ROCKET ENGINE TEST FACILITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05929A000200010025-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 28, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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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.
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BEEN ERECTED IN AN AFFA OF EARTH SCARRING, MEASURING APPROXIMATELY
500 X 300 FEET, IN THE CENTRAL, PART OF THE FACILITY.
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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.
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