NOVOKUYBYSHEVSK PETROLEUM REFINERY, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400320052-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: January 11, 1965
• Content Type: MAP

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THROUGH Chief, Requirements. Branch, Reconnaissance Group, CGS
FROM - Chief, Photographic Intelligence Division, CIA
SUBJECT Novokuybyshevsk Petroleum Refinery, USSR
REFERENCES (1) ORR Requirement No. C-RR4-81,232
(2) CIA/PID Project No. 30297-4
1. This memorandum is forwarded in answer to the above mentioned
requirement, which requested an analysis and a comparative study of the
Novokuybyshevsk refinery located near Kuybyshev, USSR.
2. Information, as requested, concerning this refinery, is as
follows:
a. Location - This refinery is located at Novo-Kuybyshevsk,
approximately nautical miles west-southwest fran the city of
Kuybyshev. The geographic coordinates of the approximate center of
this site are 53 05 50N - 49 54 15E (See Figures 1 and 2).
b. Areal Extent - The refinery area is basically rectangular
in shape measuring approximately 6,600 feet by 11,000 feet and is
oriented NNW/SSE. The approximate total area within the refinery,
which is mostly fence enclosed, is 66,600,000 square feet or 2.4
square miles.
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SUBJECT: Novokuybyshevsk Petroleum Refinery, USSR
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All ovcai lab e photographic coverage was utilized
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3. The overlay accompanying Figure Toutlines the refinery area and
' various sections within the refinery.
a. Plant analysis of the refinery is presented under the number
corresponding to that annotation on the overlay. Also annotated are
other features in the immediate area. Areas within the refinery
25X1D annotated by letters instead of numbers are those where major construction
has occurred since These are analyzed under part b of
this section. However, because pa~s of the refinery
to enumerate obscured
changes
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which may have taken plaice in these areas.
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City of Novo-Kuybyshevsk
Probable concrete products plant
Railroad yard and station
Synthetic alcohol plant
Possible polyetheleneplant
Flare towers
Water treatment area with settling basins, probable pumping
facilities and several storage tanks.
Area of shops 'and warehoilses with probable packaging; rail
served. West end of area
facilities.
Cooling towers
N and ower plant with three cooling towers (one new since
and other associated facilities.
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(11) Area of administration buildings
(12) Five probable desalting units
(13) Tank farm (probable crude storage)
(14) Area of shop buildings
(15) Two possible cracking units
(16) Four probable crude distillation units
(17) Probable wax processing building (rail served)
.(18) Two unidentified refining units
(19) Three probable distillation units
(20) Area of unidentified refining units
(21) Tank farm, probable intermediate and final product storage
(22) Area of distillation units
(23) Tank farm
(24) Three cracking units
(25) Probable gas recovery area and alkylation unit
(26) Two unidentified refining units
(27) Area of shop buildings
(28) Unidentified refining units with distillation towers, furnaces,
possible compressor building and associated facilities.
(29) Tank farm, probable intermediate and final product storage,
and liquefied petroleum tanks
(3d) Tank farm, probable crude storage
(31) Four probable desalting units
(32) Area of probable shop and maintenance buildings
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SUJTECT? Novokuybyshevsk Petroleum Refinery, USSR
Water treatment area, with settling or separation ponds,
(33) cooling towers, and several small unidentified buildings
(34) Three probable crude distillation units
(35) Tank farm, intermediate and final product storage
(36) Area of?shop buildings
(37) -Two refining units, possibly crude distillation
(38) Three probable cracking units
(39) Six probable distillation units
Possible lubricating oil area, with refining units,
and warehousing facilities, and some probable
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shop buildings; rail served.
(41) Tank farm, probable intermediate and final product storage
e probable distillation unit, with several furnaces,
() Large cooling towers and other associated
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distillation towers, under construction in
facilities. These units ewere ared st
but appeared almost complete at
that time.
(1+3) Possible water treatment area with several ponds and possible
co towers. This area was probably still under construction
in
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25X1D (a) Two unidentified processing unit started after
25X1D and apparently completed by
25X1D (b) us ect paraxylene facilit under construction in
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25X1D (c) Unidentified facility with several buildings, two probable
25X1D rnace stacks and one probable tank and construction in
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(d) Tank farm, some-pres in n
at intervals between
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SUBJECT:- Novokuybyshevsk Petroleum Refinery, USSR
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components present on
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(j) Suspect fatty acids plant
process area with several buildings, probable
(k) Unidentified
--al furnace stacks. Some
Possible reforminstarted by M
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unidentified structures in NE corner of area.
Area of unidentified buildings. buildings built in
stages betwee
Unidentified facility under construction
obable water treatment area built between
fractionation area, with large tower and
(i) possible gas
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4. The Novo-kuybyshevsk refinery is served by road and rail, and
probably by pipeline. Docking facilities are present on the Volga River
near Kuybyshev.
5. All measurements have been made by the CIA/PID/IB project analyst.
They should be considered as approximate and must not be taken as official
NPIC mensuration data compiled by the Technical Intelligence Division, NPIC.
25X1A 6. The photo analyst assigned to this project was arise concerning
who may be contacted on extension*2547 should any questions
this memorandum. This memorandum and attachments complete this requirement.
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