07.11.2026 Strike on Saratov Oil Refinery (PJSC Saratov NPZ, INN 6451114900): Engineering GEOINT of 4 Fire Plumes, Neftyanaya Rail Hub (ESR 621002) & Engels-2 Airbase Fuel Nexus
1. Timeline & Primary Verification of the 07.11.2026 Strike on PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery
During the night and early morning of 07.11.2026 (between 02:49 UTC and 06:11 UTC), long-range strike UAVs of the Defense Forces of Ukraine (including Ukrainian FP-1 long-range strike aircraft visually recorded over Saratov) executed a concentrated strike against the industrial site of PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery (PAO Saratovskiy neftepererabatyvayushchiy zavod, historically the Kreking Plant) in the Zavodskoy District of Saratov (Bryanskaya St. 1 / 1A, geodesic distance from the Ukrainian state border — 556.8 km).
- Official Russian MoD Acknowledgment: In its morning bulletin of
07.11.2026(06:20 UTC), the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed the overnight interception of411Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs across Russian regions, explicitly including Saratov Oblast. The Governor of Saratov Oblast confirmed air-raid sirens and strike damage. - Multi-Source OSINT/GEOINT Corroboration (
<= 24h): Over 12 eyewitness photo and video recordings published byASTRA(@astrapress/130423,@astrapress/130436),Exilenova+(@exilenova_plus/34210..34227), and operational radar@yigal_levin/103255documented at least 4 simultaneous open fires and dense black smoke columns rising across the primary distillation core and storage tank farm of the refinery.

2. Engineering GEOINT: Fire Plume Triangulation & OpenStreetMap Mapping (relation 12537907)
Cross-referencing nighttime and morning footage from 07.11.2026 against the OpenStreetMap industrial multipolygon (relation 12537907 — Saratov Oil Refinery, bounding box 51.446512..51.461599 N, 45.931449..45.956540 E, centroid 51.455697 N, 45.939009 E) pinpoints four impacted functional zones:
| # | Refinery Sector / Process Unit (PJSC Saratov NPZ) | OpenStreetMap Elements (relation 12537907) | Exact Coordinates (lat, lon) | Recorded BDA Indicators (07.11.2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central-Eastern Primary Crude Distillation Core (ELOU-AVT-6) & Fired Heaters | Twin heater stacks OSM node 6253620492, node 6253620491 & central stack node 6253620328 | 51.458898, 45.940426 (51.458847, 45.938325) | Primary high-intensity flame core and vertical black smoke plume directly within the atmospheric-vacuum distillation column and furnace block |
| 2 | South-Central Secondary Refining Block (Izomalk-2, L-35-11/300 Reforming, L-24-6 Hydrotreating) & Flare Header | Heater stacks OSM node 8585815503, node 6253620359 & flare stack OSM node 6253620358 | 51.456606, 45.940399 (51.455281, 45.941184) | Secondary fire seat and heavy smoke emission adjacent to the central flare stack |
| 3 | Western Process Sector & Overground Pipeline Rack along Bryanskaya St. / Entuziastov Ave | Three furnace stacks OSM node 8585815516, node 8585837317, node 8585837318, pipeline rack way 943829247 & RVS tank way 238691840 | 51.458837, 45.933354 (51.458752, 45.935546) | Close-range morning footage filmed outside the western concrete perimeter wall shows a distillation tower wrapped in scaffolding and anti-drone netting with thick black smoke billowing from the unit behind it |
| 4 | Eastern & Southeastern Product Tank Farm (57 RVS Vertical Steel Tanks) | RVS storage tank clusters OSM way 238691838..238691921 (man_made=gasometer) & transfer pipelines way 926633189..926633204 | 51.452364, 45.951634 (51.454280, 45.951633) | Open flames and a separate black smoke plume burning behind white cylindrical RVS storage tanks on the eastern terrace overlooking the Volga River |
- Long-Range Visual Triangulation (
ASTRA): Nighttime fire-glow imagery captured from central Saratov aligns along a line of sight (azimuth ~192-195 deg) passing directly over Saratov State Medical University Clinical Hospital No. 2 (Chernyshevskogo St. 141) across the right bank of the Volgograd Reservoir into the/en/vpk/saratov-npzindustrial site.
3. FNS EGRUL Corporate Identification & Court Proof of Tank-Farm Vulnerability (Case A57-22249/2024)
- Primary Legal Entity of the Struck Facility:
- PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery (
PAO Saratovskiy neftepererabatyvayushchiy zavod) —INN 6451114900,OGRN 1026402483810,KPP 645101001,OKPO 05766617(100% mathematical checksum match). - Registered Address:
410022, Russian Federation, Saratov Oblast, Saratov, ul. Bryanskaya, bldg. 1(main gatehouse and administration building with Rosneft captive bank JSC Bank VBRR ATM INN7736153344atBryanskaya St. 1A,OSM way 103525909,51.460848 N, 45.934548 E). - General Director: Yevgeniy Anatolyevich Kamlyk, appointed
05.12.2023(omitted from US OFAC SDN, EU, UK FCDO, and Ukraine personal sanctions lists as of07.11.2026—[BLIND SPOT]). - Verified Corporate Contacts (
e-disclosure.ru): tel.+7 (8452) 47-30-60,+7 (8452) 47-30-65, fax+7 (8452) 47-31-38, emailsar-npz-office@srnpz.rosneft.ru. - Parent Holding & Crude Pipeline Operator:
- PJSC NK Rosneft —
INN 7706107510,OGRN 1027700043502(CEO Igor Ivanovich Sechin). - JSC Transneft-Privolga —
INN 6317024749,OGRN 1026301416371(Samara, Leninskaya St. 100; CEO Dmitriy Yuryevich Buzlaev) — operator of the trunk crude oil pipelines feeding theELOU-AVT-6distillation complex. - Arbitration Court X-Ray (
kad.arbitr.ru) — Documented Fire-Spacing Violations Across the RVS Tank Farm: - Case No.
A57-22249/2024(Arbitration Court of Saratov Oblast; 12th Arbitration Court of Appeal ruling of03.07.2025; Arbitration Court of the Volga District cassation rulingF06-6419/25of09.10.2025): PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery sued the Main Directorate of EMERCOM of Russia for Saratov Oblast seeking to overturn a mandatory fire-supervision enforcement order citing violations of statutory fire-separation distances between vertical steel storage tanks (RVS). Both appellate and cassation courts rejected the claims of the refinery and upheld the enforcement order. The closely packed57RVS storage tanks at Bryanskaya St. 1 directly contributed to the multi-seat fire propagation during the07.11.2026UAV strike. - Case No.
A57-509/2025(Arbitration Court of the Volga District ruling of09.10.2026): commercial litigation and counterclaim between PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery and LLC Yedinstvo under supply contract No.8054124/0648Ddated31.07.2024regarding penalties for the delivery of substandard industrial goods.
4. Neftyanaya Rail Junction (ESR 621002) & Engels-2 Strategic Airbase Fuel Logistics (Military Unit 06987)
- Privolzhskaya Railway (JSC RZD) Serving Stations:
- Neftyanaya Freight Station (
ESR code 621002, Tariff Guide No. 4 —62100, UIC2020719,OSM node 620647758:51.416444 N, 45.951307 E) — primary petroleum tank-car loading and steaming station in southern Saratov, hosting the dedicated Neftyanaya Station Fire Train of FGP VO ZhDT RF (OSM node 5654159227,51.419478 N, 45.958894 E). - Knyazevka Station (
ESR code 625408, UIC2020869,OSM node 2135368890:51.456299 N, 45.957947 E) — immediate eastern rail junction connected to the internal 1520mm loading spurs of the refinery (OSM way 203523578,51.457671 N, 45.956448 E). - Direct Logistics Link to Engels-2 Strategic Bomber Airbase & Southern Military District (
/en/orbat): - PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery sits on the right bank of the Volga River just
19.8 kmsouthwest of Engels-2 Strategic Airbase (ICAO UWSG,51.4811 N, 46.2106 E, Engels, Saratov Oblast, Military Unit06987— headquarters of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Regiment operating Tu-160 and 184th Heavy Bomber Regiment operating Tu-95MS strategic cruise-missile carriers; historical legal entityINN 6449017963,OGRN 1026401998600; garrison treasury servicing by FKU 64th Financial-Economic Service of the Russian MoD,INN 6452951122,OGRN 5107746075916). - Located
13.5 kmnortheast across the Volga is the state strategic aviation kerosene reserve depot FGKU Salyut / Kristall Rosrezerv Combine (Engels,INN 6449017346,OGRN 1026401996620, rail junction Pokrovsk-Privolzhsky Station, ESR625605). - Through Rosneft aviation refueling operator LLC RN-Aero (
INN 7705843041,OGRN 1087746858286) and regional fuel distributor PJSC Saratovnefteprodukt (INN 6450011540,OGRN 1026402199658), Saratov Oil Refinery forms the primary refining backbone supporting the Engels strategic aviation cluster, the Saratov garrison, and rail fuel echelons supplying Russian Southern Military District forces.
5. Consolidated 24h Radar of Confirmed Strikes on Russian VPK, Refineries & Depots (06-07.11.2026, <= 24h)
| # | Struck Target (06-07.11.2026) | Russian FNS Legal Entity (INN / OGRN) | GEOINT Coordinates (lat, lon) & Rail ESR | Dossier on operbaza.org |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PJSC Saratov Oil Refinery (Saratov, Bryanskaya St. 1 — morning UAV strike of 07.11.2026, 4 fire plumes) | PAO Saratovskiy NPZ (INN 6451114900, OGRN 1026402483810) | 51.458898, 45.940426 (Neftyanaya ESR 621002 / Knyazevka ESR 625408) | /en/vpk/saratov-npz |
| 2 | Proton Electronics Cluster (Oryol, Leskova St. 19 — night missile strike of 06-07.11.2026 on Building No. 48) | JSC Proton (INN 5753018359, OGRN 1025700827283) · JSC Proton-Electrotex (INN 5753020414, OGRN 1025700825248) | 52.984779, 36.056301 (Oryol Station ESR 205004) | /en/vpk/proton-electrotex-orel |
| 3 | LLC Afipsky Oil Refinery (Afipsky, Krasnodar Krai — jet-UAV strike of 06.11.2026) | OOO Afipskiy NPZ (INN 7704214548, OGRN 1037739597059) | 44.883700, 38.817800 (Afipskaya Station ESR 524000) | /en/vpk/afipsky-npz |
| 4 | Russian Ammo & POL Depots and UAV CP in Occupied Territories (General Staff ZSU bulletin of 06-07.11.2026: Melitopol, Khliborobne, Chasiv Yar, Luhanske) | Logistics nodes of 58th CAA (Unit 93984, Unit 63354) & 98th Airborne / 3rd CAA (Unit 71211, Unit 26388) | 46.8489, 35.3653 · 47.4697, 36.6094 (Melitopol Station ESR 476007) | /en/orbat |
| 5 | Ukrainian SOF 2500-3500+ km Deep Strikes (Official Ukrainian SOF Command disclosure of 06.11.2026) | Tyumen Refinery (INN 7705551779), Omsk Refinery (INN 5501041254), Purovsky ZPK (INN 8911020197), Novy Urengoy ZPKT (INN 1102054991) | 55.0615, 73.2500 · 65.9500, 78.1500 (Kombinatskaya Station ESR 831503) | /en/vpk/omskiy-kauchuk |