330th Missile Regiment

330-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 14236

Activated 1.10.59 in Razdolnoye, Primorskiy Kray, as the 330th Engineer Regiment RVGK, from parts of the 38th Breakthrough Artillery Division.

11.59 transferred to Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast - subordinated to the 72nd Engineer Brigade RVGK.

1.7.60 renamed 330th Missile Regiment, now attached to the 24th Guards Missile Division.

Organisation:

Until April 1961 the regiment only had one warhead for the missiles.

The two battalions stood down in 1987, and the regiment was disbanded 1987.

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

Znamensk launch site 1 with 4 R-12 pads (54 32 41N, 21 10 58E):

Znamensk launch site 2 with 4 R-12 pads (54 35 18N, 21 07 58E):

Two alternative fixed field sites for the pad launchers, were set up at Pravdinsk (54 22 55N, 20 59 28E) and Domnovo (54 25 32N, 20 52 48E), with Pavdinsk still in use by 1967.