1490th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
Site match
The best-supported match is military unit 28037, the 1490th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment in Tosnensky District, Leningrad Oblast. Public sources place the regiment in the Ulyanovka-Stekolny/Novolisino cluster: GlobalSecurity lists v/ch 28037 at Ulyanovka, Russian Gazette reported the regiment's S-400 combat duty at Stekolny, and CNA's Western MD study locates the 1490th ADR at Novolisino. This pattern fits the eastern placemarks far better than the western placemark, which is not corroborated in the reviewed sources for this regiment. ([globalsecurity.org](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/vo-western-sankt-peterburg.htm))
Role
Open-source order-of-battle studies place the regiment in the 2nd Air Defence Division of the 6th Air and Air Defence Army. CNA assesses that the 2nd Air Defence Division guards St Petersburg and neighboring areas, and Russian Gazette quoted divisional commander Oleg Polikarpov in February 2020 saying the division's responsibility includes airspace along the borders with Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. The location's military value is therefore its role in the fixed territorial air-defence belt protecting St Petersburg and Russia's northwestern approaches. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/russian-forces-in-the-western-military-district.pdf))
Force posture
The placemark equipment labels identifying S-300PS appear outdated. Russian Gazette reported on 26 February 2020 that the regiment at Stekolny entered combat duty with four S-400 battalions and described it as an unusually large regiment, while CNA's 2021 study likewise assessed the 1490th ADR at Novolisino as a 4 x S-400 regiment; IISS also listed the 1490th under the 2nd Air Defence Division as an S-400 regiment. The reviewed open sources do not publicly confirm whether that four-battalion structure has since changed. ([rg.ru](https://rg.ru/2020/02/26/reg-szfo/pod-peterburgom-razvernuto-rekordnoe-kolichestvo-sistem-s-400.html))
Recent reporting
A November 24, 2024 ISW/Critical Threats summary, citing the Ukrainian General Staff, said Ukrainian forces struck positions of the 1490th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment and an S-400 radar in Kursk Oblast. If accurate, that indicates at least some regiment elements were operating away from the home garrison area, but this remains a wartime claim and is not independently confirmed here. The same reporting refers to the regiment within the Leningrad Military District, so district-level parentage after Russia's 2024 military-district reorganization is not fully consistent across open sources reviewed here. ([criticalthreats.org](https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-24-2024))