Unit intelligence profile

1st Air Defense and Missile Defense Army

Subordinates: 3
Locations: 4

Profile summary

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HQ: Moscow, Commander: Major General Konstantin Ohienko

Assessment

Identification

This record matches Russia’s 1st Air Defense and Missile Defense Army of special purpose under the Aerospace Forces. Open local reporting places the formation in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, and ties its historical headquarters footprint to Balashikha’s former military-town area rather than central Moscow; the modern army was re-created in 2015. On 6 October 2025, Russia granted it the honorary title “Moscow,” after which the formal name became the 1st Moscow Order of Lenin Air Defense and Missile Defense Army. ([rbc.ru](https://www.rbc.ru/politics/31/12/2022/63af8b749a7947381972fb59))

Mission

Russian official descriptions say the army covers Moscow and the Central Industrial Region and protects higher echelons of state command. TASS reporting states the formation also serves as the main Moscow-area testbed for new PVO/PRO equipment and fields the S-50M air-defense network—built around Baikal-1 and Universal-1 automation with S-400, S-300PM2, and Pantsir-S—as well as the A-135M strategic missile-defense system. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/5355339))

Command Site

Based on the supplied coordinates, the HQ and command-post placemarks fall in the eastern Moscow/Balashikha military area consistent with the army’s public siting in Balashikha. However, the open sources reviewed do not provide authoritative building-level confirmation that the exact coordinate pair is the army HQ or that the nearby site is formally designated command post “Amethyst”; those two placemark labels should therefore be treated as plausible but not fully confirmed. ([regions.ru](https://regions.ru/balashikha/nws/prezident-prisvoil-pochetnoe-naimenovanie-1-y-armii-pvo-pro-v-balashihe?utm_source=openai))

2023 S-400 Deployments

The two “new S-400 site” placemarks are consistent with widely reported early-2023 Moscow deployments. AP reported S-400 units near Losiny Ostrov and at an agricultural institute in Moscow, and The Insider later published detailed on-site reporting describing S-400 batteries and radar components at Timiryazev Agricultural Academy fields and in the Losiny Ostrov/Bogorodskoye area. Public reporting does not explicitly assign those specific batteries to this Balashikha headquarters, but they fit the army’s stated mission of defending Moscow. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/9448fde6594f56b32049cb0d59880e8e))

Leadership

The metadata naming Maj. Gen. Konstantin Ogiyenko as commander is outdated. TASS and Kommersant report that Ogiyenko commanded the army in 2021-2023 and was removed after a bribery case in July 2023; local Balashikha reporting in February-April 2025 identifies Maj. Gen. Igor Nikitin as commander. No later official Ministry of Defense commander roster was located in the reviewed open sources, so any post-April 2025 change is not publicly confirmed here. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/politika/18676121?utm_source=openai))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

4th Air Defense Division

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military unit 52116, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Dolgoprudny

93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 51916

93th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51916, S-400

93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51916, S-300PM

93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51916, S-300PM

93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51916, (S-400,S-300PM)

93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51916

210th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 51890

210th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51890, command post

210th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51890, 2nd command post?

210th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51890, S-300PM

210th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51890, S-400

210th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51890, S-400

584th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 62845, command post

584th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 62845, S-400

612nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 92925

612nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 92925, S-300PM

612nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 92925, S-300PM

612nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 92925, command post

25th Radio-Technical Regiment HQ

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military unit 86655

25th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 86655

25th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 86655-E

25th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 86655-M

25th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 86655-V

25th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 86655

25th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 86655

4th Air Defense Division HQ

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military unit 52116

5th Air Defense Division

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military unit 52096, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Leninsky district, Petrovskoye

549th Anti-Aicraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 61991

549th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 61991, S-400

549th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 61991, S-400

549th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 61991, S-400

606th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 61996

606th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 61996, (S-300PM, S-400)

606th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 61996, (S-300PM, S-400)

606th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 61996, (S-300PM, S-400)

629th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51857, command post

629th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51857, S-300PM

629th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51857, S-300PM

629th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51857

614th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 92574

614th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 92574, S-300PM

614th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 92574, S-300PM

9th Radio-Technical Regiment HQ

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military unit 51858

9th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 51858

9th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 51858

9th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 51858

9th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 51858

9th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 51858-M

5th Air Defense Division HQ

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military unit 52096

9th Missile Defense Division

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military unit 75555, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Sofrino, Commander: Major General Sergey Grabchuk

900th Missile Defense System Command Post

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military unit 20007

102nd Separate Missile Defense Center

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military unit 48701

482nd Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 03523, Don-2N radar

572nd Separate Radio-Technical Unit

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military unit 03863, Dunay-3U radar

15th Missile Defense Complex

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military unit 51087, A-135 System/53T6 Missiles

16th Missile Defense Complex

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military unit 51086, A-135 System/53T6 Missiles

49th Missile Defense Complex

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military unit 51084, A-135 System/53T6 Missiles

50th Missile Defense Complex

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military unit 51085, A-135 System/53T6 Missiles

89th Missile Defense Complex

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military unit 51089, A-135 System/53T6 Missiles

34th Communications Regiment

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military unit 12517

1876th Technical Base

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military unit 02014, storage of 53T6 missiles for the A-135 missile defense system

1876th Technical Base

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military unit 02014, storage of 53T6 missiles for the A-135 missile defense system

164th Information Processing Point (?)

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military unit 52361, Reportedly reformed from the 27th Separate Radio-Technical Unit after a fire destroyed its command post.

Geospatial index

Known places

New S-400 Site

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Estabilished in January 2023

New S-400 Site

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Estabilished in January 2023