Drone Attack on the Lazarevo Oil Pumping Station in Kirov Region

Strike drones attacked the Lazarevo oil pumping station in Russia’s Kirov region.

Aleksandr Sokolov, the region’s governor, reported the incident.

According to him, a UAV struck the grounds of an industrial facility in the Urzhum district, causing a fire. The station is located about 1,200 km from Ukraine.

It is known that the facility operates vertical steel storage tanks of various capacities, including large tanks with a capacity of 20,000 cubic meters (RVSP-20000) and very large tanks with a capacity of 50,000 cubic meters (RVSP-50000).

The station is also undergoing expansion, with new 50,000-cubic-meter tanks (RVSP-50000 Nos. 93 and 95) planned for phased construction and scheduled for commissioning in 2025–2026.

The Lazarevo oil pumping station is a strategically important facility, as it is used to transport and pump oil from Western Siberia through main pipelines to central Russia and for export, mainly to Belarus and seaports.

Two major trunk oil pipelines pass through the station: Surgut–Polotsk and Kholmogory–Klin.

These pipelines supply oil to several key destinations, including the port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea, which Ukrainian drones have repeatedly targeted.

The station also supports oil deliveries to Moscow and Belarus. Any damage to this facility could significantly reduce or completely disrupt oil transportation along these routes.

This could affect both fuel supplies to the Russian military and Russia’s export revenues, causing economic losses to the country’s oil and gas sector.

Militarnyi previously reported that a large-scale fire broke out in the Republic of Bashkortostan at the site of the Nurliно linear production and dispatch station (LPDS), which belongs to Transneft.

The station’s total capacity is 500,000 m³ following the completion of major expansion phases. The site contains about 25–27 storage tanks, the majority of which are vertical steel structures with pontoons of the RVSP-20000 type, each with a capacity of 20,000 m³.