POLYARNYY NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY, GUBA KISLAYA, USSR

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CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1
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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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July 3, 2012
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82
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Publication Date: 
November 1, 1964
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REPORT
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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 TOP SECRET N P I C/R-5034164 November 1964 PHOTOGRAPHIC iNTERPRETA-'~ION REPORT POLYARNYY NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT ..a~. FACILITY, GU~A K1SLA:YA, USSR CIA ' -f~ ,, ~.,.,--- _,... \ - ~ ~ ~- NATIONAL PH030GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF P_OLYARNYY NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY, GUBA KISLAYA, USSR SUNSRh,4RY , A naval missile support facility which is probably subordinate..-to.the Polyarnyy Naval Base is located on Guba (Bay of) Kislaya, USSR; 1964 ground photography reveals a guided (cruise) missile submarine and a possible. mis- Bile at this site. The~~facilrty' is ~~apparently still under construction and will probably contain at least five underground or buried structures for submarine-borne missiles, probably cruise missiles. _ - DESCRIPTION OF FACILITY A naval missile support facility on Guba Kislaya, USSR, at 69-12N TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF Polyarnyy Naval Base and is probably subordinate to the base (Figure 1). The support facility consists of a pier and a 25X11 Z~X1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF r :~ FIGURE 2. NAVAL MISSILE SUPPORT FACILITY, h1.4RCN 1964. POLYARNYY PORT FACILITY w - Wall Fence Building n .Excavation (Numbered) O 200 400 600 TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 TOP SECRET CHESS _RUFF NO FOREIGN DISSEIA secured area along a shelf of land which con- tains three buildings and five excavations Fi - ures 2 and 3). Polyarnyy Port Facility is located directly across the bay. `The pier serving the missile facility was first observed on KEYHOLE photography of June 1962; it measures 400 by 3~ feet and is about six feet lower than the level of the shelf. A W-class (LONGBIN) guided (cruise) missile submarine (SSG), a possible SS-N-3 missile,. and a large floating construction crane 'are visible at this pier on ground photography of July 1964. The presence of the submarine and the possible missile tends to confirm ident- if~cation of the site, which is now designated Polyarnyy Naval.. Missile Support Facility, Guba Kislaya. The level shelf measures 1,00 by 90 to 100 feet and contains at least three small build- ings and five excavations. The excavations, which have been dug into the side of a large hill immediately behind the shelf,- are about 0 80 feet long. by 4~ feet wide; the front of each excavation is at ground level, and the rear is about 2~ feet below the. surrounding hillside. The excavation nearest the pier.. (Figure 4 and item 1, Figure 3) contains three large pipes which emerge from the hillside at the top of the face of the cut and follow the? face down ~_ into the rear corner of the excavation. These excavations could be either underground en- trances or the sites for future buried arch= roofed buildings. A possible arch-roofed struc- ture _or a concrete arch extending out from one of the excavations (item 4, Figure 3) can be seen on ground photography of mid-May 1964. A wooden wall approximately 1~ feet high screens the shelf on the side toward the sea; at least two guard towers are visible- along the wall. A double fence probably secures the hill area in back of the shelf. Several objects in a ro~v which may be vehicles are visible 25X1 25X1 TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1 TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF near the pier entrance to the shelf on ground photography of July 1964: The facility is road served, and on the snow-covered photography of March 1964 a passageway appears to have been plowed along the shelf. Polyarnyy Port Facility, across the bay, includes a commercial offshore wharf with a movable crane; this wharf is present on photog- raphy of 197, and the missile facility may have -been in the very early stages of construc- tion at that time. Ground photography of mid- May 1964 reveals a pile of concrete 'arches on the commercial wharf. These arches, the floating crane at the missile pier, and the gen- eral appearance of the missile facility itself all indicate that=the facility is -still under~onstruc- tion and will probably contain at least five underground or buried structures. ACIC. L~ :1ir Tar~ct Chart, ~c~ric~, ~'U(i, ~hc~c~t OU:,1-IhHL, :;d cad, :~pr G:',, >calt~ 1:?'OO,UO(~ (SECRET) I \PIC PROJECT -ti i i G-} (partial anx~corl ;,:TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/07/03 :CIA-RDP78T05439A000400280082-1