664th Guards Kremenchugsko-Aleksandriskiy order of Lenin Red Banner orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Missile Regiment

664-й гвардейский ракетный Кременчугско-Александрийский ордена Ленина Краснознаменный орденав Кутузова и Богдано Хмельницкого полк

Military Unit: 34085

Activated 1.7.60 in Akhtyrka, Sumy Oblast, under the 200th Missile Brigade, from 5.61 the 43rd Guards Missile Division.

Awards and honours from the 308th Guards Missile Mortar Regiment.

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

The two battalions went on alert duty 10.1.62 (eight R-12 pads).

On September 1st, 1962, the regiment stood down, and was relocated to Cuba (Operation Anadyr) - renamed 546th Missile Regiment on 8.9.62, and took over the San Cristobál III and IV sites in Cuba, under the 51st Missile Division. The first battalion went on alert duty 27.10.62, and the second battalion on 25.10.62.

To avoid the Akhtyrka sites going off alert duty, an unknown regiment were transferred in from Shadrinsk (18th Guards Missile Division), to man the sites abandoned by the 664th Missile Regiment. When the 546th Missile Regiment returned from Cuba in 12.62, and was again renamed 664th Missile Regiment - the unknown regiment from Shadrinsk was disbanded.

The battalions stood down in 1982.

The regiment went on alert duty 1984 with 9 RSD-10 Pioner-UTTKh (15P653) (SS-20) missiles.

The regiment stood down 1990, and was disbanded shortly thereafter.

US designation 1960-1982: Akhtyrka MRBM complex (Akhtyrka launch sites 1 - 2). Type II (pad) sites.

Akhtyrka launch site 1 (50 16 00N, 34 49 59E):

Akhtyrka launch site 2 (50 21 57N, 34 57 00E):

One alternative fixed field site for the pad launchers, were set up at Akhtyrka (50 19 38N, 34 51 37E).

Akhtyrka launch site 2 (1984-1990 RSD-10 missiles) (50 21 57N, 34 57 00E):

San Cristobál III launch site (Cuba, 1962) (22 46 05N, 83 00 43W):

No drawing.

San Cristobál IV launch site (Cuba, 1962) (22 47 45N, 82 58 40W):

No drawing.