558th Missile Regiment

558-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 12411

Activated 3.64 in Yoshkar-Ola, Mariyskaya ASSR, under the 14th Missile Division.

The regiment controlled the BSP-22 site with 2 R-16 pads (alert duty from 2.1.64).

In 1968 the BSP-22 sites were transferred to the 675th Missile Regiment.

The regiment went on alert duty 1.2.72 with 10 RT-2 (SS-13) silos in area BRK-5.

The regiment stood down 1979, and converted to the RT-2P missile - alert duty from 4.11.80.

Disbanded 1994.

US designation 1964-1968: Yoshkar-Ola ICBM complex (Launch site F, later launch site 6). Type IID pads.

Yoshkar-Ola Launch Site 6 (BSP-22) (56 36 34N, 48 28 16E):

US designation 1971-1994: Yoshkar-Ola ICBM complex (Launch Group E) [Ten Type IIIE and one Type IIIX silos]:

• LCF E: 56 59 18N, 48 36 30E (Launch Control Facility E)
• silo 56E: 57 01 12N, 48 47 44E
• silo 57E: 57 04 45N, 48 44 36E
• silo 58E: 57 03 16N, 48 29 43E
• silo 59E: 57 03 54N, 48 34 45E
• silo 60E: 57 02 10N, 48 40 55E
• silo 61E: 57 01 13N, 48 47 44E
• silo 65E: 56 58 10N, 48 42 01E
• silo 72E: 56 55 46N, 48 39 25E
• silo 73E: 57 04 43N, 48 50 33E
• silo 76E: 57 01 10N, 48 32 50E