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Lehtusi, Vsevolozhsky district,
St Petersburg, Leningrad Region

The suburban training center of the St. Petersburg Military Engineering Space Academy (VIKA) named after Alexander F. Mozhaisky, is located 30 km from Petersburg in Lehtusi. For work and service in the Military Space Forces (VKS) of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the Academy, specialists of a diverse profile are trained. Officers-engineers receive higher military special education in 35 specialties at seven faculties (design of carrier rockets and space vehicles, control systems and computer equipment, radio electronics, engineering and technical, data collection and processing, automated control and communication systems, command).

The suburban train station does not have a railway line, the nearest railway station is about 7 km away, in addition, the Academy does not have regular transport and handling equipment and technological equipment for unloading wagons and assembling carrier rockets. Cadets of very many specialties are being trained at the Lehtusi Training Individual Command and Measuring Complex (OKIK). The educational OKIK consists of a training command post, a command-measuring station, a radiotelemetric station, a receiving point of a high-precision single-time system, a meteorological station, and a training communications center. OKIK allows you to solve real problems, here cadets undergo "combat baptism."

Servicemen and members of their families are accommodated in the hostel and in the service apartments. On the territory of the town there is a confident reception of 6 cellular operators, the possibility of connecting the Internet only through the modems of cellular operators, cultural and leisure facilities are located in St. Petersburg (30 km). Near the administrative and economic territory are food and manufactured goods shops, there is a public catering establishment. Medical support of military personnel and members of their families is carried out at the military unit of the military unit. In the military campus there is a kindergarten and an elementary school. Employment of family members of servicemen at state enterprises and commercial organizations in St. Petersburg is possible.

Voronezh High Depot Readiness (HDR)

The radar in Lehtusi is designed to provide continuous radar monitoring of the northwestern missile-dangerous direction. Its erection in this area was dictated by the need to restore the integrity of the radar field, which was disrupted after the closure of the radar station in Skrund (Latvia). Construction began in 2005, and at the end of December 2005 the station was aired. Since March 2007, the experimental operation of the radar station in Lehtusi was carried out during the pilot combat duty.

By order of the commander of the Space Forces Oleg Ostapenko, the radar station (RLS) of the missile attack warning system, located in Lehtusi, Leningrad Region, is on duty on 23 December 2009. As the correspondent of "Interfax" reports, the commander read out an appropriate order during the presentation of the battle banner to the command of the radar station. Thus, he confirmed the station's readiness to enter combat duty soon.

The first radar of the meter-wave band Voronezh (chief designer VI Karasev) with the possibility of increasing its combat and operational capabilities was developed by the specialists of the Concern OJSC Radio Engineering and Information Systems (JSC Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician AL Mints ", Research and Production Complex Scientific Research Institute of Long-Distance Radio Communication - NPK NIIDAR, and other enterprises). The construction of the station, which began in May 2005 in the village. Lehtusi near St. Petersburg, carried out a research and production enterprise (NGO) "Pyramid" (St. Petersburg) to cover the north-western direction after the loss of radar in Skrund (Latvia). At the end of December 2005, the station went on the air, at the end of 2006 it took up an experimental combat, and on August 11, 2007.

The radar station (RLS) of the new generation of the missile attack warning system in the Leningrad Region took off on February 11, 2012, as the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman for the Air and Space Defense Forces Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said, this is the first high-altitude radar factory readiness, created on the territory of Russia. Prior to that, the Voronezh-type station in Lehtusi, Leningrad Region, was carrying out pilot combat duty, while the personnel gained practical experience in carrying out combat duty and maintenance of complex and completely new weapon systems.

The main model of the high-availability radar was built in the Leningrad Region in 2006. At the end of last year, a new radar "Voronezh-DM" was introduced into the missile warning system in the Kaliningrad region. Another new radar station is pilot-combat duty in the Krasnodar Territory. For 2012, the state tests of the full station of this station are planned with the subsequent setting for combat duty.

The Voronezh radar has a range of 6,000 kilometers. It is capable of receiving and issuing information about a missile attack on points of state and military control.