Northwest National Guard District
Identity
The location is the headquarters of the Northwestern Order of the Red Star District of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation (Rosgvardiya), not a regional police office. Rosgvardiya’s official contacts and structure pages place the district HQ at 33 Millionnaya Street, Saint Petersburg, matching the supplied HQ placemark. ([rosguard.gov.ru](https://rosguard.gov.ru/page/index/contacts?utm_source=openai))
Command role
Rosgvardiya defines its districts as operational-territorial groupings that include command organs, military units, and subordinate territorial bodies. In Rosgvardiya-reported coverage published on January 17, 2025, the Northwestern District was described as having commanders, territorial organs, and institutions deployed across 11 subjects, indicating that the Saint Petersburg site functions as a district-level command and administrative node rather than a single local garrison. ([rosguard.gov.ru](https://rosguard.gov.ru/ru/page/index/okruga-vojsk-nacionalnoj-gvardii?utm_source=openai))
Verified force elements
The Lebyazhye placemark is well supported: official Rosgvardiya material identifies the 33rd Order of Zhukov Separate Operational Brigade as part of the Northwestern District, and official/regional public documents tie military unit 3526 to Lebyazhye. The Murmansk placemark also aligns with a district maritime element: official regional and municipal records place military unit 3798 at 26 Radishcheva Street, Murmansk, and district press-service reporting in August 2025 described Rosgvardiya maritime-detachment cutters conducting anti-diversion protection drills at Atomflot. The Sosnovy Bor placemark is supported as a Rosgvardiya site as well: municipal and Rosatom-related documents repeatedly reference military unit 3705 in the city and its participation in site-security, radiation/chemical reconnaissance, and emergency-response exercises. However, the specific 124th Internal Troops Regiment label was not confirmed in the official or institutional sources reviewed and should be treated as unverified. ([rosguard.gov.ru](https://rosguard.gov.ru/page/listarticles/dokumentalnye-filmy?utm_source=openai))
Operational relevance
The verified footprint spans district command in Saint Petersburg, an operational brigade in Lebyazhye, a Rosgvardiya unit integrated into nuclear-site security and emergency drills in Sosnovy Bor, and a Murmansk maritime element active around protected harbor waters at Atomflot. Together with Rosgvardiya’s published district tasks—combat readiness, public-order support, and guarding important state objects—this supports the assessment that the Saint Petersburg HQ manages a mixed land-maritime critical-infrastructure security posture in Russia’s northwest. ([rosguard.gov.ru](https://rosguard.gov.ru/ru/page/index/okruga-vojsk-nacionalnoj-gvardii?utm_source=openai))