Russia’s Unified Military Registration Registry in some cases holds the actual residential addresses of people subject to military service — addresses that differ from their officially registered domicile, the human rights organization Conscript School reported.

The group reported two specific cases described to it by men subject to military service. In the first, a conscript registered in the Murmansk region learned that the registry listed an address in Tatarstan, where he rents housing without an official registration. In the second, a reservist from the Komi Republic found that the registry listed his actual address in the Leningrad region.

Neither the men themselves nor any of their relatives had provided their actual addresses to military enlistment offices. The man from the Komi Republic told the human rights activists that he had previously provided his real address to a clinic and to police when he received a traffic citation.

School of the Conscript said it remained unclear exactly where the registry obtains such data, but noted that the cases show that an actual address, once provided to a state or quasi-state system, could become accessible to military registration authorities as well.

Russia’s Unified Military Registration Registry entered full operation in May 2025. Military enlistment offices can now publish summonses in the registry rather than delivering them in person to conscripts. If a person subject to military service fails to appear in response to such a summons, they may be banned from leaving the country and face other restrictions.