336th Radio-Technical Regiment
Identification
Open sources identify military unit 03013 in Orel as the 336th Radio-Technical Regiment. Regional reporting states the formation traces its history to the 108th separate radiotechnical VNOS battalion formed in 1952, and that the 336th regiment was created on 1 June 2009 from the 41st Radio-Technical Brigade. ([orel-adm.ru](https://www.orel-adm.ru/ru/about/news/novosti/voyskovaya-chast-03013-otmechaet-70-letniy-yubiley/?utm_source=openai))
Orel footprint
The HQ placemark at 52.9336N, 36.0255E is consistent with the regiment’s long-standing Orel headquarters. Registry mirrors of official Russian legal-entity data place unit 03013 at Ul. Komsomolskaya 298, and Ministry-of-Defense-linked utility records show unit 03013 facilities at Komsomolskaya 298 plus a barracks site in military town No. 66 on Naogorskoye Shosse, indicating at least two Orel-area footprints. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/radar/41rtbr.htm))
Outlying sites
The two non-HQ placemarks match long-recorded radiotechnical positions of the unit’s predecessor brigade: a site near Dmitriyev, Kursk Oblast, and a site near Suponevo, Bryansk Oblast. A 2024 Orlov Metropolia report separately confirmed radiotechnical subunits operating in Oryol, Bryansk, and Kursk oblasts; that is consistent with, but does not by itself prove, continued use of those historical satellite sites. Exact current unit designators at the Dmitriyev and Suponevo locations are not publicly confirmed in the sources reviewed. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/radar/41rtbr.htm))
Mission
Regional reporting describes the regiment as conducting continuous radiolocational reconnaissance and airspace control, consistent with a radiotechnical air-surveillance role. A 2017 Orlov newspaper article said unit 03013’s zone of responsibility covered more than 1,200 km of air frontier and airspace over 12 central Russian regions; that figure should be treated as a local press claim rather than independently verified Ministry of Defense data. ([regionorel.ru](https://regionorel.ru/news/v-orle-v-den-radiotehniceskih-vojsk-rossii-otmetili-70-letie-vojskovoj-casti-03013/))
Operational activity
At the regiment’s 70th-anniversary event on 15 December 2022, commander Col. Oleg Ilyukhin said the regiment’s combat crews had been involved in the war against Ukraine from the outset and were detecting rocket launches, missiles, UAVs, and aircraft. That claim comes from regional state-aligned reporting and is not independently confirmed in the open sources reviewed, but it suggests an active wartime air-surveillance role; separate oath and ceremony reporting shows unit 03013 was still publicly active in Orel in 2023-2024. ([regionorel.ru](https://regionorel.ru/news/v-orle-v-den-radiotehniceskih-vojsk-rossii-otmetili-70-letie-vojskovoj-casti-03013/))