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Unit intelligence profile

Other

Subordinates
1
Locations
39
Profile summary
Assessment

Identification

This record does not resolve to a single physical site. Based on the placemark spread and corroborated matches to facilities in Sarov, Snezhinsk, Seversk, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Vostochny, and Baikonur, it is best assessed as an aggregate basket of Russian strategic-security locations rather than one campus or headquarters. ([vniief.ru](https://www.vniief.ru/resources/cad8d70048154182a7def71abe13527d/ekpol_22.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Nuclear complex

Several placemarks align with core elements of Russia’s nuclear weapons and fissile-material infrastructure. Official VNIIEF materials describe RFNC-VNIIEF in Sarov as part of Rosatom’s nuclear-weapons complex, while VNIITF in Snezhinsk identifies itself as a key Rosatom enterprise; NTI also documents the Siberian Chemical Combine at Seversk and Mayak at Ozersk as longstanding nuclear-material and warhead-component sites. ([vniief.ru](https://www.vniief.ru/resources/cad8d70048154182a7def71abe13527d/ekpol_22.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Space and satellite infrastructure

The placemark set also includes major space-support infrastructure. Roscosmos lists Vostochny as Russia’s first civilian cosmodrome and continues to present Baikonur as an active launch site; separately, Russian Satellite Communications Company states that its Khabarovsk Space Communications Center has operated since 2004 as the largest advanced teleport in the Russian Far East, supporting satellite links, broadcasting, and VSAT networks. ([roscosmos.ru](https://www.roscosmos.ru/?utm_source=openai))

Defense electronics and aerospace

Other matched sites are clearly defense-industrial rather than administrative. Krasnodar Instrument Plant Kaskad says it develops and manufactures special-purpose telecommunications and communications equipment, belongs to Roselektronika within Rostec, and maintains substantial in-house testing and production infrastructure; Russian Helicopters describes the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant as a Rostec production facility with major military and civilian aircraft output. ([kpzkaskad.ru](https://kpzkaskad.ru/o-nas))

Analytic judgment

Taken together, the verified matches point to a dispersed portfolio covering warhead design, fissile-material processing, launch access, satellite communications, and military telecom/aerospace manufacturing. That mix suggests this "Other" record is a catch-all strategic infrastructure cluster relevant to Russian national-security capability, not a single subordinate office of the Security Council of Russia; no open source reviewed here publicly confirms one operator or one command relationship for all 39 placemarks. ([vniief.ru](https://www.vniief.ru/resources/cad8d70048154182a7def71abe13527d/ekpol_22.pdf?utm_source=openai))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

1

Military-Industrial Complex

Votkinsk Machine Building Plant

Intelligence briefRF forces

Production of ballistic missiles.

Testing Site of the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant

Mining and Chemical Combine (Krasnoyarsk-26)

Intelligence briefRF forces

Established in 1950 to produce plutonium for weapons.

Morozov Plant

Intelligence briefRF forces

Defense enterprise, production of explosives and ammunition

JSC Concern "Sozvezdie"

Intelligence briefRF forces

The leading Russian developer and manufacturer of electronic warfare, radio communications, electronic countermeasures systems and equipment.

Testing Grounds of the JSC Concern "Sozvezdie"

Intelligence briefRF forces

The leading Russian developer and manufacturer of electronic warfare, radio communications, electronic countermeasures systems and equipment.

Design Bureau of Instrument Engineering Equipment Production Plant

Highly Enriched Uranium and Nuclear Warheads Assembly Plant

Intelligence briefRF forces

The largest complex of its kind in Russia.

502nd Military Property Repair Plant

Intelligence briefRF forces

Responsible for the repair of air defense systems.

218th Aircraft Repair Plant

Kazan Gunpowder Plant

Kazan Aircraft Production Association

Leading Production and Technical Enterprise "Granit"

Intelligence briefRF forces

Russian enterprise of the military-industrial complex, ensuring the completion of the final stage in the process of creating complex weapons systems (installation, docking, configuration directly at the customer), their technical maintenance and repair after commissioning, as well as disposal after decommissioning. A leading enterprise within the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern for repair and restoration work at air defense, missile defense , early warning systems, Space Control Systems and other Space Forces facilities .

Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Plant OJSC

Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant

Novosibirsk Mechanical Plant "Iskra"

Omsk Armored Engineering Institute

NPO Splav Facility

Intelligence briefRF forces

NPO Splav - Leading global developer and manufacturer of multiple rocket launcher systems. The only company in Russia which designs and develops multiple launch rocket systems and cartridges.

Lukhovitsy Aircraft Production and Test Complex

Russian Expo Arms

Testing Facility of the Almaz-Antey JSC Design Bureau for Special Machine-Building

Intelligence briefRF forces

Testing of missiles and launch systems for air defense, Navy and Strategic Missile Troops.

190th Central Communications Equipment Repair Plant

163rd Armored Repair Plant

Geospatial index

Known places

39

"Kaskad" Plant

Intelligence briefRF forces

The plant specializes in the production and repair of mobile automated control systems and communications at the tactical level.

19th Military Town

29B6 Konteyner Over-the-Horizon Radar Construction Site

33rd Central Research and Testing Institute

Intelligence briefRF forces

Research in the field of radiation, chemical and biological protection.

Airstrip under construction

All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics

All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Civil Defense base

EW or Comms Equipment Deployment Site

Federal Center for Toxicological, Radiation and Biological Security

Institute for High Energy Physics

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Kuzminka Military Base

Intelligence briefRF forces

Estabilished in 2014. Contains several vehicle staging areas, training fields and firing ranges. One of the main Russian assembly bases for operations inside Ukraine.

Meteorological Observation Station

Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering

Ozersk Plutonium Plant

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Putin's Palace

Rocket and Space Industry Research and Testing Center

Russian troops' staging area

Russian troops' staging area (check July/August 2020 imagery)

Siberian Chemical Combine

Intelligence briefRF forces

The complex is based on four plants:

Isotope separation plant (ZRI) - separates uranium isotopes with a low degree of 235-U enrichment. Operates since 1953. Until 1973, gas diffusion separation was carried out, and later - centrifugal separation. A number of stable isotopes of xenon, tin, selenium, etc. are also produced.

Sublimation plant (NW) - processing of uranium-containing products, including highly enriched uranium for fuel elements and raw uranium hexafluoride for isotope enrichment. It was launched in 1954-1955.

Radiochemical Plant (RHC) - processing of irradiated uranium blocks for the purpose of extraction of uranium and plutonium, as well as other radionuclides. The first stage since 1961, the second - since 1962. At the moment, the main activity of the chemical plant is the production of pure compounds of natural uranium (refining).

Chemical-Metallurgical Plant (KMZ) - melting and processing of plutonium with the production of components for nuclear weapons and special items. Manufacture of magnetic alloys and magnets from them. Production of ultrafine powders.

Space Communications Center "Khabarovsk"

Special Purpose Territory of the State Corporation for Air Traffic Management

Intelligence briefRF forces

radars

State Institute of Organic Synthesis Technology

State Research Testing Laser Center 'Raduga'

Sudogodsky Weather Station

Testing Center of the "Vektor" Radio Engineering Enterprise

Testing Facility of the Rostov-on-Don Research Institute of Radio Communications

Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant

Underground Bunker (?)

Underground Bunker (?)

Unknown Bunker

Vostochny Cosmodrome

Zagorsk-6

Zimenki Radio Astronomy Station

Helipads

Baltic Command-Measuring Station of the GLONASS Satellite Navigation System