COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, SOVIET FAR EAST PVO SYSTEM - DEPLOYED COMM/ELEC/RADAR FACILITIES USSR

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION
REPORT
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES,
SOVIET FAR EAST PVO SYSTEM
DEPLOYED COMM/ELEC/RADAR FACILITIES
USSR
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GROUP I. EXCLUDED FROM
AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING
AND DECLASSIFICATION
AUGUST 1970
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probably serve a Soviet Far East PVO (air defense of the homeland)
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, SOVIET FAR EAST PVO SYSTEM
1. The eight communications facilities listed below were identified from
high-resolution KEYHOLE photography through June 1969. Seven of the facilities
This system consists of two communica-
tions networks. One network has reported terminals at Petropavlovsk, Providen-
iya, and Khabarovsk; the other has reported terminals at Petropavlovsk, Blag-
oveshchensk, and Vladivostok (Figure 1). The Petropavlovsk terminal area
reportedly serves as the control point for both networks.
2. Three of the facilities described in this report probably serve the
Petropavlovsk terminal area--two contain short- and intermediate-range antennas,
and one contains a direction-finding (DF) FIX 24 antenna. Two facilities con-
taining long range high- and very high-frequency (HF and VHF) communications
antennas probably serve the northernmost terminal area at Provideniya. Two
facilities containing only short- and intermediate-range antennas probably serve
the terminal area at Khabarovsk. The eighth facility contains an HF/DF THICK
EIGHT antenna, located in an area just outside of the Blagoveshchensk terminal
area, and has not been designated as probable PVO-associated. No PVO-associated
facilities were identified in the Vladivostok terminal area. Antenna orienta-
tions for those areas with long-range communications appear in Figure 2.
Petropavlovsk FIX 24 Facility
53-07-OON 158-53-10E, BE None
Provideniya Radio Communications
Petropavlovsk HF Communications Facility
53-06-OON 158-52-50E, BE None
Petropavlovsk HF Communications Facility NE
53-07-00N 158-56-20E, BE None
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Khabarovsk/Blagodatnoye HF Communications
Facility 48-26-1ON 134-25-30E, BE None
Khabarovsk/Blagodatnoye HF Communications
Facility 48-25-OON 135-23-25E, BE None
Blagoveshchensk THICK EIGHT Facility
50-22-OON 127-25-30E, BE None
3. This report identifies and describes significant features at the eight
facilities, and provides location maps, annotated photographs, and mensural
and reference data.
4. A FIX 24 facility (Figure 3) is located 7.0 nautical miles (nm) north-
east of Petropavlovsk, on cleared, level terrain, adjacent to the northwest
side of the Petropavlovsk TALL KING Air Defense Headquarters Radar Facility
The FIX 24 facility consists of a DF FIX 24 antenna and a
support area containing HF communications antennas. The FIX 24 antenna (inset,
Figure 3) is a circular antenna array The
circular array consists of 24 guyed, vertical-mast dipole elements that are each
A vertical cage dipole is mast-mounted atop a control
building in the center of the array. Unlike other FIX 24 antennas, the central
control building at Petropavlovsk is round,
and one story high.
5. The FIX 24- support area (Figure 4), adjacent to the array, contains
a T-shaped operations building. Seven horizontal dipole antennas arranged in a
semicircle on the northeast side of the operations building are oriented to
provide HF coverage of the Kamchatka Peninsula (Figure 2). Although the beam
width of a horizontal dipole is wide, an open source indicates that horizontal
dipoles will be oriented to within ? (3) degrees of their correspondents.l
The support area contains 21 support buildings and seven housing buildings.
6. Two HF communications facilities are associated with the Petropavlovsk
TALL KING facility. One communications facility is 2.1 nm east of the FIX 24
facility and contains two horizontal dipole antennas and two FORK REST antennas.
The other is 1.0 nm south of the FIX 24 facility and contains one Vee (quadrant)
antenna and two FORK REST antennas. The two HF communications facilities pro-
vide the TALL KING AD headquarters facility with short- and intermediate-range
HF and VHF communications.
7. Two probable PVO-associated communications facilities are located in the
Provideniya area. The Provideniya Radio Communications Station 2 (Figure 5) is
located 1.0 nm south of the city and contains two double and two single rhombic
transmitting antennas, two FORK REST antennas, seven unidentified masts, one
control building, and four support buildings. One double rhombic antenna is
oriented toward Moscow, one single rhombic is oriented toward Khabarovsk, and
one single rhombic and one double rhombic antenna are oriented toward Yuzhno-
Sakhalinsk (Figure 2).
8. Provideniya Radio Station 3 (Figure 6) is located 2.5 nm south of the
city, and contains seven receiving rhombic antennas, three horizontal dipole
antennas, and two unidentified masts, two control buildings and 24 support
buildings. Two single rhombic antennas are oriented to receive from Khabarovsk,
one single rhombic from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and two single rhombics from undeter-
mined correspondents (Figure 2). The Provideniya Air Warning Radar Facility is
situated between the two radio stations.
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9. Two probable PVO-associated HF communications facilities are located in
the Khaba k area. The facilities are located near the Khabarovsk/Blagodatnoye
Airfield ro and the Blagodatnoye TALL KING AW Radar Facility
One facility (Figure 7) is 13.0 nm east of the city, and 1.2
nm north of the airfield and radar facility, and contains six horizontal dipole
antennas, three probable FORK REST antenna masts, one control building, and two
support buildings. The other communications facility (Figure 8) is 10.0 nnm east
of Khabarovsk, and 1.5 nm west of the airfield and radar facility, and contains
three horizontal dipole antennas, three probable FORK REST antenna masts, one
control building, and three small support buildings. Both facilities appear to
handle local communications, since the horizontal dipoles are short-range
antennas.
10. No PVO-associated communications facilities could be identified. How-
ever, an HF/DF THICK EIGHT facility is located 7.0 nm northwest of the city and
3.0 nm south of Blagoveshchensk Airfield Northwest
11. No PVO-associated communications facilities could be identified. How-
ever, two VHF communications facilities are associated with the Uglovoye NW Air-
field AW Radar Facility One facility is
east of the airfield facility and contains nine FORK REST antennas, four
probable FORK REST antennas, one control building, and two small support build-
ings. The second facility is 2.0 on north of the airfield facility and contains
nine FORK REST antennas, one control building, and two support buildings.
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MAPS OR CHARTS
ACIC. US Air Target Charts, series 200, scale 1:200,000
DOCUMENT
1. USSR. Committee of Standards, Measurements and Instruments, The USSR
Council of Ministers, GOST 8025-56, Transmitting Shortwave Band Symmetri-
cal Antennas, Moscow, 1956 (UNCLASSIFIED
GOST 6+97-53, Receiving Shortwave Band Symmetrical Antennas, Moscow, 1965
(UNCLASSIFIED)
NPIC 250693
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