ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY

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CIA-RDP78T05929A000200010025-1
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RIPPUB
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T
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6
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December 28, 2016
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April 23, 2007
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25
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Publication Date: 
September 28, 1964
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 200704120 00020001 00/4 # I 2 September 196+ Page ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY PERM, USSR 58o1N - 5634E 1. THERE HAVE BEEN INDICATIONS THAT THE PERM AREA HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE SOVIET ROCKET ENGINE PROGRAM SINCE 1954, WHEN 'ROCKET ENGINE TEMPLATES WERE SHIPPED TO PERM FROM OKB/PLANT 456, MOSCOW/KHIMKI (THE MAIN SOVIET CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROCKET ENGINES). 2. COMINT FLIGHT ACTIVITY HAS REVEALED THAT THE PERM AREA HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAJOR SOVIET MISSILE TEST CENTERS AT TYURA TAM AND KAPUSTIN YAR AND WITH CONFIRMED MISSILE PRODUCTION PLANTS IN MOSCOW AND DNEPROPETROVSK. 3.1 1 FIRST IDENTIFIED THIS INSTALLATION ON PHOTOGRAPHY AND REPORTED THAT THE INSTALLATION WAS LOCATED 10.5 NM EAST OF PERM, CONTAINED ONE LARGE VERTICAL 'TEST STAND WITH ASSOCIATED CONTROL AND CHECKOUT BUILDINGS, AND 20-25 OTHER BUILDINGS WITHIN THE SECURED RAIL SERVED AREA. 4. THREE SUBSEQUENT KH MISSIONS OBSERVED NO NEW CONSTRUCTION OR OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY. ",ti 9 fin'a utoraticV d^,aEr, ~i~ aad 1 . ~ tt d~~:t4s iii ,i`09 25X1 pprove For Release 2007/04123: CI BEEN ERECTED IN AN AFFA OF EARTH SCARRING, MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 500 X 300 FEET, IN THE CENTRAL, PART OF THE FACILITY. 6. REVEALED THAT EARTH SCARRING OBSERVED IN THE SW SECTION OF THE FACILITY BETWEEN IRE INNER WALL AND FENCE INDICATED THAT THE FACILITY WAS BEING EXPANDED. CONSTRUCTION IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE FACILITY CONTINUED AND NEW CONSTRUCTION WAS EVIDENT NORTH OF THE FUEL STORAGE AREA. A COMPARISON WITH THE TEST STAND AT THE KRASNOYARSK ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY WAS MADE AND REVEALED THAT THE TEST STANDS WERE SIMILIAR. 7. THIS MISSION REVEALS THAT A LARGE FLAT ROOFED BUILDING, APPROXIMATELY 350 X 100 FEET, IN THE EARLY STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION IS NOW VISIBLE IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE FACILITY. CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO THE NORTH AND TO THE EAST OF THE FUEL STORAGE AREA AND CAN NOW BE SEEN TO CONSIST OF PIPE TRENCHES, A BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AND AN EXCAVATION FOR A POSSIBLE BURIED TANK. THE SECURITY WALL IS BEING EXTENDED TO ENCOMPASS THE PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED SOUTHWEST EXPANSION AREA. ' tl_ `L IA-R?P78T05929A000200010025-1 Approved For Release 2 07/04173 : CI -RDP78T 5929AO00200010025-1 ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY PERM, USSR 58-01N 56-34E .0 25X1 Approved For Release 2007/04/23: CIA-RDP78TO5929AO00200010025-1 30L330 OVS AO go!, _, i ! f rte. r T} t1 RI agglil Approved For Release 2007/04/23: CIA-RDP78TO5929AO00200010025-1 bJH ,z C:r O--+ proved For Release 2007/04/23 A-RDP78TO5929AO00200010025-1 lao 60 aOI33o ,, g,LIM rt013M do ,Jul