12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense USSR

12 Главное Управление Министерства Обороны СССР

Under construction

Commanders:

• Major-General Nikolay Pavlovich Yegorov, 2.59 - 12.3.59
• Colonel-General Viktor Anisimovich Bolyatko, 12.3.59 - 26.11.65
• Colonel-General Nikolay Pavlovich Yegorov, 31.1.66 - 2.74
• Marshall of Artillery Yefim Vasilyevich Boychuk, 2.74 - 10.85
• Colonel-General Vladimir Ivanovich Gerasim, 8.11.85 - 27.4.92
• Colonel-General Eugene Petrovich Maslin, 27.4.92 - 8.97
• Lieutenant-General Igor Nikolayevich Valynkin, 19.8.97 - 12.05
• Colonel-General Vladimir Nikolayevich Verkhoutsev, 19.12.05 - 12.10
• Colonel Yury Grigorevich Sych, 23.12.10 - today

Activated 2.59 in Znamenskiy Pereulok 19, Moscow, but traces its origin to the Special Department of the General Staff, which was activated 4.9.47 from Design-Bureau 11 (KB-11), and later became the 6th Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.

From 17.12.59 the 12th Main Directorate was attached to the Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN), but in 11.74 it reverted to Ministry of Defense control.

The Directorates main duties relates to the nuclear arsenal of the USSR, and includes:

• storage and safekeeping
• technical maintenance
• transportation
• delivery and issuance
• disposal
• nuclear testing

The Directorate controls a number of units:

• Nuclear Registry - registry where all warheads are registrered
• Object "S" - nuclear warhead storage bases
• Repair-Technical Base - nuclear warhead units operating together with the end-users
• Semipalatinsk and Novaya Zemlya test sites
• nuclear weapons research institutes

Organisation:

• Directorate of State Inspection of Nuclear and Radiological Security (Moscow)
• Inspection of Nuclear Security of Atomic devices (Moscow)
• Nuclear Security Maintenance Center (Moscow)
• Security Testing Battalion (Chernoy Bay, Novaya Zemlya)
• Security Testing Battalion (Semipalatinsk)
• Logistics Base (logistics-technical maintenance) (Severodvinsk)
• Auto Transport Base (Arkhangelsk)
• Communications Unit (Severodvinsk)
• Communications Unit (Gvadeyskiy, Kazakhstan)
• 217th engineering construction battalion
• 497th independent communication battalion (cable)
• Communications Center (Mozhaysk-3)

Nuclear Weapons Storage Bases (Object "S"):

• 332nd Object "S" (Makarov-1, Zhitomir Oblast) - RVSN storage - (50 35 12N, 29 27 37E)
• 341st Red Banner Object "S" (Kirovograd-25, Kirovograd Oblast) - RVSN storage - (48 50 01N, 32 17 51E)
• 000 Object "S" (Tula-50, Tula Oblast) - RVSN storage - (53 32 30N, 36 29 32E)
• 000 Objecy "S" (Tver-9, Tver Oblast) - RVSN storage - (56 45 51N, 35 42 31E)
• 1050 Object "S" (Saratov-63, Saratov Oblast) - RVSN storage - (51 11 09N, 46 01 13E)
• 000 Object "S" (Khabarovsk-47, Khabarovsk Kray) - RVSN storage - (48 10 59N, 135 01 34E)
• 000 Object "S" (Vologda-20, Vologda Oblast) - RVSN storage - (59 06 13N, 38 37 30E)
• 000 Object "S" (Irkutsk-45, Irkutsk Oblast) - RVSN storage - (53 27 19N, 102 35 45E)
• 917 Object "S" (Sverdlovsk-16, Sverdlovsk Oblast) - RVSN storage - (58 37 00N, 59 39 07E)
• 000 Object "S" (Svobodnyy-21, Amur Oblast) - RVSN storage - (51 14 40N, 128 00 08E)
• 000 Object "S" (Gomel-30, Gomel Oblast) - RVSN storage - (52 27 20N, 30 04 34E)
• 980 Object "S" (Krasnoyarsk-26, Krasnoyarsk Kray) - RVSN storage - (56 17 08N, 93 34 30E)
• 515 Object "S" (Ivano-Frankovsk-16, Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast) - RVSN storage - (48 31 01N, 24 34 36E)
• 000 Object "S" (Kargopol-2, Arkhangelsk Oblast) - RVSN storage - (61 38 56N, 40 22 16E)
• 138 Object "S" (Stepnogorsk, Akmola Oblast) - RVSN storage - (52 26 54N, 71 51 59E)
• 000 Object "S" (Groznyy-20, Groznyy Oblast) - RVSN storage - (43 14 17N, 45 38 21E)
• 000 Object "S" (Karmelava, Latvia) - RVSN storage - (55 01 40N, 24 15 30E)
• 000 Object "S" (Olenegorsk-2, Murmansk Oblast) - Northern Fleet Air Force - (68 14 24N, 33 52 22E)
• 000 Object "S" (Zaozersk, Murmansk Oblast) - Northern Fleet - (69 23 11N, 32 26 43E)
• 000 Object "S" (Viliuchinsk, Kamchatka) - Pacific Fleet - (52 56 46N, 158 22 55E)
• 000 Object "S" (Feodosiya-13, Crimea Oblast) - Black Sea Fleet - (44 55 52N, 35 04 21E)
• 000 Object "S" (Sebezh-5, Pskov Oblast) - Baltic Fleet - (56 13 01N, 28 18 34E)
• 000 Object "S" (Shkotovo-22, Primorskiy Kray) - Pacific Fleet - (42 56 19N, 132 20 15E)
• 000 Object "S" (Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) - Baltic Fleet - (54 24 37N, 20 28 53E)
• 000 Object "S" (Belgorod-22, Belgorod Oblast) - Air Force - (50 33 45N, 35 44 17E)
• 000 Object "S" (Kirov, Kaluga Oblast) - Long Range Air Force - (54 15 55N, 34 25 18E)
• 000 Object "S" (Anadyr-1, Magadan Oblast) - Long Range Air Force - (64 46 37N, 177 53 03E)
• 308th Object "S" (Voronezh-45, Voronezh Oblast) - Air Force - (51 21 36N, 41 55 34E)
• 000 Object "S" (Stavropol, Stavropol Oblast) - Long Range Air Force - (43 54 25N, 44 41 18E)
• 000 Object "S" (Bryansk-18, Bryansk Oblast) - Air Force/Air Defence Forces - (53 33 35N, 33 58 24E)
• 000 Object "S" (Mozhaysk-10, Moscow Oblast) - Air Defence Forces - (55 24 21N, 35 46 27E)
• 000 Object "S" (Chelyabinsk-115, Chelyabinsk Oblast) - Army - (55 24 56N, 60 12 10E)
• 930th Object "S" (Zlatoust-30, Chelyabinsk Oblast) - Army - (54 48 30N, 58 38 27E)
• 000 Object "S" (Komsomolsk-na-Amure-31, Amur Oblast) - Army - (50 17 50N, 137 28 32E)
• 000 Object "S" (Nalchik-20, Stavropol Kray) - Army - (43 28 47N, 43 29 55E)
• 820 Object "S" (Balaklava, Crimea Oblast) - Black Sea Fleet Air Force - (44 29 56N, 33 35 41E - underground)
• 000 Object "S" (Bykhov-1, Mogilev Oblast) - Baltic Fleet Air Force - (53 29 23N, 30 10 59E)
• 000 Object "S" (Kurchatov, Semipalatinsk Oblast) - Army - (50 38 20N, 78 36 16E)