652nd Guards Bryansko-Berlinskiy Red Banner Missile Regiment

652-й гвардейский ракетный Брянско-Берлинский Краснознаменный полк

Military Unit: 82735

Activated 1955 in Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, as the 652nd independent Engineer Battalion, under the 85th Engineer Brigade RVGK.

May 1959 renamed 652nd Guards Engineer Regiment, now at Lyalichi, Primorskiy Kray, under the ShRCh (Staff of Reactive Parts).

1.7.60 renamed 652nd Guards Missile Regiment, now under the 45th Missile Division.

Consisted of one battalion with 4 R-5M (SS-3) pads and one battalion with 4 R-12 (SS-4) pads.

The first battalion went on alert duty 1.8.59 (four R-5M pads), followed by the second battalion 8.61 (four R-12 pads).

The first battalion stood down in 1967 (four R-5M pads), and converted to the R-12 missile instead (missiles came from the 132nd Missile Regiment) - alert duty from 1967.

An additional four R-12 (SS-4) pads were constructed at the Kremovo launch site, making it an unsual eight R-12 pads at one site. The additional pads were probably manned by a new 3rd battalion, co-located with the first battalion (once again, the missiles came from the 132nd Missile Regiment).

All three battalions stood down in 1970 (twelve R-12 pads), and was disbanded.

US designation: Kremovo MRBM complex (Kremovo and Lyalichi launch sites). Type I (pad) sites.

Kremovo launch site  (44 01 34N, 132 20 27E):

Lyalichi launch site (44 02 41N, 132 26 12E):

One alternative fixed field site for the pad launchers, were set up at Manzovka (44 12 18N, 132 34 02E).