212th District Tank Training Center
Identification
Open sources match this site to military unit 21250 at Divizionnaya St. 36 in Peschanka, Chita. Recent regional reporting identifies the same location as the 212th Guards District Training Center named after Lt. Gen. I. Russiyanov; current public naming emphasizes junior-specialist training for motor-rifle and tank troops rather than a tank-only center. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/education/takticheskaya-mediczina/informacziya-o-czentre/))
Mission
In 2023, reporting that cited the Russian Ministry of Defense said the center trained gunner-operators and drivers for BMPs, tanks, self-propelled anti-aircraft systems, and self-propelled artillery, along with communications specialists. Earlier state-media coverage of a presidential visit also described the center as training junior specialists for motor-rifle, tank, artillery, army air-defense, and RCB-defense units, indicating a broad combined-arms training mission. ([chita.ru](https://www.chita.ru/text/society/2023/12/26/73060127/))
Infrastructure
The Kirov Military Medical Academy’s public information for its Chita branch places its training base inside the 212th District Training Center, which confirms the site remains an active military training complex. The same 2023 MoD-cited local report says the Peschanka and Krasny Yar ranges support year-round live-fire training and combat-vehicle driving. ([vmeda.org](https://www.vmeda.org/education/takticheskaya-mediczina/informacziya-o-czentre/))
Force posture
By December 2023, local reporting citing the MoD said graduates of the center were already serving in the war in Ukraine and that the center was also conducting additional training for contract personnel participating in the campaign. A March 2025 regional report, citing the Eastern Military District press service, likewise described decorations for servicemen from the district training center for combat service, consistent with wartime integration of the center’s cadre and graduate pipeline. ([chita.ru](https://www.chita.ru/text/society/2023/12/26/73060127/))
Subunits
The direct placemarks naming the 206th and 346th tank training regiments are broadly consistent with long-running open-source references to Peschanka-based regiments under the 212th center. Mainstream reporting directly places the 346th tank training regiment at the 212th training center, but I did not find equally strong current official confirmation for the exact present-day status of every regiment named in the placemarks; those subunit labels should therefore be treated as plausible rather than fully verified in current high-confidence sources. ([aif.ru](https://aif.ru/society/army/ostalsya_v_dalyokom_tumane_rybachiy_kto_v_otvete_za_samoe_moshchnoe_oruzhie_rf))