ELECTRONIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SITE, KAPUSTIN YAR;/VLADIMIROVKA MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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August 1964
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
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ELECTRONIC RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT SITE,
KAPUSTIN YAR/VLADIMIROVKA
MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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ELECTRONIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SITE,
KAPUSTIN YAR/VLADIMIROVKA MISSILE TEST CENTER, USSR
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This report, prepared in response to a CIA
requirement, describes the chronological devel-
opment and present appearance of an electronic
research and development site at the Kapustin
Tar/V'ladimirovka Missile Test Center (Fig-
ure *1). One of the electronic facilities at this
site is an elevated platform structure which is
similar to facilities noted earlier at the Lenin-
grad probable antimissile-missile (AN1M) launch
complexes.
The principal photographic source on the
site is Prior
photographic coverages, although used in pre-
paring the chronological development of the
installation, are of poor quality and scale;
these limitations are at least partially respon-
sible for an apparent lack of noticeable activity
or change between subsequent missions. How-
ever, careful analysis suggests that a number
of changes involving antennas/electronic equip-
ment have taken place since initial construction
of the site began sometime after
and that the site has a research
and development function. -
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General Description
The electronic research and development
site (Figure -2) is one nautical mile north of
Kapustin Yar Airfield at 45-41-10N 45-43-30E.
The road-served site is almost completely
surrounded by a double firebreak and includes
2 elevated platforms, 4 radar mounds (presently
unoccupied), 4 hardstands (one with an unidenti-
fied antenna), a possible communications facil-
ity, 2 positions (one of which is_revetted) for
unidentified equipment (possibly antennas), a
5-building support facility with 2 open storage
areas, and numerous tracks and borrow pits.
No security measures have been noted.
Initial ground scarring in the area was
first observed on photography of
and the site in its early stages
of development was seen in
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At that time, the site was only about
half its present size, and included a probable
TALL KING on each of four radar mounds, a
possible TOKEN radar on the most easterly (at
the time) of. two hardstands (the other hardstand
being empty), and two unidentified equipment
(possible antenna) positions. A year later
, none of the afore-
mentioned antennas were present, with the
single exception of one possible antenna at
an unidentified equipment position.
Throughout the development of the site,
the support facility has changed very little in
overall appearance; small amounts of equip-
ment have been moved into and out of the open
storage areas. The area that is now con-
sidered to bu a poss ible communications facility
was first noted in
as an unidentified activity; three new apparent
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