303rd Missile Regiment

303-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 14379

Activated 1960 at Kingisepp (Kaskolovka), Leningrad Oblast, under the 40th Missile Division.

Organisation:

• 1st battalion with 4 R-12 (SS-4) pads - alert duty from 10.9.62
• 2nd battalion with 4 R-12 (SS-4) pads - alert duty from 15.2.63
• 3rd battalion with 4 R-12U (SS-4) silos - alert duty from 12.2.64

The first battalion stood down 25.2.78 (four R-12 pads), while the two other battalions stood down 10.5.82 (four R-12 pads and four R-12 silos).

The regiment was disbanded in 1982.

US designation: Moloskovitsy MRBM complex (Moloskovitsy 1 and 2, and Gurlevo launch site). Type II (pad) and IV (silo) sites.

Moloskovitsy launch site 1 with 4 R-12 pads (59 28 43N, 29 05 55E):

Moloskovitsy launch site 2 with 4 R-12 pads (59 29 23N, 29 12 26E):

Gurlevo launch site with 4 R-12U silos (59 25 39N, 28 54 05E):

Two alternative fixed field sites for the pad launchers, were set up at Kotly (Kotly 1: 59 37 58N, 28 41 41E and Kotly 2: 59 39 12N, 28 36 09E), but had become inactive by 1967.