Unit intelligence profile

1st Guards Tank Army

Subordinates: 3
Locations: 10

Profile summary

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military unit 73621, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Odnistovo (Bakovka), Commander: Lieutenant General Sergey Kisel

Assessment

Identified site

The location matches the headquarters of the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army, military unit 73621, at Bakovka in Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast. Open-source reporting repeatedly names Bakovka as the army HQ, and public civilian records still place v/ch 73621 facilities in Bakovka as of 2025. ([interfax-russia.ru](https://www.interfax-russia.ru/military/news_eng/373142?utm_source=openai))

Status

The current headquarters was re-formed in Moscow Oblast in 2014–2015. After Russia abolished the Western Military District, the 1st Guards Tank Army was reported under the restored Moscow Military District from 2024; analytical sources through 2025 still describe it as the Russian Ground Forces’ only tank army. ([globalsecurity.org](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/1-army.htm?utm_source=openai))

HQ role

This Bakovka site should be assessed as an army-level command and administrative node rather than the main parking area for the army’s armored mass. Open-source OOBs place major subordinate formations at other garrisons, including the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division and 4th Guards Tank Division in the Moscow Oblast belt, the 27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade at Mosrentgen, the 112th Missile Brigade at Shuya, the 288th Artillery Brigade at Mulino, and the 69th Logistics Brigade at Dzerzhinsk. The placemark label "112nd Guards Missile Division" is not supported by these OOBs, which identify a brigade. ([rand.org](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2500/RR2563/RAND_RR2563.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Wartime posture

Ukrainian military intelligence states that the army command directed subordinate forces on the Sumy and Kharkiv axes in early 2022. Later ISW reporting places 1st Guards Tank Army elements under the Moscow Military District in the Vovchansk, Kupyansk-Oskil, and Kursk sectors during 2024–2025, indicating that the Bakovka headquarters remained the parent command for formations repeatedly committed to northeastern operations. ([gur.gov.ua](https://gur.gov.ua/content/kysel-serhei-aleksandrovych.html?utm_source=openai))

Command certainty

Sergey Kisel is firmly tied to this headquarters in 2018–2022, but the current command is not publicly confirmed in the reviewed sources. UK sanctions material last updated in March 2023 still listed Kisel as commander, whereas Ukrainian GUR and later Reuters reporting describe him as the former or previous commander. As of 12 March 2026, open-source reporting reviewed here leaves the current commander of the Bakovka headquarters unclear. ([assets.publishing.service.gov.uk](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/666c1d75ec5cf999b09d9682/CONSOLIDATED_LIST_OF_FINANCIAL_SANCTIONS_TARGETS_IN_THE_UK.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division

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military unit 23626, HQ: Kalininets, Moscow Oblast, Commander: Colonel Sergey Medvedev

1st Tank Regiment

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military unit 58190, (T-72B3, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 31135, (T-72B3, BTR-80/82A, 2S1 Gvozdika)

15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 31134, (T-72B3, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

147th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment

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military unit 73966, (2S19M2 Msta-SM/SM2, 9K51M Tornado-G)

1117th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51382, (9K331 Tor-M1-U2, 9K33M3 Osa-AKM)

1174th Separate Anti-Tank Battalion

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military unit 51381, (9K123 Khrizantema)

211st Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion

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military unit 77707

136th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Battalion

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military unit 51387

47h Separate Communications Battalion

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military unit 56139

1063rd Separate Material Support Battalion

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military unit 56155

370th Separate Medical Battalion

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military unit 57062

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division HQ

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military unit 23626

4th Guards Tank Division

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military unit 19612, HQ: Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, Commander: Colonel Evgeny Zhuravlev

12nd Guards Tank Regiment

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military unit 31985, (T-80U, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

13rd Guards Tank Regiment

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military unit 32010, (T-80U, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

423rd Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 91701, (T-80BV, T-80BVM, BMP-2, 2S19 Msta-S)

275th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment

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military unit 73941, (2S19M2 Msta-SM, 2B17M Tornado-G)

538th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 51383, (9K331M Tor-2M)

137th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion

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military unit 54919

413rd Separate Communications Battalion

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military unit 56132

1088th Separate Material Support Battalion

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military unit 56164

165th Separate Medical Battalion

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military unit 57069

4th Guards Tank Division HQ

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military unit 19612

47th Guards Tank Division

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HQ: Mulino, Commander: Colonel Yevgeny Doroshenko, A newly formed division, data incomplete

26th Guards Tank Regiment

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T-72B3M

153rd Tank Regiment

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military unit 18425, Commander: Lieutenant Colonel A. Persaev, (T-72B3M Obr. 2022, BMP-2, D-30)

197th Guards Tank Regiment

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T-72B3M Obr. 2022

63rd Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Squadron

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(Tor-M2, Pantsir-S1)

1077th Separate Logistics Battalion

Geospatial index

Known places

27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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military unit 61899, Commander: Colonel Yaroslav Gladkikh, (T-90A, BMP-3, BTR-82A, 2S3 Akatsiya)

112nd Guards Missile Division

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military unit 03333, (9K720 Iskander-M)

288th Artillery Brigade

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military unit 30683, (2A65 Msta-B, BM-27 Uragan, 9K114 Shturm)

96th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade

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military unit 52634, Commander: Colonel Valery Vdovichenko

49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

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military unit 21555, (9K37 Buk, 9K37M1-2 Buk-M1-2)

60th Command and Control Brigade

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military unit 73621

60th Command and Control Brigade

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military unit 76736

20th Separate NBC Protection Regiment

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military unit 12102

69th Separate Material-Technical Support Brigade

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military unit 11385

1st Guards Tank Army HQ

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military unit 73621