519th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

519-й зенитно-ракетный полк

Military Unit: 45243

Activated before 1960 in the Moscow Air Defence District.

1960's and 1970's with 4 S-75 (SA-2) battalions.

Organisation:

• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (51 06 31N, 28 30 27E*) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (50 53 47N, 28 32 44E*) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (51 06 54N, 29 05 21E*) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (50 52 01N, 28 44 13E*) with S-75 (SA-2) missiles
• Technical Battalion

* locations unconfirmed - calculated on the base of a 1963 CIA map

10.73 one battalion was transferred to Egypt, as part of a consolidated regiment from the 8th independent Air Defence Army - returned home 1974.

Disbanded 21.2.77.

Headquarters:

• ?, Moscow Oblast, ? - 3.60
• Korosten, Zhitomir Oblast, 3.60 - 2.77

Subordination:

• 19th Air Defence Division, 1960 - 1977