106th Guards Airborne Division
Identification
The site corresponds to the headquarters/garrison of Russia’s 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Airborne Troops (VDV) in Tula. Russian presidential reporting on 13 August 2015 stated that the division’s headquarters are in Tula and that its units are stationed in Tula, Ryazan, and Naro-Fominsk; TASS in October 2022 separately described the division’s location as being in central Tula. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20150813/1181848941.html?utm_source=openai))
Commander
The supplied commander line appears outdated. Regional reporting in January 2024 said Vladimir Seliverstov had been replaced by Aleksandr Nemolyaev as commander of the division, and a presidential decree dated 2 May 2024 promoted Nemolyaev to major general. Tula regional reporting in August 2025 still described Nemolyaev as commander of the 106th Division. ([tula.aif.ru](https://tula.aif.ru/society/komandira-tulskih-desantnikov-povysili-v-zvanii?utm_source=openai))
Confirmed structure
Open official/public reporting reviewed for this briefing clearly confirms the division’s parachute regiments more than the support units listed in the supplied placemarks. The 51st regiment is publicly tied to the division in Tula, the 137th regiment is publicly tied to the division in Ryazan, and on 26 April 2025 Putin explicitly listed the 119th, 137th, and 51st parachute regiments under the 106th during reporting on operations in Kursk Oblast. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/obschestvo/15942753?utm_source=openai))
Infrastructure
This Tula location functions as more than a ceremonial headquarters. In October-November 2022 Russian state media and Tula regional authorities described mobilization training, combat work-up, and equipment transfers at the division’s Tula facilities, specifically including the 51st regiment; Tula State University also says reserve-officer field training is conducted on the base of the 106th Division. That indicates an active barracks/training hub with force-generation and sustainment roles. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/16141469?utm_source=openai))
Operational use
Russian official reporting places the division in active combat on two main axes in 2024-2025. The Defense Ministry/TASS and RIA credited the 106th with operations near Razdolovka and Pereizdne in Donetsk Oblast in July-August 2024, while Putin and RIA on 20 February and 26 April 2025 highlighted the division and its regiments in fighting in Kursk Oblast. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21252875?utm_source=openai))
Exposure and significance
Independent international reporting also places elements of the division in Kyiv Oblast during March 2022. OHCHR identified the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division among Russian units present in Bucha, and RSF later reported the 106th Division among units operating in the area where journalist Maks Levin was killed; these sources establish presence, but they do not by themselves prove responsibility of this Tula headquarters for each specific crime. The division remains high-profile in Russian official messaging: it received the honorific “Tula” in 2015 and the Order of Suvorov was ceremonially presented in Tula on 5 July 2025. ([ohchr.org](https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022-12-07-OHCHR-Thematic-Report-Killings-EN.pdf?utm_source=openai))