Unit intelligence profile

15th Special Purpose Aerospace Army

Subordinates: 2
Locations: 0

Profile summary

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HQ: Moscow

Command: Lieutenant General Andreyl Vyshinsky

Assessment

Identity

This record matches the Russian Space Forces formation officially described as the 15th Army of the Aerospace Forces, special purpose. Russian state reference material says it was created on 1 December 2011 within the Aerospace Defense Troops and remained part of the Space Forces after their re-establishment inside the Aerospace Forces on 1 August 2015. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/1484003?utm_source=openai))

Command node

Open sources tie the army’s visible command-and-control hub to Krasnoznamensk, Moscow Oblast, not clearly to Moscow city. RT reported in April 2019 that the Titov Main Test Space Center in Krasnoznamensk housed the command post and control center of the 15th Army, and a 2022 Moscow Oblast report described awards being presented to 15th Army officers there. I did not find a reliable open source confirming a separate headquarters in Moscow city, so the metadata claim of HQ Moscow should be treated as unconfirmed. ([russian.rt.com](https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/621328-nochnye-volki-den-kosmonavtiki))

Mission

Verified open sources describe the army’s core roles as missile-attack warning, monitoring the space situation, and command and control of a large share of Russia’s military and dual-use satellites. In a 2020 interview reported by TASS, Lt. Gen. Andrei Vyshinsky said its forces detected more than 60 ballistic-missile and space-launch events that year, added more than 1,500 space objects to tracking, and detected more than 250 foreign satellite maneuvers. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2023/11/Role-of-Space-in-Russias-Operations-in-Ukraine.pdf))

Composition

Open sources consistently identify three principal subordinate centers: the Main Missile Attack Warning Center, the Main Space Reconnaissance Center, and the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Center. Together they provide the army’s early-warning, space-surveillance, and orbital-control functions. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2023/11/Role-of-Space-in-Russias-Operations-in-Ukraine.pdf))

Footprint

The formation is geographically distributed rather than concentrated at one installation. Russian reporting says its units extend from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, while the space-surveillance network uses specialized radar, laser-optical, and electro-optical assets in the Moscow Region, Altai, the Far East, Karachayevo-Cherkessia, and Tajikistan. Russian state reporting also described ongoing expansion of new space-surveillance systems and early-warning radars. ([360.ru](https://360.ru/news/mosobl/vorobev-nagradil-lichnyj-sostav-armii-vks-v-krasnoznamenske/))

Leadership status

Lt. Gen. Andrei P. Vyshinsky is publicly confirmed in open sources as commander in October 2020 and again in a Ministry of Defense report dated 20 May 2021. I did not find a later official public confirmation of the army commander in the sources reviewed as of 12 March 2026, so his status should be treated as last openly confirmed, not definitively current. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/1207687?utm_source=openai))

No geospatial coordinates are available for this profile.

Command structure

Subordinate formations

820th Missile Attack Warning Main Center

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military unit 26302, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Solnechnogorsk-7

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 84685, Voronezh-DM early warning radar

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 84197, 77Ya6 "Voronezh-M" early warning radar

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 42988, Voronezh-DM early warning radar

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 84194, 77Ya6 Voronezh-M early warning radar

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 84686 , 77Ya6-DM Voronezh-DM early warning radar

36th Seprate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 03908, 77Ya6VP Voronezh-VP early warning radar

57th Separate Radio-Technical Unit (RO-1)

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military unit 16605, 5N86M Dnepr-M and 90N6 Daryal-U radars

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Unit (RO-4)

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military unit 63974, Dnepr early warning radar

378th Separate Radio-Technical Unit (RO-30)

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military unit 96876, 90N6 Daryal early warning radar

474th Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 03522, 70M6 Volga early warning radar

571st Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 73845, Voronezh-M early warning radar

818th Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 41003, Voronezh-DM early warning radar

916th Separate Radio-Technical Unit (Unified Space Detection and Combat Control System Western Command Post)

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military unit 03340, Western Command of the Unified Detection and Combat Control System

1127th Separate Radio-Technical Center (Unified Space Detection and Combat Control System Eastern Command Post)

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military unit 20117

487th Communications and Information Transfer Center

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military unit 13626

1383rd Reserve Missile Attack Warning System Command Post

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military unit 17204

n/a Separate Outer Space Reconnaissance Radio-Optical Unit "Krona"

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military unit 20096

514th Missile Warning System Command Post

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military unit 12556

Optical Observation Station "Arkhyz"

820th Missile Attack Warning Main Center HQ

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military unit 26302

821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

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military unit 61437, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Noginsk District, Dubrovo

Office for the Introduction of New Systems and Complexes of the Space Forces

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military unit 73570

Information and Analytical Point

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military unit 41646

145th Space Control Center

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military unit 28289

1109th Separate Optoelectronic Unit

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unit 52168

Complex Okno-M

Measuring Complex on the territory of Altai Optical-Laser Center

Possibly a facility belonging to the 821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

A facility under construction that will presumably belong to the 821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center HQ

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military unit 61437