42nd Training Center for Combat Employment Anti-Aircraft Missile Forces

42-й Учебный Центр Боевой Подготовки Зенитно-Ракетных Войск

Military Unit: 01644

Activated 1.6.60 in Ashuluk, Astrakhan Oblast.

17.4.61 transferred from Army control (SV) to the Air Defense Forces (PVO).

Combat training and live fire of all Surface-to-air missiles (SAM) used by the Air Defense Forces, on the Ashuluk Range.

Bases:

• Ashuluk, Astrakhan Oblast, 1960 - today [47 24 38N, 48 00 28E]

Subordinated:

• 48th Training Aviation Base, 1961 - ?

• 185th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel, ? - today