ELECTRONIC INSTALLATIONS TASHKENT, USSR PIC/JR-25/59 OCTOBER 1959

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On page 7, the location of installation No. 3 should read:
"... 1.75 miles northeast of Sary Agach."
On page 11, the location of installation No. 10 should read:
. 1 . 8 miles south of Tashkent Airfield .... "
On page 12, the location of installation No. 11 should read:
" ... about 7, 000 feet southeast of Tashkent Airfield.... "
On page 13, the coordinates for installation No. 16 should read:
1141007'N/69?24'E."
Page 13 includes a reference to Figure 14, which was omitted
from the report.
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ELECTRONIC INSTALLATIONS
TASHKENT, USSR
PIC/JR-25/59
OCTOBER 1959
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lateral sources covering the period 1953 to 1958.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF GRAPHICS
PIC/JR-25/59
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Introduction ............................................. 4
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1. General Location M ap ..........................
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Summary and Conclusions ................................... 4
Figure
2. Detailed Location Map of the Tashkent Area ...........
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Identified Installations ..................................... 6
Figure
3. Installation 1 ................................
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1. Transmitter Station ................................. 6
Figure
4. Installation 2 ................................
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2. Receiver Station ................................... 6
Figure
5. Designation of Fishbone Antenna
Configurations used in this report ..................
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3. Direction-Finding Station .............................. 7
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6. Installation 5 ................................
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4. Possible M icrowave Tower ............................. 7
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7. Installation 6 ................................
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5. Receiver Station ..................................... 7
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8. Installation 7 ................................
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6. Probable Communication Station .......................... 8
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9. Installation 8 ................................
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7. Broadcasting Installation ............................... 8
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10. Installation 9 ................................
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8. Tashkent Southeast Airfield
Instrumentation and Communication Facilities ................. 10
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11. Installation 10 ...............................
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9. Transmitter Station ................................. 11
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12. Installation 11 ...............................
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10. Transmitter Station .................................. 11
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13. Installation 13 ...............................
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11. Communication Station ................................ 12
12. Possible Microwave Tower .............................. 12
13. Probable Communication Station ..........................
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14. Krug Antenna ......................................
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15. Direction-Finding Station ..............................
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16. Krug Antenna ......................................
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Reported Installations ......................................
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PREFACE
This joint photographic intelligence report has been prepared by the
Army, Navy, and Central Intelligence Agency, and is intended to satisfy
the combined requirements of the intelligence community on electronic
installations in Tashkent, USSR, as specified in Army SRI 136-1-58, Navy
DNI 15-57, and CIA RR/E/R94/58. Information based on an analysis of
aerial photography has been supplemented by data from col-
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INTRODUCTION
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This report presents a photographic
analysis of 16 electronic installations in
Tashkent and vicinity. Tashkent is lo-
Gated at 41?18'N/69?16'E 1,770 miles
southeast of Moscow. It lies on an alluvial
fan between the Tyan Shan mountains to the
east and the Syr Darya River Valley to
the west.
aerial
photographic missions were flown over
the Tashkent area. This report gives
detailed descriptions of the 16 electronic
installations identified on this photog-
raphy. In addition, eight installations
reported by collateral sources but not
identified on aerial photography are listed
and briefly described. For convenient
reference to the detailed location map,
Figure 2, the identified installations are
numbered from 1 through 16 and those
reported are lettered from A through H.
The term "miles" in this report means
"nautical miles."
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The 16 electronic installations identi-
fied on photography range from a local
broadcasting station (No. 10) containing
one tower, to a large receiver station
(No. 2) containing over 300 stick masts.
The installations have various types of
electronic equipment and perform various
functions, including point-to-point, micro-
wave, and airfield communications, radio
broadcasting; and aircraft navigational
aid.
Two installations, Nos. 2 and 7, are
particularly interesting. Installation No. 2,
a high-frequency receiver station, con-
tains an unusually large number of re-
ceiving antennas, 16 fishbones and 9
rhombics (plus one rhombic under con-
struction). The only other station of
similar magnitude identified on
photography is the receiver station near
Rustavi. Within installation No. 7, a
station was under construction at the time
of photography containing 12 self-sup-
porting towers ranging in height from 170
to 385 feet. This station appears to have
the same function, that of high-frequency
broadcasting, as installations near Sverd-
lovsk, Alma-Ata, Novosibirsk, Komsom-
olsk, Stalinabad, and Tbilisi. (A report
on the latter five installations is being
prepared by PIC.) The apparently recent
construction of some of these installations
indicates an effort by the USSR to expand
its high-frequency broadcasting facilities.
To determine possible communication
links between Tashkent and other cities, a
line was projected from Tashkent on the
azimuthal orientation of each rhombic and
fishbone antenna. These lines pass over
the Soviet cities of Moscow, Baku, Irkutsk,
Chita, Kuybyshev, Tbilisi, Kerch, Sevast-
opol, Gorkiy, and Magadan, and over Kabul,
in Afghanistan. Such extensive possible
communication links, together with the
number, size and complexity of its com-
munication facillties make Tashkent one
of the major communication centers in
the USSR, and probably the chief com-
munication center in Central Asia.
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IDENTIFIED INSTALLATIONS
1. TRANSMITTER STATION
A transmitter station is located at
41?29'50"N/69`08'45E, 3 miles north/
northwest of Sary Agach, 300 feet east of
the Tashkent/Arys railroad, and 14.5
miles northwest of Tashkent (see Figure
3). The station is enclosed by a fence
2,050 by 1,275 feet, covers approximately
60 acres, and is served by an all-weather
road. It contains four double rhombic
antennas, a transmitter building, and
several support-type buildings.
Antennas
The four double rhombics are ar-
ranged in two pairs. The presence of dis-
sipation lines indicates that these are
transmitting rhombics. One antenna of
each pair (Figure 3, items 2 and 3) is for
day and the other antenna (items 1 and 4)
for night transmission. One pair (items 1
and 2) transmits toward Moscow (315?49')
and the other pair (items 3 and 4) toward
Khabarovsk (57?39'). Data onthese rhom-
bics is given in Table 1 (antenna numbers
are keyed to Figure 3).
Structures
The transmitter building (Figure 3,
FIGURE 3. INSTALLATION J. This transmitter station is
located 3 miles NNW of Sary Agach.
item a), 85 by 35 feet, is located near the
south fence. Five support-type buildings,
the largest of which is 105 by 45 feet, are
also located in the fenced area.
2. RECEIVER STATION
A high-frequency receiver station is
located at 41?27'45"N/69?11'15"E,400feet
northeast of Sary Agach and 11.5 miles
north/northwest of Tashkent (see Figure
4). The station covers more than 330
acres and contains numerous stick masts
which support fishbone and double rhombic
antennas> a fenced control area and a sup-
port area. Some of the fishbones and rhom-
bics are oriented on approximately the
same azimuth and separated from each
other both horizontally and vertically.
This indicates that space diversity re-
ception may be utilized.
Antennas
At least 343 stick masts, supporting 9
double rhombic and 16 fishbone antennas,
have been identified within the station area.
For one fishbone (Figure 4, item g), only
some of the supporting stick masts can be
identified, but it has been assumed that
there are additional stick masts. The
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photography shows excavations prepared
for a tenth double rhombic (item 10) to be
constructed. Feed lines radiate from
several of the antennas toward the control
area. Data on the double rhombics is given
in Table 2 (antenna numbers are keyed to
Figure 4).
Data on the fishbone antennas is given
in Table 3. The antenna letters are keyed
to Figure 4 and the type letters to Figure
5. All masts are approximately
high. The designations of these antennas
are in accordance with the system estab-
lished in PIC/TP-l/59, Designation of
Fishbone Antenna Configurations, June
1959
Structures
The control area, located in the middle
of the installation, contains a T-shaped
receiver building, bar 195 by 50 feet with
stem 75 by 5ofeetandL and two
other buildings, one
feet high and the other
20 feet high. Adjacent to the control area is
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FIGURE 4. INSTALLATION 1. This installation is a high fre-
quency receiver station located 400 feet NE of Sary Agach.
a fenced area containing four buildings,
three of which measure
and 10 feet high.
The support area, located in the south-
ern part of the installation, contains about
70 buildings varying in size from a single-
story building about 20 by 15 feet to a
multistory building 195 by 65 feet. The
buildings in this area probably include both
administrative buildings and barracks.
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3. DIRECTION-FINDING STATION
A fixed-type high-frequency direc-
tion-finding station is located at 41?27'50"
N/69?12'25"E, 1.75 miles northwest of
Sary Agach. It contains four or possibly
six stick masts arranged in a 90-foot-
diameter circle around a centrally located
building and is surrounded by a circular
wall or fence.
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FIGURE 5. OE.,I6NAI ION OF t-t -wJNE HNTENNA LONFIGURA I IONS u5ti Sri 1 -ui REPORT. The designations of these an-
tennas are in accordance with the system established in PIC/TP4/59.
4. POSSIBLE MICROWAVE TOWER
A possible microwave tower is located
at 41?24'25"N/69?02'10"E near the village
of Darkhan, 7.5 miles southwest of Sary
Agach and 14 miles west/northwest of
Tashkent. The tower is situated on the
crest of a small mound. The combined
height of the tower and the mound is 125
feet.
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5. RECEIVER STATION
A receiver station is located at 41?
2617"N/69?24'40"E, 1.5 miles west of
Khodzha Kurgan and 11 miles northeast
of Tashkent (see Figure 6). The station
is enclosed by a fence, covers approxi-
mately 200 acres, and is road-served.
It includes an operations area containing
a receiver building 115 by 85 feet and
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numerous stick masts, and a support
area containing at least 20 buildings.
Feed lines and numerous stick masts
and stick-mast bases are noted within the
operations area, but owing to the poor
resolution of the photography only one an-
tenna pattern can be positively identified.
However, the existence of the feed lines
and masts indicates the presence of other
antennas. The identified antenna is a Type
I fishbone array, which has two bays. One
bay (Figure 6, item a) is designed for day
and the other (item b) for night reception.
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Data on the antenna bays is given in Table
4 (bay letters are keyed to Figure 6 and
the type to Figure 5).
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FIGURE 6. INSTALLATION 5. This receiver station is located Ii miles NE of Tc,shkent.
6. PROBABLE COMMUNICATION
STATION
A probable communication station is
located at 41?14'20"N/69?05'25"E, 4
miles northwest of the Tashkent/Sam-
arkand railroad (see Figure 7). Owing
to the very poor resolution of the pho-
tography, only a limited photographic
interpretation is possible. The probable
station is road-served, occupies a fenced
area of approximately 210 acres with at
least six guard towers, and is composed of
an operations area and a support area.
The operations area contains a gable-
roofed control building approximately 150
by 75 feet, three smaller buildings, and
an area of ground scarring that may in-
dicate the presence of stick masts. Al-
though no specific antenna patterns can be
identified, the pattern of ground scars
suggests the presence of fishbone -type
antennas. The support area contains 18
buildings and a standpipe.
7. BROADCASTING INSTALLATION
A broadcasting installation is located
at 41?12'28"N/69?08'25"E, 8 miles south-
west of the center of Tashkent and one
mile northwest of the 1,847 kilometer
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marker on the Tashkent/Samarkand rail-
road (see Figure 8). It consists of a
local broadcasting station, a high-fre-
quency broadcasting station under con-
struction, a housing and support area,
and a possibly associated unidentified
facility.
Local Broadcasting Station
This station, covering an area 1,800
by 1,600 feet, includes two guyed sectional
vertical radiators, a transmitter building,
two cooling ponds, two tuning/coupling
houses, and other, unidentified,buildings.
Antennas: The outstanding features
of this station are the two guyed sectional
vertical radiators, which are approxi-
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the base of each radiator is a tuning/
coupling house, 35 by 25 feet (not shown on
Figure 8). Eight other buildings, five of
which are located between the radiators,
are noted, but their function cannot be
determined.
mately 700 feet high and 1,150 feet apart.
These are probably the two 650-foot-high
guyed straight lattice-type masts which a
Structures: The transmitter building
and the two cooling ponds are located about
1,000 feet from the vertical radiators. At
RHOMBIC NO. 2 U/C
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FIGURE 8. INSTALLATION'! 7. This broadcasting installation is located 8 miles SW of Tashkent.
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High-Frequency Broadcasting Station
Under Construction
This station is under construction in
an area 5,200 by 3,100 feet. At the time of
photography the area contained 14 self-
supporting lattice towers; 5 bases, 2 of
which were under construction; 2 trans-
mitter buildings, one of which was under
construction; and 2 buildings of undeter-
mined function.
TOWER GROUP B
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An all -weather road leads through the
center of the station. An overhead power
line and two ditches parallel this road. A
spur line from the Tashkent/Samarkand
railroad passes the southwest portion of
the station but has no apparent connection
with the station.
Antennas: As seen on the
Photography, the arrangement
antennas is as follows: Generally, the
14 self-supporting lattice towers and 5
bases are in two groups, referred to here
as Tower Group A and Tower Group B.
In Tower Group A are three 385-foot-high
towers and two bases under construction,
positioned in a straight line (Figure 8,
items 1, 2, 3, a, and b). Tower Group B
contains nine towers from 170 to 230 feet
high and three tower bases forming an "L"
configuration (items 4 through 15). Two
other towers (items 16 and 17), 50 feet
high, are located near Group B, but neither
is apparently a functional part of this
group. -
In Group A the bases of the three
towers and the two bases under construc-
tion are 40 feet square. On the top of each
tower is a 40-foot horizontal crossarm,
and at least four other horizontal cross-
arms are positioned along the vertical
axis of each tower. The location of these
crossarms indicates that broadside cur-
tain antennas were or were to be suspended
between the towers. After the time of
photography
the bases under
construction were completed and a tower
was erected on each.
at this station a group of
five 325- to 500-foot-high tapered lattice
towers arranged in a straight line and
connected by two wire antennas. 1/ The
presence of the wire antennas supports the
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indication of the use of curtain antennas.
Data on Tower Group A
is given in Table 5 (tower numbers are
keyed to Figure 8).
In Tower Group B, the three bases
and the bases of the nine towers are 25
feet square. A horizontal crossarm is
located on the top of each tower and lower
horizontal crossarms are spaced along its
vertical axis. As in Tower Group A, these
crossarms indicate that broadside curtain
antennas were or were to be suspended
between the towers.
according to the attache report cited above
J, the station had a group of 12 tapered
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lattice towers 130 to 160 feet high. This
indicates that after the time of photography
a tower was erected on each of the three
tower bases. Data on Tower Group B is
given in Table 6 (tower numbers are keyed
to Figure 8).
Structures : The two transmitter
(under construction) 275 by 75 feet, are
located midway between Tower Groups A
and B.These buildings are separated by
approximately 2,000 feet. A cooling pond
is under construction adjacent to one of the
buildings. Also within the area are two
other buildings, 45 by 35 feet and 30 by
20 feet.
Rhombic Antennas Under Construction
The two double rhombic antennas
under construction (Figure 8, rhombics
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No. 1 and No. 2) are in the west central
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TASHKENT SOUTHEAST AIRFIELD
portion of the
over-all installation. A
INSTRUMENTATION AND
base for one
stick mast is located 315
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES
feet from the east side pole of rhombic
No. 2, indicating that the mast may be part
of a third rhombic to be constructed. It
cannot be determined whether the stick
masts for rhombics No. 1 and No. 2 have
been erected. No feed or dissipation lines
can be identified.Data on these rhombics is
given in Table 7. No height measure-
ments can be determined.
Housing and Support Area
The housing and support area, oc-
cupying approximately 140 acres and
adjacent to and south of the local broad-
casting station, contains at least 80 com-
pleted buildings and other buildings under
construction. It is served by an all-
weather road from Tashkent, and a spur
from the Tashkent/Samarkand railroad
passes through its south portion.
Electronic facilities at Tashkent
Southeast Airfield, which is located at
41?15'NI69?15'E, 3.2 miles south/south-
west of the center of Tashkent, include the
following: On the east side of the runway,
at 41?15'38"N/69?16'31"E, is a GCA
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instrumentation and communication facilities.
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(Ground Control Approach) installation; a
Token radar is positioned on a mound of
earth at 41?15'35"N/69?15'45"E, approxi-
mately 875 feet southwest of the main ad-
ministration building; and a radio station
with a 135-foot mast is located at 41?15'
55"N/69?15'45"E, approximately 800 feet
west of the main administration building
(see Figure 9).
The GCA installation consists of
a Home Talk approach radar, a Long
Eye radar, a Cross Fork radar, a Small
Cross HF/DF antenna, and several VI-JF
Disc Cone antennas. This installation
fits the description of the GCA reported
to be located at this airfield. 2/
According
to collateral, the control
tower on top of the administration build-
ing has a standard VHF antenna, two VHF
antennas of the Disc Cone type, and one
probable FM antenna on a 15-foot mast.
3/ Also, there are reported to be three
possible direction-finding stations, two
resembling a Fix Four and one resembling
a Fix Six, adjacent to the east boundary of
the airfield and just north of the east/
west runway. 4/ However, no Fix Fours
or Fix Sixes can be identified on photog-
raphy.
9. TRANSMITTER STATION
A transmitter station covering an area
3,000 by 1,500 feet is located at 41?17'30"
N/69?18'20"E in the southeast portion of
Tashkent. It contains two self-supporting
lattice towers, two stick masts, a trans-
mitter building with associated cooling
ponds, and several other buildings (see
Figure 10). This station is referred to in
a collateral report as the main Tashkent
civil/military radio station. 5/
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be 150 feet high and 100 feet apart with
three antenna wires strung between them.
4/ These masts cannot be identified on the
photography.
Two stick masts (item s b), each ap-
proximately 40 feet high and 165 feet apart,
are located 300 feet east of the transmitter
building. A perpendicular to a line pro-
jected between these two masts has an
azimuth of 090?/270?. A collateral report
dated 1957 states the existence of 30
stick masts 75 to 100 feet high 3/, but
only the two stick masts mentioned above
can be identified on photography.
In the northeast portion of the instal-
lation are two concrete bases 800 feet
apart (items c) for self-supporting towers.
Collateral information of 1953 reports this
station to contain four self-supportinglat-
tice towers. 6/ These two bases are all
that remain of two of the four towers re-
ported. The other two towers (items a)
have been discussed above.
Structures
located in the southeast portion of Tashkent. The following is an enumeration of the
structures at the installation (numbers are
Antennas keyed to Figure 10).
The two self-supporting lattice towers
1. Two cooling ponds, each 35 feet
(Figure 10, items a), 310 feet high and 660 in diameter.
feet apart, are located in the vicinity of the
2. "L"-shaped transmitter building,
transmitter building (item 2). A cable scar 165 feet long with a 40-foot-square ex-
leads from a possible tuning/coupling tension.
house (item 3) to one tower. Collateral
3.
Possible gable-roofed tuning/
reports state that there are two to four coupling house, 60 by 45 feet with an at-
caged doublets strung between these two tached section 30 feet square.
lattice towers. 2/ 4/ Because of the scale
of the photography, the existence of these feet.
4.
Flat-roofed building, 120 by 25
horizontal wires cannot be confirmed.
A perpendicular to a line projected betwen feet.
5.
Gable-roofed building, 85 by 25
these two towers has an azimut
6.
Gable-roofed building, 55 by 25
feet.
Collateral information dated 1958 re-
ports two steel frame masts estimated to feet.
7.
Flat-roofed building, 70 by 15
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8. Gable-roofed building, 35 by 30
feet.
9. Gable-roofed building, 40 by 25
feet.
10. Multistory "U"-shaped building,
center section 80 by 35 feet, two wings
each 100 by 50 feet.
10. TRANSMITTER STATION
A transmitter station is located at
41 016' 10"N/69?19'05"E, 1.8 miles south of
Tashkent Southeast Airfield and just east
of a partially completed housing area (see
Figure 11). The station, which is road-
served, includes a lattice tower, a trans-
mitter building, and a support area con-
taining 11 buildings and one buildingfoun-
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mitter station is 1.8 miles south of Tashkent SE Airfield.
dation. Eight of the buildings in the support
area are enclosed by afence. Extensive
track activity at the time of photography
suggests that additional construction was
in progress. The housing area measures
1,700 by 860 feet.
Antennas
The lattice tower is 170 feet high and
probably guyed.
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Structures
The following are brief descriptions of
the structures in the station and in the
housing area (item numbers are keyed to
Figure 11).
1. Transmitter building 50 feet
square with an attached probable cooling
tower 25 feet square.
2. Gable-roofed building
feet.
3. Gable-roofed building, 55 by 20
feet.
4. Building foundation, 85 by 35 feet.
5. Multistory hip-roofed building,
90 by 40 feet.
6. Flat-roofed building,
feet.
7. Flat-roofed building, 40 by 20
feet.
8. Two buildings, each 15 by 10
feet.
9. Multistory hip-roofed building,
95 by 45 feet.
10. Gable-roofed building, 50 by 15
feet.
11. Fiat-roofed building, 90 by 35
feet.
12. Multistory hip-roofed building,
140 by 45 feet.
13. Two circular emplacements,
each 'n diameter.
14. Thirteen 140- by 45-foot com-
pleted multistory hip-roofed buildings (not
all shown on figure) and others under con-
struction.
11. COMMUNICATION STATION
A communication station is located at
41?16'50t'N/69o20'45t'E, about 7,000 feet
southeast of Tashkent Southeast Airfield
and 7,500 feet northwest of the Chirchik
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munication station located approx. 7,000 feet SE of Tashkent
SE Airfield.
River (see Figure 12). The ground
elevation at this point is less than 1,500
feet. The station, which is road-served,
covers approximately 140 acres and con-
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sists of an operations area which in-
cludes a control building and at least 44
stick masts, and a support area which
includes an occupied, radar-controlled
eight-gun AA battery.
Antennas
Of the 44 stick masts identified, 38
form 3 double rhombics (Figure 12, items
1, 4, and 7), 4 single rhombics (items 2,
5, 6, and 8), and 2 probable single rhombics
(items 3 and 9). Additional antennas may
be present, but the resolution of the
photography precludes their identification.
Data on the nine rhombics is given in Table
8 (antenna numbers are keyed to Figure
12). Not all mast heights can be deter-
mined.
Structures
The following is an enumeration of the
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structures in the operations area (letters
are keyed to Figure 12).
a. Control building, 95 by 45 feet and
35 feet high.
b. Building,
c. Building,
high.
d. Buried tank, 25 feet in diameter.
12. POSSIBLE MICROWAVE TOWER
A self-supporting lattice tower ap-
proximately 80 feet high is situated on top of
a circular mound at 41 ?18 t00"N/69o23t 15tt
E, 5 miles east of Tashkent and one mile
northwest of the Chirchik River. This
tower may support microwave equipment
and may be part of the known Tashkent
Alma-Ata microwave link.
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13. PROBABLE COMMUNICATION
STATION
A probable communication station is
located at 41?20'00"N/69?25'00"E, 5.5
miles east/northeast of the center of Tash-
kent and on the north side of a road leading
southeast from Ordzhonikidze (see Figure
13). It consists of a probable operations
area which contains probable stick masts,
and a probable support area. The station
area is served by a 50-foot-wide concrete
road.
Antennas
Five probable stick masts, arranged
40 to 50 feet apart in a straight line,
are located approximately 800 feet west
of a probable control building. Ground
scars in the vicinity of the probable masts
indicate the existence of other stick masts.
Structures
An enumeration of the structures in
the station area follows (numbers are
keyed to Figure 13).
In the probable operations area:
1. Gable-roofed probable control
building, 105 by 40 feet.
2. Flat-roofed building, 25 feet
square.
3. Gable-roofed building, 30 by 20
feet.
4. Gable-roofed building, 30 by 25
feet.
In the probable support area:
5. Hip-roofed building, 40 feet
square, with side shed.
6. Two buildings (one under con-
struction) each 25 by 15 feet.
7. Possible tank, 20 feet in dia-
meter.
8. Gable-roofed building, 30 by 20
feet.
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station is located 5.5 miles ENE of Tashkent.
9. Gable-roofed building, 45 by 20
feet.
10. Hip-roofed building, 40 by 30
feet.
11. Gable-roofed building, 40 by 35
feet.
12. Gable-roofed building, 190 by 50
feet.
13. Gable-roofed building, 40 by 35
feet.
14. Gable-roofed building, 35 feet
square.
15. Flat-roofed building, 20 by 15
feet.
16. Gable-roofed building, 70 by 45
feet.
17. Multistory flat-roofed building,
15 feet square.
18. Hip-roofed "U"-shaped building,
55 by 45 feet with two extensions 45 by 20
feet.
19. Hip-roofed "U"-shaped building,
55 by 45 feet with two extensions 45 by 20
feet.
20. Multistory hip-roofed building,
95 by 45 feet.
21. Flat-roofed building, 15 feet
square.
22. Flat-roofed building, 15 feet
square.
23. Flat-roofed building, 55 by 15
feet.
24. Fenced area 330 by 215 feet.
14. KRUG ANTENNA
A Krug antenna is located at 41?
19' 10"N/69?25'50"E, 7 miles east of Tash-
kent and 0.75 mile northwest of the Chir-
chik River.
15. DIRECTION-FINDING STATION
A fixed-type high-frequency direc-
tion-finding station is located at 41?19'40"
N/69?26'35"E, 8 miles east/northeast of
Tashkent and 0.5 mile northwest of the
Chirchik River. It includes four or pos-
sibly six stick masts arranged in a 90-foot
diameter circle around a centrally located
building, and is surrounded by a circular
wall or fence.
16. KRUG ANTENNA
A Krug antenna is located at 41?08' 40"
N/69?25'15"E, 13 miles southeastof Tash-
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REPORTED
INSTALLATIONS
The following are brief descriptions
of eight electronic installations in Tash-
kent and vicinity reported in collateral
sources but not identified on aerial pho-
tography. For convenient reference they
are lettered from A through H and keyed
to the detailed location map, Figure 2.
A. Small Radio Station 41018'N/69?17'E
Located to the rear of a two-story
building facing Zhukov Street. Supports the
Staff Headquarters for the Central Asia
Military District. 4/ 6/
B. Radio Facility 41?18'N 69?15'E)
Located in the immediate vicinity of
a military barracks and officer candidate
school. 4/ 6/
C. Television Station approximately 41?
19'N/69?15'E)
Consists of a three-story studio build-
ing and a 590-foot self-supporting steel
tower with three turnstile-type antennas.
A turnstile-type antenna on top mea-
sure Station began operations on
graph, Figure 14
7/ (Ground photo-
shows the tower and turnstile-type an-
tennas.)
D. Probable Radio Facility 41?18'N/69?
16'E)
Located at an MVD officers school.
There are pole aerials on the roof of an
impressive five-story brick and stucco
or concrete building. 8/
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E. Radio Facility 41?18'N/69?20'E
Located at the southeast corner of
the Soviet Air Force barracks presumably
associated with Factory 84 airfield. In-
cludes one 100-foot multiwire flattop an-
tenna mounted between two 75-foot wooden
masts and one probable tactical VHF
radio-relay van with rectangular mesh
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corner reflectors mounted on a 60-foot
wooden mast. The reflectors are similar
in size and appearance to those of the
AN/TRC-8.3/
F. Radio Station near 41?15' N/69?13'E
Includes one caged doublet antenna
150 feet long on two metal masts each 75
feet high. 3/
G. Radio Station 41?15'N/69?12'E
Apparently serves the Soviet Army
Guards. Includes four 30-foot masts and
six 50-foot masts arranged in a circle
supporting 30-foot cage antennas. 3/
SOURCE REFERENCES:
PIC/JR-25/59
H. Small Radio Station 41?23`N/69030'E
Located about one mile south of the
Chirchik road. There is also an instal-
lation with approximately ten masts one
quarter of a mile south of the road, but
closer to Tashkent. 9/
1. Air, Moscow dated 18 Mar 58, pp. 3, 4, info 14 Mar 58. (S)
2. Air, Moscow. I_I dated 6 May 57, info 23 Mar 57. (S)
3. OARMA, Moscow. R-8-57, ID 2047777, dated 1 May 57. (S)
4. OARMA, Moscow. R-78-58, ID 2099509, dated 19 Dec 58. (S)
5. Ajzenberg, G. S. Antennas for Trunkline Communications, Moscow,
1948. (U)
6. U.S. Target Information Sheet, Tashkent Target Complex, 0328-9999,
dated Feb 53. (S)
MAP DATA:
USAF Air Target Chart, 0328-9999-100A, Dec 57. (S)
USAF Air Target Complex Chart, 0328-9999-25A, Feb 53. (S)
WAC 328. (U)
USAF Pilotage Chart 328D, Sep 54. (U)
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