Unit intelligence profile

20th Combined Arms Army

Subordinates: 2
Locations: 6

Profile summary

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military unit 89425, HQ: Voronezh, Commander: Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov

Assessment

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))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

3rd Motor Rifle Division

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military unit 54046, HQ: Boguchar, Commander: Colonel Eduard Shvab

237th Guards Tank Regiment

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military unit 91726, (T-72B3(M), BMP-2, 2A63 Msta-B)

252nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 91711, (T-72B3, BMP-2, 2A63 Msta-B)

362nd Motor Rifle Regiment

752nd Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 34670, (T-72B3M, BTR-80/82A, 2S23 Nona-SBK)

99th Self Propelled Artillery Regiment

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military unit 91727, (2S19M2 Msta-SM, BM-21 Grad)

159th Separate Anti-Tank Battalion

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military unit 81989, (9K114 Shturm-S)

84th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion

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military unit 22263

337th Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion

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military unit 91717

692nd Separate Communications Battalion

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military unit 22463

911st Separate Logistics Battalion

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military unit 54366

231st Separate Medical Battalion

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military unit 83833

144th Guards Motor Rifle Division

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military unit 61423, Smolensk & Yelnya, Commander: Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov

254th Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 91704, (T-72BA, BTR-82A, 2A65 Msta-B, BM-21 Grad)

283th Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 83590 (?)

488th Motor Rifle Regiment

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military unit 12721, (T-72B3, BMP-2, 2S1 Gvozdika)

59th Guards Tank Regiment

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military unit 94018

856th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment

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military unit 23857, (2S19 Msta-S/2S19M2 Msta-SM, 9K51M Tornado-G)

295th Engineer-Sapper Battalion

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military unit 84130

1032nd Separate Logistics Battalion

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military unit 14370

148th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion

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military unit 23872

1281st Separate Anti-Tank Squadron

686th Separate Communications Battalion

Geospatial index

Known places

448th Missile Brigade

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military unit 35535, (9K720 Iskander-M/OTR-21 Tochka)

236th Separate Artillery Brigade

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military unit 53195, (2S19M2 Msta-SM/SM2, BM-27 Uragan)

53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

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military unit 32406, (9K37 Buk-M1)

9th Command and Control Brigade

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military unit 31895

152nd Separate Logistics Brigade

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military unit 80504

20th Combined Arms Army HQ

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military unit 89425