331st Radio-Technical Regiment
Identification
Open sources identify military unit 36138 as the 331st Radio-Technical Regiment in Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast. Murmansk’s official employment portal lists "V/Ch 36138" at ul. Gadzhieva, Severomorsk, while public order-of-battle research places the regiment in the Severomorsk/Shchukozero area. OSINT lineage also traces v/ch 36138 to the 5th Radio-Technical Brigade in Severomorsk, redesignated as the 331st Radio-Technical Regiment in 2009. The supplied placemark coordinate cluster therefore does not match the publicly corroborated location picture. ([murman-zan.ru](https://murman-zan.ru/employer/detailvacancy/?companyId=7b57ecfe-4dc9-48b1-80cd-186342f9a305))
Role
The regiment is publicly listed within the northern air-defense structure rather than as a standalone local garrison. Given its radio-technical designation and placement in the 1st Air Defense Division structure, it likely provides radar surveillance and target-data support for the regional integrated air-defense network; that is an inference from unit type and hierarchy, not a directly published mission statement. The inference fits public reporting that the 45th Army was formed in 2015 to strengthen control of Arctic airspace and that the Northern Fleet was tasked with creating a continuous radar field in the Arctic. ([cacds.org.ua](https://cacds.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/%D0%92%D0%98%D0%9A%D0%9B%D0%98%D0%9A%D0%98-%D1%96-%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%97%D0%98%D0%9A%D0%98-%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B4-%D0%A6%D0%94%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%A0-%E2%84%96-16-127.pdf))
Footprint
Public civil and administrative records show suffix-coded elements of v/ch 36138 outside the Severomorsk HQ area, including 36138-B in Polyarny, 36138-V in Ostrovnoy, 36138-L in Hanlauta, and 36138-R in Dalniye Zelentsy. That supports treating this location record as a dispersed regimental network of remote outstations across Murmansk Oblast, not a single compact installation. ([zato-a.ru](https://zato-a.ru/upload/iblock/73d/jknib7yi8ny2vg7nr0o1c6o083mei59l.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Logistics
Open court records tied to municipal services indicate that at least some subordinate sites operate under austere logistics. For 36138-R at Dalniye Zelentsy, waste removal was delayed because winter transport access was unavailable until roads opened; 36138-L at Hanlauta appears as a separately serviced military town with infrequent scheduled collection. This points to seasonally constrained access and light-support conditions at part of the regiment’s footprint. ([base.garant.ru](https://base.garant.ru/64296442/?utm_source=openai))
Status
The unit remains active in open sources as of 2024-2026: a November 25, 2024 cassation record involved v/ch 36138 alongside the Northern Fleet command structure, and the Murmansk regional employment portal still lists v/ch 36138. Higher administrative subordination is less clear after Russia’s March 1, 2024 military-district reform: state reporting said the former Northern Fleet administrative territory moved to the Leningrad Military District, while public order-of-battle references still place 331st Radio-Technical Regiment under the Northern Fleet air-defense structure. ([base.garant.ru](https://base.garant.ru/343683477/?utm_source=openai))