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Security Council of Russia

HQ: Moscow, Kremlin, Commander: President Vladimir Putin

Ministry of Defense

HQ: Moscow, Znamenka 19, Commander: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu

General Staff

HQ: Moscow, Znamenka 14, Commander: Army General Valery Gerasimov

Leningrad Military District

HQ: Saint Petersburg

6th Combined Arms Army

military unit 31807, HQ: Leningrad Oblast, Agalatovo, Commander: Lieutenant General Vladislav Ershov

Moscow Military District

HQ: Moscow

1st Guards Tank Army

military unit 73621, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Odnistovo (Bakovka), Commander: Lieutenant General Sergey Kisel

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division

military unit 23626, HQ: Kalininets, Moscow Oblast, Commander: Colonel Sergey Medvedev

4th Guards Tank Division

military unit 19612, HQ: Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, Commander: Colonel Evgeny Zhuravlev

47th Guards Tank Division

HQ: Mulino, Commander: Colonel Yevgeny Doroshenko, A newly formed division, data incomplete

20th Combined Arms Army

military unit 89425, HQ: Voronezh, Commander: Major General Sukhrab Akhmedov

3rd Motor Rifle Division

military unit 54046, HQ: Boguchar, Commander: Colonel Eduard Shvab

144th Guards Motor Rifle Division

military unit 61423, Smolensk & Yelnya, Commander: Lieutenant General Oleg Tsokov

76th Guards Air-Assault Divsion

military unit 07264, HQ: Pskov, Commander: Colonel Denis Shishov

98th Guards Airborne Division

military unit 65451, HQ: Ivanovo, Commander: Colonel Victor Gunaza

106th Guards Airborne Division

military unit 55599, HQ: Tula, Commander: Colonel Vladimir Seliverstov

6th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

military unit 09436, HQ: Saint Petersburg, Commander: Lieutenant General Oleg Makovetsky

Operational Group of Russian Forces in Transnistria

military unit 13962, Commander: Colonel Dmitry Zelenkov

708th Information Countermeasures Center GRU

military unit 76836, St. Petersburg (exact location unknown)

Central Military District

HQ: Yekaterinburg, Commander: Colonel General Andrey Mordvichev

2nd Guards Combined Arms Army

military unit 22223, HQ: Samara, Commander: Major General Vyacheslav Gurov

41st Combined Arms Army

military unit 64128, HQ: Novosibirsk, Commander: Lieutenant-General Sergey Ryzhkov

201st Military Base

military unit 01162, HQ: Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Commander: Colonel Andrey Marushkin

90th Guards Tank Division

military unit 86274, HQ: Chebarkul, Commander: Colonel Ramil Ibatullin

104th Guards Airborne Division

Reestabilished in 2023 on the basis of the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade, data incomplete

14th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

military unit 71592, HQ: Yekaterinburg, Commander: Major General Vladimir Melnikov

21st Guards Mixed Aviation Division

HQ: Shagol, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Commander: Colonel Andrei Yermakov

41st Air Defense Division

military unit 29286, HQ: Novosibirsk

1062nd Logistics Center

military unit 58661, HQ: Manevrovaya Street 29, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast

n/a Information Countermeasures Center GRU

military unit 76854, Yekaterinburg (exact location unknown)

Eastern Military District

HQ: Khabarovsk, Commander: Colonel General Andrey Kuzmenko

5th Combined Arms Army

military unit 06426, HQ: Ussuriysk, Commander: Major General Ivan Eruslanov

127th Motor Rifle Division

military unit 44980, Commander: Major General Igor Kuzmenkov

29th Combined Arms Army

military unit 32853, HQ: Chita, Commander: Major General Oleg Moiseev

35th Combined Arms Army

military unit 02492, Commander: Major General Sergey Nyrkov

36th Combined Arms Army

military unit 05776, Commander: Major General Vitaly Gerasimov

11th Air Force and Air Defense Army

military unit 10253, HQ: Khabarovsk, Commander: Lieutenant General Vladimir Kravchenko

303rd Mixed Aviation Division

military unit 62231, (HQ: Khabarovsk Oblast, Komsomolsky District, settlement Khurba)

68th Army Corps

HQ: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Commander: Lieutenant General Dmitry Glushenkov

1063rd Logistics Center

military unit 59313

Southern Military District

HQ: Rostov-on-Don, Commander: Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev

8th Guards Combined Arms Army

military unit 33744, HQ: Rostov Oblast, Novocherkassk, Commander: Lieutenant General Gennady Anashkin

20th Guards Motor Rifle Division

military unit 58550, Commander: Colonel Igor Kuleba, This division was reestablished in 2021, data incomplete

150th Motor Rifle Division

military unit 22265, HQ: Rostov Oblast, Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky, Commander: Colonel Vitaly Terekhin

1st Army Corps

military unit 00100, HQ: Donetsk, Ukraine

5th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade

military unit 08805, HQ: Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine

132nd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade

military unit 08803, HQ: Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, Former DNR 3rd Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade "Berkut"

2nd Guards Army Corps

HQ: Luhansk, Ukraine; Commander: Major General Ovcharov

2nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade

military unit 73438, HQ: Luhansk, Ukraine

7th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade

military unit 08807, HQ: Bryanka, Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine

33rd Engineer-Sapper Regiment

HQ: Volgograd, exact location unknown

78th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

HQ: Rostov Oblast, 9K317M Buk-M3, exact location unknown

133rd Command and Control Brigade

HQ: Rostov Oblast, Novocherkassk, exact location unknown

49th Combined Arms Army

military unit 35181, HQ: Stavropol, Commander: Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev

7th Military Base

military unit 09332, Commander: Colonel Vadim Klimenko

58th Combined Arms Army

military unit 47084, Commander: Lieutenant General Denis Lyamin

4th Guards Military Base

military unit 66431, Commander: Colonel Roman Vyazovsky

19th Motor Rifle Division

military unit 20634, Commander: Colonel Dmitri Uskov, recently reestabilished formation; data incomplete

42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division

military unit 27777, Commander: Colonel Roman Demurchiev

102nd Military Base

military unit 04436, HQ: Gyumri, Armenia, Commander: Colonel Konstantin Gaponenko

7th Guards Air Assault Division (mountain)

military unit 61756, Commander: Colonel Alexander Kornev

4th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

military unit 40911, HQ: Rostov-on-Don, Commander: Major General Vladimir Kutsenko

1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division

military unit 40491, HQ: Krasnodar Krai, Krymsk

4th Mixed Aviation Division

HQ: Volgograd Oblast, Marinovka

31st Air Defense Division

military unit 03121, HQ: Crimea, Sevastopol

3rd Radio-Technical Regiment

military unit 85683

51st Air Defense Division

military unit 42352, HQ: Rostov-on-Don

1061st Logistics Center

military unit 57229

Strategic Missile Forces

HQ: Moscow Oblast, Vlasikha (Odintsovo-10), Commander: Colonel General Sergey Karakaev

1193th Combat Command Center

military unit 49494, part of the "Perimeter" automatic nuclear weapons control system.

27th Guards Missile Army

military unit 43176, HQ: Vladimir-21, Commander: Lieutenant General Oleg Glazunov

7th Guards Missile Division

military unit 14245

14th Missile Division

military unit 34096

28th Guards Missile Division

military unit 54055

54th Guards Missile Division

military unit 34048, Commander: Colonel Sergei Dorobalo

60th Missile Division

military unit 89553

33rd Guards Missile Army

military unit 43189, Commander: Major General Vladimir Kvashin

29th Guards Missile Division

military unit 59968

35th Missile Division

military unit 52929

39th Guards Missile Division

military unit 34148

62nd Missile Division

military unit 32441

31st Missile Army

military unit 29452, HQ: Orenburg-40, Commander: Major-General Sergey Talatynnik

8th Missile Division

military unit 44200

13th Missile Division

military unit 68545

42nd Missile Division

military unit 34103

Strategic Missile Forces Communications Center

military unit 33790, Commander: Major General Nikolay Aleshin

Special Operations Forces

HQ: Moscow Oblast, Kubinka-2, Commander: Major General Valery Flyustikov

Russian Airborne Forces (VDV)

Commander: Colonel General Mikhail Teplinskiy

Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU)

military unit 45807, Commander: Admiral Igor Kostyukov

6th Directorate

Responsible for electronic and radio-technical reconnaissance.

n/a Separate Radio-Technical Regiment GRU

military unit 03025 or 28127, HQ: Kamen-na-Obi

Moscow Intelligence Center

military unit 46188

Information Operations Troops

military unit 55111, Commander: Lieutenant General Pavel Konovalchik

"Krug" System (THICK EIGHT)

Created in the early 1950s to track any information concerning NATO aircraft carriers of nuclear weapons and reconnaissance aircraft, such as SR-71 Blackbird.
The Krug system consisted of 12 strategic electronic reconnaissance complexes, 8 separate radio-direction-finding stations (OPPU) located on the perimeter of the territory of the USSR (one explation for the name of the system) and 4 foreign radio interception and electronic reconnaissance centers in Lourdes (Cuba), Cam Ranh ( Vietnam), Rangoon (Burma) and Mongolia (Ulan Bator). https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/russia/krug.htm

Apparently its facilities are still operational.

Topographical Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

military unit 25951, Commander: Major General Alexander Zaliznyuk

946th Main Geospatial Information Center

military unit 43651, HQ: Noginsk, Moscow Oblast

Aerospace Forces

HQ: Moscow, Commander: Colonel General Viktor Afzalov

Russian Air Force

HQ: Moscow, Commander: Lieutenant General Sergey Dronov

Long-Range Aviation Command

military unit 44402, HQ: Moscow, Commander: Lieutenant General Sergey Kobylash

22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Division

HQ: Saratov Oblast, Engels

326th Heavy Bomber Division

HQ: Amur Oblast, Ukrainka

Space Forces

HQ: Moscow
Command: Colonel-General Aleksandr Golovko

15th Special Purpose Aerospace Army

HQ: Moscow
Command: Lieutenant General Andreyl Vyshinsky

820th Missile Attack Warning Main Center

military unit 26302, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Solnechnogorsk-7

821st Space Situation Monitoring Main Center

military unit 61437, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Noginsk District, Dubrovo

153rd Main Testing Center

military unit 32103, Commander: Major General Andrey Marchuk, testing and control of space facilities

Air Defense and Missile Defense Forces

HQ: Moscow, Commander: Lieutenant General Andrey Demin

1st Air Defense and Missile Defense Army

HQ: Moscow, Commander: Major General Konstantin Ohienko

4th Air Defense Division

military unit 52116, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Dolgoprudny

5th Air Defense Division

military unit 52096, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Leninsky district, Petrovskoye

9th Missile Defense Division

military unit 75555, HQ: Moscow Oblast, Sofrino, Commander: Major General Sergey Grabchuk

1st State Testing Cosmodrome (Plesetsk)

HQ: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Mirnyy

Russian Navy

HQ: Saint Petersburg, Admiralty, Commander: Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev

Northern Fleet

HQ: Severomorsk, Commander: Vice Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov

Kola Flotilla

military unit 36070, HQ: Polyarny, Dushenova Street 6

7th Guards Water Area Protection Brigade

military unit 90829, HQ: Polyarny

701st Logistics Center

military unit 77360

Coastal Forces of the Northern Fleet


14th Army Corps

HQ: Murmansk, Commander: Major General Boris Fomichev

Northern Fleet Naval Aviation


45th Air and Air Defense Forces Army

military unit 06351, Commander: Lieutenant General Alexander Otroshchenko

1st Air Defense Division

military unit 03123

531st Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

military unit 70148, Commander: Colonel Alexey Kryuchkov

Baltic Fleet

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

11th Army Corps

HQ: Kaliningrad, Commander: Lieutenant General Andrey Ruzinsky

18th Guards Motor Rifle Division

Recently re-estabilished formation; incomplete

Leningrad Naval Base

HQ: Kronstadt, Commander: Rear Admiral Andrey Saloshin

702nd Logistics Center

military unit 45752

Black Sea Fleet

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

Coastal Troops of the Black Sea Fleet


22nd Army Corps

HQ: Crimea, Simferopol, Commander: Lieutenant General Arkadiy Marzoyev

758th Logistics Center

military unit 63876

Caspian Flotilla

HQ: Astrakhan, Commander: Rear-Admiral Alexander Peshkov

Naval Training Center

military unit 56529

Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU)

HQ: Moscow
Command: Lieutenant General Nikolay Parshin

9th Central Directorate (Continuity of Government)

Department for ensuring the functioning of control points of the highest bodies of state power and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

12th Chief Directorate

military unit 31600, HQ: Moscow, Znamenskiy Pereulok 19, Commander: Lieutenant General Igor Kolesnikov, Responsible for the safe-keeping, technical maintenance, transportation, delivery, issuance, disposal of the nuclear arsenal of Russian Federation.

Special Control Service

military unit 46179
HQ: Moscow, Rubtsovsko-Dvortsovaya Ulitsa, 2

Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM)

HQ: Moscow, Teatralny proyezd 3, Commander: Lieutenant General Alexander Kurenkov

Federal Security Service (FSB)

HQ: Moscow, Lubyanka Square, Commander: Army General Alexander Bortnikov

FSB Military Counterintelligence Department (3rd FSB Department)

military unit 70850, HQ: Moscow, Bolshaya Lubyanka 12, Commander: Lieutenant General Nikolai Yuryev

FSB Special Equipment Center (11th FSB Center)

military unit 68240, Commander: Vladimir Bogdanov

16th FSB Center

military unit 61608
HQ: Moscow

FSB Counterintelligence Service

Commander: Lieutenant General Vladislav Menshchikov

Counterintelligence Operations Department

Commander: Lieutenant General Dmitriy Minayev

Counterintelligence Activities Coordination and Analysis Office

Commander: Vice Admiral Alexander Roshchupkin

FSB Scientific and Technical Service

Commander: Mikhail Mikhailov

FSB Border Service

Commander: Army General Vladimir Kulishov

National Guard (Rosgvardiya)

HQ: Moscow, 9 Krasnokazarmennaya Street, Commander: Army General Viktor Zolotov

Ural National Guard District

HQ: Yekaterinburg

93rd Internal Troops Division

military unit 3273, HQ: Ozersk

96th Internal Troops Division

military unit 3469, HQ: Sverdlovsk Oblast, Kalinovka-1

Central Orsha-Khingan National Guard District

HQ: Moscow, Ivanteevskaya 5, Commander: Colonel General Igor Golloyev

12th Internal Troops Division

military unit 5580
HQ: Tula, Ryazanskaya 36

55th Internal Troops Division

military unit 5401, HQ: Mozhaysk, Ulitsa 20 Yanvarya, 24

95th Internal Troops Division

military unit 3272, HQ: Moscow, Pyatnitskoe Shosse 32

Northwest National Guard District

HQ: Saint Petersburg, Millionnaya 33

110th Separate Special Motorized Internal Troops Brigade

HQ: St. Petersburg, Kurlyandskaya 27
unit 5556

Volga National Guard District

HQ: Nizhny Novgorod, Prospekt Gagarina 42

79th Internal Troops Division

military unit 6676
HQ: Kirov

94th Internal Troops Division

military unit 3274
HQ: Sarov, ulitsa Zernova 63

35th Separate Internal Troops Brigade

military unit 7452, HQ: Samara

Siberian National Guard District

HQ: Novosibirsk

98th Internal Troops Division

military unit 3478, HQ: Seversk

42nd Separate Internal Troops Brigade

military unit 6531, HQ: Irkutsk

82nd Separate Internal Troops Brigade

military unit 6515, HQ: Barnaul

91st Separate Internal Troops Brigade

military unit 7486, HQ: Krasnoyarsk

Foreign Intelligence Service

HQ: Moscow, Yasenevo District, Bachurino
Command: Sergey Naryshkin

Federal Protective Service (FSO)

HQ: Moscow
Command: Director Dmitry Kochnev

Special Communications and Information Service (Spetssvyaz)

HQ: Moscow, 1st Mytishchinskaya street, 17, Commander: Vasily Zapltakin

FSO Operational Department

military unit 38995, Commander: Sergey Kudinov

Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus

HQ: Minsk, House of Government; Commander: Alexander Lukashenko

Ministry of Defense

HQ: Minsk, Kommunisticheskaya Street, 1; Commander: Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin

General Staff

HQ: Minsk, Kommunisticheskaya Street, 1; Commander: Major General Viktor Gulevich

Western Operational Command

military unit 03587, HQ: Grodno, Commander: Colonel Vladimir Bely

Northwestern Operational Command

HQ: Borisov; Commander: Major General Alexander Naumenko

Main Intelligence Directorate

Commander: Major General Ruslan Kosygin

GRU unit 51886

military unit 51886, HQ: Vitebsk

State Security Committee (KGB)

HQ: Minsk, Independence Avenue 17, Commander: Lieutenant General Ivan Tertel

State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus

HQ: Minsk, Volodarsky Street 24, Commander: Lieutenant General Anatoly Lappo

Ministry of Internal Affairs

HQ: Minsk, Gorodskoy Val, 4, Commander: Lieutenant General Ivan Kubrakov

Internal Troops

HQ: Minsk Gorodskoy Val, 4, Commander: Major General Nikolay Karpenkov

Ministry of Emergency Situations

HQ: Minsk, Revolyutsionnaya Street 5, Commander: Major General Vadim Sinyavsky