SERPUKHOV SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE ENGINERRING RESEARCH/TRAINING FACILITY USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: October 1, 1976
• Content Type: REPORT

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SERPUKHOV SURFACE-TO-SURFACE
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TRAINING FACILITY
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INSTA I.LATION OR ACTIVITY NAME
Serpukhov Surface-to-Surface Missile Engineering Research/Training
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ABSTRACT
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1. Serpukhov Surface-to-Surface Missile Engineering Research/Training Facility was first
associated with the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces in February 1974 when a type IIIE (SS-13
ICBM) training silo was identified. Training activity associated with the SS-13 offensive missile
system was first observed in June 1975.
2. This report provides a basic description of the facility, a chronology of activity observed at
the training silo, a location map, two annotated photographs, a line drawing, and a dimensional
table. The report is based on selected photography from February 1966 through July 1976.
INTRODUCTION
3. This facility is believed to have been an air force training school through the mid-to-late
1960s. It was first directly associated with the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces (SRF) in February
1974 when a type IIIE (SS-13 ICBM) training silo was identified within atriple-secured area of the
facility. A review of photography of 1974 indicated that one of two obstacle courses completed in
1968 was in fact a typical SRF course, suggesting when this facility became associated with the
SRF. Subsequently, the facility was targeted as the Serpukhov Surface-to-Surface Missile
Engineering Research/Training Facility (Figure 1). The facility covers 182 acres and has over 60
buildings or structures.
BASIC DESCRIPTION
4. For reporting purposes, the facility has been divided into three functional areas: a technical
training and support area, a classroom and housing area, and a maintenance and storage area
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Construction Activity
Technical Training and Support Area
5. This area contains a type IIIE training silo, ahigh-bay checkout building, three 14-bay
vehicle storage buildings, a large foundation for a new building, two clerestory buildings, and a sup-
port building; all of these structures are within a security wall and two fences.
6. The type IIIE training silo (item 22, Figure 2) was constructed atop a small hill that had
been leveled for the silo. The south face of the hill is probably a concrete wall with a drop
Two doors (Figure 3) are at one end of this wall, and a large slop-
ing apron extends from the south to the doors. These two doors provide access into a probable equip-
ment storage room.
7. It is not believed that this silo is full depth, although no positive confirmation is possible
because of a lack of usable photography during the construction of the silo. Unidentified construc-
tion activity was visible in March 1971 in the same location where in Februar 1974 the type IIIE
training silo could be identified. The silo may be onl he height of the
concrete wall on the south side of the hill. This dimension is compati e wit t e combined length of
the SS-13 third stage and reentry vehicle. If this concept is correct, then the silo probably is in-
volved only in reentry vehicle mating training.
8. The three vehicle storage buildings (items 20, 23, and 24, Figure 2), one of the two
clerestory buildings (item 19, Figure 2), and the support building (item 18, Figure 2) were all com-
plete when the facility was observed in 1968. The clerestory building probably functions as a receiv-
ing, inspection, and maintenance building.
9. The second clerestory building (item 25) was complete on photography It
was seen under construction for the first time in January 1974. This building is similar to payload
handling buildings, one of which is under construction at each of the deployed intercontinental
ballistic missile (ICBM) complexes where the SS-11 Mod 2/3, SS-17, -18, and -19 are currently be-
ing deployed. These buildings are believed to handle multiple-warhead reentry vehicles for the
ICBMs.
10. If this correlation is correct for this building, it would suggest that the facility will be
associated with the SS-X-16 or a follow-on system. The SS-X-16 has the capability to deliver a mul-
tiple reentry vehicle.
11. A fence separating this clerestory building and one of the three vehicle storage buildings
(item 24) from the other buildings in this area was constructed
12. Grading for a foundation for a new building (item 21, Figure 2)
Classroom and Housing Area
13. This area contains over 30 major buildings with the bulk of these being either classroom
structures or barracks. Most of the buildings within this area were present in February 1966 when
the Serpukhov facility was believed to have been an air force school.
14. There are a total of seven classroom buildings in the area. One of these (items 29 and 30,
Figure 2) is a large five-story building, which was complete in July 1971. The west wing of another
classroom building (item 28b) probably contains classrooms and adrive-in, high-bay shop and was
not complete until July 1973.
15. Two of the apartment buildings have been constructed since 1966. One, afive-story
building on the east-southeast side of the area (item 61), was complete by June 1975. The other
apartment building (item 55) was complete by July 1976.
16. One of the nine barracks (item 56) was still under construction in July 1976. Additionally,
a probable recreation building (item 54, Figure 2) was complete between April and July 1976. Two
SS-11 canisters, which will probably be used for storage, were buried to the west of the wing of one
of the classroom buildings (item 28b, Figure 2).
Maintenance and Storage Area
17. In February 1966, only a firing range (item 13, Figure 2) and small general support-type
buildings were observed in this area. Several additions were made to this area both before and after
1970. Two 14-bay vehicle storage buildings (items 1 and 2, Figure 2) were complete by November
1967. Both obstacle courses (item 14) were complete by November 1968. One of these courses is a
typical SRF course; the specific association of the other cannot be identified.
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