SOVIET MILITARY ORDER OF BATTLE NORTH CAUCASUS MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400360073-2
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: February 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
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TCS-80094/65
February 1965
OVIET MILITARY ORDER OF BATTLE
NORTH CAUCASUS: MD '
DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW BY NIMA I DoD
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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
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This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground f=orce and logistic
installations being prepared for a f)l:A '(:I.A Panel. The series is being
coordinated, published and disseminated by \PIC. The photographic
analysis is being performed by the \PlC Photographic Analysis Group,
the C:IA Photographic Intelligence Division (\111C), and the Production
Center 1 P 1 a I)1:. -l he photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the Production Center IPla.
In the interest of uniforirity. the titles and letter designators for
the facilities obscI'ycd at tHese installation, are identical with those
appelaring in the project requirement. When a specific facility is not
observed both its title and letter designator are omitted in the report.
Titlesand iCttcr designators for the various facilities are as
follows - Ai railro:ad service, 13) road service, (:) landing srrips.
I)a adnain1str.atiye and troop housing areas, 1-1i storage areas, (1) am-
munition storage areas, G) 1'()I. storage areas, (I1) other buildings and
facilities, r.1) equipment storage 'maintenance areas, i'K) athletic fields,
(1.) small .arms firing ranges, \]) driver training areas,. (\) tank '
assault gun firing ranges, I') flat trajectory firing ranges, (()) artillery
emplacements hatteries), iK) infantry or combined arms field train-
ing areas or courses, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
facilities or tracking activity
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VIII-1I ARV BARRACKS AREA
148-40N 044-34E)
V'OLGO GRAD, A'OLGOGRADSKAYA OBL.-1ST, USSR
NORTH CAUCASUS MD
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42- 44? 46?
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25X1 D
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This installation is located approxinaatcly
a kilometers (km) southeast of \ olgogr,iJ on the
east side of the Volga River (l igure 1
Covering 130 acres, the partially fenced
facility (Figures 2 and :3) consists of }`' build-
ings in a 110-acre barracks area, a motor park,
a 10-acre driver-training course, and ., 1('-
acre fenced ammunition storage area '.+ith 3
storage buildings. :\ former anti-aircraft site
is located between the ammunition stor.aie area
in is, ions
reye.ai the
tnstallano?n cunst.antly active %wh no nialor
25X1 D
chani; s note.. In there %%cre 25X1 D
ht) to h5 vehicles in the iuo or park, but none
were discernible on other missions. lluticyer,
the~Mi nission reveals the must trackage 25X1 D
and scarring in the area.
The roads serving this area are loose-
surfaced.
Area D contains 3 multistory harr