23rd Missile Brigade

23-я ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 38534; from 7.81: 47062

Activated 5.53 in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, as the 77th Engineering Brigade RVGK.

Organisation:

229th independent Engineering Battalion RVGK (military unit: 55831) - deployed to the Baikonur Test Center 7.56 to 7.57
232nd independent Engineering Battalion RVGK (military unit: 46342) - deployed to the Baikonur Test Center 7.55 to 7.56
234th independent Engineering Battalion RVGK (military unit: 46290)
Technical Battery

7.58 transferred to the Army, and renamed 77th Engineering Brigade.

28.7.60 renamed 23rd Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1962:

The 273rd independent Missile Battalion arrived in Germany 8.63, and was attached to the brigade.

Organisation 1964:

106th independent Missile Battalion (Meissen, from 1975 Königsbrück) - military unit: 36477
160th independent Missile Battalion (Bischofswerda) - military unit: 66513
273rd independent Missile Battalion (Königsbrück) - military unit: 82494
Technical Battery

Left Germany 23.6.81 to 17.7.81, and was transferred to Birobidzhan, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast.

Organisation 1985:

1.9.97 took over awards and honours from the 4th Missile Brigade, and was renamed 107th Missile Brigade.

Headquarters:

Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, 5.53 - 10.53
Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast, 10.53 - 7.58
Weissenfels, Germany, 7.58 - 5.61
Königsbrück, Germany, 5.61 - 7.81 [51 18 08N, 13 50 13E] [US designation: Königsbrück 223]
Birobidzhan, Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast, 7.81 - today [48 46 56N, 132 52 51E] [US designation: Birobidzhan MRD HQ/Barracks AL 1]

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