332nd Radio-Technical Regiment
Identification
The metadata best matches the 332nd Radio-Technical Regiment, military unit 21514, centered in the Arkhangelsk area. A 2009 Russian Ministry of Defense order lists v/ch 21514 in Arkhangelsk, public registry data also ties v/ch 21514 to Arkhangelsk, and a historical order-of-battle reference shows the same military unit number (21514) was redesignated from the 145th Radio-Technical Brigade to the 332nd Radio-Technical Regiment in 2009. ([gkrfkod.ru](https://gkrfkod.ru/zakonodatelstvo/prikaz-ministra-oborony-rf-ot-28092009-n-1048/))
Dispersed footprint
Open sources indicate this is a distributed radar regiment rather than a single installation. A 2010 federal environmental-oversight annex lists subordinate units of v/ch 21514 in Nizhnyaya Pesha, Indiga, Shoyna, and Naryan-Mar, while the historical 145th Brigade/332nd Regiment listing places unit 21514 elements at Talagi, Letneozerskiy, Mezen, Kotlas, Mirny, Nizhnyaya Zolotitsa, Shoyna, and Belushe; several of the supplied placemark coordinates are consistent with those legacy locations. ([meganorm.ru](https://meganorm.ru/Data2/1/4293725/4293725354.htm))
Radar assets
Later reporting shows fixed long-range Arctic radar coverage on the same Nenets coast axis. High North News reported Rezonans-N complexes operating from Cape Kanin and Indiga from 2017, and The Barents Observer reported in January 2026 that Indiga shows a Rezonans-NE complex while another complex is located at Shoyna; it also observed a second radar at Indiga that may be Sopka-2. Official Russian export descriptions characterize Rezonans-NE as a phased-array, long-range radar for detecting and tracking low-observable, cruise, ballistic, and other airborne targets and for passing target data to air-defense systems. ([en.highnorthnews.com](https://en.highnorthnews.com/politics/from-ukraine-to-the-arctic-russias-capabilities-in-the-region-and-the-wars-impact-on-the-north/166030))
Assessment
Operationally, this record appears to aggregate an Arkhangelsk headquarters/administrative node with multiple remote radar posts rather than identify one standalone base. The documented coastal distribution from Nizhnyaya Pesha-Shoyna-Indiga-Naryan-Mar, combined with later Rezonans reporting, suggests a surveillance screen over the White Sea-Barents Sea approaches; however, the exact present-day ownership of each individual radar site and the meaning of the placemark suffixes (for example “-A” or “-G”) are not publicly confirmed in the sources reviewed. ([meganorm.ru](https://meganorm.ru/Data2/1/4293725/4293725354.htm))