697th Missile Regiment

697-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 07387, from 1988: 48404

Activated 25.3.64 in Drovyanaya, Chitinskaya Oblast, under the 4th Missile Division.

The regiment controlled site BSP-21 with 3 R-16U silos - alert duty from 25.3.65.

1.12.66 took over BSP-23 with two R-16 pads.

1968 with:

• BSP-21 with 3 R-16 silos
• BSP-23 with 2 R-16 pads

The two pads went off alert duty 17.8.76, followed by the three silos 5.10.76.

The regiment went on alert duty 7.10.77 with 9 RSD-10 Pioner-K (15P645K) (SS-20) missiles.

The regiment stood down in 1.10.88, and was transferred to Yoshkar-Ola, Mariyskaya ASSR 1.3.89, now under the 14th Missile Division.

The regiment went on alert duty 29.4.90 with 9 RT-2PM (15P158) (SS-25) missiles.

US designation 1964-1976: Drovyanaya ICBM complex (Launch site B, later launch site 2). Type IIIA silos.

BSP-21 (51 25 02N, 113 04 35E):

Drovyanaya mobile IRBM base 2 (RSD-10 1977-1988) (51 20 20N, 113 01 04E):

Yoshkar-Ola Mobile ICBM Base 2 (RT-2PM 1990-today) (56 33 36N, 48 12 55E):

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