419th Guards Missile Regiment
419-й гвардейский ракетный полк
Military Unit: 44182
Activated 31.12.60 in Tyumen, Tyumen Oblast (formation begun 13.6.60), under 216th Missile Brigade, from 4.61 the 41st Guards Missile Division.
Never operational with the R-9A missile, and controlled no BSP site.
6.65 transferred to Kartaly, Chelyabinsk Oblast, under the 59th Missile Division.
The regiment went on alert duty 18.12.66 with 6 R-36 (8K67) (SS-9) missiles in area BRK-1.
The regiment stood down 20.6.74, and began conversion to the R-36M (SS-18 missile), as well as construction of four additional silos - alert duty from 20.10.75.
The regiment stood down in 1980, and began conversion to the R-36MUTTKh - alert duty from 5.10.82.
Disbanded 1.12.04.
US designation: 1966 - 1975 Kartaly ICBM Complex - Launch Group
A (Six Type IIIC silos):
US designation: 1975 - 2004 Kartaly ICBM Complex - Launch Group A (Ten Type IIIF
and one Type IIIX silos):
Five more silos (including LCF AA) began construction in mid-1971 [four Type IIIF and one Type IIIX silos]: