COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES SLONIM AREA, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400150037-5
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES,
SLON IM AREA, USSR
HIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
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CQMMUNIATIONS . FACILITIES, SLONIM AREA,
USSR
INTRODUCTION
A search was made of photography of the
area ai~itnd the Headquarters 8th lank I)ivi-
1ion (HQ), situated just south of the town of
_51m inn, in order to logate and describe military
vehicles /equipment -and communications facile
ities possibly, utilii~-d ?hv this division. I The
-available photograph is nit suitable in quality
or scale to furnisl} any: t1etails on vehicles
equipment which may he present in the area,
but two communications sites wertr?lixated in
he general vicinity, one a high-frequency (HI=)
facility at 53-06-40N 25-13-OOF, 4.5 nautical
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COMMUNICATIONS
FACILITY
SEE FIGURE 2
-Road
Railroad
miles (nm) northwest of the HQ, and the second
a very low frequency (VLF) facility (BE No
at 53-08N 25..23E, 5 nm northeast
of the -11Q (Figure 1). No communications
facilities or antennas were observed within the
limits of the HQ- area, nor' was it possible to
determine what association, if anv, the two
comrn_ujiications facilities have with the divi-
sion; however, the: VLF facility does have some
of ' the cfiaracte{istics normally found at a
military post, such as barracks-type buildings
and an athletic field.
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FIGURE 2. SLONIM,HF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY.
SLONIM HF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY
The Slonim HF Communications i acility
.(Figure 2) is situated in a heavily wooded
area 4.5 nm northwest of the HQ and is served
by an improved road from the town of Slonim.
The facility contains two pairs of horizontal
dipoles is oriented at approximately 55 235
degrees, the other pair at approximately=
dipole antennas and two V antennas, a total
of six HF antennas. One pair of the horizontal
The small V antenna is oriented
at approximately -
V Arttenna at 160
direction of fire to
and the large
degrees considering the
be toward the open end-of
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the V only). A control /support area is situated
south of the antennas, on the west side of the
service road near its terminus. There are
at least- three buildings present in the area.
Vegetation and shadow obscure much of the
facility, precluding a more detailed description
and, in particular, any attempt to determine
the operating frequencies of the antennas.
This facility has the same general arrange-
ment and" types of antennas as the new -com-
munications facil-ities recently noted at or near
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SLONIM VLF`ItOMMUNICATIONS
northeast of the HQ. -I he facility, occupying
,dn area of about 440 acres, is secured by
(Figures 3 and 4) is in a wtilxiedares-tinrn
fencing and is road served. -
The VLF antenna, nearly identical in size
and configuration ,to a VLF antenna located at
53-17N 48-0717- in the Zhemkovka area, 3/
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FIGURE 4. SLONIM VLF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY.
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i-l Center tower
Perinfter tower
3;Guy anchors, center tower
Guy anchrs, perimeter tower
Linear ground scar
Road
Fence
Ground scar
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is pentagonal in shape, consisting of a center
tower surroundedby five jerimeter towers which
are spaced an equal 1,250 feet apart (all
measurements are approximate). Each of the
perimeter towers is 750-850 feet. high, and has
three guy legs 120 degrees apart with four
guy anchors to' each leg. The center tower,
somewhat higher (850-950 feet).than the perim-
eter towers, has five guy legs
with four guy anchors to each leg. _
A control area northwest of the antenna
contains several control buildings, an approxi-
mately 350- by 200-foot fenced area of unidenti-
fied function, and a ,'number of unidentified
structures and ground scars. Interpretation
of this area is limited by halation of the light-
toned ground scars, and by vegetation obscuring
shadow characteristics.
A support area in the extreme northwest
corner of the facility includes a large admin-
istration building, 3 barracks-type buildings,
and at least 13 other associated buildings.
A single _ building and. an athletic field are
outside' the fence immediately north of this
area.
An area of unidentified activity is positioned
in the center of a rectangular semicleared
section of woods just outside the northeast
corner of the main fence On photography, this
area appears as a roughly circular, light-
toned ground scar with two linear ground scars
extending westward.
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