Piirsalu, Soviet Nuclear Missile Base

 military, abandoned / shut down

Piirsalu and Lintsi were deployment bases for the 94th Regiment of the 23rd Missile Division of the 50th Missile Army.

The 94th was headquartered in Haapasalu and armed with R-12 (SS-4 Sandal) missiles. The R-12 had a range of approximately 2.000 kilometres and carried a single nuclear warhead with a yield of 2,3 megaton.

The 23rd Division was headquartered in Valka [Valga], Latvia, PribVO [?]. In 1981-82, the 23rd Division and Regiment 94, 846 and 304 were relocated to Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Region.

The 23rd comprised the 94th Regiment (two surface launch complexes outside Haapsalu), the 846th Regiment (two surface complexes and one Dvina silo complex north of Valga), the 304th Regiment (two surface launch complexes south of Rakvere), Vyru (Voru) (two surface launch complexes southeast of Voru) and, until 1982, the 39th Regiment (two surface launch complexes and on Dvina silo complex south of Aluksne).

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