Voronezh High Depot Readiness (HDR) - Locations
The process of reestablishing the single radar area of the missile warning system began when the VZH Voronezh-M radar in the village of Lehtusi (Leningrad region) was put on combat duty in 2012. Now the Voronezh-DM radar is deployed, under construction or in the pilot operation phase in Armavir, Krasnodar region, Pionersky settlement of the Kaliningrad region, Yeniseysk (Ust-Kem settlement), Barnaul (Konyukh settlement) of the Altai Territory and Zeya in the Amur region. "Voronezh-M" - in Lehtusi, Leningrad region, Orsk, Orenburg region, Usolye-Sibirskoe (Michelevka) in the Irkutsk region and in Vorkuta (Vorgashor village of the Komi Republic).
As part of the modernization of the missile warning system, the Voronezh-M and Voronezh-DM radars were commissioned in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad and Irkutsk regions. It is planned to replace older radars with the Voronezh by 2020. Space Forces commander Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko told journalists in September 2010 that new radar stations will be built “to replace the current radar means and maintain continuous radar control of all missile threats.” As of early 2012 Russia was operating three Voronezh-type HDR radars: Armavir, Lekhtusi (near St. Petersburg), and Kaliningrad. The fourth radar of the same type was then under construction at Mishelevka near Irkutsk on the site of a demolished Daryal shell. Aerospace Defense Forces spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin has said Voronezh-class radars were planned to be deployed near the town of Pechora in Russia’s Komi Republic, the Siberian cities of Barnaul and Yeniseisk, all sites of existing radars of earlier types.
The Space Forces expect to have two additional early warning stations operational by the end of 2014, Space Forces commander Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Golovko announced on 04 October 2014. One Voronezh station is located in the western enclave of Kaliningrad region and the other one in Irkutsk Region in southwestern Siberia. “Before year's end these stations will commence their combat missions of radar control of western and eastern missile attack threat directions,” Golovko said. Two additional Voronezh stations are to start trial operation in Siberian Altay Region and Krasnoyarsk Region in 2014.
In 2016, three new radar stations of high factory readiness for the missile warning system were completed: Orsk (Voronezh-M), Barnaul (Voronezh-DM), and Yeniseysk (Voronezh-DM). The commissioning of these three knots of the missile attack warning system allowed for the first time in Russia's modern history to create along the perimeter of its border a continuous radar field in all strategic directions and along all possible trajectories of the ballistic missile approach. In addition, three operational radar stations in Baranovichi, Olenegorsk and Pechora had been completed.
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| 2 | Lehtusi | Leningrad Region St Petersburg | object 4524 | unit 73845 | 60°16'32"N | 30°32'42"E | 2005 | 2009 |
| The Lehtusi in northwest Russia's Leningrad Region near St Petersburg was the first radar of this type. Construction of the station began in May 2005 to cover the north-western direction after the loss of the radar station in Skrunda (Latvia). The station went on the air in late 2006, it was on combat duty on August 11, 2007, and it became fully operational in December 2009. "By putting this radar on combat duty, we have closed the gap in Russia's radar coverage [of its borders] that existed for the last seven years," Sergei Ivanov said on 22 December 2006. The new early-warning radar was initially operational in 2006 to fill a gap in national radar coverage that had existed for seven years, the defense minister said. The radar station in the Leningrad Region allowed tracking from Norway down as far south as Algeria. Eventually its range will also encompass the eastern seaboard of the United States. "Voronezh-M" placed in the Leningrad region in 2009 is on alert, provides control of the countryside from Spitsbergen to Morocco; | ||||||||
| 7 | Usolye-Sibirskoe | Mishelevka Irkutsk | object 1944 | unit 03908 | 52°51'19"N | 103°13'59"E | 2012 | 2015 |
| The Usolye-Sibirskoe Voronezh-M radar station located at Mishelevka near Irkutsk in Siberia, the site of existing radar of an earlier type, was scheduled for start in 2012. The fourth long-range radar station in Siberia covers Central and East Asia, supported by several other Russian installations on the territory of some former Soviet republics.
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| 9 | Orsk | Orenburg | object 7357 | unit | 51°16'27"N | 58°57'34"E | 2013 | 2017 |
| Orsk , Orenburg region | ||||||||
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| 10 | Armavir | Krasnodar | object 1653 | unit 41003 | 44°55'31"N | 40°59'02"E | 2006 2010 | 2009 2013 |
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"Voronezh-DM" 2-modular implementation, is available in the Krasnodar Territory in 2009 is on active duty, provides the control area from North Africa to southern Europe; 1st serial "Voronezh-DM", placed in the Kaliningrad region, since 2011 is on alert, provides control of the countryside west direction, twin radar station in Baranovichi; The Armavir (Krasnodar region) Voronezh-DM radar was put on combat duty in February 2009, tracking missile routes in the south and southeast [of Russia] in place of warning sites in Mukachevo [western Ukraine] and Sevastopol [the Crimea]. The Armavir radar was the second facility, after the Lekhtusi complex in the Leningrad Region, to close a gap in radar coverage on Russia's western borders after the closure of radar sites in Skrunda (Latvia) in late 1998 and subsequently in Mukachevo and Sevastopol in Ukraine in 2008. The third station, located in Russia's southern Krasnodar Region, covers the space over North Africa and the Middle East.
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| 13 | Pionersky | Dunayevka airbase Kaliningrad | object 2461 | unit 42988 | 54°51'26"N | 20°10'53"E | 2010 | 2014 |
| The Kaliningrad Voronezh-DM radar, at the old Dunayevka airbase in Pionersky, was ordered into operational service in November 2011 by President Dmitry Medvedev. The newest Russian radar station, located in Kaliningrad and protects from missile attacks and covers all Europe and Atlantic. At the launch of the Kaliningrad radar, Medvedev was quoted as saying "I expect that this step [the launch of the radar] will be seen by our partners as the first signal of our country's readiness to make an adequate response to the threats which the missile shield poses for our strategic nuclear forces." This radar became fully operational only in 2014. | ||||||||
| 5 | Yeniseisk | Krasnoyarsk | object 7345 | unit 84685 | 58°30'22"N | 92°02'42"E | 2012 | 2017 |
| The Yeniseisk Voronezh-DM radar station in Siberia was the site of the infamous Krasnoyarsk radar of an earlier type. In 2015 a radar station Voronezh-DM was placed into service in Yeniseisk, Siberia, a year ahead of schedule, and another such station will begin operating in Barnaul, the Altai region, six month ahead of schedule, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said 13 January 2015. | ||||||||
| 8 | Barnaul | Siberia | object 4550 | unit 84686 | 53°08'24"N | 83°40'51"E | 2013 | 2017 |
| The Barnaul Voronezh-DM radar station in Siberia is the site of an SS-20 missile launcher storage site [53°34'N 83°48'E]. | ||||||||
| 6 | Zeya | Amur | object | unit | 53°41'20"N | 127°04'58" | 2016 | 2019 |
| In 2015 it was planned to complete the design work | ||||||||
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| 4 | Vorkuta | Vorgashor village Komi Republic | object | unit | 67°36'50"N | 63°45'19"E | 2015 | 2019 |
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New radar system of missile warning of "Voronezh" will be built near Vorkuta (Komi) and in the Murmansk region, the chief of staff of the main center of the missile attack warning Colonel Viktor Tymoshenko said on the radio station "RSN" 15 August 2015. "Work has begun on the establishment of the station in the district of Vorkuta in the Murmansk region", - he said. Over the past four years, said Tymoshenko, created five such stations in the territory of the Russian Federation. A total of seven stations. "This station, which are on duty in the Leningrad region, Kaliningrad region, Armavir, Usolye Siberia", he said. The Voronezh-DM radar station in Russia’s Komi Republic is the site of existing radar of an earlier type.
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| 11 | Sevastopol | Cape Chersonese Crimea | object | unit | 44°34'57"N | 33°23'16"E | 2017 | 2020 |
| Russian press quotes Sergey Boyev, the chief designer of the early-warning system, as saying that Russia may consider building a new early-warning radar in Crimea, most likely at the site where the Soviet Union deployed a Dnepr radar. The new radar was referred to as Voronezh-SM, where SM stands for "centimeter-range." A shorter-wavelength radar can provide a better tracking accuracy, albeit at shorter ranges. According to Boyev, the radar that is being built in Vorkuta is also a centimeter-range Voronezh-SM. (This confirms the earlier find, which suggests that there are two radars under construction there.) | ||||||||
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| 3 | Olenegorsk | Murmansk | object | unit | 68°09'N | 33°54'E | 20xx | 2017 |
| "Voronezh-VP" in the Murmansk region in 2017; | ||||||||
| ... | Qabala (Lyaki) | region | object | unit | 40°33'N | 47°25'E | 20xx | 2019 |
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"Voronezh-VP" in Azerbaijan in 2017, the intercession on combat duty in 2019. ?? ?? ?? | ||||||||
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