Military presence in Yoshkar-Ola & Mari El
14th Missile Division
Since 1961, Republic Mari El has been home to 14th Missile Division (Kiev-Zhitomir Missile Division) near Yoshkar-Ola, which is part of The 27th Missile Army (Vladimir), consisting of 4 Regiments with 36 road mobile Topol/SS-25 ICBM rocket launchers
The exact location is;
Latitude: 55°0' N.
Longitude: 48°0' E.
Originally it operated R-16 ICBM launchers. Later the only base for 60 silos equipped with the RT-2 solid propellant ICBM. These were progressively replaced by RT-2PM missiles and later by Topol/SS-25 missiles
Under the decommissioning agreement of Weapons of Mass Destruction with the USA, Yoshkar-Ola has had all it's nuclear weapons decommissioned
Read about the Topol/SS-25 missile
Strategic Rocket Forces
Strategic Rocket Forces is a separate branch of the Russia's Armed Forces, subordinated directly to the General Staff. The current commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Col.-General Nikolay Solovtsov, was appointed to this post by a presidential decree of 27 April 2001
In January 2007, the Strategic Rocket Forces had 489 operational missile systems of four different types. Intercontinental ballistic missiles of these systems could carry 1788 warheads

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Danilovo Air Base
Danilovo is an air base in Mari El Republic, Russia located 11 km east of Yoshkar-Ola. It is a small interceptor aircraft airfield. It is been home to 681 IAP (681st Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23MLD aircraft
Soldierīs Mothers Committee of Mari El
Set up to aid families of military servicemen who were killed in Chechnya, to help search for those missing, to give financial aid to disabled veterans and to give assistance in employment for demobilized soldiers