Responsible for electronic and radio-technical reconnaissance.
The 6th Directorate is best treated as an organizational element inside the Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU), not as a single publicly documented installation. A recent CRS review of GRU structure lists the Sixth Directorate as the GRU’s electronic/signals-intelligence directorate and notes that the service’s true internal structure remains closely guarded. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46616/R46616.7.pdf))
Authoritative Western assessments consistently associate this directorate with radio-technical and electronic reconnaissance. CNA traces the 6th Directorate’s creation to 1955 to organize Soviet military radio-intercept and electronic-intelligence units, and CRS states the modern GRU still retains traditional electronic, signals, and radio-intelligence responsibilities. ([cna.org](https://www.cna.org/reports/2021/06/The-Role-of-Russia%27s-Military-in-Information-Confrontation.pdf))
Public reporting indicates that the 6th Directorate also encompasses important GRU cyber elements. CRS says Units 26165 and 74455 sit within the Sixth Directorate; DOJ identifies Unit 74455 officers as GRU personnel behind destructive malware operations, and a May 2025 multinational advisory identifies Unit 26165 as the GRU 85th Main Special Service Center conducting espionage against Western logistics and technology targets. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46616/R46616.7.pdf))
Open records verify that several unit numbers appearing in the supplied placemark list are real and geographically dispersed: official-source business-registry mirrors place v/ch 30734 in Ostrogozhsk; a 2009 Russian Defense Ministry order places v/ch 61230 at Artem and v/ch 64845 at Sysoyevka; and 2024-2025 Yelizovo district electoral records place v/ch 28103 on the Petropavlovsk-Milkovo highway in Kamchatka. This supports reading the entry as a distributed collection network rather than a single base. ([tbank.ru](https://www.tbank.ru/business/contractor/legal/1023601034236/))
Open-source confirmation is strongest for the 6th Directorate’s mission and for a subset of unit numbers and locations, not for a complete public order of battle. CRS explicitly notes that the GRU’s real structure is closely held, and I could not independently confirm all eight placemark titles from authoritative public records; several named subordinate formations therefore remain only partially verified in open sources. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46616/R46616.7.pdf))
military unit 03025 or 28127, HQ: Kamen-na-Obi
military unit 03025 or 28127, command post
military unit 03025 or 28127, Object "Sosna"
military unit 03025 or 28127
military unit 30734
military unit 31782
military unit 47139
military unit 31812
miltary unit 61230
military unit 28103
military unit 32367
military unit 64845
