полк

Military Unit: 54258, from 1978: 29438

Activated 5.60 at Neman, Kaliningrad Oblast, under the 24th Guards Missile Division.

Awards from a Guards Cannon Artillery Brigade (either the 11th, 12th or 13th).

Organisation:

• 1st battalion with 4 R-12 (SS-4) pads - alert duty from 25.9.61
• 2nd battalion with 4 R-12 (SS-4) pads - alert duty from 10.12.61 (two R-12 pads) and 1.1.62 (the remaining two R-12 pads)

The regiment stood down 25.2.78, and was transferred to Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, attached to the 42nd Missile Division.

The regiment went on alert duty 13.8.79 with 9 RSD-10 Pioner-K (15P645K) (SS-20) missiles.

The regiment stood down 1.4.85, and began conversion to the RT-2PM (SS-25) missile - alert duty from 20.12.85 with 9 missiles.

Disbanded 1.12.03.

US designation 1960 - 1978: Krasnoznamensk MRBM complex (Viesvile and Ragnit launch sites). Type I (pad) sites.

Viesvile launch site with 4 R-12 pads (55 01 39N, 22 22 51E):

Ragnit launch site with 4 R-12 pads (55 01 13N, 22 11 00E):

Two alternative fixed field sites for the pad launchers, were set up at Krasnoznamensk (54 57 31N, 22 35 22E) and Sudargas (55 00 47N, 22 35 42E), but both was inactive by 1967.

Verkhnyaya Salda Mobile IRBM/ICBM Base 2 - 1978-2003 (site BSP-21: 58 13 37N, 60 40 34E):

No drawing.