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List of arsenals of the Russian Armed Forces

Arsenals of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are military units for the manufacture, repair and store weapons and military equipment.

Arsenals in cities

The arsenal in Ulyanovsk is among the most dangerous military arsenals located within Russian cities. A major series of explosions occurred at an arms depot of the 31st Arsenal of the Caspian Flotilla near Ulyanovsk on 13 November 2009. At least two people were killed in the explosion and 43 were rescued from a bomb shelter where they had taken refuge.

Other arsenals that are within the cities of Russia, which are threats to inhabitants by either accidental detonations or Ukrainian attacks and which the public wish to have removed from the city limits:

  • Northern Arsenal of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast
  • Far Eastern Arsenal - 690920 Vladivostok, Russky settlement (Russky Island?), Cape Shigina, 6. Postal address: 690065, Primorsky Krai, Vladivostok, Sipyagina St., 21.
  • 5th Arsenal, probably V/Ch 62033 - Alatyr, Chuvash Republic (Chuvashia)
  • 11th Arsenal of the Navy, Military Unit Number (V/Ch or в/ч) 31353, Yoshkar-Ola-27 p. Babak, Mari El. There are two arsenals in the Yoshkar-Ola area, the other being the 116th. The 116th Arsenal became part of OAO Oboronservis / Remvooruzhenie.
  • 15th Arsenal of the Navy, в/ч 69233, с 2010 в/ч 81263 - Bolshaya Izhora, Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast
  • 18th Arsenal of the Navy - St. Petersburg
  • 31st Arsenal of the Ministry of Defence, в/ч 34236, - Military Town No. 26, Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk Oblast - Central Warehouse of the Navy 2004; 31st Arsenal from 1946. Now possibly reduced/disbanded.
  • 39th Arsenal, V/Ch 74085 - Perm-2 v / g 1 "kr. Barracks" Perm, Perm Krai
  • 55th Arsenal, V/Ch 41710, - "Rzhev-9" (Sklad-40) S. Monchalovo, Tver Oblast https://wikimapia.org/5203208/en/uk/zaledban-55-Arsenal-Mo-MFF
  • 59th Arsenal, V/Ch 42697, Moscow Oblast - Babushkin, Moscow, Moscow Oblast
  • 60th Arsenal of the Ministry of Defence - Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast
  • 63rd Arsenal of the Ministry of Defence - Lipetsk Lipetsk Region
  • 75th Arsenal, V/Ch 42708 - Serpukhov-4 Moscow Oblast ш,60, Air Defence Troops of the Russian Ground Forces. Raised to arsenal status 1962. The plant was founded in 1949 as repair plant No. 185 of the Main Artillery Directorate of the Armed Forces for the repair of radio-technical weapons in accordance with a directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Then, in September 1962, the 45th military base became part of the plant. In accordance with the order of the Commander of the Missile Forces and Artillery of September 16, 1962, the 185th radar weapons repair plant was renamed into the 75th Artillery Arsenal, and since February 2010 - into the 75th Arsenal OJSC.
  • 103rd Arsenal, V/Ch 42701 - 430004, Republic of MordoviaMordovia, Saransk (-4), Mordovskaya str., 35. Deals with automated control systems. Stations and points for reconnaissance and control of artillery and anti-aircraft artillery fire; command and observation vehicles (KNM) for weapons (fire) control. Radar stations, units, radar identification equipment. Diesel and multi-fuel engines.Observation and observation devices and their components. Lasers. Means and technical devices for the creation of radio-electronic.
  • 116th Arsenal, possibly V/Ch 67708 - Krasnooktabrsky, Medvedevsky District, Mari El
  • 118th Arsenal of the Navy, V/Ch 53140 - Novosibirsk-95 p. Pashin, Ulitsa Flotska, Novosibirsk Oblast
  • 7080th Centre for Artillery Weapons and Ammunition(?) of the Navy (центр АВ и БП) (в/ч 81269, 152291, пос. Некрасовское (с. Burmakino-1, Yaroslav-55), Nekrasovskiy Raion, Yaroslavl Oblast), formerly ФГУП "6 арсенал ВМФ МО РФ" (в/ч 09919);
  • 7081st Technical Base for Weapons of the Navy, V/Ch 81272, 663604, Kansk Krasnoyarsk Territory, Ulitsa Gertsena–9. Former 10th Arsenal of the Navy of the Ministry of Defence. In 1946, Central Warehouse 2040 of the Navy was renamed the 5th Naval (morskoi) Arsenal of central subordination. In 1948, the 5th Naval Arsenal was renamed the 10th Naval (morskoi) Arsenal of the VMF with the Military Unit Number (в/ч) 78309. Deals with mine trawls; components of ship, boat, aviation mines, mine systems, mine devices and equipment; components of ship and aircraft torpedoes, anti-torpedoes, high-speed underwater missiles, anti-submarine missiles; buoys; special equipment for maintenance, testing, checking the serviceability and repair of torpedoes, anti-torpedoes, high-speed submarine missiles, anti-submarine missiles; depth charges and sea mines; unguided missiles, and rockets.

Arsenals 12 GU MO RF

Arsenals of the 12th Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Russia were inherited from a Soviet defence ministry chief directorate. They store nuclear weapons for all types of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and in the past the USSR.

Arsenals of GRAU

Arsenals of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defence:

Former GRAU Arsenals:

  • 2nd Arsenal of the GRAU (2-й арсенал, Military Unit 61809, Kiev, in 1993 renamed the 2nd Arsenal of the GRAU of Ukraine, military unit A2161). By the last order of the GRAU of the United Armed Forces of the CIS No 7 of January 31, 1992, Senior Lieutenant Alexander Nikitin was appointed a workshop engineer there. Ukraine disbanded the arsenal in 2005.
  • 3rd Arsenal GRAU, V/Ch 47156, Bogandinsky, Tyumensky District, Tyumen Oblast. Disbanded 2014.
  • 7th Arsenal GRAU (First Formation) V/Ch 61808 - Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • 22nd Arsenal GRAU, V/Ch 62059, "Sizran-2" the village of Serdovino, Samara Oblast. http://wikimapia.org/7723870/ru/bvysh-22-arsenal-game <!-53° 8'59" N 48°->.
  • 32nd Arsenal (в/ч 21223, 663820, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Нижнеингашский р-н, пос. Nizhny Ingash, хранятся R-40 (missile), KSR-5, Р- менование почему-то от 611th Fighter Aviation Regiment к 1.12.2010 должна войти.
  • 50th Arsenal - in 1947, the 76th warehouse at Leonidovka, Penza District, in Penza Oblast ( was reorganized into the 608th Central Aviation Ammunition Base. In 1983, the base was renamed the 50th Arsenal of the Air Force. In February 1998, the unit was reassigned to the Chief of the NBC Protection Troops and received the name 50th Arsenal for Storage of Chemical Weapons of the 1st Category. In 2001, Military Unit 21222 became part of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons and was named the Leonidovka Chemical Weapons Storage Facility. The depot was storing aviation chemical munitions filled with nerve agents such as sarin, Soman, and VX. The toxic agents stored there amounted to just over 17% of the total stockpiles in the Russian Federation.
  • 94th Arsenal GRAU, V/Ch 63779, Omsk-99 Omsk Oblast, on December 1, 1960, the 25th Central Artillery Repair Base received its Military Unit Number, and in December 1986 it was transformed into an arsenal of the GRAU.
  • 99th Arsenal of the GRAU, V/Ch 67684 - Urman, Iglinsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan - after a fire in 2011 this unit was to be disbanded on 1 September 2011.
  • 120th Arsenal of GRAU, V/Ch 55443 with a suffix. Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast https://wikimapia.org/17266955/en/120-and-arsenal-game. Now part of 1060th Centre for Material-Technical Support. Former V/Ch 42696. The arsenal was attacked by Ukraine on 28 June 2025.
  • Military Unit 10718, Radiological and Chemical Troops (РХБЗ) of the Navy, Rybinsk Bereznyaki village (Kobostovo station), Yaroslavl Oblast. Seemingly disestablished circa 2002.

Navy

In addition to the Navy arsenals located in large cities, listed above, there are the:

  • 14th Arsenal of the Navy (military unit 20991, 184650, Murmansk Oblast, Polyarny, Ulitsa Vidyaevo);
  • 17th Arsenal of the Navy (в/ч 13189, Sevastopol, Sukharnaya gully);

Strategic Rocket Forces

The 21st, 27th (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), and 29th Arsenal are affiliated with the Strategic Rocket Forces. The 25th Arsenal in Stolbtsy, Minsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR, was also affiliated with the RSVN. The 28th Arsenal (28-й арсенал КВ РФ) in Pervomaisky, Znamenka, Znamensky District, Tambov Oblast in Tambov Oblast is affiliated with the Russian Space Forces.

Chemical

By 2014 https://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_170045/c02198f770eabacb695558355ea26fd340e09bab/ the chemical warehouses/base at Shikhany-4 had become the 115th State Special Chemical Arsenal of the RF. Now 115th Arsenal of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops? Shikhany-4, Saratov Oblast appears to be the location of the arsenal.

  • 1207 Facility for the storage and destruction of chemical weapons (military unit 92746, aka Object 1597). Shchuchye, Shchuchye-2 village Planovy, Kurgan Oblast, Russia
  • 1208 Facility for the storage and destruction of chemical weapons (V/Ch 55498), settlement of Kizner, Сосновая, Udmurt Republic); aka Object 159
  • Kambarka Chemical Weapons Storage Facility, V/Ch 42727 - Kambarka, Udmurtia

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