1530th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
Identification
Open sources strongly match this record to military unit 31458, the 1530th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, at Bolshaya Kartel in Komsomolsky District, Khabarovsk Krai. A 2022 Habarovsk arbitration ruling places unit 31458 at “voenny gorodok Kartel-2” in Bolshaya Kartel and describes a checkpoint building on the territory of the active unit; separate order-of-battle references independently identify unit 31458 as the 1530th regiment at the same locality. ([sudact.ru](https://sudact.ru/arbitral/doc/oGRe8Hvcq4mw/?utm_source=openai))
Installation
The confirmed site is a regimental garrison rather than only a field firing point. Court records identify a 111 sq m checkpoint building with cadastral number 27:07:0050114:1022 inside Kartel-2 and show that part of the building was being used as a postal outlet until the Defense Ministry reclaimed it in 2022, indicating a controlled-access military town with routine support infrastructure. A separate public mapping entry near 50.3843, 137.3275 labels an S-400 position manned by the 1530th regiment, but the exact role of that western position is not officially confirmed in the sources reviewed. ([sudact.ru](https://sudact.ru/arbitral/doc/oGRe8Hvcq4mw/?utm_source=openai))
Air-defense posture
Open-source defense reporting indicates the regiment at Bolshaya Kartel began combat duty on S-400 in late 2018. By March 2021, Izvestia reported that all three regiments of the 25th Air Defense Division had transitioned to S-400, which is consistent with later order-of-battle references that continue to place the 1530th regiment at Bolshaya Kartel with S-400. Open sources also often associate the regiment with Pantsir point defense, but that detail is less firmly documented than the S-400 re-equipment. ([newsland.com](https://newsland.com/post/6571332-pervyi-divizion-zenitnoi-raketnoi-sistemy-s-400-vypuska-2018-goda-zastupil-na-boevoe-dezhurstvo?utm_source=openai))
Geographic relevance
This placement is consistent with a mission focused on the Komsomolsk-on-Amur air-defense sector. TASS reported that the 11th Army of Air and Air Defense covers more than 22,000 km of land and sea frontier, while Izvestia wrote that the 25th Division’s S-400 grouping protects not only Sakhalin but also Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. That is operationally significant because Komsomolsk-on-Amur remains a major aviation production center: Rostec said the Gagarin aircraft plant there delivered Su-35S fighters in 2024 and flew an import-substituted SJ-100 in 2025. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/2171801?utm_source=openai))