It was built near Plokščiai village, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Plungė, in the sparsely populated Plokštinė forest near Plateliai Lake, Samogitia, Lithuania.

There were no bigger towns or villages nearby, just isolated houses whose inhabitants were paid 4,500 roubles to relocate.

In 1960, more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers started to secretly work in the Žemaitija National Park for over two years.

[3] The surrounding electric fence was normally connected to 220 V, with a possibility to raise the voltage to 1700 V[4] in case of an alert.

[7] After extensive reconstruction in 2012, the former base site now hosts the Cold War Museum, opening one of the four existing silos for visitors.

The museum exhibitions include various missiles, their internal systems, military and other equipment used by the Eastern Bloc as well as NATO during the Cold War.