Strategic Missile Forces Communications Center
Identification
The supplied metadata matches the Strategic Missile Forces communications formation centered on military unit 33790. A Russian Ministry of Defense order lists w/ch 33790 at Odintsovo-10, and traceable RVSN historical sources place the unit’s services and departments in ZATO Vlasikha after the 22 November 2011 reorganization of the former Central Communications Node into the RVSN Communications Center. ([gkrfkod.ru](https://gkrfkod.ru/zakonodatelstvo/prikaz-ministra-oborony-rf-ot-28092009-n-1038/))
Verified nodes
The direct placemarks align with documented subordinate sites: the 140th transmitting radio center in Voshod, the Molodezhny receiving/radio-communications element, and the Gagarin satellite-communications node formerly known as the 89th Center “Crystal,” redesignated 33790-V after 2011. A current civil-aviation restricted-zone contact list still names w/ch 33790 at Voshod and Molodezhny and w/ch 33790-V at Gagarin, indicating these sites remain active in open sources. ([rvsn.info](https://rvsn.info/communications/prdc_140.html))
Mission
This formation provides strategic communications for RVSN command and control. Traceable historical material states it went on combat duty in June 1962 to provide links between the RVSN Main Staff, the General Staff, other service headquarters, and subordinate missile formations; a 2025 RVSN veterans’ publication says its units remain in constant readiness to pass orders and signals to RVSN armies, formations, units, and launchers. TASS, citing the Russian MoD in 2019, reported that the RVSN Communications Center had been reequipped with digital telecommunications equipment, including secure and open exchanges, radio-relay stations, and closed data-network elements. ([rvsn.info](https://rvsn.info/download/vr173_2025_2.pdf))
Posture
Open sources depict a geographically dispersed communications architecture rather than a single compound: Vlasikha as the administrative core, with separate transmitting, receiving/radio, satellite, and battle-management elements across Moscow, Smolensk, and Kaluga oblasts. Analytically, that layout supports redundancy and survivability of strategic communications, but that last point is an inference from the documented site distribution rather than a published official rationale. ([rvsn.info](https://rvsn.info/communications/cus_rvsn.html))
Command status
The supplied commander field is not verified by the open sources reviewed. Local reporting in 2018 identified Col. Nikolay Aleshin as chief of the RVSN Communications Center, but a 2025 RVSN veterans’ publication states Aleshin led the unit in 2013-2021 and that Col. A.Yu. Ovcharenko has commanded it since 2021; I found no public Russian MoD source confirming current command by Maj. Gen. Aleshin as of 12 March 2026. ([yp7.ru](https://yp7.ru/%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83-%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%B7%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BD-58/?utm_source=openai))