797th Missile Regiment

797-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 07398

Activated 3.64 in Svobodnyy, Amur Oblast, under the 27th Missile Division.

The regiment controlled site BSP-11 with 2 R-16 pads (alert duty from 3.64).

In 1968 the BSP-11 site was transferred to the 563rd Missile Regiment, and the regiment was relocated to Kartaly, Chelyabinsk Oblast, and came under the 59th Missile Division.

The regiment went on alert duty 3.10.70 with 6 R-36 (8K67) (SS-9) missiles at site BRK-6.

The regiment stood down 10.3.79, and began conversion to the R-36MUTTKh (SS-18 missile) - alert duty from 12.12.80.

Disbanded 2001.

US designation 1964-1968: Svobodnyy ICBM complex (Launch site H, later launch site 8). Type IID pads.

US designation 1969-2001: Kartaly ICBM Complex - Launch Group F (Type IIIC silos).

Svobodnyy ICBM complex (Launch Site 8) (52 02 38N, 128 03 23E):

Kartaly ICBM Complex - Launch Group F (Type IIIC):

• silo 39F: 53 04 30N, 60 46 21E

• silo 40F: 53 10 45N, 60 50 31E

• silo 41F: 53 03 58N, 60 57 40E - control site

• silo 42F: 53 03 40N, 61 06 54E

• silo 46F: 53 07 49N, 61 14 10E

• silo 47F: 53 08 23N, 61 03 39E