66th Missile Small Ship Battalion

66-я дивизион малых ракетных кораблей

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 8.5.64 in Ilicheva Bay (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka), Kamchatka Oblast, as the 66th Missile Boat Battalion, attached to the 89th Missile Ship Brigade.

1987 renamed 66th Missile Small Ship Battalion.

1.5.90 renamed 66th independent Missile Small Ship Battalion.

1.7.97 renamed 66th Missile Small Ship Battalion, and became attached to the 173rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade, and from 1.5.98 the 114th Coastal Defence Brigade.

Bases:

• Ilicheva Bay (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka), Kamchatka Oblast, 5.64 - today [52 57 53N, 158 39 51E]

Warships attached:

• Project 205 [Osa I class]: those marked * had by 9.85 been transferred in from the 523rd Battalion - exact date unknown
  • R-29, 6.64 - 1.1.88
  • R-31, 17.6.65 - 1.1.90
  • R-32, 22.6.65 - 1.1.90
  • R-39, 14.6.65 - 1.1.90
  • R-41, 6.64 - 1.1.88
  • R-3, ? - 1.1.90*
  • R-93, 13.11.65 - 1.4.87
  • R-107. ? - 11.92*
  • R-122, ? - 4.9.87*
  • R-17, ? - 21.8.90
• Project 205U [Osa II class]:
  • R-106, ? - 5.91*
• Project 1234 (Nanuchka I class):
  • Briz, 5.88 - 29.10.92
  • Vikhr, 1985 - 5.7.94
  • Tsiklon, 5.86 - 17.1.95
  • Tayfun, 9.4.84 - 4.8.95
• Project 12341 [Nanuchka III class]:
  • Smerch, from 7.87
  • XX Syezd VLKSM (Iney), from 3.88
  • Moroz, from 3.90
  • Razliv, from 3.92