POLYARNYY NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY, GUBA KISLAYA, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: November 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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N P I C/R-5034164
November 1964
PHOTOGRAPHIC iNTERPRETA-'~ION REPORT
POLYARNYY NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT
..a~. FACILITY, GU~A K1SLA:YA, USSR
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P_OLYARNYY NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT
FACILITY, GUBA KISLAYA, USSR
SUNSRh,4RY ,
A naval missile support facility which is
probably subordinate..-to.the Polyarnyy Naval
Base is located on Guba (Bay of) Kislaya, USSR;
1964 ground photography reveals a guided
(cruise) missile submarine and a possible. mis-
Bile at this site. The~~facilrty' is ~~apparently still
under construction and will probably contain at
least five underground or buried structures
for submarine-borne missiles, probably cruise
missiles. _ -
DESCRIPTION OF FACILITY
A naval missile support facility
on Guba Kislaya, USSR, at 69-12N
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Polyarnyy Naval Base and
is probably subordinate to the base (Figure 1).
The support facility consists of a pier and a
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FIGURE 2. NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY, h1.4RCN 1964.
POLYARNYY
PORT FACILITY
w - Wall
Fence
Building
n .Excavation (Numbered)
O 200 400 600
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secured area along a shelf of land which con-
tains three buildings and five excavations Fi -
ures 2 and 3). Polyarnyy Port Facility
is located directly across the bay.
`The pier serving the missile facility was
first observed on KEYHOLE photography of
June 1962; it measures 400 by 3~ feet and is
about six feet lower than the level of the shelf.
A W-class (LONGBIN) guided (cruise) missile
submarine (SSG), a possible SS-N-3 missile,.
and a large floating construction crane 'are
visible at this pier on ground photography of
July 1964. The presence of the submarine
and the possible missile tends to confirm ident-
if~cation of the site, which is now designated
Polyarnyy Naval.. Missile Support Facility, Guba
Kislaya.
The level shelf measures 1,00 by 90 to
100 feet and contains at least three small build-
ings and five excavations. The excavations,
which have been dug into the side of a large
hill immediately behind the shelf,- are about
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80 feet long. by 4~ feet wide; the front of each
excavation is at ground level, and the rear is
about 2~ feet below the. surrounding hillside.
The excavation nearest the pier.. (Figure 4
and item 1, Figure 3) contains three large pipes
which emerge from the hillside at the top of
the face of the cut and follow the? face down ~_
into the rear corner of the excavation. These
excavations could be either underground en-
trances or the sites for future buried arch=
roofed buildings. A possible arch-roofed struc-
ture _or a concrete arch extending out from one
of the excavations (item 4, Figure 3) can be
seen on ground photography of mid-May 1964.
A wooden wall approximately 1~ feet high
screens the shelf on the side toward the sea;
at least two guard towers are visible- along the
wall. A double fence probably secures the
hill area in back of the shelf. Several objects
in a ro~v which may be vehicles are visible
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near the pier entrance to the shelf on ground
photography of July 1964: The facility is road
served, and on the snow-covered photography
of March 1964 a passageway appears to have
been plowed along the shelf.
Polyarnyy Port Facility, across the bay,
includes a commercial offshore wharf with a
movable crane; this wharf is present on photog-
raphy of 197, and the missile facility may
have -been in the very early stages of construc-
tion at that time. Ground photography of mid-
May 1964 reveals a pile of concrete 'arches
on the commercial wharf. These arches, the
floating crane at the missile pier, and the gen-
eral appearance of the missile facility itself all
indicate that=the facility is -still under~onstruc-
tion and will probably contain at least five
underground or buried structures.
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