51st independent Engineering & Test Unit
51-я отдельная инженерно-испытательная часть
Military Unit: 44083
Activated 10.4.61 in Leninskiy (Leninsk), Kzyl-Orda Oblast, from the 676th Missile Regiment, under the Baikonur Test Center (5th NIIP).
The units main tasks were missile/complex tests with the R-9A (SS-8) ICBM.
From 31.5.62 attached to the 1st Test Department.
The unit went on alert duty 1965 with 3 R-9A pads and 3 R-9A silos.
The unit went off alert duty 1969, and the unit was disbanded 1969.
US designation: Baikonur Test Center - Launch Complex E (three Type IIC pads) [Area 75]
US designation: Baikonur Test Center - Launch Complex F (three Type IIIB silos) [Area 70]
Baikonur Test Center - Site 70 (46 01 58N, 63 05 47E)
Baikonur Test Center - Site 75 (45 57 51N, 63 12 08E)
Baikonur Test Center - Site 71 (45 59 13N, 63 08 33E)