183rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
Identification
The location is best identified as the 183rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment / military unit 95043 associated with Gvardeysk in Kaliningrad Oblast. Public registry records list military unit 95043 at Gvardeysk, ul. Gagarina 20, and Kommersant’s 2018 sanctions reporting also placed the regiment in Gvardeysk. The registry entry is historical—liquidated in 2015—so it should be treated as corroboration of the Gvardeysk association rather than proof of current legal status. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1093925038460-uchrezhdenie-federalnoe-kazennoe-uchrezhdenie-vojskovaya-chast-95043/?utm_source=openai))
Command
Recognized defence studies place the regiment under the Baltic Fleet’s 44th Air Defence Division. CNA’s review of Russian forces in the Western Military District describes the 44th Air Defence Division as Kaliningrad’s strategic air-defence framework, comprising the 183rd Air Defence Regiment, the 1545th Air Defence Regiment, and the 81st Radio-Technical Regiment; RUSI separately listed the 183rd under the 44th Air Defence Division in Kaliningrad during Zapad-2017. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/archive/CNA_Files/pdf/iop-2020-u-028759-final.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Systems
Open sources tie the regiment to layered SAM capabilities. RUSI described the regiment in 2017 as fielding four battalions of S-300PS/S-400 systems; CNA assessed by 2021 that it fielded four S-400 battalions in western Kaliningrad Oblast plus two S-300PS battalions near Chernyakhovsk; and a 2023 Rochan Consulting digest, based on Russian military releases, recorded a regiment battalion training on Pantsir-S1 against low-flying targets. ([rusi.org](https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-defence-systems/rds-special-formations-and-units-involved-zapad-2017-russian-belarussian-strategic-exercises))
Verified sites
The supplied placemark set is only partially verifiable in public sources. One launch-site placemark at 20.0723E, 54.7462N is effectively identical to Bellingcat’s November 13, 2023 "location B" west of Kaliningrad, analyzed as a probable S-400 position showing signs of possible partial removal; Bellingcat also identified another air-defence site north of Gvardeysk. The other supplied points, including the claimed command-post placemark, are broadly consistent with CNA’s description of regiment battalions being deployed across western Kaliningrad Oblast, but the reviewed public sources do not confirm the exact assignment of each individual point. ([bellingcat.com](https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/13/as-cargo-flights-leave-kaliningrad-air-defence-systems-disappear/))
Activity
The regiment has a recent public activity trail. The Baltic Fleet told TASS that a new regimental S-400 set entered combat duty in Kaliningrad on March 15, 2019; Reuters imagery from March 11, 2019 showed S-400 systems at a military base outside Gvardeysk; and Rochan’s August 2023 digest described a Pantsir-S1 battalion from the regiment rehearsing interception of UAVs and helicopter-simulated low-speed targets. Taken together, these sources support an active air-defence role protecting key military infrastructure in the Kaliningrad enclave. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/1048805))