ATOMIC RESEARCH STATIONS IN SOUTHERN U.S.S.R.

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
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• Publication Date: December 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRALS NTELLIGENC~ AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY U. S. S. R.
SUBJECT Atomic Research Stations in Southern U.S.S.R.
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1. A series of research stations (fourteen of which have been located) have
been established in a long band of terriroty, extending from east to west,
in the southern part of the USSR. Source is not in a position to report on
anything further north. These stations are known as "Periferiynyye Nauchno-
issledovatelhskiye Atomnyye Bazy" (Peripheral Atomic Scientific/Research Bases).
2. The fourteen known stations of this sort are:
Yevpatoriya, in Crimea
Krasnodar and Tbilisi (Tiflis), in the Caucasus
Ashkhabad and Sernyy Zavod, in the Turkmen SSR.
Andizhan, in the valley of Fergana
Tashkent, in the Uzbe~ SSR
Alma Ata and Balkhash, in the Kazakh SSR
Przhevalsk, on Issyk Kul (Lake Issyk), in the Kirghiz SSR
Gorno-Altaysk and Barnaul, in Altay Terriroty, Eastern Siberia
Novosibirsk, in Western Siberia
Irkutsk, in Eastern Siberia
3. All these stations are at present in operation, either as military-atomic
or purely scientific-atomic experiment stations. Specialists from the scientific
institutions are employed for research and experimentation with atomic arms.
They are under an. unusually strict control by the army, by the counterespionage
services, and by special units of the MVD, which are called the SO/AND.
4. These atomic stations have at their disposal transport airplanes, which are
used for communication with Moscow and with other bases. The planes have
either two or four motors and are able to cover long distances. The
stations also have smaller planes for use in purely local missions and for
experimental purposes. The atomic stations also have radio sending and
receiving stations. These are handled by the Soviet Army. They use a
special code (the French word in "code"), which is unknown even to the
leading scientific men working in the bases. Detailed reports are made
by the scientists on duty at the bases or experimental stations, every day.
These reports are made in the military cipher of the radio stations, but
the stations transmit them in code to Moscow.
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5. All machines, apparatus, instruments, and raw materials come to these
atomic centers directly from Moscow, and entirely by airplane. Airplanes
carrying scientific men to these stations are always escorted by pursuit
planes.
6. The scientific men known to be engaged in research on cosmic rays work near
the waterfalls, at reservoirs, or lakes at high altitudes in the high
mountains in the Kazakh SSR. Other groups are engaged in detecting
atomic explosions outside the USSR. This work is carried on at special advanced
bases.
7. At one of the Alma Ata bases, located on a mountain called Ala Tau, experiments
are being made with a new instrument, called "atomic radar."
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