SOVIET MILITARY ORDER OF BATTLE ODESSA MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000500060091-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: April 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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PREFACE
This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground Force and Logistic
installations being prepared for a DIA/CIA Panel. The series is being
coordinated, published and disseminated by NPIC. The photographic
analysis is being performed.by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group,
the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division (NPIC), and the Production
Center IPla (I)IA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group.
In the interest of uniformity, the titles and letter designators for
the facilities observed at these installations are identical with those
appearing in the project requirement. When a specific facility is not
observed Loth its title and letter designator are omitted in the report.
I itles and letter designators for the various facilities are as
? follows: (A) ?railroad service, (B) road service, (C) landing strips,
(D) administrative and troop housing areas, (E) storage areas, (F) am-
munition storage areas, (G) POL storage areas, (H) other buildings and
facilities, (J) equipment storage/maintenance areas, (K) athletic fields,
(L) small arms firing ranges, (NI) driver training, areas, (N) tank
assaultgun firing ranges, (F) flat trajectory firing ranges, (Q)-artillery
emplacements (batteries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train-
ing area or courses, (S) special training facilities, ('I-) unidentified
facilities or tracking activity.
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SEVASTOPOL TRAINING AREA SOUTHWEST
(44-34N 033-29E)
SEVAST?POL, KRYMSK-AYA OBLAST, USSR
.ODESSA MD
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Sevastopol
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SEVASTOPOL TRAINING
AREA SOUTHWEST
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28? 30? 32? 34?
FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF SEVASTOPOL TRAINING AREA SOUTHWEST.
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FIGURE 2. SEVASTOPOL TRAINING AREA SOUTHWEST, SEVASTOPOL, USSR,
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Sevastopol Training Area Southwest is lo-
cated 4.5 kilometers (km) southwest of the
center of Sevastopol (Figure 1).
The training area covers approximately
2,130 _acres and contains an administration
.building, 7 barracks, 9 storage buildings, 2
vehicle sheds, a possible POL tank, a small-
arms firing range, 2 wheeled-vehicle driver-
training courses, a possible graded-earth land-
ing strip, two 6-gun AAA sites, 20 support build-
ings, and 2 athletic fields (Figures 2).
The training area was covered on TALENT
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SUMMARY
photography of
KEY-
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Comparative analysis reveals that
a wheeled-vehicle driver-training course was
constructed between-
A former wheeled- vehicle driver- training
area appears to have been graded between
landing strip.
Light track activity is visible on all cov-
erage. Winter trainin is discernible on photog-
raphy of
Road Service
? Secondary, probable all-weather roads pro-
vide access to Sevastopol.
Area C, in the central part of the training
area, contains a 1,900- by 310-foot possible
graded-earth landing strip.
Administrative and Troop Housing Area'
Area D contains an administration build-
ing, 7 barracks, 2 storage buildings, and 13
support buildings.
General Storage Area
Area E contains 7' storage buildings, a
vehicle shed (250 by 30 feet), and 6 support
buildings.
POL Storage Area
A possible POL tank, approximately 30
feet in diameter, is located in Area E.
Other Buildings
Equipment Storage/Maintenance Area
- Area J contains a vehicle shed, approx-
imately 220 by 45 feet.
Area L is a small-arms firing range,
310 feet long and 30 feet wide.
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Area M1 is a wheeled-vehicle driver-
training area. Three closed-circuit courses and
2 figure-8 courses are visible on photography
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Area M2 contains a wheeled-vehicle dri= .
ver-training course which was constructed be-
tween 25X1D
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and converted to a
landing strip.
Winter training is discernible in Areas Ml The training area contains 2 6-gun AAA bat-
and M2 on coverage. Track teries (Q) which are probably inactive.
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