The Special Purpose Command (Komandovaniye Spetsialnogo Naznacheniya) was a formation of the Russian Air Force, the strongest among the tactical aviation and anti-aircraft groupings.

[3] Pyotr Butowski, writing in 2004, seems to indicate that the Special Purpose Command (he makes no mention of ‘the Central Air Defence Zone’) is merely essentially a redesignation of the former Moscow District.

The rearrangement of the Moscow District of the VVS and PVO into the Special Purpose Command is apparently connected with plans in the long term for the military-space defense of the central industrial region.

On December 1, 2011, a new type of troops were created - the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces (VVKO), and the headquarters of the Order of Lenin Operational-Strategic command of Aerospace Defence was reorganized into the Order of Lenin Air and Missile Defence Command with its headquarters in the city of Balashikha, Moscow Oblast.

In 2014, measures were taken to re-equip the 549th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment of the 5th Air Defence Brigade with the S-400 Triumph air defense system, the radio engineering troops (RTV) units continued to be equipped with promising radar stations (radar) of the Nebo, Podlet, Kasta types ”, “VVO”, “Sopka”, “Update”, etc., were supplied to the troops with automated control systems and new generation communications.