Nikrace Soviet IRBM (Intermediate range ballistic missile) R-14U (SS-5 Mod 2 Skean) deployment base.
Latvia /
Kuldigas /
Skrunda /
World
/ Latvia
/ Kuldigas
/ Skrunda
World / Latvia / Kurzeme
military, abandoned / shut down, closed / former military, strategic rocket forces, missile silo
"Chusovaya" type silo complex. 3 underground launch silos.
Nikrace was the base of the 344th. RVSN Regiment, (headquartered in Priekule, Latvia) of the 29th. Missile Division (headquartered in Siuliai, Lithuania). The 29th. Division belonged to the 50th. RVSN Missile Army
The 344th. was also deployed at the Chusovaya Complex in Vainode and the Surface Launch Pads close to Nigrande.
Pix at: www.flickr.com/photos/martintrolle/sets/
raketnie-bazi-sssr.narod.ru/index.html
www.diggers.lv/rockets/rudbarzi/rudbarzi.html
Nikrace was the base of the 344th. RVSN Regiment, (headquartered in Priekule, Latvia) of the 29th. Missile Division (headquartered in Siuliai, Lithuania). The 29th. Division belonged to the 50th. RVSN Missile Army
The 344th. was also deployed at the Chusovaya Complex in Vainode and the Surface Launch Pads close to Nigrande.
Pix at: www.flickr.com/photos/martintrolle/sets/
raketnie-bazi-sssr.narod.ru/index.html
www.diggers.lv/rockets/rudbarzi/rudbarzi.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-14_Chusovaya
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 56°35'18"N 21°49'44"E
- Nigrande Soviet IRBM (Intermediate range ballistic missile) R-14 (SS-5 Mod 1 Skean) Base. 14 km
- Vainode Air Base 19 km
- Former soviet S-200 41 km
- Former USSR naval warehouses 50 km
- Former Šateikiai nuclear missile base 66 km
- Former soviet S-200 (SA-5 GAMMON) medium to high- altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) system site (abandoned) 81 km
- Abandoned Soviet Army goods store 88 km
- Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre 108 km
- Highway landing strip 238 km
- Visby Airport 244 km
- Rudbāržu Mill Pond 6.4 km
- Nikrace civil parish 6.4 km
- Pond 6.8 km
- Bāliņu Pond 7.1 km
- Rudbārži parish 7.5 km
- Kalvene parish 8 km
- Pond 8.1 km
- Embūte parish 8.4 km
- Kazdanga parish 15 km
- Skrunda parish 19 km
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