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Unit intelligence profile

Troops and Forces in the Northeast

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Profile summary
Assessment

Identity

This record most likely identifies the Pacific Fleet’s Troops and Forces in the Northeast of Russia, which current reporting also describes as the Joint Command of Troops and Forces in the Northeast of Russia. The available open sources treat it as a Kamchatka-centered regional command grouping, not as a single named base or one clearly bounded installation. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/2015949))

Area

As of September 2025, Pacific Fleet command-and-staff drills under this grouping were focused on protecting shipping routes in the northern Pacific and defending the coasts of Kamchatka and Chukotka, as well as the island zone. In September 2023, the Finval 2023 exercise in northeastern Russia also centered on Arctic security and protection of the Northern Sea Route. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/2015949))

Submarine hub

Its most important publicly visible infrastructure is the submarine base complex at Vilyuchinsk on Avacha Bay. In September 2024, the Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk completed an under-ice transfer from the Northern Fleet and arrived there; AP reported in July 2025 that Vilyuchinsk hosts five Borei-class ballistic-missile submarines and several nuclear-powered attack submarines, while Russian reporting in October 2024 said pier modernization there had enabled seven nuclear submarines to enter service and covered 14 infrastructure facilities. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/1847275))

Force mix

Open-source exercise reporting shows this grouping coordinating multiple force types from Kamchatka: surface ships and boats, several nuclear submarines, naval aviation aircraft and helicopters, Bastion and Bal coastal missile systems, MiG-31 fighters from a composite air regiment, and Grachonok anti-saboteur boats operating with a Ka-29 helicopter in Avacha Bay. The missile corvette Smerch was also officially assigned to the Pacific Fleet’s northeast grouping after modernization. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/2015949))

Assessment

Verified public reporting ties this command to coastal defense, defense of maritime communications, anti-submarine and air-defense training, and support to Russia’s Arctic and Northern Sea Route security posture. The sources reviewed here consistently describe missions, exercises, and major Kamchatka basing points, but they do not clearly publish a single fixed headquarters address, so this entry is best treated as a regional Pacific Fleet command centered on Kamchatka rather than a point location. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/2015949))

No geospatial coordinates are available for this profile.
Command structure

Subordinate formations

2

16th Submarine Squadron

Intelligence briefRF forces

military unit 62695, HQ: Vilyuchinsk

10th Submarine Division

Intelligence briefRF forces

military unit 60092, (Project 949A Antey nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine: K-132 Irkutsk, K-150 Tomsk, K-186 Omsk, K-442 Chelyabinsk, K-456 Tver), (Project 885M Yasen-M nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine: K-573 Novosibirsk), (Project 971U Shchuka-B nuclear-powered attack submarine: K-295 Samara, K-331 Magadan, K-419 Kuzbass)

25th Submarine Division

Intelligence briefRF forces

(Project 667BDR Kalmar large nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine: K-44 Ryazan), (Project 955(A) Borei/Borei-A: K-550 Alexander Nevsky, K-551 Vladimir Monomakh, K-552 Knyaz Oleg, K-553 Generalissimus Suvorov)

Surface Forces

Intelligence briefRF forces

HQ: Zavoyko

114th Water Area Protection Ship Brigade

Intelligence briefRF forces

(Project 20385 corvette: Gremyashchiy 337), (Project 12700 Aleksandrit minesweeper: Yakov Balyaev 616, Pyotr Ilyichev 543, Anatoly Shlemov 651)

117th Water Area Protection Ship Squadron

Intelligence briefRF forces

(Project 1124(M) corvette: MPK-82 375, MPK-107 332, MPK-125 «Sovetskaya Gavan 350, MPK-191 Kholmsk 369), (Project 266ME minesweeper: MT-264 738, MT-265 718), (Project 12650 base minesweeper: BT-215 593, BT-325 586)

66th Small Missile Ship Squadron

Intelligence briefRF forces

(Project 12431 corvette: Moroz 409, Iney 418, Razliv 450, Smerch 423)

30th Rescue Detachment

32nd Supply Vessel Detachment

84th Supply Vessel Brigade