YELSK MRBM COMPLEX, USSR FIXED FIELD SITE

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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YELSK MRBM. COMPLEX, USSR
FIXED FIELD SITE
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SS R. Yelsk Launch Area No 1 is 9.3 nm to
the southeast and Launch Area No 2 is 8.7 nm
to the east-southeast. The rail yard at Yelsk
is the probable rail-to-road transfer point for
the MRBM complex and the field site. The
launch areas and the field site are connected to
Yelsk and each other by a good, probably all-
weather, road network.
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? This report supplements NPIC/R-96/64,
1/ which discusses the Yelsk MRBM Complex,
previously consisting of two Type I MRBM
launch areas.
The Yelsk Fixed Field Site (Figure 1) is
located in a lightly wooded area at an approx-
imate elevation of 460 feet, 3.3 nautical miles
(nm) west-northwest of Yelsk in the Belorussian
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The fixed field site can be negated in
and was first covered in
at which time
snow cover precluded any identification or in-
interpretation of the site. The first goodphoto-
graphic: coverage and the only coverage since
possible vehicles
Probable boroow pit
Probable vehicles
Unidentified object
3 Vans and unidentified objects
The other three clearings contain probable
canvas-covered erectors. In the southeast
corner of the site are five probable missile-
ready tents measuring 100 by 20 feet. In the
southwest corner of the site is a line of seven
probable vehicles. Adjacent to the padlike
clearing containing the missile transporter and
erector is a line of approximately 20 possible
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At that time the two MRBA1 launch areas were vehicles or unidentified objects. lnthecenter'of
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complete; they had been complete since
The access road enters the site (Figure
2) from the northeast. It then branches into a
series of large loops which contain four padlike
clearings.
two pairs
These clearings are separated into
of two clearings and are offset.
The southern clearing contains a missile trans-
porter with a missile on it and an erector.
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the site are two revetments, eac co
an unidentified object. A cable connects the
northwestern pad and a clearing which contains
three probable control vans and several uniden-
tified objects. In the southwestern corner of the
site at the edge of a clump of trees is a revet-
ment containing two unidentified objects. Three
small unidentified objects (possible small
vehicles) are present with the probable erector
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on the northern padlike clearing. A short 215 degrees, which are the same as those-of-
distance north of the site, situated around a the launch pads at the two MRBM launch areas.
rectangular road pattern, are an undetermined There is no security fence discernible around
number of tents and several small buildings. ~3te site.
The pairs of clearings have azimuths of 35 and .~
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SAC. CS Air Target Chart, Seriea 300, Sheet 0333-3HL. 3d c-d. Jun 6' scale 1:300,000 (SECRET)
AM[S. Series N501, Sheet Nil 35-3, 4th ed, Dec 5K, scale 1: 5O,Ot1O (t'NCL 1SSIFIED)
1. NPIC. R-96 '64, Ycl..k 4IRR41 Complex,, ('$SR, Feb 64 (TOP SECRET RUFF)
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N-'63'64 (partial nnswer)
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