153rd Main Testing Center
Identification
The record most plausibly matches the Krasnoznamensk, Moscow Oblast headquarters of the Titov Main Test Space Center (GIKC), military unit 32103. Open sources place GIKC in Krasnoznamensk/Golitsyno-2, while historical military-reference material ties the legacy “153rd Main Test Center for testing and control of space assets” designation to the same unit number. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20040403/560710.html))
Mission
Public reporting describes this site as a principal Russian military space-control node. TASS reported in October 2024 that GIKC had more than 100 spacecraft under control, including GLONASS and the Russian segment of the ISS; Zvezda reported on 4 October 2025 that the center had supported 15 launches from Plesetsk, Vostochny, and Baikonur and put more than 40 spacecraft into orbit in 2025. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/22039549))
Site infrastructure
Open descriptions of the Krasnoznamensk installation mention a command post, spacecraft control facilities, and collection/processing nodes for telemetry and other spacecraft data. A 2013 RIA report said the defense minister inspected the command post, flight-control center, and data-collection/processing points there; a contemporaneous Defense Ministry press-tour notice referenced command-measurement and antenna systems plus telemetry-processing complexes at the site. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20131024/972312210.html))
Networked reach
Public sources describe GIKC as the central node of a distributed command-measurement network rather than a standalone campus. TASS’s backgrounder says the 15th Special Purpose Aerospace Army includes GIKC alongside other major space-defense centers and a network of measurement/command-measurement sites; RIA reported in 2015 that the Crimea deep-space communications center had returned to GIKC, and regional reporting in 2020 identified the Yevpatoria/Vitino site as the 40th Separate Command-Measurement Complex. This makes the third placemark a geographically separate associated site, not part of the main Krasnoznamensk compound. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/1484003))
Command caveat
The supplied commander line (“Major General Andrey Marchuk”) was not corroborated in the reviewed open sources. Public reporting instead names Maj. Gen. Sergey Marchuk as center chief in October 2022 and Col. Anton Ogolev in October 2024. Reviewed public sources also describe GIKC as one of the three major centers of the 15th Special Purpose Aerospace Army; they do not publicly support the supplied hierarchy placing this site under the 821st Main Center for Space Situation Monitoring. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/kosmos/15945665?utm_source=openai))