POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED FACILITY, KRASNYY KUT AIRFIELD, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 1, 1964
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POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED FACILITY,
KRASNYY KUT AIRFIELD, USSR
A possible missile-related facility has been
identified at Krasnyy Kut Airfield, USSR. This
facility is suspected to be an assembly point
for cruise missiles. Five shipping crates
observed here were comparable in size to those
used for KOMET (KENNEL) AS-1 missiles in
Cuba. 1/ This facility was constructed between
The possible missile-related facility is
located at 44-31N 132-50E, in the service area
at the northeastern edge of the Krasnyy Kut
25X1A Airfield (BE No - This location is
one nautical mile (nm) northeast of Krasnyy
Kut, 4 nm south-southeast of Spassk-Dalniy,
and 90 nm north-northeast of Vladivostok, USSR
(Figure 1). The facility was first visible on
25X1 D photography of- and has not changed
significantly since then (Figure 2). It was not
present in although a hangar-
type building (item 6, Figure 3) and three
hangarettes (item 3) were discernible at that
time. Another group of three hangarettes visible
and it now contains two drive-
through buildings, two warehouses with side
entrances, and three hangarettes. It is heavily
secured and provided with a system of hard-
surfaced roads, most of which have wide-
radius turns.
25X1 D in has been replaced by a drive-through
building (item 1). Item numbers are keyed to
Figure 3.
facility is secured by a double perimeter
1 and 2), three hangarettes (item 3), and a
partially revetted hold area. This section is
accessible from Section 2 and from the airfield.
Section 2, a possible storage area, contains two
large warehouses (items 4 and 5) with concrete
aprons, one hangar-type building (item 6), and
two small buildings. The warehouses have side
fence, composed of a solid inner fence and
a probable open outer fence. Guardhouses
are situated along the fence, and a security build-
ing outside the main gate is separately fenced.
The facility is divided into four distinct
sections by solid fences, and gates are dis-
cernible at all entrances to the sections. Section
1, a possible assembly and checkout area, con-
tains two large drive-through buildings (items
This section is accessible from Sections 1
-1-
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and 3 and from the airfield. Section 3, a possible
receiving and uncrating area, contains a large
building (item 7) and a small building. At
the time of photography, seven shipping crates
were observed in this area. Five of these were
25X1 D approximately -feet, which is about the
size of crates used in Cuba for transporting
KOMET (KENNEL) AS-1 missiles. 1/ The
other two crates were approximately
feet. Section 3 is accessible from Section 2
and the airfield. Section 4 containstwopossible
buried tanks and has no visible access road or
gate. No electronic equipment was observed
in any of the sections.
The facility is readily accessible by air
and by road. The sod landing area adjoin-
ing the facility is 6,200 feet in length. At
the time of photography, two FAGOT aircraft
were parked on the landing area. Traffic
from the airfield is routed to the main road
from Spassk-1)alniy to Ussuriysk and Vlad-
ivostok. ['he intersection of the airfield access
road and this main road has been widened since
M The facility is served by access and
internal roads which are hard-surfaced and
have wide-radius turns. The gate widths
into the facility are between 15 and 25 feet.
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KRASNYY KUT AIRFIELD
Facilities associated with the Krasnyy a single fence, are located in a woods north-
Kut Airfield which have not changed since east of the landing area. One of these
25X1 D =include a hangar, POL storage, and buildings and an access road 40 feet wide
an administration/housing area adjoining the have been constructed since _ However,
town. Another administration/housing area the gate into this secured area is only 25
immediately west of the possible missile- feet wide. The road system serving com-
25X1 D related facility has been expanded since= ponents of the airfield enables all traffic to
Two revetted storage buildings, secured by circumvent the possible missile-related facility.
SIMILAR INSTALLATION AT KOTLY AIRFIELD
The possible missile-related facility at -, which is located at 59-35N 28-45E,
Krasnyy Kut Airfield is similar to a less one nm southwest of Kotly and 50 nm west-
elaborate installation at Kotly Airfield (BE No southwest of Leningrad, USSR. Kotly Airfield
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is also sod surfaced. The installation contains fence, and the roads serving the installation have
one large drive-through building and two smaller wide-radius turns.
buildings on aprons. It is secured by a solid
MAPS AND CHARTS
1. SAC. USATC Series 200, Sheet 0282-22HL, 2d ed, Jan 63, scale 1:200,000 (SECRET)
2. ACIC. USAF ONC, Sheet ONC-D-3, 2d ed, Sep 62, scale 1:1,000,000 (CONFIDENTIAL)
1. Army. MIS 23-63, The Soviet Coastal Defense Missile System, May 63 (SECRET)
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