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Unit intelligence profile

Leningrad Military District

Subordinates
1
Locations
8
Profile summary
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HQ: Saint Petersburg

Assessment

Status

The Leningrad Military District was re-established by Presidential Decree No. 141, signed on February 26, 2024 and effective March 1, 2024. The decree assigns it Karelia, Komi, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, and Pskov oblasts, Saint Petersburg, and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Russian official messaging presented the move as a response to Finland’s NATO accession and wider NATO expansion. ([usnwc.edu](https://usnwc.edu/_images/portals/0/NWCDepartments/Russia-Maritime-Studies-Institute/20240226_ENG_RUS_Decree_MilDistricts_FINALba94.pdf))

Headquarters

Open sources consistently place the district headquarters in Saint Petersburg. A 2025 U.S. Army War College study says the Leningrad Military District is headquartered there in the former Western Military District headquarters, while Russian regional and court records identify the district command institution at Palace Square 10B, Saint Petersburg, and describe it as the successor to the former Western Military District command entity at the same address. ([publications.armywarcollege.edu](https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/News/Display/Article/4305125/russian-arctic-land-forces-and-defense-trends-redefined-by-nato-and-ukraine/))

Command relationships

Public reporting indicates the district’s higher command relationships were still being adjusted through 2025. Interfax reported in June 2025 that a Defense Ministry draft decree would strip military districts of inter-service strategic status and formalize direct subordination of fleets to the Navy commander-in-chief and Air Force/Air Defense armies to the Aerospace Forces commander-in-chief; the same reporting notes the Northern Fleet had already lost military-district status. A U.S. Army War College assessment likewise cautions that open sources do not fully specify how former Western Military District assets were divided, so exact LMD control over all naval and air formations is not fully public. ([interfax-russia.ru](https://www.interfax-russia.ru/military/news_eng/409544))

Force development

Russian officials described the district as still being built out in 2025. Putin said on June 23, 2025 that the organizational measures to form Moscow and Leningrad district units would be completed that year, and the Kremlin’s December 17, 2025 summary said the first stage of forming army- and division-level units in the two districts had been completed. Combat training activity is visible in open sources: Belousov inspected LMD training in July 2024, including tank, drone, artillery, and sniper instruction, and LMD troops conducted the Leningrad Region phase of Zapad-2025 at Kirillovsky training range in September 2025 using reconnaissance drones, FPV drones, and Uran-6 mine-clearing vehicles. ([interfax-russia.ru](https://www.interfax-russia.ru/military/news_eng/424298))

Attribution limits

This location is best identified as the Saint Petersburg headquarters of the Leningrad Military District, not as a single field garrison for the supplied subordinate-unit labels. The user-supplied placemark coordinates do not align with the district’s official northwestern-Russia territorial footprint, and no reliable open-source confirmation was found tying the listed unit numbers or labels to the Saint Petersburg LMD headquarters; they should be treated as unverified metadata rather than confirmed subordinate sites. ([usnwc.edu](https://usnwc.edu/_images/portals/0/NWCDepartments/Russia-Maritime-Studies-Institute/20240226_ENG_RUS_Decree_MilDistricts_FINALba94.pdf))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

1

6th Combined Arms Army

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military unit 31807, HQ: Leningrad Oblast, Agalatovo, Commander: Lieutenant General Vladislav Ershov

25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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military unit 29760, Commander: Colonel Ivan Smerdov, (Т-72B, MT-LB, BTR-80, 2S1 Gvozdika, BM-21 Grad)

138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

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military unit 02511, Commander: Colonel Sergei Maksimov, (T-72B3, MT-LB, 2S3 Akatsiya, BM-21 Gtad, 9K332M Tor-M2U)

26th Missile Brigade

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military unit 54006, (9K720 Iskander-M)

9th Guards Artillery Brigade

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military unit 02561, (2S19 Msta-S, BM-27 Uragan, 9K114 Shturm)

5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

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military unit 74429, (9K331 Tor-M1)

5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

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military unit 74429, (9K317 Buk-M2)

95th Command and Control Brigade

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military unit 13821

140th Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment

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military unit 18437

51st Separate Logistics Brigade

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military unit 72152

67th Separate Automobile Battalion

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military unit 11255

6th NBC Protection Regiment

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military unit 12086

6th Combined Arms Army HQ

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military unit 31807

Geospatial index

Known places

8

Separate Repair and Recovery Battalion

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military unit 49228

Engineer Battalion

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military unit 64358

n/a Separate Comunications Regiment

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military unit 57243

45th Separate Automobile Battalion

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military unit 20233

203rd Separate Maintenance and Technical Company

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military unit 77510

7022nd Repair and Storage Base

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military unit 71216

n/a Separate Engineer-Sapper Regiment

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military unit 67171

Murmansk BN EW System