LAUNCH COMPLEX H, TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR, CHANGES(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04560A002100010087-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: February 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release-2002/": CE-W1T8B04560A002100010087-0
TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR,
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
TOP SECRET - -- ---------
GROUP
E Iddi a /
de+np nd dec loan( cap-o /
Approved F P LA66A5Y/tJ3tIM f 1 4560A002100010087-0
 Approved For Release 2uuduoi 3T:
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78BO456OA002100010087-0
NPIC/R-145/64
TOP SECRET
LAUNCH COMPLEX H,
TYURATAM MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR,
25X1 D
25X1
25X1 D
25X1 D
25X1 D
25X1 D
25X1 D
CHANGES
report, based oni Iphotog-
ra h
gives details of additions
and changes at Launch Complex H (45-58N
63-41E) at the Tyuratam Missile Test Center
(Figure 1)
The photography was monoscopic
coverage of fair quality and the
photography was stereoscopic coverage of good
quality.
Dimensions for some buildings in the com-
plex, given in an earlier NPIC report, 1/ have
been corrected. The functions of the various
buildings have not been determined, and com-
parisons with the buildings at other launch com-
plexes cannot be made.
Launch Complex H, consisting of a launch
area and an electronic facility, may be the pro-
totype for a probable semihardened rail-served
ICBM launch facility (Figures 2 and 3). The
launch area contains two launch facilities: one
in a late stage of construction and possibly
complete, and the other in a midstage of con-
struction. It is rail served, but direct rail
service onto the launch pads has not been con-
firmed. Only gross features of the electronic
facility are apparent.
The launch area (Figures 2 and 3), approxi-
mately 1,800 by 1,800 feet, is generally square
in shape. Security fencing is probably complete,
but has not been identified on the southwest
side of the area. The completed launch facil-
ities will probably consist of two launch pads
about 580 feet apart, each with almost parallel
groups of four earth-mounded buildings arranged
in an inverted cross configuration. The group
on the west side of the area appears to be near
completion. The vague circular pattern at the
center of the cross configuration is the launch
pad. An unidentified structure 95 by 20 feet,
adjacent to the launch pad, is aligned with the
long axis of the cross configuration. The three
heavily mounded buildings at the head of the cross
configuration are approximately 120 feet from
the pad; the buildings east and west of the pad
are 120 by 40 feet, and the building south of
the pad is 100 by 40 feet. The mounding at these
buildings has been covered or treated with a
highly reflective material nearly white in tone.
The material, possibly something similar to
gunite or a veneer of concrete, appears to be
25X1
25X1
 Approved For Release A7U8T2;
COMPLEX A SFAC ~ TY,?~'
identical to that lining the western half of the
blast pit at Launch Complex A (Pad Al) at
It yuratam. 2/ The fourth mounded building,
300 feet north of the launch pad, is at least 100
by 40 feet. It was not observed prior to mound-
ing, and its exact dimensions cannot be deter-
mined. 'the mounding at the fourth building has
not been covered or treated.
I he cross configuration on the east side of
the launch area is incomplete. The three build-
ings forming the head of the configuration have
COMPLIEX F
Railroad
Surfaced road
Graded road or trail
Fence
-?-Poier line
? SA-2 SAM site ( revetted )
O SA-2 SAM site (unrevetted)
COMPLEX EI COMPLEX B
TOP SECRET
been construct( I east, west, and south of a
shallow excavation for the launch pad, which is
under construct,on at the center of the configu-
ration. The buil lings are all 120by40 feet, and
none has been cirth mounded as yet. A fourth
building has no! been identified north of the
launch pad exca'. ition, but a ditch extends north-
ward 300 feet t a small unidentified structure
at its probable 1-cation.
There are ~nree earth-mounded buildings
in the center of the launch area, between the
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78BO456OA002100010087-0
25X1
25X1
25X1
 Approved For Release 20u iuo/ AT
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78BO456OA002100010087-0
southern extremities of the cross configurations.
The buildings--230 by 50 feet, 120 by 40 feet,
and 65 by 40 feet--form a V-shaped pattern
from north to south. They arc centered on a
line midway between the launch pads, and are
perpendicular to the long axes of the cross
configurations. The mounding on these build-
ings has been covered or treated with the same
material as those in the cross configuration
on the west side of the launch area. A possible
conduit, which appeared as a low linear earth
mound, extended along the west side of the build-
ings A 340- by 30-foot rectangle,
of either concrete construction or treated in the
same manner as the mounded b 'Id" as
observed in this position A
ditch or low linear earth mound extends gen-
erally south about 300 feet from the buildings,
and north to a point near the fcncelinc.
A possible spray pond 130 by 110 feet and
a low earth-mounded structure 105 by 50 feet
TOP SECRET
The electronic facility southeast of the
launch area consists of a triangular-shaped
secured area, with two legs approximately 1, 200
feet long, at right angles (Figures 2 and 3). The
security fencing has not been identified com-
pletely along the southwest side of the facility.
One le is oriented on an azimuth of approxi-
mately
are located south of the western cross config-
uration, on the west side of the main access
road to the launch area; there were excavations
at both locations on the photography.
Two large buildings are located south of the
eastern cross configuration, on the east side
of the main access road. Other structures within
the launch area include nine small buildings and
three small earth mounds at scattered locations.
The launch area is road and rail served.
The main access road forks just south of the
V formed by the three earth-mounded buildings
in the center of the area; one branch curves
west and north to terminate in feeder roads on
either side of the mounded building at the head
of the western cross configuration; the other
branch, to the eastern cross configuration, is
incomplete. The rail line into the launch area
can be identified to a point near the fork in
the main access road. Vague traces suggest
that rail service may extend onto the launch pads.
25X1
25X1 D
A 25X1 D
low earth mound approximately 65 feet indiam-
eter is at the intersection of the legs. Grading
southwest of the intersection suggests that
additional construction may be inprogress. The
access road to the facility terminates at a
hardstand near the intersection of the legs.
25X1
 Approved For RRPfe 200992~
Railroad
Road
Linear earth
mound or ditch
Mounded building
Building
Earth mound
Excavation
180 X 1 00
120 X 43
1 B0 X 1 00
100 X 40
250 X 110
40 WIDE
120 X 40
300 X 75
230 X 50
150 X 75
20 X 40
70 X 75
55 X 40
340 X 30
130 X 110
105 X 50
6N
COMPLEX C
SUPPORT
AREA i
COMPLEX D-
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78BO456OA002100010087-0
ELECTRONIC:
FACILITY
TOP SECRET
25X1
25X1
25X1 D
25X1 D
LAUNCH
AREA
BUILDING
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION
9 3 MOUNDED BUILDINGS
MOUND
BUILDING
MOUND
BUILDING
MOUND
BUILDING
10 POSSIBLE CONDUIT
11 POSSIBLE SPRAY POND
12 LOW MOUNDED STRUCTURE
LAUNCH PAD (VAGUE;
2 UNIDENTIFIED STRUCTURE
3 2 MOUNDED BUILDINGS
MOUNDS
BUILDINGS
4 MOUNDED BUILD(`JG
MOUND
BUILDING
5 MOUNDED BUILDING
MOUND
BUILDING
2 BUILDINGS
25X1
25X1
 Approved For Rella9r200/0'8'/73T
25X1
25X1 D
TOP SECRET
25X1 D
25X1
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78B04560A002100010087-0
 Approved For R~eQAse 2(}09413
1. NPIC. R-304/63 Launch Complexes C and 11, Tura Tam Missile Test Center, USSR, Aug 63 (TOP SECRET
f'OP SECRET
1 -1
25X1
25X1
25X1
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78B04560A002100010087-0
 Approved For Release 20 998/23S`CTA=RDP78B04560A002100010087-0
TOP SECRET
Approved For Release 2002/08/23 : CIA-RDP78B04560A002100010087-0