498th Anti-Aircraft Missile Training Brigade

498-я учебная зенитно-ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 68048

Activated mid-1978 in Opotchka, Pskov Oblast, when the Opotchka Senior Military Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School left for Dnepropetrovsk.

Possibly existed earlier as an Anti-Aircraft Missile Training Regiment.

• S-200 (SA-5) launch area (56 44 11N, 28 37 52E) - two launch battalions and a technical battalion
• Support area (56 43 36N, 28 38 49E)

Disbanded 1994.

Headquarters:

• Opotchka, Pskov Oblast, 1978 - 1994 [56 43 36N, 28 38 49E]

Subordinated:

• 6th independent Air Defence Army, 1978 - 4.80
• Leningrad Military District, 4.80 - 4.86
• 6th independent Air Defence Army, 4.86 - 1994