142nd Guards Roslavlskiy Red Banner Missile Regiment

142-й гвардейский ракетный Рославльский Краснознаменный полк

Military Unit: 15467, 8.59: 34061

Activated 8.12.58 at Konotop, Sumy Oblast, as the 288th Aviation (Missile) Regiment, from the 229th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment - directly attached to the 43rd Air Army.

From 1.4.59 attached to the 83rd Guards Aviation (Missile) Division, and from 1.7.60 the 31st Guards Missile Division.

9.8.59 renamed 288th Guards Engineer Regiment, and a day later (10.8.59) the 142nd Guards Engineer Regiment.

Relocated to Novogrudok, Grodno Oblast, in August 1959, and was finally renamed 142nd Guards Missile Regiment on 1.7.60.

5.10.62 transferred to the 49th Guards Missile Division.

The regiment consisted of two battalions with each 4 R-12 (SS-4) pads.

The first battalion went on alert duty 15.5.60 (two R-12 pads) and 1.10.60 (the remaining two R-12 pads), while the second battalion went on alert duty 1.1.61 (four R-12 pads). The warheads were delivered more slowly, and until April 1961 the regiment had only warheads available for two missiles.

The two battalions stood down in 1980, and on 25.4.81 the regiment was transferred to Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast - now attached to the 42nd Missile Division.

The regiment went to alert duty 21.6.81 with 9 RSD-10 Pioner-K (15P645K) (SS-20) missiles.

The regiment stood down 1985, and went to alert duty 22.11.85 with 9 RT-2PM (15P158.1) (SS-25) missiles.

US designation: Vselyub MRBM complex (Vselyub launch sites 1 and 2). Type I (pad) sites.

Vselyub launch site 1 (53 45 49N, 25 42 51E):

Vselyub launch site 2 (53 47 52N, 25 46 50E):

One alternative fixed field site for the pad launchers, were set up at Berezovka (53 42 17N, 25 30 43E), but had become inactive by 1967.

Nizhniy Tagil launch site (BSP-5, RSD-10/RT-2PM missiles) (58 11 50N, 60 34 41E):

No drawing.