SELECTED PROBABLE NAVAL-ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES

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• Publication Date: April 1, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION
REPORT
SELECTED PROBABLE NAVAL-ASSOCIATED
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
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Selected Probable Naval-Associated Communications Facilities
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Tavrichanka Probable 43-20-OON
Naval Radio Communi- 131-54-OOE
cations Station
Tavrichanka AM Broad- 43-20-OON
cast Station East-North- 131-55-OOE
east
Tavrichanka Radio 43-22-40N
Communications 131-54-10E
Station 1
Tavrichanka Radio 43-23-05N
Communications 131-55-30E
Station 2
Koryaki HF Communi- 52-13-50N
cations Facility* 158-01-50E
Probable Black Sea 44-36-50N
Naval Fleet Head- 030-31-30E
quarters
Severomorsk Probable 69-04-50N
Naval Command and 033-29-35E
Control Facility
Domodedovo Radio 55-28-10N
Communications' Station 037-45-30E
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R CA-03/0025/7 1, Koryaki HF Communications Facility,
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FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF THREE FLEET HEADQUARTERS AREAS
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FIGURE 2. LOCATION OF HF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES NEAR TAVRICHANKA
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ABSTRACT
1. This report describes eight selected high-frequency (HF) communications facilities
and microwave links which are available for use by the Soviet Naval Fleet Headquarters at
Vladivostok, Sevastopol, and Severomorsk and the Soviet Naval Headquarters in Moscow.
The report includes location maps, annotated photographs, and mensural data.
INTRODUCTION
2. The facilities described in this report are situated in three Soviet Naval Fleet areas
and near Moscow (Figure 1). These facilities appear to be naval associated either because
they contain antenna types and azimuths peculiar to Soviet naval communications
facilities or because their locations suggest an association with such facilities.
BASIC DESCRIPTION
Pacific Fleet Area
Tavrichanka Probable Naval Radio Communications Station
3. Tavrichanka Probable Naval Radio Communications Station is 2 nautical miles
(nm) northeast of Tavrichanka (Figure 2) and 13 nm north of the Pacific Naval Fleet
Headquarters at Vladivostok. The facility contains seven tower-mounted
probable cage dipole antennas, six dipole curtain arrays, a day/night pair of double
rhombic antennas, a control building, and four small support buildings (Figure 3). The
seven tower-mounted probable cage dipole antennas are the primary HF antennas at the
facility. They are reported to be unique to the Soviet navy and appear similar to antennas
identified at other probable naval-associated communications facilities at Koryaki, 1
Severomorsk, Sevastopol, and Uglovoye,2 USSR.
4. The probable cage dipole antennas have orientations permitting signal propagation
seaward over a large area and appear to serve as ship-to-shore communications. An analysis
of the approximate azimuths of the dipole curtain arrays and the rhombic antennas at this
facility indicates probable land-based correspondents in areas of naval activity.
5. A review of older photography suggests that the dipole curtain arrays and the
double rhombic antennas were probably complete by May 1968. The tower-mounted
probable cage dipole antennas were in final stages of construction in November 1970, the
date of the latest available KEYHOLE photography of the facility.
Tavrichanka AM Broadcast Station East-Northeast
6. Tavrichanka AM Broadcast Station East-Northeast is adjacent to Tavrichanka
Probable Naval Radio Communications Station (Figures 2 and 3). The facility is separately
secured and contains two vertical radiators, one control building, one square cooling pond,
and four support buildings. The AM broadcast station was probably operational by June
1963, at least four years before construction began on Tavrichanka Probable Naval Radio
Communications Station.
7. A probable buried communications cable appears to connect these two facilities,
and a centrally located electric power substation is the source of external electric power for
both facilities.
Tavrichanka Radio Communications Stations 1 and 2
8. Two other apparently related HF communications facilities are Tavrichanka Radio
Communications Stations 1 and 2, situated approximately 4 nm north of Tavrichanka,
with station 2 1.1 nm northeast of station 1 (see Figure 2). These two facilities were built
during the same period that the later construction at the Tavrichanka Probable Naval
Radio Communications Station took place and apparently derive their external electric
power from the substation which serves it and the AM broadcast station.
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