20th Combined Arms Army
Identification
The supplied site matches the headquarters of Russia’s 20th Guards Combined Arms Army (20th CAA), military unit 89425, in Voronezh. A Voronezh municipal record lists military unit 89425 at Prospekt Revolyutsii 8, and ISW’s geolocated military-object dataset places the 20th CAA HQ at 51.67932, 39.21398, matching the provided HQ coordinates; Interfax also identifies the army headquarters as being in Voronezh. ([beregvrn.ru](https://beregvrn.ru/upload/iblock/5f9/akhtqxrsawcybo3gv5ffp4h7i8ckdod2.pdf))
District and posture
Open sources indicate the army headquarters was moved back to Voronezh in 2015 after a period in Nizhny Novgorod/Mulino, as part of Russia’s post-2014 reinforcement of its western border posture. After the Western Military District was split effective March 1, 2024, later ISW and U.S. Army War College reporting place the 20th CAA under the re-established Moscow Military District. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/russia/811376?utm_source=openai))
Core subordinate forces
A high-confidence published order of battle places two maneuver divisions under this HQ: the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division, centered on Boguchar and Valuyki, and the 144th Motorized Rifle Division, centered on Yelnya and Klintsy. The same source lists army-level support brigades including the 236th Guards Artillery Brigade in Kolomna, the 448th Missile Brigade in Kursk, and the 53rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in the Marshal Zhukov settlement near Kursk, which aligns with three of the supplied direct placemarks. ([understandingwar.org](https://understandingwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/October20122C20202320Russian20Orbat_Final.pdf))
Support-site matches
The remaining supplied support placemarks also fit known open-source geolocations tied to this army footprint: ISW’s target map places the 9th Command and Control Brigade (unit 31895) at 51.69012, 39.14604 in Voronezh and the 152nd Separate Logistics Brigade (unit 80504) at 50.98148, 39.4986 near Liski/Ostrogozhsk. These matches are useful for location confirmation, although the public documentation for their current subordination is thinner than for the army’s artillery, missile, and air-defense brigades. ([understandingwar.org](https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/interactive-map-hundreds-known-russian-military-objects-are-range-atacms?utm_source=openai))
Operational relevance
ISW reporting through 2024 and 2025 repeatedly identified elements of the 3rd and 144th Motorized Rifle Divisions of the 20th CAA in combat on the Lyman-Borova axis, and it also recorded 20th CAA elements involved in Russia’s response to Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Oblast in August 2024. That confirms the continuing operational relevance of the Voronezh HQ as the command center for formations actively engaged against Ukraine. ([understandingwar.org](https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-14-2025?utm_source=openai))
Commander status
The supplied commander field should not be treated as current without qualification. Open-source reporting indicates Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov commanded the army in 2023 and was removed from that post in May 2024; I did not locate a later, reliably corroborated public confirmation of the current headquarters commander in the sources reviewed. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhrab_Akhmedov?utm_source=openai))