SUBMARINE SEARCH FROM KOLA PENINSULA TO VLADIVOSTOK, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: August 1, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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August 1963
SUBMARINE SEARCH
FROM KOLA PENINSULA TO VLADIVOSTOK,
USSR
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SUBMARINE SEARCH
FROM KOLA PENINSULA TO VLADIVOSTOK, USSR
A total of 104 submarines was observed in a
search of the Arctic and Pacific coastal area of
photography
The entire Arctic and Pacific coastal area of
the USSR that was visible on hoto -
raphy
was searched for submarines of
the Soviet Northern and Pacific Fleets (Figures
1 and 2). The search included known or suspected
submarine bases, shipyards, ports, coastal
waters, and the open sea. In addition, each area
was searched for submarine pens and associated
facilities.
In the Northern Fleet Area, all known sub-
marine bases and ports plus about 85 percent of
the ice -free coastline of the Arctic Ocean west of
Novaya Zemlya were examined. Between Novaya
Zemlya (70-OON 60-OOE) and Wrangel Island
(70-OON 180-OOE), pack ice in the Arctic Ocean
precluded the identification of submarine activ-
ity. In the Pacific Fleet Area, 11 of 14 known
bases and ports plus about 45 percent of the ice-
free coastline of the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic
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Ocean east of Wrangel Island were examined.
A total of 104 submarines was observed in
both areas: 84 in the Northern Fleet Area and
20 in the Pacific Fleet Area. It is felt that a
substantially complete total of Northern Fleet
in-port submarines was observed.
In Tables 1 and 2, the disposition of the
observed submarines is given by specific base
or geographic location within the fleet area.
The count is broken down into three categories:
"small" for all submarines under 200 feet;
"medium" for those between 200 feet and 260
feet; and "large" for all submarines over 260
feet.
Overall, mensuration is considered to rep-
resent an optimum accuracy of ? 10 to 20 feet.
In many cases, however, the exact limit of bow
and stern could not be accurately established
even though the image itself could be identified
as a submarine.
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KOLA INLET AREA
Dolgaya Zapadnaya Bay
Eyna Bay
Litsa Bay
Motka Bay
Rosta
Sayda Bay
Severomorsk
BARENTS SEA AREA
Bolshaya Volokovaya Bay
Kildin Island (southwest
coastal area)
Pechanga
Rybachyy Island
(north coast)
69-15N 33-50E
69-39N 32-25E
69-26N 32-24E
69-38N 32-05E
69-02N 33-04E
69-15N 33-21E
69-05N 33-27E
69-22N 34-12E
69-39N 31-22E
67-04N 41-07E
None
8 large SS
1 prob large SS
1 poss large SS
6 large SS
4 small SS
7 large SS
2 poss large SS
5 medium SS
1 prob medium SS
1 small SS
2 large SS
6 medium SS
3 small SS
8 large SS
1 poss large SS
2 medium SS
13 medium SS
4 small SS
1 medium SS
1 prob medium SS
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Tyuva Bay
69-11N
33-38E
Varlamova Bay
69-04N
33-23E
Yokanga
68-04N
39-30E
WHITE SEA AREA
Arkhangelsk
64-32N
40-30E
Kislaya Bay
66-32N
33-06E
Severodvinsk
64-34N
39-49E
None
None; no facilities
1 large SS 2-3 u/i
naval vesse s)
KAMCHATKA AREA
Akhomten Bay
52-26N
158-30E
Not
observed
Bechevinskaya Bay
53-14N
159-44E
Not
observed
Kommandorskiye Island
55-OON
167-OOE
Not
observed
Kozyrevskoye (Bajkovo) Bay
50-43N
156-12E
Not
observed
Listvenichnaya Bay
52-21N
158-31E
Not
observed
Magadan
59-34N
150-48E
Not
observed
Medvezhka Bay
53-20N
159-55E
Not
observed
Petropavlovsk/Tarya Bay
52-55N
158-30E
4 la
rge SS (2 previously reported
Sarannaya Bay
52-45N
158-31E
po
na
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Vilyuchinskaya Bay
52-38N
158-25E
Not
observed
Zhirovaya Bay
52-35N
158-30E
Not
observed
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Andreya Bay (and coast
100 nm to south)
Boysmana Bay
Dunay
Komsomolsk-na-Amure
Nakhodka
Novik Bay
Olga
Pallady (Talava) Roads
Peschami Point
Petrovka
Sedimi Bay
Slavyanskiy Bay
Sovetskaya Gavan
Sudzukhe Bay
Trambetskogo Point
Troitsy Bay
Uspeniya Bay
Valentina Bay
Vityaz Bay
Vladimira Bay
42-46N 131-18E
42-54N 132-21E
50-35N 137-02E
42-48N 132-54E
43-04N 131-54E
43-42N 135-20E
42-36N 130-50E
48-27N 140-11E
43-07N 132-20E
43-OON 131-31E
42-54N 131-26E
49-O1N 140-18E
42-51N 133-40E
42-51N 132-32E
42-39N 131-07E
42-50N 133-32E
43-07N 134-20E
42-36N 131-10E
43-55N 135-28E
None
None
Not observed
1 medium SS
None
None
None
Not observed
2 poss large SS
1 medium SS
3 small SS
None
None
Not observed
None
None
None
None
Not observed
None
2 medium SS
1 prob medium SS
1 small SS
1 prob medium SS
2 poss medium SS
2 poss small SS
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