1723rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
Identification
The location is best identified as the 1723rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (military unit 26292) in the Chita/Kashtak area of Zabaykalsky Krai. A Russian federal labor-safety registry entry from July 24, 2023 still lists v/ch 26292 in Chita, and an OSINT base index places the 1723rd regiment near Chita at 52.096966, 113.490397, consistent with a Kashtak-area air-defense site rather than the older Dzhida location. ([declaration.rostrud.gov.ru](https://declaration.rostrud.gov.ru/declaration/index?DeclarationSearch=&page=7312&per-page=50&utm_source=openai))
Command link
An official Chita House of Officers note states the regiment redeployed to Chita on August 1, 2012 and since then has been part of the 26th Guards Air Defense Division in the Eastern Military District. A CSKA report dated January 25, 2023 also shows servicemen from v/ch 26292 participating in a Far Eastern Air Force and Air Defense competition alongside 26 d PVO formations, which supports that divisional affiliation. ([domoficerov.com](https://domoficerov.com/news/834/?page=532))
Local footprint
Open sources indicate a dispersed footprint in and around Chita rather than a single barracks block. The July 2023 federal registry entry for v/ch 26292 lists Chita addresses at ul. Lermontova 13 and ul. Anokhina 78 and references personnel from the 1st anti-aircraft missile battalion plus a medical point with 10 inpatient beds; the separate Kashtak-area coordinate in OSINT mapping suggests field firing or deployment positions outside the city center. ([declaration.rostrud.gov.ru](https://declaration.rostrud.gov.ru/declaration/index?DeclarationSearch=&page=7312&per-page=50&utm_source=openai))
Equipment status
The regiment’s current missile equipment is not publicly confirmed in the authoritative sources located for this review. Open-source reporting is contradictory: an IISS order-of-battle table published in 2021 lists the 1723rd regiment in the 26th Air Defence Division with Buk-M1-2, while other OSINT base lists associate the Kashtak/Chita site with S-300PS; this should therefore be treated as disputed rather than settled. ([web-opti-prod.iiss.org](https://web-opti-prod.iiss.org/globalassets/media-library---content--migration/files/research-papers/iad-report.pdf))
Lineage and move
The same official Chita House of Officers source says v/ch 26292 traces its lineage to the 715th Army small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery regiment formed on August 27, 1942. It states the unit later covered the Dzhida airfield from April 1974 and then redeployed to Chita in 2012, making the Chita/Kashtak site the verified current location in open sources rather than the regiment’s earlier Buryatia basing. ([domoficerov.com](https://domoficerov.com/news/834/?page=532))