FSO Operational Department
Identification
The best-supported open-source match for this placemark is military unit 38995 at 109012, Moscow, ul. Kremlin, d. 9. Public court materials and procurement notices use that exact address for unit 38995, and public registry mirrors identify it as an FSO-founded federal treasury institution registered on 27 December 2013. ([sudact.ru](https://sudact.ru/arbitral/doc/6Uu5VH6kPSNE/?utm_source=openai))
Command
Public registry data list the commander as Sergey Stanislavovich Kudinov, in post from 9 April 2019. I did not find a higher-confidence official public biography; the user-supplied "Sergey Kudinov" is consistent only at surname/given-name level. ([buhonline.ru](https://www.buhonline.ru/programs/focus/orgs/5137746243993?utm_source=openai))
Name attribution
FSO regulations published in 2019 and 2024 explicitly refer to an "Operational Directorate of the FSO of the Russian Federation" and assign it internal-security and sensitive-information notification roles. However, I found no official public document that directly ties military unit 38995 to that directorate or to a specific Kremlin building, so the exact sub-unit attribution remains not publicly confirmed. ([consultant.ru](https://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_494774/5d22a9b93068ab662e494bfe601b4b4abc13c7f0/))
Mission indicators
Unit 38995's public procurement footprint includes cryptographic gateways in 2020, hardware for "comprehensive special inspection" (KSO), equipment for transforming, processing, and transmitting information over public communications networks, access-control workstations, nonlinear locators, dosimeters, and digital cameras. Court records from 2023-2024 also show litigation over a 31 August 2022 contract with the Rostov-on-Don Research Institute of Radio Communications (RNIIRS); taken together, this profile is consistent with technical security, inspection, secure communications, and access-control support, but it does not by itself prove the unit's exact mission. ([poisktenderov.ru](https://poisktenderov.ru/item/0873100008320000021/?utm_source=openai))
Location relevance
FSO's own publications use the mailing address "109012, Moscow, Kremlin-9," and FSO states that it protects the Moscow Kremlin and adjoining territory while also running special communications and information-security functions for senior state organs. A unit 38995 address inside the Kremlin-9 footprint therefore places it in the core state-protection zone of central Moscow, but the exact room or building within the Kremlin is not publicly confirmed. ([fso.gov.ru](https://fso.gov.ru/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/34.pdf?utm_source=openai))