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Unit intelligence profile

Russian Navy

Subordinates
8
Locations
19
Profile summary
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HQ: Saint Petersburg, Admiralty, Commander: Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev

Assessment

Identification

This record matches the Russian Navy (VMF) as a service-level entity centered on the Navy Main Command in Saint Petersburg rather than a single installation. Open sources place the Navy headquarters in Saint Petersburg, and U.S. naval analysis states the Main Navy Staff moved back to its historical home in the Admiralty building; the headquarters was still active there in practice when President Vladimir Putin visited the navy headquarters in Saint Petersburg on July 27, 2025. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_200-PURL-gpo82226/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_200-PURL-gpo82226.pdf))

Leadership

As of 2025, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev was publicly identified as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy in Russian state and official-linked reporting, which is consistent with the metadata provided for this record. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/23923625?utm_source=openai))

Command role

The Saint Petersburg main command functions as the Navy’s central administrative and strategic direction node. Earlier U.S. defense assessments described the Navy Staff in Saint Petersburg as issuing administrative guidance to the fleets, and late-2023 reporting said the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea, and Pacific Fleets plus the Caspian Flotilla were returned to direct subordination of the Navy commander-in-chief, indicating renewed centralization around the Main Command. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_200-PURL-gpo82226/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_200-PURL-gpo82226.pdf))

Strategic focus

Russia’s 2022 Maritime Doctrine gives this command a broad global remit. The doctrine states that Russian national interests extend across the World Ocean and the Caspian Sea, identifies the Arctic basin and Northern Sea Route, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Russian sector of the Caspian as vital areas, and classifies the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, eastern Mediterranean, Baltic and Kuril straits as important areas; it also frames U.S./NATO maritime pressure and limits on Russian access to sea lines of communication as principal threats. ([usnwc.edu](https://usnwc.edu/_images/portals/0/NWCDepartments/Russia-Maritime-Studies-Institute/20220731_ENG_RUS_Maritime_Doctrine_FINALtxt7e1e.pdf))

Verified supporting nodes

Only a limited subset of the attached subordinate placemarks is clearly corroborated in open sources. The strongest match is the 43rd Communications Center at Vileyka, Belarus, which multiple sources describe as a Russian Navy very-low-frequency communications site used to pass orders from the Navy Main Staff to nuclear submarines; another identifiable element is the 6th Atlantic Oceanographic Expedition in the Lomonosov/Kronstadt area, publicly referenced in hydrographic reporting and historical summaries, although the exact present configuration of that unit at the plotted coordinates is not publicly confirmed in the same detail. ([media.defense.gov](https://media.defense.gov/2023/May/05/2003216668/-1/-1/0/3661.PDF))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

8

Northern Fleet

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HQ: Severomorsk, Commander: Vice Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov

43rd Missile Ship Division

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military unit 20475, (Project 1143.5 heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser: Admiral Kuznetsov 063), (Project 11442 heavy nuclear-powered battecruiser: Pyotr Velikiy 099), (Project 1164 Atlant guided-missile cruiser: Marshal Ustinov 055), (Project 956 Sarych guided-missile destroyer: Admiral Ushakov 474), (Project 22350 frigate: Admiral Gorshkov)

16th Repair and Construction Brigade

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military unit 20458

518th Reconnaissance Ship Squadron

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military unit 20524

566th Support Vessel Group

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military unit 77360

140th PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 69068

152nd PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 13106

160th PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 09619

269th PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 30853

43rd Separate Water Area Protection Squadron

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(Project 1124M corvette: Onega 164, Naryan-Mar 138), (Project 1258 minesweeper: RT-236, RT-259), (Project 773 landing ship: BTR-140)

44th Support Vessel Group

8th Support Vessel Detachment

Separate Detachment from the 566th Support Vessel Group

83rd Hydrographic Vessel Group

601st Separate Hydrographic Ship Squadron

Arctic Trefoil Base

Reserve Command Post of the Northern Fleet

Northern Fleet HQ

Pacific Fleet

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HQ: Vladivostok, Commander: Admiral Sergei Avakyants

Wrangel Island Tactical Group

Cape Schmidt Tactical Group

Pacific Fleet HQ

Baltic Fleet

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military unit 51280, HQ: Kaliningrad, Commander: Vice Admiral Viktor Liina

336th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade

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military unit 06017, Commander: Colonel Andrey Lazutkin, (BTR-80/82A, 2S1 Gvozdika, 2S9 Nona-S, MT-LB)

561st Naval Reconnaissance Point

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military unit 10617

473rd PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 39080, PDSS - Underwater sabotage forces and means

25th Separate Coastal Missile Regiment

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military unit 39108, 3K60 Bal

69th Separate Guards Naval Engineer Regiment

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military unit 51061

81st Separate Communications Battalion

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military unit 90263

135th Separate Communications Battalion

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military unit 75236

148th Separate Repair and Restoration Battalion

42nd Hydrographic Service District

313rd Special Purpose Team

603rd Separate Hydrographic Battalion

335th Separate Hydrographic Battalion

73rd Separate Pontoon-Bridge Battalion

299th Training Center "Saturn"

142nd Separate EW Battalion

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military unit 03047

180th Reserve Command Post of the Baltic Fleet

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military unit 30879

313rd PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 10742

328th Separate EW Battalion

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military unit 03051

127th Separate Naval Engineer Battalion

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military unit 59057

n/a Special Purpose Naval Communications Unit GRU

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military unit 10730

Torpedo and Naval Mine Arsenal

772nd Repair Facility

2574th Arms and Ammunition Base

Baltic Fleet HQ

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military unit 51280

Commandant's Office of Security and Maintenance of the Baltic Fleet HQ

Black Sea Fleet

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HQ: Crimea, Sevastopol, Commander: Vice-Admiral Viktor Sokolov

30th Surface Ship Division

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military unit 10790, (Project 1135 Burevestnik frigate: Ladny 861, Pytlivyy 868), (11356R Burevestnik frigate: Admiral Grigorovich 494, Admiral Essen 490, Admiral Makarov 499)

Diving School of the Black Sea Fleet

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military unit 56529-7

Radio Intelligence Training Center of the Black Sea Fleet

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military unit 34685

1st Rescue Vessel Group

2nd Rescue Vessel Group

47th Hydrographic Region

58th Support Vessel Group

61st Supply Vessel Detachment

63rd Under-Repair Ship Brigade

80th Hydrographic Region

55th Separate Hydrographic Vessel Division of the 80th Hydrographic Region

97th Separate Surface Ship Squadron

115th Protection and Service Commandant's Office

145th Rescue Team

176th Hydrographic Vessel Division

720th Material-​Technical Support Point of the Russian Navy

1st Group of the 205th Supply Vessel Detachment

2nd Group of the 205th Supply Vessel Detachment

3rd Group of the 205th Supply Vessel Detachment

4th Group of the 205th Supply Vessel Detachment

Protected Command Post of the Black Sea Fleet

Special Receiving Radio Center of the Black Sea Fleet (?)

Information and Computing Center of the Black Sea Fleet (?)

Logistics Base of the Black Sea Fleet

Black Sea Fleet HQ

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military unit 27159

Caspian Flotilla

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HQ: Astrakhan, Commander: Rear-Admiral Alexander Peshkov

102nd PDSS Counteraction Special Purpose Detachment

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military unit 72969

293rd Search and Rescue Operations Command Rescue Squad

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military unit 15119

Logistics Center of the Caspian Flotilla

45th Central State Naval Test Range "Nyonoksa"

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military unit 09703

45th Central State Naval Test Range "Nyonoksa" HQ

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military unit 09703

45th Central State Naval Test Range

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military unit 09703-2

Naval Training Center

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military unit 56529

Naval Training Center

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military unit 56529-2

Naval Training Center

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military unit 56529-3

Naval Training Center

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military unit 56529-4, submarine forces/divers training facility

Naval Training Center

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military unit 56529-5, naval infantry training center

Navy Advanced Programs Center

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military unit 10555

Navy Advanced Programs Center

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military unit 10555-A

Geospatial index

Known places

19

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)