LENINGRAD HARDENED COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY USSR

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
LENINGRAD
HARDENED
COMMUNICATIONS
FACILITY
USSR
Declass Review by
NIMA / DoD
T C S-81074/66
NOVEMBER 1966
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LENINGRAD HARDENED COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY, USSR
A hardened communications facility is at
59-46N 030-12E, approximately 10 nm south-
southwest of Leningrad, USSR (Figure 1). The
facility (Figure 2) consists of 2 low profile
earth-mounded buildings which are surrounded
by 1 probable and 4 hardened (subsurface)
antennas. The facility may also contain above-
ground liF antennas, but presently availabi.c
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photographic coverage is not of sufficient in-
terpretability to determine the existence of
these antennas. The facility also contains a
support area which consists of 2 administration/
barracks buildings, 9 support buildings, and a
water tower.
One hardened (subsurface) antenna, de-
signated. number a on Figure 2, appears to be
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oriented towards Moskva, USSK. The corre-
spondents of the other antennas are undeter-
mined. At the present time, no association can
be established for this facility with the communi-
cations command structure of the Soviet Stra-
tegic Rocket Forces. This facility has a slight
similarity to the facility recently identified at
Table 1. Aaimubhs of Hardened Antennas
(Antenna numbers appear in Figure 1)
Antenna
Dimensions
Number
(in feet)
I 170 x 130
`? 185x130
3 1.80 x 775
4 125 x 80
Azimuth
(in degrees)
Moskva 25X1 D
Undetermined
Undetermined
Undetermined
*This is a prohabin hardened (subsurface) antenna.
ACIC. USATC, Series 200, Sheet 0153-IFIL, 2d Pd, May 6:3 (SECRET)
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