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9th Central Directorate (Continuity of Government)

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Department for ensuring the functioning of control points of the highest bodies of state power and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Assessment

Identity

This record is best treated as the Russian Ministry of Defense’s 9th Central Directorate as an organization/network, not as one publicly confirmed single installation. Russian reporting on former leadership of the directorate says it was created on 4 May 1955 to oversee special fortification works, while Russian military heraldic material describes its mission as supporting the functioning of command posts for the highest state authorities and the Armed Forces. A U.S. DIA assessment independently describes Russia’s inherited deep-underground wartime command-and-control system for state leadership and major military commands, which is consistent with that mission set. ([pnp.ru](https://www.pnp.ru/social/mramor-dlyaforosskogo-dvorca-vozili-nalichnom-samolete-ministra-oborony.html?utm_source=openai))

Chekhov hub

Open-source registry, licensing, and labor-safety records point to the Chekhov area as a confirmed administrative hub of this special-objects ecosystem. As of 2025-2026, FKU "V/Ch 33877" in Chekhov-3 is listed as an active Ministry of Defense institution, an MChS fire-safety license remains current for it, and official Rostrud entries show subordinate branches at V/Ch 34011 in Kuznetsk-8 and V/Ch 71111 in Mezhgorye. Open sources do not publicly confirm that 33877 is the formal headquarters of the 9th Central Directorate itself, so that point should remain qualified. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1095048002279-federalnoe-kazennoe-uchrezhdenie-vojskovaya-chast-33877/?utm_source=openai))

Verified footprint

The publicly verifiable footprint is distributed rather than local. Official labor-registry entries place branch 34011 at Kuznetsk-8 and branch 71111 at Mezhgorye; a procurement/registry mirror also shows the Mezhgorye branch at Sovetskaya 21. Separately, V/Ch 48905 at Egoryevsk-6 is active in open records: a 2021 appellate ruling discusses repair work at its military town, local planning material identifies a dedicated boiler house for V/Ch 48905, and a Rostrud filing lists a large permanent staff there. These records support a network of operating protected sites rather than a purely historical Cold War structure. ([declaration.rostrud.gov.ru](https://declaration.rostrud.gov.ru/declaration/index?DeclarationSearch%5Binn%5D=&page=15966&per-page=50&utm_source=openai))

Support posture

Public records indicate these sites are sustained by permanent garrison-style support, not just minimal caretaking. The 71111 branch filing lists engineers, technicians, economists, garage personnel, power-station chiefs, and armed guard positions; the 48905 filing lists communications/electronics staff, a secret section, pass-bureau and warehouse personnel, plus club/library/orchestra and childcare-related positions. That staffing profile is consistent with long-term operation of hardened command-support facilities with their own utilities, access control, and community support services. ([declaration.rostrud.gov.ru](https://declaration.rostrud.gov.ru/declaration/index?page=1408&per-page=50+1494825799+-+-+2A6M4BBNACMYEOQRMHMSFK4UP25QECVM+18577+24744529+declaration.rostrud.ru-2017-05-15-2eee4ba1-00000.warc.gz+%3Curn%3Auuid%3Ab50cffe1-0e8e-490c-bd23-13c79e4cc908%3E&utm_source=openai))

Caveats

Not every placemark in the supplied set can be cleanly assigned to the 9th Central Directorate today. Most notably, public registry and court materials identify FKU "V/Ch 52583" in Chekhov-2 as under the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President of the Russian Federation (GUSP) by 2025, suggesting at least some continuity/command-post infrastructure is now outside Ministry of Defense control or has been transferred. Likewise, while an MoD branch is publicly documented in Mezhgorye and DIA assesses Russia maintains deep underground leadership command posts outside Moscow, the exact internal role of the Mezhgorye/Yamantau complex within the 9th Central Directorate network is not publicly confirmed. ([check.tochka.com](https://check.tochka.com/company/1035009954980/?utm_source=openai))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

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35th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (General Staff Reserve Command Post)

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military unit 33877

35th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Chekhov-3)

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military unit 33877

35th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Chekhov-4)

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military unit 33877

35th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate

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military unit 33877, communications node

35th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Object 201)

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military unit 33877

General Staff Reserve Command Post Territory

Geospatial index

Known places

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Special Objects Maintenance Directorate

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military unit 83533, possibly abandoned; former reserve command post of the Leningrad Military District

Special Objects Maintenance Directorate

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military unit 92551

Special Objects Maintenance Directorate

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military unit 92628

Special Objects Maintenance Directorate "Archa"

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military unit 34080, GU/GRU reserve command post?

30th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Kuznetsk-8)

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military unit 34011

191st Special Object Maintenance Directorate (Western Military District Reserve Command Post)

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military unit 54763

295th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Eastern Military District Reserve Command Post)

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military unit 40283

799th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Central Military District Reserve Command Post)

824th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (178th Pacific Fleet Command Post)

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military unit 30893

844th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Central Military District Reserve Command Post)

884th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Yegoryevsk-6)

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military unit 48905

1110th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (Mount Yamantau)

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military unit 71111, Believed to be a massive underground facility, possibly a so-called continuity of government site for Russia's top leadership to relocate to during any kind of major crisis.

General Staff Wartime Command Post (Object 11367-1)

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military unit 52583