It is a key part of the Russian early warning system against missile attack, going on combat duty on 11 February 2012.

[2] The station is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south west of the village of Lekhtusi and 40 kilometres (25 mi) north north east of St Petersburg.

Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy which is an officer training centre for the Russian Space Forces.

[citation needed] The one built in Lekhtusi is described as Voronezh-M,[4] a VHF radar with a stated range of 4,200 kilometres (2,610 mi).

[5] The radar was described by Space Forces commander Oleg Ostapenko as covering north west Russia and replacing coverage lost when the radar at Skrunda in Latvia was decommissioned in 1998.