Unit intelligence profile

4th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

Subordinates: 5
Locations: 8

Profile summary

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military unit 40911, HQ: Rostov-on-Don, Commander: Major General Vladimir Kutsenko

Assessment

Identification

This record matches the Russian Aerospace Forces' 4th Guards Red Banner Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, subordinate to the Southern Military District. TASS identifies the army headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, and as of April 2025 the EGRUL-linked administrative record for military unit 40911 was registered at 89 Semashko Lane, Rostov-on-Don. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/2179391))

Command

Open-source attribution supports Vladimir Stanislavovich Kutsenko as the formation's commander, but this should be dated: EGRUL-based registry data listed him as commander of military unit 40911 as of April 2025, and Russian state media identified him in November 2023 as commander of the 4th Army of Air Force and Air Defense. On 9 October 2023, the formation was officially awarded the honorary title "Guards." ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1096165005144-federalnoe-kazennoe-uchrezhdenie-vojskovaya-chast-40911/))

Area

The army is a theater-level southern air command rather than a single base. TASS reported in October 2023 that its formations and units were deployed across the Southern and North Caucasian federal districts and Sevastopol; Southern Military District reporting in May 2018 placed army activity in Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, and Crimea. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/politika/18952375))

Crimea posture

Crimea is a confirmed part of this headquarters' command footprint. TASS reported S-400-equipped regiments of the army assuming duty in Feodosiya in January 2017, Sevastopol in early 2018, and Dzhankoi in November 2018. A 2022 Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique study also placed the Belbek, Gvardeyskoye, and Dzhankoi aviation regiments in Crimea under 4th Army command. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/925059?utm_source=openai))

Operational relevance

Recent open sources tie the Rostov command element directly to regional air-defense and counter-UAS activity. In February 2024, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that the army command displayed intercepted Ukrainian drones and missiles said to have targeted Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District. Based on the HQ's Rostov location and the army's documented deployment span from the lower Don to Crimea and the North Caucasus, this site functions as a southern theater air-command node; that final point is an analytic inference from the cited deployment pattern, not a direct official statement. ([rg.ru](https://rg.ru/2024/02/25/reg-ufo/komandovanie-4-j-armii-vvs-i-pvo-pokazalo-kollekciiu-sbityh-bespilotnikov-vsu.html))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division

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military unit 40491, HQ: Krasnodar Krai, Krymsk

3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

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military unit 75386, (24x Su-27SM3, 8x Su-30M2)

31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

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military unit 75391, (20x Su-30SM, 3x MiG-29, 2x MiG-29A, 2x MiG-29S, 1x MiG-29UB)

368th Assault Aviation Regiment

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military unit 75388, (23x Su-25SM, 1x Su-25SM3)

559th Bomber Aviation Regiment

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military unit 75392, (36x Su-34)

4th Mixed Aviation Division

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HQ: Volgograd Oblast, Marinovka

11th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment

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military unit 77978, (12x Su-24MP, 12x Su-24M)

960th Assault Aviation Regiment

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military unit 75387, (7x Su-25SM3, 15x Su-25SM, 2x Su-25, 4x Su-25UB)

27th Mixed Aviation Division

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HQ: Crimea, Belbek

37th Mixed Aviation Regiment

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military unit 46451, (6x Su-24M, 6x Su-24MR, 13x Su-25SM, 1x Su-25UB)

38th Fighter Aviation Regiment HQ

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military unit 80159, (13x Su-27SM, 2x Su-27, 9x Su-27P, 1x Su-27UP, 6x Su-30M2)

38th Fighter Aviation Regiment

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military unit 80159, (13x Su-27SM, 2x Su-27, 9x Su-27P, 1x Su-27UP, 6x Su-30M2)

39th Helicopter Regiment

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military unit 46453, (12x Mi-35M, 16x Ka-52, 4x Mi-28N, 6x Mi-8AMTSh)

31st Air Defense Division

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military unit 03121, HQ: Crimea, Sevastopol

31st Air Defense Division HQ

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military unit 03121

51st Air Defense Division

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military unit 42352, HQ: Rostov-on-Don

1536th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 48514

1536th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 48514, S-300V

1536th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 48514, S-300PM

1537th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 26345

1537th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 26345, S-400

1537th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 26345, S-400

1721st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment HQ

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military unit 11754

1721st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

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military unit 11754, 9K37M1 Buk

339th Radio-Technical Regiment HQ

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military unit 03007

339th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 03007-З

339th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 03007-K

338th Radio-Technical Regiment HQ

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military unit 40213

338th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 40213-Е

338th Radio-Technical Regiment

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millitary unit 40213-M

338th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 40213-P

338th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 40213-S

338th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 40213-Т

338th Radio-Technical Regiment

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military unit 40213-U

Radio Center of the 51st Air Defense Division

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military unit 42352

51st Air Defense Division HQ

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military unit 42352

Geospatial index

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30th Separate Transport Mixed Aviation Regiment

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military unit 41497, (1x An-148, 7x An-12BK, 6x An-26, 2x Il-20M, 1x Mi-24V, 9x Mi-24P, 1x Mi-26T3, 2x Mi-26T, 5x Mi-26)

55th Separate Helicopter Regiment

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military unit 35666, (4x Ka-52, 10x Mi-35M, 12x Mi-28N, 17x Mi-8AMTSh)

16th Army Aviation Brigade

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military unit 41767, (9x Mi-8AMTSh, 21x Mi-28N, 3x Mi-8PP)

487th Separate Helicopter Regiment

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military unit 44936, (17x Mi-35M, 17x Mi-28N, 4x Mi-8AMTSh, 4x Mi-8MTV-5, 12x Mi-8MTV-5-1, 2x Forpost UAV)

3661st Air Base

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military unit 62467, Being used jointly by the Aerospace Forces (helicopters and UAVs of the 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment and other units), aviation of the Rosgvardia and the FSB.

214th Command and Control Center

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military unit 65246

4th Air and Air Defense Forces Army HQ

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military unit 83477

Vehicle Park of the 4th Air and Air Defense Forces Army HQ

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military unit 83477