The 341st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (;

Military Unit Number A Military Unit Number (Russian: Войсковая часть) is a numeric alternate designation for military units in the armed forces and internal troops of post-Soviet states, originally used by those of the Soviet Union The Soviet ...

25885) was a surface-to-air missile regiment of the Soviet Air Defense Forces during the Cold War which briefly became part of the Russian Air Defense Forces. Active from 1963, the regiment provided air defense for the

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

area with S-200V missiles. It was disbanded in 1993 as a result of the introduction of the more modern

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in the Leningrad air defense system.

History

The regiment received its number, the 341st, in November 1963; it was a unit originally planned to be armed with the cancelled 5V11 Dal missile. The 341st was part of the 6th Independent Air Defense Army, and was based at Lopukhinka-2 near

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. The regiment became operational in 1967 with five S-200 battalions. It was reequipped with the S-200V in the early 1970s. In 1974, its battalions were split into two groups of three and two battalions, respectively. In 1986, the 86th became part of the

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. After the more modern

was introduced into the Leningrad air defense system, the S-200V units were gradually phased out. The 341st was disbanded in 1993.

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* {{Cite book, title=Советские Войска ПВО в последние годы Союза ССР. Часть 1, last1=Lenskii, first1=A.G., last2=Tsybin, first2=M.M., publisher=Info Ol, year=2013, isbn=, location=St. Petersburg, pages=, language=Russian, trans-title=Soviet Air Defense Forces in the last years of the USSR: Part 1, oclc=861180616 Surface-to-air missile regiments of the Soviet Air Defence Forces Regiments of the Russian Federation Military units and formations established in 1963 Military units and formations disestablished in 1993