35th Missile Division
Identification
The metadata is consistent with the 35th Missile Division of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces, the Barnaul missile formation headquartered in ZATO Sibirsky, Altai Krai. Public reporting identifies it as the 35th Missile Division, and registry data mirrored from EGRUL lists Federal State Institution Military Unit 52929 at ZATO Sibirsky under Russia’s Ministry of Defense. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/13478153?utm_source=openai))
Disposition
Independent public force mapping by the Federation of American Scientists lists the Barnaul-based 35th Missile Division with four active mobile Yars regiments: the 307th, 479th, 480th, and 867th. The coordinates published there align closely with the supplied placemarks. A Rosaviatsia prohibited-zone contact list separately ties unit 29517 to Novokrayushkino, 29532 to Kosikha, 29562 to Bayunovskiye Klyuchi, and 29551 to Polkovnikovo, corroborating the four-regiment dispersal pattern around the Sibirsky headquarters area. ([fas.org](https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Russian-nuclear-weapons-2023.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Modernization
Russian official statements carried by TASS and RIA said the division’s rearmament to the road-mobile RS-24 Yars complex was to be completed in 2022; on January 20, 2022, division commander Dmitry Shiryayev said the 867th Regiment had already put its mobile command post and first battalion on combat duty in December 2021 and would assume full duty in April 2022. By 2023, FAS’s public force table listed all four Barnaul regiments as active on SS-27 Mod 2/Yars, which supports the assessment that the division’s Topol-to-Yars transition had been completed by then. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/13478153))
Mobility support
Russian reporting on the Barnaul formation states that rearmament brought not only Yars launchers but also supporting systems such as the Listva remote-demining vehicle, the engineering-and-camouflage vehicle, the Typhoon-M counter-sabotage vehicle, and UTM-80M thermal support vehicles. This is consistent with a force structured for dispersed road-mobile patrols, route clearance, concealment, and local site defense rather than a purely fixed-garrison posture. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/sibir-news/11017271?utm_source=openai))
Recent activity
Open reporting indicates the division remains operationally active. On June 25, 2024, the Barnaul formation hosted the final stage of the RVSN “Strategic all-around” competition with a Yars system deployed to field positions; on July 16, 2024, it hosted a training-methodology gathering for senior RVSN leadership; and on June 27, 2025, the Ministry of Defense said Yars launchers from the Barnaul formation were on patrol routes conducting marches of up to 100 km, field-position engineering, camouflage, security, and anti-sabotage drills. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21190795?utm_source=openai))