ELECTRONIC INSTALLATIONS TASHKENT, USSR

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• Publication Date: October 1, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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ELECTRONIC INSTALLATIONS
TASHKENT, USSR
PIC/JR-25/59
OCTOBER 1959
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On page 7, the location of installation No. 3 should read:
..1.75 miles northeast of Sary Agach. "
On page 11, the location of installation No. 10 should read:
. 1 . 8 miles south of Tashkent Airfield.... "
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On page 12, the location of installation No. 11 should read:
...about 7, 000 feet southeast of Tashkent Airfield. . . . "
On page 13, the coordinates for installation No. 16 should read:
"41?07'N/69?24'E . "
Page 1-3 includes a reference to Figure 14, which was omitted
from the report.
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PREFACE
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This joint photographic intelligence report has been prepared by the
Army, Navy, and Central Intelligence Agency, and is intended to satisfy
the combined requirements of the intelligence community on electronic
Installations in Tashkent, USSR, as specified in Army SRI 136-1-58, Navy
DNI 15-57, and CIA RR/E/R94/58, Information based on an analysis of
aerial photography has been supplemented by data from col-
lateral sources covering the period 1953 to 1958.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction....., ................................... 4
Summary and Conclusions . . ................. . ............... 4
Identified Installations ... . ... . .. . ....... . ............... 6
1, Transmitter Station ............... . ................. 6
2. Receiver Station .. . ....... . ...................... . . 6
3. Direction-Finding Station ............. . . . ... . ....... 7
4. Possible Microwave Tower . . ............ . .............. 7
5. Receiver Station ..................................... 7
6. Probable Communication Station . ..................... . . . . 8
7. Broadcasting Installation ... . .. ...................... 8
8. Tashkent Southeast Airfield
Instrumentation and Communication Facilities ............... . . 10
9. Transmitter Station .................... . ... . ...... . . 11
10. Transmitter Station ............ . ... . ................ . 11
11. Communication Station ...... . ... . ..................... 12
12. Possible Microwave lower ...... . .................... . .. 12
13. Probable Communication Station .......................... 13
14. Krug Antenna ...................................... 13
15, Direction-Finding Station . ........... . ............. . ... 13
16. Krug Antenna ................................... . .. 13
Reported Installations .. . . . ..... . ..... . . .... . ..... . ......... 13
TABLE OF GRAPHICS
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Figure 1. General Location Map ........ . . ....... . . ........ 4
Figure 2. Detailed Location Map of the Tashkent Area .. . ......... 5
Figure 3. Installation 1 ....... . . . .................. . .... 6
Figure 4. Installation 2 .. . ......................... . .... 7
Figure 5. Designation of Fiehbone Antenna
Configurations used in this report ................... 7
Figure 6. Installation 5 . ........................ . ... . . . . 8
Figure 7. Installation 6 ...... . ............. . . ........... 8
Figure 8. Installation 7 ...... . ............. . .... . ....... 9
Figure 9. Installation 8 .. . ................. . .. . ......... 10
Figure 10. Installation 9 ...... . ............. . .. . ......... 11
Figure 11. Installation 10 ...... . ......................... 11
Figure 12. Installation 11 ...... . . ........................ 12
Figure 13. Installation 13 ................................ 13
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INTRODUCTION
This report presents a photographic
analysis of 16 electronic installations in
Tashkent and vicinity. Tashkent is lo-
cated at 41?18'N/69?16'E, 1,770 miles
southeast of Moscow. It lies on an alluvial
fan between the Tyan Shan mountains to the
east and the Syr Darya River Valley to
the west.
On aerial
photographic missions were flown over
the Tashkent area. This report gives
detailed descriptions of the 16 electronic
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installations identified on this photog-
raphy. In addition, eight Installations
reported by collateral sources but not
identified on aerial photography are listed
and briefly described. For convenient
reference to the detailed location map,
Figure 2, the Identified Installations are
numbered from 1 through 16 and those
reported are lettered from A through H.
The term "miles" in this report means
"nautical miles."
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The 16 electronic installations identi-
fied on photography range from a local
broadcasting station (No. 10) containing
one tower, to a large receiver station
(No. 2) containing over 300 stick masts,
The installations have various types of
electronic equipment and perform various
functions, including point-to-point, micro-
wave, and airfield communications; radio
broadcasting; and aircraft navigational
aid.
Two installations, Nos. 2 and 7, are
particularly interesting. Installation No. 2,
a high-frequency receiver station, con-
tains an unusually large number of re-
ceiving antennas, 16 fishbones and 9
rhombics (plus one rhombic under con-
struction). The only other station of
similar magnitude identified on TALENT
photography Is the receiver station near
Rustavi. Within installation No. 7, a
station was under construction at the time
of photography containing 12 self-sup-
porting towers ranging in height from 170
to 385 feet. This station appears to have
the same function, that of high-frequency
broadcasting, as installations near Sverd-
lovsk, Alma-Ata, Novosibirsk, Kotnsom-
olsk, Stalinabad, and Tbilisi. (A report
on the latter five installations is being
prepared by PIC.) The apparently recent
construction of some of these installations
indicates an effort by the USSR to expand
its high-frequency broadcasting facilities.
To determine possible communication
links between Tashkent and other cities, a
line was projected from Tashkent on the
azimuthal orientation of each rhombic and
fishbone antenna. These lines pass over
the Soviet cities of Moscow, Baku, Irkutsk,
Chita, Kuybyshev, Tbilisi, Kerch, Sevast-
opol, Corkiy, and Magadan, andover Kabul,
in Afghanistan. Such extensive possible
communication links, together with the
number, size, and complexity of its com-
munication facilities, make Tashkent one
of the major communication centers in
the USSR, and probably the chief com-
munication center in Central Asia.
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IDENTIFIED INSTALLATIONS
A transmitter station is located at
41'29'50"N/69"0045" E, 3 miles north/
northwest of Sary Agach, 300 feet cast of
the Tashkent/Arys railroad, and 14,5
miles northwest of Tashkent (see Figure
3). The station is enclosed by a fence
2,050 by 1,275 feet, covers approximately
60 acres, and is served by an all-weather
road. It contains four double rhombic
antennas, a transmitter building, and
several support-type buildings.
The four double rhombics are ar-
ranged in two pairs.' ha presence of dis-
sipation lines indicates that these are
transmitting rhotnbics. One antenna of
each pair (Figure 3, Items 2 and 3) is for
day and the other antenna (items 1 and 4)
for night transmission. One pair (items 1
and 2) transmits toward Moscow (315?49')
and the other pair (items 3 and 4) toward
Khabarovsk (57'39'). Data on these rhom-
bics is given in '[able I (antenna numbers
are keyed to Figure 3).
Structures
The transmitter building (Figure 3,
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1 taller NN. of S"r Ao,.l,
item a), 95 by 35 feet, Is located near the
south fence. Five support-type buildings,
the largest of which is 105 by 45 feet, are
also located in the fenced area.
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A high-frequency receiver station is
located at 41?27'45"N/69?11' l5"E, 400 feet
northeast of Sary Agach and 11.5 miles
north/northwest of Tashkent (see Figure
4). The station covers more than 330
acres and contains numerous stick masts
which support flshbone and double rhombic
antennas, a fenced control area, andasup-
port area. Some of the fishbones and rhom-
bics are oriented on approximately the
same azimuth and separated from each
other bath horizontally and vertically.
Ibis indicates that space diversity re-
ception may be utilized.
photography shows excavations prepared
for a tenth double rhombic (item 10) to be
constructed. Feed lines radiate from
several of the antennas toward the control
area. Data oil the double rhonibics is given
in Table 2 (antenna numbers are keyed to
Figure 4).
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