433rd Guards Red Banner orders of Kutuzov and Aleksandr Nevskiy Missile Regiment

433-й гвардейский ракетный Краснознаменный орденав Кутузова и Александра Невского полк

Military Unit: 44226, from 20.9.80: 19972

Activated 1.12.60 in Gaisin, Vinnitsa Oblast, under the 19th Missile Division, from the 43rd Guards Mortar Brigade.

Organisation:

• 1st battalion with 4 R-14 (SS-5) pads - alert duty from 17.1.62
• 2nd battalion with 3 R-14U (SS-5) silos - alert duty from 1964
• 3rd battalion with 3 R-14U (SS-5) silos - alert duty from 1964

Red Banner awarded 22.11.68.

25.5.72 transferred to the 43rd Guards Missile Division.

The three battalions stood down in 1978.

12.1.79 transferred to Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, now attached to the 42nd Missile Division.

The regiment went on alert duty 24.12.80 with 9 RSD-10 Pioner-K (15P645K) (SS-20) missiles

The regiment stood down 7.85, and began conversion to the RT-2PM (15P158) (SS-25) missile - alert duty from 11.9.87 with 9 missiles.

US designation 1962-1978: Granov IRBM complex (Granov 1 & 2, and Kalnik launch sites). Type III (pad) and IV (silo) sites.

Granov launch site 1 with four R-14 pads (48 56 17N, 29 30 15E):

Granov launch site 2 with 3 R-14U silos (48 50 04N, 29 28 56E):

Kalnik launch site with 3 R-14U silos (48 59 22N, 29 21 54E):

Verkhnyaya Salda Mobile IRBM/ICBM Base 4 (1987-today) (58 06 07N, 60 21 32E):

No drawing.