SOVIET MILITARY ORDER OF BATTLE TRANS CAUCASUS MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04759A001600010001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOVIET MILITARY
ORDER OF BATTLE
TRANS CAUCASUS MD
DECLASS REVIEW by NIMA/DOD
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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 iPla (DIA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed b;,, the Production Center 1Pla.
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, (II) 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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ORDNANCE DEPOT
(41-42N 044-49E)
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An ordnance depot covering approximately
160 acres is located in the eastern part of
Tbilisi, immediately east of the rail line (Figure
1.). The area is secured and contains the Tbilisi
Ordnance and Machine Plant Ordzhonikid-
ze
and 'Tbilisi Munitions
Storage (I I
The depot contains a billeting section with
9 multistory barracks and an administration
building, a machine plant with 15 buildings, an
ammunition storage area with 6 warehouses and
2 support structures, and a large vehicle and
equipment storage and maintenance area with
82 buildings. Approximately 520 vehicles or
pieces of equipment were observed in
(Figures 2 and 3).
major changes were noted.
and
No
Railroad Service
A single spur serves the depot.
Rail Service
Good all-weather roads serve the installa-
Administration and Troop Housing Area
Area D contains 2 multistory administration
buildings, a barracks, 4 administration build-
ings, 2 motor vehicle storage structures, 14
support buildings, a long storage shed, and 9
multistory barracks.
The following equipment was observed in
13 cargo trucks, 4 utility trucks,
Area F contains 6 warehouses and 2 support
buildings with natural blast protection.
Other Buildings
Area I I contains 4 multistory administration
buildings,
3
irregular-shaped manufacturing
structures,
buildings.
4 warehouses, and 4 support
Equipment Storage/ Maintenance Area
Area J has a main storage area containing
a multistory administration building, a boiler
house with smoke stack, a large maintenance
building with possible 240--by 110-foot over-
head crane, 2 C-shaped s:orage buildings, a
multiwing support building, and 23 support/
storage buildings.
Area J also has the following motor vehicle
and equipment storage/maintenance buildings:
2 multiwing (310 by 35 feet with four 70- by
40-foot wings), 2 C-shaped
with two 70- by 40-foot wings), 1 L-shaped
(110 by 30 feet with a 75- by 30-foot wing) and
eighteen 105 by 40 feet, four 110 by 50 feet, two
320 by 35 feet, two 330 by 40feet, two 145 by 40
feet, six 115 by 40 feet, one
five 95 by 40 feet, two 165 by 35 feet, one 120
by 30 feet, one 155 by 30 feet, two 125 by 30
feet, one 250 by 45 feet, and one 185 by 40 feet .
trailers, canvas-covered with truck tractors,
10 possible SCUD A-frams cranes with truck
tractors, a possible SCUD launcher, 100 van
trucks, 18 prime movers, 66 cargo trucks, 19
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Railroad, single track
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utility trucks, 12 possible flat bed trailers guns, 60 probable medium FA guns. 34 prob-
with truck tractors, 6 radar sets, 1 heavy, 20 able light FA guns, and 137 unidentified vehicles/
probable medium, and 33 probable light AA pieces of equipment.
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