SECURED STORAGE AREA PETROPAVLOVSK NAVAL MINING AND TORPEDO DEPOT KOSA, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2002
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURED STORAGE AREA
PETROPAVLOVSK NAVAL MINING
AND TORPEDO DEPOT
KOSA, USSR
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SECURED STORAGE AREA
PETROPAVLOVSK NAVAL MINING AND TORPEDO DEPOT KOSA,, USSR
A triple-fenced storage area is located be-
tween the pier area and the storage and support
areas at the Petropavlovsk Naval Mini and
Totpedo Depot Kosa lat
52-54N 158-33E. The location at Mys (Cape)
Kosa is 3 nautical miles (nm) east of Petro-
pavlovsk Naval Base Tarya Bay
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pavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, USSR (Figures 1 and 2).
The triple-fenced storage area is situated
on a hillside adjoining the main road and con-
tains a long, narrow storage building adjacent
to a cliff (Figure 3). The storage building, ap-
proximately 225 by 30 feet, is accessible through
a single entrance located at the north end. The
building has a gable roof on which one ventilator
is discernible and a second ventilator is indicated
by the pattern of melted snow. 11 perspective of
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this building is shown in the inset, figure 3. An
access road extends uphill from the main road
and widens into an apron within the triple-fenced
area. Two support buildings are within the outer-
most fence, and a gatehouse is situated at the
junction of the main road and the access road to
the storage building. 'This facility was first ob-
served on photography
Other facilities within the munitions depot
at Mys Kosa include: a pier area; a double-
secured munitions storage area containing eight
dispersed munitions storage buildings; a double -
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secured area with munitions stored in the open;
an unsecured storage area with three dispersed
storage buildings; and an unsecured support
area. The main road extends from the pier
area past the munitions depot and terminates
at an SA-2 site.
This munitions depot supports I'etropav--
lovsk Naval Base "Tarya Bay, which is the
principal submarine base for the Soviet Pacific
Fleet. Since the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
area is 1,200 nm from the fleet headquarters
at Vladivostok and is accessible only by air and
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by sea, complete munitions storage is required. cannot be determined. The storage building
However, storage facilities for conventional appears to be of conventional design with no
submarine munitions (torpedoes and mines) have indications of any specialized form of storage.
already been identified elsewhere within the The only extraordinary features of the storage
munitions depot at Mys Kosa; naval missile air- area are the elaborate security provisions and
the isolated location of the site. A preliminary
search of the Kola Inlet area, headquarters
for the Soviet Northern Fleet, did not reveal
any facility comparable to the triple-Fenced
area at Petropavlovsk Naval Mining and Tor-
pedo Depot Kosa.
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