323rd Demidovskiy Red Banner Missile Regiment

323-й ракетный Демидовский Краснознаменный полк

Military Unit: 43150

Activated 8.59 in Totskoye, Orenburg Oblast, as the 323rd Engineer Regiment RVGK - awards from the 270th Motorised Rifle Division.

10.59 transferred to Chernyshevskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast - subordinated to the 72nd Engineer Brigade RVGK.

1.7.60 renamed 323rd Missile Regiment, now attached to the 24th Guards Missile Division.

1.9.61 regiment HQ was transferred to Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast.

Organisation:

The regiment did not have any warheads until April 1961.

The two battalions stood down in 1989, and the regiment was disbanded shortly thereafter (1989).

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

Gusev launch site 1 with 4 R-12 pads (54 41 10N, 22 04 54E):

Gusev launch site 2 with 4 R-12 pads (54 43 58N, 22 03 26E):

One alternative fixed field site for the pad launchers, were set up at Tolmingkemsk (54 22 03N, 22 20 12E) - possibly still in use 1967.

Launch sites 1987: Gusev 1 and Gusev 2