2nd Air Defense Division
Identification
The metadata is consistent with Russia’s 2nd Red Banner Air Defense Division, military unit 10953. Open-source order-of-battle references place the headquarters at Taytsy/Khvoynyy, and Russian registry data for military unit 10953 gives its address as territory Khvoynyy, Krasnoye Selo, St. Petersburg. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/54kpvo.htm))
Role
Open sources identify this formation as the successor to the 54th Air Defence Corps; it was redesignated as the 2nd Aerospace Defence Brigade in 2009 and later as the 2nd Air Defense Division. Those same sources place it under the 6th Air and Air Defense Army. CNA’s assessment of the Western Military District described the 2nd Air Defense Division at Khvoynyy as the formation guarding St. Petersburg. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/54kpvo.htm))
District alignment
The supplied hierarchy under the Moscow Military District is not corroborated by the sources reviewed. Official Russian reporting states that the Moscow and Leningrad military districts were re-created effective 1 March 2024, and secondary military references continue to associate the 6th Army/2nd Air Defense Division with the St. Petersburg-Leningrad axis rather than Moscow. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20087591?utm_source=openai))
Force structure
Open-source order-of-battle references indicate that Khvoynyy functions primarily as a headquarters and radar-control node. A detailed OOB listing for the formation places the 333rd Radio-Technical Regiment at Khvoynyy and associated surface-to-air missile regiments at Zelenogorsk, Vaganovo, Tosno-2/Ulyanovka, Lomonosov, Nenimyaki, and Petrozavodsk. Public current OOB references still place the 2nd Air Defense Division at Khvoynyy. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/54kpvo.htm))
Capabilities and recent indicator
Public OOB references describe the division’s subordinate regiments around St. Petersburg as fielding a layered ground-based air-defense mix that includes S-300PM/PS and S-400 systems, with Khvoynyy-based radiotechnical support. A publicly linked subordinate formation, the 1488th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, received the honorary title “Guards” in July 2025, indicating recent operational relevance, although public reporting did not specify what element of the division was deployed from the Khvoynyy headquarters itself. ([ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-%D1%8F_%D0%B3%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8B?utm_source=openai))