COMMUNICATIONS IN THE KOMSOMOLSK AREA, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000100290057-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 33
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: April 1, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2000/05/11 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000100290057-1
Approved For Release 2000/05/11 : CIA-RDP78TO5439A000100290057-1
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COMMUNICATIONS IN THE
KOMSOMOLSK AREA, USSR
Declassification Review by NIMA/DoD
PlC /JR-6/60
APRIL 1960
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MINICARD COPY
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PREFACE
PIC/JR-6/60
This joint photographic intelligence report has been prepared by the
Army and the Central` Intelligence Agency in response to CIA requirements
RR/E/R-91/58 and $I/R-19/58, and Army SRI-IOE-1-59. Its scope is
intended to fulfill the combined :requirements of the Intelligence Community
on the communications facilities in and near the city of Komsomolsk, USSR.
This report has been prepared primarily to provide a comprehensive
photographic intelligence treatment of these important installations, and
secondly to facilitate future photo interpretation research and analysis by
having under one cover as much information concerning them as was
possible to glean from available photography, Russian textbooks, and
consultant authorities! in the field of electronics.
Komsomolsk and its environs were covered only by Mission
dated The photography was of fair to good quality; however,
snow coverage and obliquity precluded interpretation to the degree re-
quested in some instances. The :inability to retain image quality of a suffi-
cient degree to obtain workable prints after rectification, necessitated
obtaining azimuths and measurements' from oblique photography, and thus
they must be considered only approximations.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . .
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KOMSOMOLSK COMMUNICATIONS CENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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RADIO BROADCASTING STATION, INSTALLATION A . . . . . . .
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HIGH FREQUENCY POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATIONS
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HIGH FREQUENCY BROADCASTING STATION, INSTALLATION C
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HOUSING AND SUPPORT AREA ASSOCIATED WITH
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RHOMBIC ANTENNA FARM, INSTALLATION D . . . . . . . ...
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PROBABLE COMMUNICATIONS STATION, INSTALLATION E . . . . . _
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SOVIET FAR EAST
FIGURE I. GENERAL ORIENTATION MAP
? Nationsf capital -- a Road (selectee) - - - Trail (selected)
5,a le 1.28.000.000
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INTRODUCTION
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Komsomolsk is located on the left bank of the Amur River in the Soviet
Far East, 482 nautic4l miles (nm) north-northeast of Vladivostok, 207 nm
southwest of Nikolayievsk, and 158 nm northwest of Sovetskaya Gavan
(Figure 1). The narrow marshlands of the Bolshaya Silinskaya River,
which flows southeast into the Amur River at Komsomolsk, divide the city
into two built-up areas. These two areas extend 8 nm northeast-southwest
along the Amur River and average 3 nm in width. The terrain is generally
flat and marshy, with elevations