ANTIMISSILE COMPLEX SARY SHAGAN, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000300110001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 93
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 1, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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This report presents a detailed photographic analysis of the Anti-
missile Complex, Sary Shagan, USSR, in response to general requirements
of the Army, Navy, and CIA.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SUMMARY ............... .......................
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ? - 13
SUPPORT BASE......... ....... ................ 13
Main Housing Area . . . . ' . . . 14
Initial Support Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Test, Fabrication, Support, and Warehouse Area ... . . . . . . . . 20
Explosives-Storage and Handling. Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? 24
Construction Support and Storage Area .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Airfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . 28
Dirt Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Abandoiaed Airfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . 30
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . 32
Transportation . . . . . . . . . . ... - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 34
IMPACT AREA ...................... .. ... 59
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Launch Complex A . -
Launch Complex B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Range Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
LOCATION OF MAJOR FACILITIES . . . . . . . -> . - - - ? - 101
REFERENCES ..................... ......102
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Figure 1. Map Showing Location of Antimissile Complex,
Sary Shagan, USSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 2. Antimissile Complex, Sary Shagan, ,USSR . . . . . . . . .. . . 12
Figure 13. Support Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 4. Main Housing Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Figure 5. Initial Support Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 6. Test, Fabrication, Support, and Warehouse Area . . . . . . 21
Figure 10. Dirt Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Figure 11. Rail Facilities in the Initial Support Area . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 12., Rail Facilities in the Construction Support and -
Storage Area . . . . . . .? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Figure 13. Communications Site I (Transmitting) . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Figure 14. Directions of Transmissiops from Communications
Site l... ............................... 40
Figure 15. Communications Site 2 (Receiving) . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Figure 16. Orientations of Antennas at Communications Site 2 . . . . 42
Figure 17. Communications Site 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Figure 7. Explosives-Storage ahd Handling Area . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Figure 8. Construction Support 'and Storage Area .. . . . . . . . . . 27
Figure 9. Airfield and Nearby Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Instrumentation Site 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Major Components of Instrumentation Site 1 . . . . . . . ... 46
Instrumentation Site 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Major Facilities at'Instrumentation Site 2 . . . . . . . . . . 51
Radar Site 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Details of the Facilities at Radar Site 1 .. . . . . . . . . . 53
Plan and Elevation Views, of Long Building at
Radar Site 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Figure 25. Concept of 890-Foot Building at Radar Site 1 . . . _ . . . . 56
Figure 26. Concept of Completed Antenna at Radar Site 2 . . . . . . . . 57
Figure 27. Probable Microwave. Terminal . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Figure 28. Launch Complex A . . . . . . 61
Figure 29. Layout of Facilities.at Complex A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Figure 30. Headquarters and Administrative Area,
Launch Complex A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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Figure 31. Electronics Area and Probable Missile Support Area,
Complex A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
_Figure 32. Unidentified Areas No 1 and 2, Possible Operational
Support Area, and Possible Central Control Area,
Complex A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Figure 33. SAM SA-2-Type Launch Area, Complex A . . . . . . . . 71
Figure 34. Launch Complex B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Figure 35. Launch Area of Complex B . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . 76
Figure 36. Concept of Pad B-1 . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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Figure 46. Instrumentation Site 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Figure 47. Triangular Pattern Formed by Instrumentation
Sites 3, 6, and 10 . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Figure 48. Instrumentation Site ;9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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Assembly and Checkout Facility, Complex B . . . . . . . . . . 81
Instrumentation Sites, Complex B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Support Area, Complex B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Instrumentation Site 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Instrumentation Site 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
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Instrumentation Site 8 . .
Instrumentation Sites 3 and 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Sketch of ~Dis1 and Nearby Facilities at
Instrumentation Site 3 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 96
and Nearby Structures at Site 3 . . . . . 97
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The Sary Shagan Antimissile Complex, covered by photography of
encompasses roughly -8,400 square miles, extending from the
west shore of Lake Balkhash to a point approximately 70 miles west of the
lake (see Figure 1). The complex comprises a large Support Base and an
extensive instrumented Impact Area (see Figure 2). The Support Base
includes housing, test, fabrication,; explosives-storage and handling, con-
struction support, and electronics 'facilities. The base is served by ex-
cellent rail and' road facilities as well* as by a new airfield. The Impact
Area is; so-called because it contains, in one; of its two missile launch
complexes, an SA-2-type, site, and a great amount and variety of precision
instrumentation and other electronics facilities, three of which form a
triangular pattern. Although none of the Impact Area facilities is rail
served, each is served by road. Many of the facilities in the antimissile
complex are under construction or are of recent' cons uction.
Among USSR missile; test centers, the Sary Shagan complex is second.
in overall size only to the Kapustin~Yar-Vladimirovka Missile Test Range.
On the basis of 150 square feet per man and one worker per family, the
housing can accommodate 11, 000 workers. It is 'evident that a tremendous
amount of materiel and manppwer was used to have completed as much as
has been identified on the photography, and in what appears to have been
a relatively short time.
In view of the location of the Sary Shagan complex with respect to
Kapustin Yar, the types of electronics equipment noted, the presence of
launch facilities, and the accommodations for large numbers of personnel,
it is apparent that an i ' intensive program is under way at the complex
which relates to anti-ballistic-missile/aerodynamic vehicle activity as
well as to normal terminal-range activity. Also, it is significant that