498th Missile Regiment

498-й ракетный полк

Military Unit: 54024

Activated 6.60 in Nerchinsk, Chitinskaya Oblast, under the 119th Missile Brigade, from 5.61 the 4th Missile Division.

Did not operate any R-16 (SS-7) sites, and remained inactive to 1965.

1.3.65 transferred to Olovyannaya, Irkutsk Oblast, under the 47th Missile Division.

The regiment went on alert duty 28.12.66 with 10 UR-100 (SS-11) silos in area BRK-4.

The regiment converted to the UR-100K in 1974 - alert duty from 18.11.74.

Disbanded 1991.

US designation 1966-1991: Olovyannaya ICBM complex (Launch Group G). Type IIID silos.

Olovyannaya ICBM Complex - Launch Group G (Type IIID):