Ministry of Defense
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HQ: Moscow, Znamenka 19, Commander: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu
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Andrei Belousov as defence minister, with a stated start date of May 14, 2024, so the metadata naming Sergei Shoigu is outdated.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.
Subordinates
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
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Kambarka Chemical Destruction Plant
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136th Central NBC Protection Weapons Production and Repair Central Base
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126th State Test Site
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General Staff Building
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Naval Munitions Depot
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Russian Ground Forces HQ
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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
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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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4th Naval Aviation Arsenal
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military unit 40035
338th Navy Communications Center
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954th Anti-Submarine Weapons Research Base
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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 (?)
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Pacific Fleet Transceiver Station Mast
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137th Navy Transmitting Radio Center
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Navy Communications Node
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Navy Reserve Command Post (Object 225)
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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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104th Arsenal
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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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23rd Arsenal
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military unit 71628
260th Central Rocket Artillery Base
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2652th Artillery Armament and Ammunition Base
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military unit 09956
50th Artillery and Air Force Weapons Warehouse
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53rd Arsenal
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54th Arsenal
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military unit 68586
55th Arsenal
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59th Arsenal (abandoned)
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military unit 42697
68th Arsenal
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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
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Missile Arsenal
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military unit 67877
Missile Arsenal
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Nuclear Safety Provision Center
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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
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6th Site of the 15th Central Engineer Troops Research Testing Institute Training Grounds
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Warehouses, Arsenals, Depots
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Ammunition Depot
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Ammunition Depot
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Ammunition Depot
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Possibly abandoned
Arsenal
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Arsenal
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Arsenal
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Communications Equipment Warehouse
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Explosive Materials Warehouse
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Explosive Materials Warehouse
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Fuel Depot
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Fuel Trucks Park
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Military Equipment Storage Base
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Missile Storage
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Naval Munitions Depot
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Reserve Arsenal
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Rosgvardiya Warehouses
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Storage
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Storage Base
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Storage Facility
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Storage Facility
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Vehicle Park
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Vehicle Park
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Vehicle Staging Area
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Vehicle Staging Area
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Vehicle Staging Area
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Vehicle Staging Area
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Storage
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Vehicle Warehouse
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Vehicle/Equipment Storage
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Warehouse
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Warehouse
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Warehouse
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Warehouses
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Warehouses
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Weapons and Ammunition Depot
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Weapons and Material Arsenal
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Central Research Institutes
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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)
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17th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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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
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22nd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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24th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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25th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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26th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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27th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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29th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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33rd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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38th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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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
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61st Central Research Institute of the Russian Railway Troops
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military unit 88868
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
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Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces HQ
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Russian Railway Troops HQ
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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