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Unit intelligence profile

Federal Protective Service (FSO)

Subordinates
2
Locations
3
Profile summary
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HQ: Moscow

Command: Director Dmitry Kochnev

Assessment

Identity

This record matches the Federal Protective Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow/Kremlin headquarters. An official FSO publication gives the service address as 109012, Moscow, Kremlin-9, and the FSO states that it is the federal executive body responsible for state protection, government communications, and information/IT support to the President, Government, and other state organs. As of March 2026, the official FSO site lists Army General Dmitry V. Kochnev as director and states that he was appointed by presidential decree on May 26, 2016. ([fso.gov.ru](https://fso.gov.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/31.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Central Moscow footprint

Open FSO sources show the service's main protected footprint remains centered on the Moscow Kremlin. The FSO states that it protects the Kremlin, the burial sites by the Kremlin Wall, and Lenin's Mausoleum; the Service of the Commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, formed in 2004 within the FSO, includes the Kremlin commandant's office, Presidential Regiment, and Presidential Orchestra. FSO reporting through 2025 continued to place Presidential Regiment oath and guard ceremonies on Cathedral Square inside the Kremlin. ([fso.gov.ru](https://fso.gov.ru/struct/skmk/history-moskremlin/?utm_source=openai))

Energia node

The first placemark is credibly identified as the FSO's Center for Information Support Energia in Stupino, Moscow Oblast. Procurement records list ЦОИ Энергия ФСО России at 142800 Stupino, and a 2025 appellate ruling refers to military unit 42137 as the former Energia center; a Rosseti regional load-shedding list also shows Energia as a distinct power consumer. These sources support a permanent, infrastructure-heavy FSO technical site, but they do not publicly confirm the detailed research functions described in the supplied metadata. ([clearspending.ru](https://clearspending.ru/notifications/0348100046016000009/?utm_source=openai))

Training area

The second placemark is best treated as a likely, not fully confirmed, FSO/Presidential Regiment training site in the Kupavna area east of Moscow. FSO historical material places the regiment's training camp at military camp Kupavna, and FSO news shows an active professional-training/autodrome function used for service-wide driver competitions; separate regional reporting has described Kupavna as the Presidential Regiment's training center. I did not find an official FSO page that explicitly ties the exact provided coordinate to a named Federal Protective Service training center. ([fso.gov.ru](https://fso.gov.ru/struct/skmk/history-moskremlin/?utm_source=openai))

Third placemark

The FSO underground bunkers placemark remains unverified. In this review I did not locate an official FSO publication, court record, procurement notice, or other traceable source that tied the provided coordinates to a confirmed FSO subterranean facility.

Command structure

Subordinate formations

2

Special Communications and Information Service (Spetssvyaz)

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HQ: Moscow, 1st Mytishchinskaya street, 17, Commander: Vasily Zapltakin

18th Operational and Technical Communications Center

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military unit 65240

Spetssvyaz Communications Unit

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military unit 54985

Spetssvyaz Communications Unit

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military unit 56707

n/a Territorial Government Communications Unit

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miltiary unit 38953-Ya

5th Territorial Government Communications Unit

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military unit 38953-K

FSO Special Purpose Communication Units Training Center

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military unit 13291

3rd Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 28685

4th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 77071

11th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 57358

15th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 16662

16th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 68323

17th Special Purpose Communications Unit

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military unit 28677

17th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 28677

20th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 69793

25th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 35657

28th Special Purpose Communications Center

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military unit 68895

Special Communications Service HQ

FSO Operational Department

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military unit 38995, Commander: Sergey Kudinov

FSO Operational Department

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military unit 38995, Commander: Sergey Kudinov

Geospatial index

Known places

3

Information Provision Center of the Federal Protective Service "Energia"

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The following research work is being carried out here: on the choice and creation of communication technologies based on the modeling and algorithmization of the functions prescribed by them; on the creation and implementation of systems for automated management of economic activity at the federal industry, regional and corporate levels; for the development of software applications in the field of energy systems management in Russia.

Federal Protective Service Training Center

FSO Underground Bunkers (?)