Unit intelligence profile

821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

Subordinates: 1
Locations: 8

Profile summary

Intelligence briefRF forces

military unit 61437, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Noginsk District, Dubrovo

Assessment

Identification

This site matches the 821st Main Center for Reconnaissance of Situation in Space, military unit 61437, at Dubrovo/Noginsk-9 in Moscow Oblast. TASS reported from the site with the dateline “Dubrovo, Moscow Oblast” in March 2020, public registry records place v/ch 61437 in Noginsk-9, and MoD-linked reporting in October 2025 still listed the center as part of the 15th VKS army structure. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/kosmos/7954725))

Lineage

The Dubrovo garrison has long-standing continuity in Russian space-surveillance command. TASS reported that the Space Control Center in Dubrovo marked its 50th anniversary in March 2015 and was then within the Main Center for Reconnaissance of Situation in Space; separate registry records show older v/ch 28289 at the same Noginsk-9 address and later reorganized into v/ch 61437, supporting continuity of function at this location. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/kosmos/1813189))

Mission

Official descriptions assign the center three core roles: maintaining the Main Catalog of space objects, detecting changes in the space situation that could threaten Russian spacecraft or national security, and forecasting conjunctions and orbital decay of man-made objects. In 2019-2020 officials described the catalog as holding more than 18,000-20,000 objects and covering artificial objects from 120 km to 50,000 km altitude. ([interfax.ru](https://www.interfax.ru/russia/224912))

Networked architecture

The Dubrovo site is best understood as a command-and-processing node for a distributed sensor network, not as the network’s only observation site. TASS and Interfax said the system uses radiotechnical, laser-optical and optoelectronic ground means in the Moscow region, Altai Krai, the Far East, Karachay-Cherkessia and Tajikistan; public registry data for FBU-v/ch 61437 also lists four branches, consistent with geographically separated subordinate elements, although open sources do not publicly verify the exact role of every branch. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/kosmos/7954725))

Operational indicators

Recent official figures indicate a high-volume monitoring mission. As of 4 October 2025, MoD-linked reporting said the center had conducted more than 60,000 special space-monitoring tasks that year, tracked over 3,200 space objects, and monitored the insertion of more than 3,000 spacecraft; earlier official figures for 2019 cited 19 warnings about dangerous approaches to Russian satellites, three dangerous conjunctions involving the ISS, and more than 300 specialists on round-the-clock duty across the center’s facilities. ([public.tvzvezda.ru](https://public.tvzvezda.ru/news/20251032359-t9OEU.html))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

153rd Main Testing Center

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military unit 32103, Commander: Major General Andrey Marchuk, testing and control of space facilities

153rd Main Testing Center HQ

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military unit 32103, Commander: Major General Andrey Marchuk, testing and control of space facilities

153rd Main Testing Center

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military unit 32103, Commander: Major General Andrey Marchuk, testing and control of space facilities

40th Separate Command and Measurement Complex (NIP-16)

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military unit 81415, Commander: Colonel Vadim Drosov

Geospatial index

Known places

Office for the Introduction of New Systems and Complexes of the Space Forces

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military unit 73570

Information and Analytical Point

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military unit 41646

145th Space Control Center

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military unit 28289

1109th Separate Optoelectronic Unit

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unit 52168

Complex Okno-M

Measuring Complex on the territory of Altai Optical-Laser Center

Possibly a facility belonging to the 821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

A facility under construction that will presumably belong to the 821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center HQ

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military unit 61437