337th Radio-Technical Regiment
Identification
The location is best identified as the 337th Radio-Technical Regiment centered on the Rzhev/Kleshnevo area. Open-source order-of-battle material identifies the regiment as the 2009 successor to the 3rd Radio-Technical Brigade, military unit 51592, and a 2018 court record places the unit’s headquarters building in military town No. 8, Rzhev. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/radar/3rtbr.htm?utm_source=openai))
Mission
This is a radar-surveillance and airspace-control node within the Rzhev air-defense grouping, not a missile regiment site. Local reporting on regiment training described radiolocation crews operating the Gamma-S1 radar, and a 2015 visit to the 32nd Air Defense Division stated that the Rzhev command post continuously monitors the protected airspace and supports the first-echelon defense of central Russia. ([presska.ru](https://presska.ru/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/39_25_09_2014.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Footprint
The regiment is better assessed as a dispersed network than as one compact installation. Historical data for its predecessor brigade shows battalions and radar companies spread across Tver, Smolensk, Novgorod, and Pskov oblasts, while contemporary OSINT mapping places associated 337th Regiment sites near Rzhev/Kleshnevo, Monastyrshchina, the Bereznyaki-Vyazma axis, and Novgorod Oblast. One legacy node likely corresponds to the 2264th Radio-Technical Battalion at Bereznyaki/v/ch 73538: Smolensk regional tariff documents still referenced military town No. 3 there in 2018-2019, but business registries list the legal entity inactive by late 2025, so current occupancy is not publicly confirmed. ([ww2.dk](https://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/radar/3rtbr.htm?utm_source=openai))
Infrastructure
Open legal material confirms fixed military infrastructure at the Rzhev hub: a 2018 contract covered capital repair of the headquarters building for v/ch 51592 in military town No. 8, Rzhev, valued at about 30.1 million rubles. Local reporting also continued to identify regiment officers in Rzhev in 2018 and a deputy commander of the 337th Radio-Technical Regiment in 2023, which supports continued unit presence in the city. ([base.garant.ru](https://base.garant.ru/64314592/?utm_source=openai))
Record discrepancy
The supplied unit number 51952 is not corroborated by the sources reviewed. Open registries and official notices place v/ch 51952 at Nerastannoe in Moscow Oblast rather than Rzhev, whereas the 337th Regiment is repeatedly tied to v/ch 51592; the 51952 tag should therefore be treated as a likely database error unless newer primary evidence emerges. ([favt.ru](https://www.favt.ru/public/materials/8/1/6/8/f/8168f1c24224e69a446c998b6d24a00f.pdf?utm_source=openai))