82nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade

The 82nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Russian: 82-я зенитно-ракетная бригада; Military Unit Number 03214)[1] was a surface-to-air missile brigade of the Soviet Air Defense Forces and briefly the Russian Air Defense Forces.

Active from 1960, the brigade provided air defense for the Leningrad area with S-75 Dvina and S-125 missiles.

It reequipped with S-300PS missiles in the late 1980s, and merged with a unit withdrawn from Latvia to become the 500th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment in 1993 and 1994.

It was the fourth brigade of the system to be formed and was based at Gostilitsy, near Lomonosov.

In 1963, the first S-125 battalion of the brigade became operational in Kronstadt, based near the city cemetery.

Launching of an S-125 of the type used by the brigade