2nd Guards Combined Arms Army
Identification
This record matches the Samara headquarters of Russia’s 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army in the Central Military District. Open-source order-of-battle references identify the Samara HQ as military unit 22223, and a January 2026 Samara municipal visit to the army headquarters indicates the site remains an active command/support node. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/4763078?utm_source=openai))
Footprint
The army is geographically dispersed rather than concentrated at one base. Verified public nodes include the Samara HQ; the Roshchinsky garrison in Samara Oblast, where the 15th brigade is based; the Totskoye area in Orenburg Oblast, where a Central Military District Iskander-M missile brigade trains; Leonidovka in Penza Oblast, where the 297th air-defense brigade has been based since late 2016; and Kizner in Udmurtia, where a government registry entry lists the 39th engineer-sapper regiment. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/4763078?utm_source=openai))
Force mix
Open sources show the Samara HQ controls a full army-level mix of capabilities, not just motor-rifle troops: maneuver forces, theater-range missile fires, ground-based air defense, engineers, and NBC defense are all visible in the army’s footprint. Russian reporting describes the 15th brigade as the army’s peacekeeping formation; Totskoye-hosted forces train with Iskander-M; Leonidovka hosts the 297th brigade; Kizner hosts the 39th engineer regiment; and the 2nd NBC regiment received Guards status in January 2024. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/12532185?utm_source=openai))
War role
Russian official and state media reporting indicates that formations and units of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, within the "Center" grouping, have been engaged in the war against Ukraine since the opening phase of the February 2022 invasion. In February 2025, the Russian MoD via TASS said the 15th brigade of the army had fought on axes including Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk before operating on the Krasnoarmeysk/Pokrovsk direction; Samara state TV likewise described army formations as fighting from the first days of the campaign. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/23028551?utm_source=openai))
Command note
The commander field in the supplied metadata appears potentially outdated. Public reporting reviewed for this briefing is inconsistent: older 2024 Samara reporting still tied the army to Major General Vyacheslav Gurov, while a late-2024 EU sanctions listing identified Ramil Ibatullin as commander of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army. As of March 12, 2026, the current commander is therefore not treated here as publicly confirmed from consistent open sources. ([samara.mk.ru](https://samara.mk.ru/social/2024/12/27/vyacheslav-gurov-soldat-kotoryy-stal-generalom-20-reytinga-samarskaya-oblast-moshhnaya-komanda.html?utm_source=openai))