820th Missile Attack Warning Main Center
Identification
The supplied site aligns with Russia’s 820th Main Centre for Missile Attack Warning (GTs PRN), military unit 26302, in the Solnechnogorsk-7/Timonovo military settlement in Moscow Oblast. Municipal records place unit 26302 in the Solnechnogorsk-7 precinct, and a VKS-linked publication places v/ch 26302 in Timonovo, consistent with the provided coordinates. ([solreg.ru](https://solreg.ru/files/2024/03/07/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B6%20%E2%84%96%209%20%2813274%29%207%20%D0%9C%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%A2%D0%90%202024%20%D0%93%D0%9E%D0%94%D0%90.pdf?utm_source=openai))
Command role
Russian open sources identify this site as the command node of the national missile-attack warning system and list the Main Centre under the Space Forces’ 15th Special Purpose Army. Its role is to provide higher state and military command with warning information on detected ballistic-missile launches. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20210601/voyska-1734900748.html))
Network integration
Institutional descriptions of SPRN say the system combines command-and-communication means with ground and space echelons; the ground segment is a network of Voronezh early-warning radars, and SPRN command posts use a network-centric architecture linking widely separated elements into a single information network. Because Solnechnogorsk is identified as the Main Centre/command point, this strongly suggests the site’s primary value is centralized C2 and data fusion rather than being one of the distributed radar fields itself. ([macvympel.ru](https://macvympel.ru/news/genkonstruktor_soobshchil_o_planakh_modernizirovat_tri_stantsii_sistemy_preduprezhdeniya_o_puskakh_r/))
Operational relevance
The Solnechnogorsk command point is part of a long-running warning enterprise: Russian institutional history places creation of the Main Centre in Solnechnogorsk alongside the initial warning system in 1970-1971, with 15 February 1971 treated as the start of continuous duty. In October 2024, the Russian MoD said its warning, space-control, and missile-defense duty means had detected more than 300 ballistic-missile and space-launch events since the start of 2024, underscoring the continuing operational tempo of the system this center commands. ([macvympel.ru](https://macvympel.ru/projects/sprn/))
OSINT limits
The available open reporting consistently describes Solnechnogorsk as a command point/center, not as an outward-facing radar station. The cited materials do not publicly describe the facility’s exact hardened layout, staffing, or continuity architecture, so detailed claims on those points should be treated as unverified. ([ria.ru](https://ria.ru/20110215/334658901.html))