Unit intelligence profile

Ministry of Defense

Subordinates: 10
Locations: 13

Profile summary

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HQ: Moscow, Znamenka 19, Commander: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu

Assessment

Identification

Best OSINT match is the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation centered on 19 Ulitsa Znamenka, Moscow 119160. Current Russian government pages list Andrei Belousov as defence minister, with a stated start date of May 14, 2024, so the metadata naming Sergei Shoigu is outdated. ([archive.government.ru](https://archive.government.ru/eng/power/94/?utm_source=openai))

Role

Official Russian government material defines the ministry as the federal executive body responsible for defence policy and legal regulation and as the manager of Armed Forces property and subordinate organizations. For this record, that supports treating the location as a strategic headquarters institution rather than a single unit facility. ([archive.government.ru](https://archive.government.ru/eng/power/94/?utm_source=openai))

C2

The ministry’s principal publicly visible operational command node is the National Defense Management Center in Moscow. Kremlin reporting shows the expanded Defence Ministry Board met there on December 17, 2025, and Russian state reporting says the center entered operation on December 1, 2014 and is used for centralized combat control and wider readiness/support monitoring across the armed forces. ([en.special.kremlin.ru](https://en.special.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/78801?utm_source=openai))

Airlift

Two aviation elements in the record are directly corroborated by U.S. sanctions reporting. On May 19, 2023, the U.S. Department of State described the 223rd Flight Unit State Airlines as a Russian MoD unit providing passenger and cargo transport for the president, government, and ministry, and described the 224th Flight Unit State Airlines as a state-owned air-cargo enterprise spun off from the Russian Air Force; the same action blocked 37 aircraft tied to the 223rd and 41 tied to the 224th. ([content.govdelivery.com](https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USSTATEBPA/2023/05/19/file_attachments/2502898/FACT%20SHEET%20-%20United%20States%20Imposes%20Additional%20Sanctions%20and%20Export%20Controls%20on%20Russia%20in%20Coordination%20with%20International%20Partners.pdf))

Limits

Open-source confirmation in this review is strong for the Znamenka headquarters, the Moscow defense-management center, and the 223rd/224th aviation elements. ([archive.government.ru](https://archive.government.ru/eng/power/94/?utm_source=openai)) Several other placemarks in the supplied record were not located in authoritative public sources during this review, so they should not be treated here as fully verified subordinate sites.

Command structure

Subordinate formations

General Staff

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HQ: Moscow, Znamenka 14, Commander: Army General Valery Gerasimov

1st Mobile NBC Protection Brigade

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military unit 71432

147th General Staff Automobile Base

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military unit 83466

147th General Staff Automobile Base

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military unit 83466, The main task of this military unit is to provide transport means for the General Staff.

24th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Test Site "Donguz"

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military unit 33157

270th Communications Center

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military unit 36203

200th Maintenance Commandant's Office

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military unit 47994

1327th Reconnaissance and Special Forces Application Center

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military unit 25908

345th NBC Protection Operational Coordination Center (?)

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military unit 64053, Dedicated for detecting and evaluating the scope of the use of weapons of mass destruction; accidents at radiation, chemically and biologically hazardous objects.

Chemical Weapons Storage/Destruction Arsenal

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military unit 55498

Missile Troops and Artillery Combat Use Training Center

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military unit 43556

Ground Forces Mobilization Manpower Reserve Base (?)

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military unit 63490

https://vg-news.ru/news/20130750881.html

Maradykovo Chemical Destruction Plant

Kambarka Chemical Destruction Plant

136th Central NBC Protection Weapons Production and Repair Central Base

126th State Test Site

General Staff Building

Naval Munitions Depot

Russian Ground Forces HQ

Aerospace Forces

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HQ: Moscow, Commander: Colonel General Viktor Afzalov

Aerospace Forces Automotive and Electric Gas Service of the Airfield Technical Support Storage Base

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military unit 13816

State Testing Ground for Aviation Systems

Russian Navy

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HQ: Saint Petersburg, Admiralty, Commander: Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev

Navy Electronic Equipment Storage Base

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military unit 87338

43rd Communications Center

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Vileyka VLF transmitter

Facility for transmitting orders to submarines in the very low frequency range.

Central Communications Center of the Naval Aviation

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military unit 49383 (45603)

Central Communications Center of the Naval Aviation

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military unit 49383 (45603)

Central Communications Center of the Naval Aviation

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military unit 49383 (45603), antenna field

318th Central Navy Radio Detachment

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military unit 72064

4th Naval Aviation Arsenal

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military unit 40035

338th Navy Communications Center

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military unit 45682

954th Anti-Submarine Weapons Research Base

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militaryunit 87366

Navy Storage Base

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military unit 58661-75

Navy Storage Base

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military unit 58661-78

Navy Technical Systems Security Research Center

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military unit 70170

69th Special Navy Test Center

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military unit 72175

6th Atlantic Oceanographic Expedition of the Russian Navy

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military unit 42842

Northern Fleet Transmitting Radio Center (?)

Pacific Fleet Transceiver Station Mast

137th Navy Transmitting Radio Center

Navy Communications Node

Navy Reserve Command Post (Object 225)

Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU)

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HQ: Moscow

Command: Lieutenant General Nikolay Parshin

100th Arsenal

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military unit 55486

101st Arsenal

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military unit 55448

104th Arsenal

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military unit 34581

120th Arsenal

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military unit 42696

1215th Central Artillery Ammunition Base

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military unit 75226

13th Arsenal

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military unit 64531

2161st Arsenal

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military unit 96570

23rd Arsenal

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military unit 71628

260th Central Rocket Artillery Base

2652th Artillery Armament and Ammunition Base

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military unit 09956

50th Artillery and Air Force Weapons Warehouse

53rd Arsenal

54th Arsenal

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military unit 68586

55th Arsenal

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military unit 86286

59th Arsenal (abandoned)

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military unit 42697

68th Arsenal

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military unit 30184

70th Arsenal

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military unit 92922

721st Training Center GRAU

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military unit 41026

75th Arsenal

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military unit 42708

94th Arsenal

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military unit 63779

Artillery Arsenal

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military unit 42289

Artillery Warehouse

Missile Arsenal

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military unit 67877

Missile Arsenal

Weapons Depot

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military unit 74059

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

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

12th Chief Directorate

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military unit 31600, HQ: Moscow, Znamenskiy Pereulok 19, Commander: Lieutenant General Igor Kolesnikov, Responsible for the safe-keeping, technical maintenance, transportation, delivery, issuance, disposal of the nuclear arsenal of Russian Federation.

6th State Central Scientific Research Test Site HQ (Object 700)

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military unit 77510

12th Central Research Institute

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military unit 51105

22nd Central Communications Center

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military unit 16685

Nuclear Warhead Assembly Plant (Zlatoust-36)

Nuclear Safety Provision Center

12th Main Directorate HQ

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military unit 31600

945th Space Geodesy, Navigation and Cartography Main Center

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military unit 67978

945th Space Geodesy, Navigation and Cartography Main Center HQ

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military unit 67978

15th Central Engineer Troops Research Testing Institute

6th Site of the 15th Central Engineer Troops Research Testing Institute Training Grounds

Warehouses, Arsenals, Depots

Ammunition Depot

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Possibly abandoned

Arsenal

Communications Equipment Warehouse

Explosive Materials Warehouse

Fuel Depot

Fuel Trucks Park

Military Equipment Storage Base

Missile Storage

Naval Munitions Depot

Reserve Arsenal

Rosgvardiya Warehouses

Storage

Storage Base

Storage Facility

Vehicle Park

Vehicle Staging Area

Vehicle Storage

Vehicle Warehouse

Vehicle/Equipment Storage

Warehouse

Warehouses

Weapons and Ammunition Depot

Weapons and Material Arsenal

Central Research Institutes

3rd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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military unit 42261

4th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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military unit 31659

5th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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Military Training and Research Center of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV)

16th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Communications)

17th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

18th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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military unit 11135, GRU

21st Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

22nd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

24th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

25th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

26th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

27th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

29th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

33rd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

38th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

40th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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Research institute of rescue and underwater technologies

46th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

61st Central Research Institute of the Russian Railway Troops

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military unit 88868

Geospatial index

Known places

223rd Flight Unit

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(5x Il-62M, 4x Il-76MD, 6x Tu-134, 13x Tu-154B, 5x Tu-154M)

224th Flight Unit

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(9x An-124, 18x Il-76MD)

224th Flight Unit

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(9x An-124, 18x Il-76MD)

662nd Medical Equipment and Property Center

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military unit 96484

Interspecies Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Center

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military unit 20924

103rd Armor Repair Plant

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military unit 32107

Scientific-Technical Center of the Federal Department for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons

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military unit 66762

18th Engineer Troops Testing Site

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military unit 93268

Regional Conscript Assembly Point in the Voronezh Oblast

Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces HQ

Russian Railway Troops HQ

National Defense Management Center

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Supreme command and control center of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian Armed Forces.

Main Building of the Ministry of Defense

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military unit 25776