In the traditional 17 December interview marking the anniversary of the Strategic Rocket Forces (established on that day in 1959), commander Sergey Karakayev reported that his force completed the deployment of Yars missiles in the silos of the missile division in Kozelsk. (Video of the deployment by Zvezda TV.)
This brings the number of silo-based Yars missiles in the 28th Missile Division to 30. The missiles are deployed in three regiments - 74th, 168th, and 373rd. The older three regiments of the division - 119th, 214th, and 372nd - were disbanded around 2007-2009. Here is the kmz file with silo coordinates.
The decision to keep three regiments and use them to deploy "new-generation missiles" was made in 2008. In 2011, the Rocket Forces announced that these silos would be used to deploy Yars missiles. The first two missiles were deployed in 2014.
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