5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

5-я зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 55581; from 8.68: 80834: from 6.91: 02029

Activated 20.9.61 in Uzhgorod, Zakarpatskaya Oblast (formation complete 20.11.61), as the 919th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.

Organisation:

• 350th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 1096th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (military unit: 55472)
• 1097th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion
• 2432nd Technical Battalion

8.68 took part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, attached to the 28th Army Corps.

1971 renamed 5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Organisation 1988:

• 350th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Pilsen) - military unit: 51238
• 1096th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Chervona Vody) - military unit: 52482
• 1097th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (Kurzhivody) - military unit: 54391

The 1095th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion was activated 1989 in Kurzhivody, when the brigade converted to the Buk-M1 (SA-11) missile.

Organisation 2009:

• 1095th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (military unit: 05852)
• 1096th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (military unit: 02176, from 2010: 72760)
• 1097th independent Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (military unit: 96676; from 2010: 72156)

Headquarters:

• Uzhgorod, Zakarpatskaya Oblast, 12.61 - 21.8.68 [48 37 59N, 22 18 51E] - 6.62 to 4.65 deployed to Svalyava, Zakarpatskaya Oblast
• Kurivody, Czechoslovakia, 21.8.68 - 6.90 [50 35 18N, 14 48 50E]
• Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast, 6.90 - 1.12.09 [56 50 26N, 41 22 55E]
• Nenimyaki, Leningrad Oblast, 1.12.09 - today [60 21 05N, 30 21 56E]

Equipment:

• S-75 (SA-2), 1961 - 1971
• Krug (SA-4), 1971 - 1989
• Buk-M1 (SA-11), 1989 - today

Subordination:

• 38th Combined Arms Army, 12.61 - 8.68
• Central Group of Forces, 8.68 - 6.90
• 13th Guards Army Corps, 6.90 - 1.3.91
• 22nd Guards Combined Arms Army, 1.3.91 - 1.12.09
• Leningrad Military District, 1.12.09 - today