KAZAN AIRCRAFT ENGINE PLANT 16

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1980
• Content Type: REPORT

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basic Imagery Interpretation report
Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16 (S)
STRATEGIC WEAPONS INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES
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Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16
GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES NO
55-51-19N 049-06-20E
DMA. USATC, Series 200, Sheet 0165-1, 5th ed, 1 Jun 76, scale 1:200,000
1. (S D) This report updates NPIC report and supersedes two subsequent NPIC
reports, on Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16, USSR, and substantially
satisfies the NPIC reporting requirement for this target. Construction and production activity observed at
the plant since the information cutoff date of the report being updated, is discussed in
this report. Construction activity observed between the informa-
tion cutoff date for this report, resulted in the completion or enlargement of 63 buildings and the razing of
six buildings. The net gain in floorspace during this reporting period was 60,475 square meters, bringing
the plant total to 295,393 square meters. Additionally, on another 24,369 square meters of
floorspace was under construction.
2. (S/D) This report also discusses construction and production activity at the plant and includes a
location map, four annotated photographs, and a table of mensural data pertaining to construction activity.
This report also discusses the association of Plant 16 with the P. F. Zubets Motor Design Bureau (M PB).
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Construction Activity At Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16
Since
(Items keyed to Figure 2)
Iltiv fable in is entireit i.c rlacvi)ied TOP SE( RET R( H
7 Assembly bldg
a Assembly sec
h Shop sec
c Assembly sec
d Engr sec
10 Admin bldg
I Excavation
(filled in)
18 Spt bldg (razed)
19 Spt bldg
a Spt sec
h Spt sec
21 Crating bldg
h New sec (ucon)
29 Shop bldg
h Shop sec
29 Machine shop
d Engr sec
e Engr sec
f Admin/engr sec
44 Spt bldg (razed)
47 Shop bldg
h Admix sec
c Engr sec
51 Engine test bldg
c Admin/engr sec
d Admin/engr sec
e Admin/engr sec
f Spt sec (ucon)
g New engine test
sec (ucon)
55 Shop bldg
h Engr/shop sec
61 Shop bldg
h Stor sec
62 Stor bldg
64 Shop bldg
h Stor sec
65 Stor bldg
66 Stor bldg
67 Stor bldg
68 Admin bldg
69 Stor bldg
7(1 Stor bldg
71 Stor bldg
72 Unid bldg (ucon)
73 Stor bldg
74 Admin/engr bldg
(ucon)
75 Underground
personnel shelter
77 Stor bldg
78 Spt bldg
79 Admin bldg
80 Stor bldg
81 Stor bldg
82 Stor bldg
83 Star bldg
84 Star bldg
85 Stor bldg
86 Spt bldg
87 Shop bldg
88 Engr bldg
89 Shop bldg
90 Stor bldg
Dimensions' Total Date First Date Considered
(m) Floorspace Observed Ucon Complete
W H (sq m)
Rated prior to construction
of item 68, was 154 sq in
Rated prior to construction
of item 78, was 22 sq m
structed: filled in by
4 stories
2 stories
Potential bldg was never con-
Midstage of construction: side
supports are0taII
Previously a spt bldg
3 stories
3 stories
3 stories
Was 462 sq in
2 stories
2 stories
3 stories
Part 3 story
3 stories
Early stage of construction
Excavation prob only
contains 2 test
cells: excavation for I
silencer/diffuser is immed-
iately east of the main
excavation
Not observed until completed
Replaced 2 previously sep-
arate hldgs: previously
157 sq m: not observed
until completed
Previous storage bldg
(306 sq m) was razed by
and firehouse
Not observed until completed
Not previously reported:
located in area encompassed
by new fencelinc
Not observed until completed
Not observed until completed
3 stories
Not observed until completed
Height could not he deter-
mined
Foundations only
Dimensions overall: part 6
story and part 4 story. Has
curved entry ramp for vehi-
cles entering Easement: at-
tached to item 75 by under-
ground passage
Connected to item 74 by under-
ground passage: not included
in plant Iloorspace totals
Length overall not observed
until completed
Not observed until completed
Not observed until completed
Not observed until completed
Not observed until completed:
overall length
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Item Deseription
91 Slor bldg
92 Underground
stor fac
93 Stor bldg
94 Admin/engr bldg
a Engr sec
b Slot sec
c Admin sec
95 Stor bldg
96 Slot bldg
91 Stor bldg
98 Stor bldg
99 Slot bldg
100 Slot bldg
101 Slot bldg
102 Spl bldg
103 Cooling tower
104 Cooling tower
(ucon)
Dimensions'
(m)
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Total Date First Date Considered
Floorspace Observed Ucon Complete
(sq m)
Remarks
Replaced previously
unannotated spt bldg
Quonset, not observed
until completed
2 stories
2 stories
Not observed until completed
Not observed until completed
Quonset
Quonset; not observed until
completed
Not observed until completed
Not observed until completed
Two-bay induced-draft tower
Will be identical to item 103
md sertical dimensions to within
Item
Dimensions' Total Date First Date Considered
Description (m) Floorspace Observed Ucon Complete Remarks
L W N (sq m)
105
Spt bldg
Support shipping container
storage area
106
Slor bldg
107
Slor bldg
08
Slot bldg
09
Slor bldg
Not observed until completed
110
Shop bldg
III
a
b
Veh stor bldg
Slot sec
Slor sec
112
Engr bldg
2 stories
113
Slor bldg
Total Floorspace on
234,918
Floorspace razed or lost through alteration
1,101
Floorspace constructed since
61,516
Total Floorspace on
295,393
Floorspace aeon on
24,369
Projected total tloorspace
319,762
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BASIC DESCRIPTION
3. (S/D) This report updates a previous NPIC
report' and supersedes two subsequent NPIC re-
ports2'3 all concerning Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16
(Figure 1). The report covers the period
the information cutoff date of the report being
updated, through 0 the date of the
latest imagery used in this report. Construction activ-
ity during this period resulted in a net increase of
60,475 square meters of floorspace. The completion of
buildings which were under construction on
added 19,781 square meters; the enlarge-
ment/expansion of existing buildings added 24,955
square meters; the construction of new build-
ings/structures added 16,840 square meters; and the
razing of six buildings resulted in a loss of 1,101
square meters of floorspace.
4. (S/D) As of Kazan Air-
craft Engine Plant 16 (Figure 2 and Table 1)
consisted of 113 significant buildings and struc-
tures containing a total of 295,393 square meters of
usable floorspace with an additional 24,369 square
meters under construction. Construction activity
observed from
graphs,
is discussed in the following para-
5. (S/D) Construction activity during this peri-
od resulted in the completion of 35,294 square meters
of floorspace and the razing of 460 square meters. At
the end of the period, an additional 15,622 square
meters of floorspace were under construction,
6. (S/D) Two buildings which were under con-
struction on were completed dur-
ing this period. These were an assembly building (item
7, Figure 2 and Table 1), first observed under con-
struction on and completed by~
and a two-story administration building
(item 10), first observed under construction on
and completed by 0 The
completion of these buildings added 19,781 square
meters of usable floorspace.
7, (S/D) Additions to buildings completed dur-
ing this period included a shop section (item 7b) of
the assembly building, a shop section (item 28b) of a
shop building (item 28), an administration/engineer-
ing section (item 29f) of the machine shop (item 29),
three administration/engineering sections (items
51c-e) of the engine test building (item 51), an
engineering/shop section (item 55b) of a shop build-
ing (item 55), and a storage section (items 6lb and
64b) on each of two shop buildings (items 61 and 64).
The completion of these projects added 7,026 square
meters of usable floorspace.
8. (S/D) New buildings/structures completed
during this period were an administration/engineering
building (item 94), an administration building (item
79), three shop buildings (items 87, 89, and 110), a
two-bay, induced-draft cooling tower (item 103), a
vehicle storage building (item 111), 16 storage build-
ings (items 62, 65-67, 71, 77, 91, 96, 97, 99-101,
106, 108, 109, and 113), and three support buildings
(items 78, 102, and 105). The completion of these
buildings added 8,487 square meters of floorspace.
9. (S/D) During this period, two support build-
ings (items 18 and 44), totaling 484 square meters of
floorspace, and two unnumbered buildings,' totaling
157 square meters, were razed. Additionally, an exca-
vation for a building observed on
(item 11) had been filled in by
before any further construction had occurred,
10. (S/D) The western wall of the plant was
moved during this period (Figure 2) to allow for
various new construction projects including the new
assembly building. The entire western wall was moved
about 75 meters to the west, resulting in an increase
of 3.7 hectares of land area. By
the
land area of the plant was 71.7 hectares.
11. (S/D) A total of seven construction projects
begun during this period were still underway on
12. (S/D) Seven construction projects, which
remained under construction on
an assembly section (item 7c) of the new assembly
were completed during this period, adding 15,622
square meters of floorspace. These projects included
the enlargement of three existing buildings including
building, constructed between
an engineering section
same building, constructed between
and
and an engineering section item 29e of
the machine shop, constructed between
and Four new buildings under con-
struction on were completed during
this period, including an engineering building (item
112) constructed between
tween
a firehouse (item 63) constr
a storage
building (item 76), and a support building (item 86).
13. (S/D) During this period, an engineering
section (item 29d) of the machine shop, an adminis-
tration section (item 47b) and an engineering section
(item 47c) of a shop building (item 47), an administra-
tion section (item 94c) of the new administration/en-
gineering building (item 94), and a storage section
(item 11 lb) of the new vehicle storage building were
enlarged/expanded. The completion of these build-
ings added 4,027 square meters of usable floorspace.
14. (S/D) New construction resulted in the ad-
dition of 6,633 square meters of usable floorspace.
Buildings/structures constructed consisted of an ad-
ministration building (item 68), an engineering build-
ing (item 88), an underground personnel shelter (item
75) connected by an administration/underground pas-
sage to a new administration/engineering building
currently under construction (item 74), an under-
ground storage facility (item 92), and 14 storage
buildings (items 69, 70, 73, 80-85, 90, 93, 95, 98, and
107).
15, (S/D) Two buildings were razed during this
period, reducing the plant floorspace by 460 square
meters. These were a storage building which was
subsequently replaced by a firehouse (item 63) and a
support building (item 4).
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16. (S/D) Six buildings structures remained un-
der construction on These were a new
section (item 21b) to the crating building (item 21), a
new engine test section (item 51g), and a new support
section (item 51f) of the engine test building (item 51),
an administration/engineering building (item 74), a
cooling tower (item 104), and a building of unidenti-
fied function (item 72). The completion of these
buildings/structures will add at least 24,369 square
meters of floorspace, bringing the total to at least
319,762 square meters.
17. (S/D) During this period, the security
wall in the southwest corner of the plant was
moved approximately 25 meters to the south to
accommodate vehicular traffic around the south
end of the new extension to the assembly building.
This activity resulted in the acquisition of an
additional 0.3 hectare of land area, bringing the
plant total to the current 71.7 hectares.
18. (S/D) The following table illustrates the
functional distribution of the 61,576 square meters
of' floorspace which have been constructed at Plant
16 since
Floorspace
Percent
Administration/engineering 20,177
32.8
Fahrication/assembly 27,004
43.9
Production support 2,053
3.3
General support/storage 12,342
20.0
61,576
100.0
Related Facilities
19. (TSR) Two facilities, situated adjacent to
Plant 16, may be functionally related to the plant. The
first area is a missile components test facility associ-
ated with the P. F. Zubets MPB.4 This facility (Fig-
ures 2 and 3) is immediately outside the southern
security wall of Plant 16 and is separately wall
secured. While the association of this facility with the
Zubets MPB is well documented, anything other than
its physical collocation with Plant 16 is difficult to
prove. Thus this facility is not included as part of
Plant 16 in this report. A second possibly related
facility, currently under construction, is immediately
east of the missile components test facility. The new
facility (Figure 2) currently contains a completed shop
building and at least four buildings in various stages
of construction. While it is possible that this area may
eventually be associated with Plant 16, it is more
likely that it will be associated with Kazan Airframe
Plant Gorbunov 22 to the northwest.
Production Activity
Aircraft Engines
20. (S/D) By the date of
the report being updated, Plant 16 was believed to
be producing only the RD-3M turbojet engine used
in the TU-16 (BADGER), M-4 (BISON), and TU-
104 (CAMEL).' Continued sightings of RD-3M
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shipping containers at the plant (Figure 4) indi-
cates that replacement engines for these aircraft are
still being produced.
Missile Production and the Zubets MPB
However, continued observation of
graphic analysis of RD-7M2 production is inconclu-
sive in that both the RD-7M2 and RD-3M use the
same type of shipping container. However, sightings
of BLINDER afterburner shipping containers (Figure
4) suggest that both RD-7M2 and BLINDER after-
burners are produced at Plant 16 since engines and
afterburners for a given aircraft are usually produced
at the same plant.
LESS) and the NK-8-4 in the IL-62 (CLASSIC).' NK-8
series engine shipping containers have been seen regu-
larly at Plant 16 (Figure 4) since 1969.
missile-associated objects and the location of a known
P. F. Zubets-associated facility adjacent to the plant
(Figure 3) strongly suggest at least a missile compo-
nent production role at Plant 16. Continued sightings
of a missile component railcar (Fig-
ure 5) at Plant 16 since 19664 and of various missile
component shipping containers and canisters4 in the
missile-associated transshipment area of the plant
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analysis, however, has not provided identification of a
Zubets-related building within the plant. While design
bureaus are usually separately secured when located
within production facilities, no unusual security has
been observed at Plant 16.
24. (S/D) Further information on P. F. Zubets
MPB and the observation of missile component ship-
ping containers at Plant 16 can be found in a previous
NPIC basic report.6 The report discusses activity at
ten facilities believed to be associated with the Zubets
M PB.
IMAGERY
(S/D) All imagery acquired between
MAPS OR CHARTS
DMA. USATC, Series 200, Sheet 0165-1, 5th ed, 1 Jun 76, scale 1:200,000 (SECRET)
DOCUMENTS
1. NPIC.
2. NPIC.
3. NPIC.
4. NPIC.
(TOP
RCA-09/0031/69, Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16, Mar 69 (TOP SECRET
BCA-09/0043/70, Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16, Apr 70 (TOP SECRET
BCA-09/0016/74, Kazan Aircraft Engine Plant 16, Jan 74 (TOP SECRE
5. DIA. DST-18505-009-78, Air Breathing Provision Technology Warsaw Pact Countries (U), 7 Mar 79 (SECRET
6. NPIC.I I RCA-09/0002/79, Developments at Soviet Solid Propellant Research and Development Facilities
(TSR), Feb 79 (TOP SECRET
*Extracted information is classified TOP SECRET R.
**Extracted information is classified SECRET.
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(S) Comments and queries regarding this report are welcome. They may be directed to
Forces Division, Imagery Exploitation Group, NPIC,
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