MOUNTAIN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY/CORONAL STATION KISLOVODSK, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000500370045-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: October 1, 1965
• Content Type: IR

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I41OUE:TAIII ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY/CORONAL STATION
KISLOVODSK, USSR
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-round photography of and an intelligence re-
port indicate the presence of an astronomical observatory/coronal station
near Kislovodsk, USSR.
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A search of KE'Y'HOLE photography was conducted within a 30 nautical
mile radius of Kislovodsk (Figure 1),
=Zi:OLE photography revealed that the station is located at an elevation
of 6.100 feet, 11 nautical miles south-southwest of Kislovodsk, at 43-44N
-39E.
The station consists of an astronomical observatory, instrumentation
buildings, tw?.*a radio telescopes, and a group of support buildings (Figures
and 3).
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Mountain Astronomical Observatory and!-,-,,
Coronal Station, Kislovodsk, U.S.S.R.
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