LYUBOML ARMY TRAINING AREA WEST LYUBOML, USSR CARPATHIAN MD

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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LYUBOML ARMY TRAINING AREA WEST
LYUBOML, USSR
CARPATHIAN MD
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This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground Force and Logistic
installations being prepared for a DIA/CIA Panel. The series is being
coordinated, published and disseminated by NPIC. The photographic
analysis is being performed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group,
the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division (NPIC), and the Production
Center 1Pic (DIA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the Production Center 1Pic.
In the interest of uniformity, the titles and letter designators for
the facilities observed at these installations are identical with those
appearing in the project requirement. When a specific facility is not
observed both its title and letter designator are omitted in the report.
Titles and letter designators for the various facilities are as
follows: (A) railroad service, (B) road service, (C) landing strips,
(D) administrative and troop housing areas, (E) storage areas, (F) am-
munition storage areas, (G) POL storage areas, (H) other buildings and
facilities, (J) equipment storage/maintenance areas, (K) athletic fields,
(L) small arms firing ranges, (M) driver training areas, (N) tank/
assault gun firing ranges, (P) flat trajectory firing ranges, (Q) artillery
emplacements (batteries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train-
ing areas or courses, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
facilities or tracking activity.
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LYUBOML ARMY TRAINING AREA WEST
(51-19N 02A-02E)
LYUBOML, VOLYNSKAYA OBLAST, USSR
CARPATHIAN MD
25X1A 25X1C
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L L YUBOML
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A military training area (TA-1) covering
approximately 4,300 acres is located 8 kilo-
meters (km) west of Lyuboml, at 51-14N 024-
02E (Figure 1).
Facilities include a tracked-vehicle driver-
training area, a wheeled-vehicle driver-training
area with two figure-8 courses, a tank/assault-
gun firing range, a probable automatic weapons
firing range with four lanes, a combined arms
training area, and two areas containing un-
Railroad Service
Although none is available in the training
area, a rail siding from the Kovel-Chelm rail-
road is located 0.8 km southwest.
Road Service
Primary and secondary roads from Lyuboml
serve the training area.
Driver-Training Areas
Area Ml is an elliptical closed circuit
tracked-vehicle driver training area first ob-
served in -
Area M2 contains two figure-8 wheeled-
vehicle driver- training courses first observed
in
Tank/Assault-Gun Firing Range
Area N, first observed in- has a
identified trackage. D
A comparative study of iW KEYHOLE
missions from
reveals no significant change in the size of
the training area (Figure 2). Facilities have
remained the same with the exception of the
addition of the driver-training courses. Usage
appears consistently heavy during the summer
and fall months and very light during the winter.
4,400-foot firing range with two 2,8.00-foot lanes
containing two moving targets, one at 10 degrees
and one at 45 degrees.
Flat Trajectory Firing Ranges
Area P1 is a 2,000-foot, one target, probable
automatic weapons firing range.
Area P2 is an 800-foot probable flat tra-
jectory firing range.
A large open area (R) with a probable
trench system is possibly used for field training.
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