17th Missile Brigade

17-я ракетный бригада

Military Unit: 44093

Activated 15.11.64 at Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast, from parts of the 703rd Missile Regiment.

Initially under the 5th independent Missile Corps, and from 8.6.70 the 31st Missile Army.

Organisation:

• 703rd Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast) with 3 R-16 silos

• 000 Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast) with 3 R-16 silos

• 000 Missile Regiment (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast) with 3 R-16 silos

Disbanded 1978.

Support Units:

• 0000 Repair-Technical Base

• 0000 Technical Missile Base

• 000 Communications Center

Shadrinsk ICBM complex coordinates:

• Shadrinsk ICBM Complex - 1964 map

• Complex Support Facility (56 07 59N, 63 40 08E) - drawing (1964)

• Rail-to-Road Transfer Point (56 09 51N, 63 40 00E) - drawing (1964)