580th Missile Regiment

580-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 05201

Activated 31.3.64 in Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, from the 66th independent Missile Battalion, under the 42nd Missile Division.

The regiment controlled site BSP-11 with 2 R-16 (SS-7) pads - alert duty from 3.12.63.

In 1969 the regiment took over site BSP-2 from the 595th Missile Regiment and site BSP-5 from the 175th Missile Regiment:

• site BSP-11 with 2 R-16 pads
• site BSP-2 with 2 R-16 pads
• site BSP-5 with 2 R-16 pads

The regiment stood down in 1976, and was disbanded 1976.

US designation 1964-1976: Verkhnyaya Salda ICBM Complex (Launch Site I, later Launch Site 10). Type IID pads.

Verkhnyaya Salda Launch Site 10 (BSP-11) (58 08 18N, 60 32 11E):