POWER PLANTS AT SARY SHAGAN AND BALKHASH, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000300110009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 1, 1961
• Content Type: BRIEF

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F,'~ay 1961
POWER PLARlTS
SARY SHAGAN AND BALKHASH. USSR
MINICARD COPY
Published and Dissemincted by
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER
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PO~`TER PLAINTS AT SA~i`Z~' SI-IAGAi\ A1\'D BALKHASH
Introduction. This brief is in response to a request for; an evalua-
tion of the po~:?er plant in the Ln~.tial Support Area at Sary Shagan Anti-
missile Test Complex, a.nd for a comparison of this plant ~,r?ith theme pov~er
plant in Balkhash (see Figure 1) .
25X1D The-photographic coverage Hof tI-~e pot=rer plant at Sary Shagan
(46-061~I 73-36E) is cloud free, but the quality limits stereo anal}'sis.
25X1D The -coverage of the power plant at Balkhash (46- =9iV" 7.4-57E) is
clear, except for heavy si~~oke fi?om tl~its power plant and its .associated
copper smelter, which obscures some details .
Sary Shaun Plant. The' rail-served power plant at Sary Shagan
(see r figure 2) is situated in the Ir_itial Support Area on the west side of
the Sary Shagan railroad yard ar_d servicing facilities . The' ~1ant is in an
L-shaped, walled enclosure 570 feet long with a ma.Yimum width of 210
feet. In addition to the fcct po~.ver plant building, the enclo-
sure contains a cooling tower, acoal-thawing building, theremains of a
coal pile, and three small buildings, -one of which is probably ~ guard-
house. A spur out of the adjacent railroad yard passes thrmug~i the coal-
thawing building into the coal-storage area. .~
25X1D The photography indicates that the power plar_t at Sar}r Sagan orig-
inally had steam boilers and was coal-fired. the p'ow~:r plant had
been converted to diesel operation. The power-plant structure was prob-
ably remodeled, since there is no visible evidence of an}' stack: or stacks
required by coal- or oil-fired boilers'. Ir_stead there are three short ex-
haust vents on the roof of a low extension along the north side of the prob-
able former high-roofed boiler room. This configuration is typical of a
diesel-powered installatior_.
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The three vents, approximately on centers, ',indicate the
installation of three diesel-generator writs, ~~~hich are estirrtat~d to have a
possible maximum capacity of 2.5 megawatts (~T~~') each. The: size of the
power-plant building indicates that tl.e steam plar_t had an estimated maxi-
mum capacity of 5 M~'vr. Since rversion to diesel operation, it is
estimated that its capacity, in ~ was 5 to 7 . 5 hZ~'Y". All s~;pitching and
transformer equipment ~s contained in the structure, since Lhe:'re is no
visible evidence of any outdoor s