98th Internal Troops Division
Identification
The metadata matches the Seversk Rosgvardiya/internal-troops garrison centered on military unit 3478. Official labor-registry data lists unit 3478 at 63 Kalinina Street, Seversk, and a 2017 court record available via Garant states that unit 3478 bears the name "98th Division of Internal Troops of the MVD of Russia." Publicly accessible official sources reviewed do not publish a clearly current large-unit title for 3478, so the historical "98th division" identity is verifiable but the present formal formation title is only partially public. ([declaration.rostrud.gov.ru](https://declaration.rostrud.gov.ru/declaration/index?DeclarationSearch%255Binn%255D=5073086337&DeclarationSearch%255Bregion_id%255D=32&page=14226&per-page=50&utm_source=openai))
Mission
Seversk is a closed nuclear city and the home of the Siberian Chemical Combine, a major Rosatom enterprise. In 2017 Supreme Court cases involving units 3480 and 3481, Rosgvardiya, local utilities, and the combine, the courts treated those units as quarters for troops performing protection of important state objects under the National Guard law. That supports assessing the Seversk formation’s primary role as fixed-site protection of the protected nuclear-industrial complex rather than a general maneuver formation. ([atommedia.online](https://atommedia.online/press-releases/na-predpriyatii-toplivnogo-diviziona-rosatoma-sozdana-analiticheskaya-laboratoriya-modulya-fabrikats/?utm_source=openai))
Site footprint
The verified footprint is an established garrison/HQ compound at 63 Kalinina Street. Unit 3478’s official labor-safety filing lists roles including pass-bureau duty, library staff, photographer, and an assistant to the commander for veterans’ affairs at that address, indicating a mature administrative and support node rather than a single-purpose guard post. Unit 3478 also appears in official FIPS lists for 2022 and 2023, showing continued institutional activity in federal registries. ([declaration.rostrud.gov.ru](https://declaration.rostrud.gov.ru/declaration/index?DeclarationSearch%255Binn%255D=5073086337&DeclarationSearch%255Bregion_id%255D=32&page=14226&per-page=50&utm_source=openai))
Associated units
Open legal records place unit 3480 in Seversk and show unit 3481 in litigation tied to Seversk utilities and the Siberian Chemical Combine, confirming at least two additional Rosgvardiya elements associated with the Seversk garrison. However, placemark 4 is not part of the same immediate site cluster: official labor-registry data place unit 3287 at 23 Dunaevskogo Street, Novosibirsk, and the sources reviewed do not publicly confirm its current subordination to the Seversk/3478 formation. ([gkrfkod.ru](https://gkrfkod.ru/pract/opredelenie-verkhovnogo-suda-rf-ot-05072018-n-304-es18-2173-po-delu-n-a67-25132017/))
Lineage
Historical Seversk and specialist internal-troops sources describe the formation as originating in 1951-1952 to guard Tomsk-7/Seversk and the Siberian Chemical Combine, redesignated from the 39th internal security detachment to the 21st internal security department in 1959 and to division/unit 3478 in 1968. The same sources say unit 3480 entered the formation in 1953 and unit 3481 was created within it in 1989. These lineage details are consistent across multiple open sources, but I did not find a current official Rosgvardiya history page confirming every date. ([37kp.ru](https://37kp.ru/98-%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85-%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA-%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%B4-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8/?utm_source=openai))