945th Space Geodesy, Navigation and Cartography Main Center
Identification
The supplied placemark is consistent with the headquarters site of the 945th Main Center of Space Geodesy, Navigation and Cartography of the Russian Ministry of Defense, publicly listed in Bolshiye Vyazyomy, Odintsovo urban okrug, Moscow Oblast. Public records tie military unit 67978 to the same locality: the former legal entity "В/Ч 67978" was registered at Malye Vyazyomy, Gorodok-17, and the current institution is registered on Yamskaya Street in Bolshiye Vyazyomy; a current directory entry places the center at Yamskaya ul., влад. 4, while registry data give Yamskaya ul., 2 стр. 1, indicating minor public-address variation within the same garrison area rather than a different site. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1137746576252-federalnoe-byudzhetnoe-uchrezhdenie-945-glavnyij-tsentr-kosmicheskoj-geodezii-navigatsii-i-kartografii-ministerstva-oboronyi-rossijskoj-federatsii/))
Formation
A Topographic Service brochure reproduced in open sources states that, by a Russian defense minister order dated 5 March 2012, the 945th center was created from the 185th Central Aerophotogeodetic Detachment in Bolshiye Vyazyomy, the 5th Central Geodetic Unit in Moscow, and eight astronomic-geodetic observatories. The predecessor legal entity for military unit 67978 ceased on 4 July 2013 through reorganization, and a 7 December 2024 defense ministry order still lists the 945th center among MoD budgetary institutions, indicating continued formal subordination to the ministry as of late 2024. ([cdn.myrotvorets.center](https://cdn.myrotvorets.center/m/criminals/44/36/b1/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B1%D0%B0-%D0%92%D0%A1-%D0%A0%D0%A4-%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82.59a853.pdf))
Mission
The same Topographic Service source assigns the center core military-geodesy functions: preparation and publication of topographic, special, and electronic maps; production of catalogs of geodetic and gravimetric points; derivation of Earth, geocentric-coordinate, and gravity-field parameters from space-geodetic and satellite-navigation systems; radiotechnical observations and high-precision laser measurements; maintenance of the central bank of astronomical-geodetic and gravimetric data; and maintenance of the Ministry of Defense reserve fund of spatial data. Public registry data classify the institution’s main activity as geodetic and cartographic work, which is consistent with that mission set. ([cdn.myrotvorets.center](https://cdn.myrotvorets.center/m/criminals/44/36/b1/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B1%D0%B0-%D0%92%D0%A1-%D0%A0%D0%A4-%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82.59a853.pdf))
Site character
Open sources portray this location as a permanent garrison and production/data site rather than a field detachment. The former unit 67978 was registered in Gorodok-17, Malye Vyazyomy, while current listings place the 945th center in the same Bolshiye Vyazyomy-Malye Vyazyomy cluster on Yamskaya Street. A regional power-sector planning document lists "в/ч 67978, в/г 17, Малые Вязёмы" as a consumer supplied from the 110 kV Vyazyomy substation, which is consistent with a fixed military campus with dedicated utility support. Detailed internal layout, storage capacity, and any hardened or specialized technical installations are not publicly confirmed in the reviewed open sources. ([saby.ru](https://saby.ru/profile/5032027822-503201001))