POL STORAGE SITE IPPOLITOVKA, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: April 1, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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This report has been prepared in response to CIA Requirement
DDI/RR/E/R-61/61, requesting a study of the new facilities constructed
since 1956 within a POL storage site at Ippolitovka (formerly called
Kremovo). The mensural data included in this report are only ap-
proximate because of the poor image definition and small scale of
the photography.
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A POL storage site is located at 44-04-OON
132-17-40E, 1.5 nautical miles (nm) northeast
of Ippolitovka and 21 nm northeast of Ussuriysk
(formerly Voroshilov), on the east side of the
Trans-Siberian Railroad between Vladivostok
and Khabarovsk. The Vladivostok-Khabarovsk
highway lies 1.3 nm east of the site. Several
reports, one of which is based on_photog-
raphy, have identified the installation as a
regional storage site for petroleum products
serving several nearby airfields and other local
facilities. 1/ 2/ 3/ Products reportedly stored
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the construction of additional storage tanks, 25X1 D
roads, and a rail spur to serve a new facility 25X1 B
still under construction.
The POL storage site covers an area ap-
proximately 5,000 by 3,000 feet (Figure 1).
It is double fenced except for the southern
boundary where only a single fence line is
visible. A wooded area obscures a section.
of the fence line on the east. Guard towers
are situated throughout the area. A small
area (item 1)* under construction immediately
south of the security fence does not appear
to be associated with the POL storage site.
The eight-tank, rail-served POL storage tank
area (item 2) located west of the Trans-
Siberian Railroad and 0.5 nm southwest of the
POL storage site does not appear to be directly
associated with the POL site. A single-track
rail spur and road enter the southwest sector
of the site from the town of Ippolitovka. In
addition, the site is connected by a good road
to the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk highway to the
east. The administration and housing areas
are located generally in the southwest corner
of the installation. The warehouse and open
storage areas, served by both road and rail,
are in the western and central sectors. The
eastern sector contains mounded POL tanks 25X1 D
(all except five of which are revetted), bunkers,
and open storage of horizontal tanks. Most
of the buildings and tanks existed in _
and have been depicted in black on Figure 1. 25X1 D
The new tankage, buildings, and construction
noted on the
are shown in red on Figure 1. Fifteen new
mounded POL tanks, five of which were under25X1 D
have been added to the
east side of the storage site and are served
by new roads. These tanks are clustered in
three groups of five tanks each. Approximately
12 new buildings have been added within the
storage site. A new road, ending in a loop,
extends eastward from the southwest sector of
the site (item 3). Three possible buildings
are located along the road, and one possible
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ADMINISTRATION AREA
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Road
Railroad
Double Railroad
Fence
Prob. Pipeline
Power Line
Guard Tower
Building
? POL Tank
Horizontal Tank
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Buried Tank Area
Revetment
D Earth Mound
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building is located within the loop. The security
fence line visible on the ex-
cludes this new road. Whether or not the fence
has been extended to include this facility can-
not be determined from the small-scale=
photography. A possible siding (item 4) has
been added to the main rail spur serving the
installation. The northeast end of the main
25X1 D rail spur, which was under construction in
_ now appears to be complete. New con-
struction activity is evident in the northern
sector of the storage site. This activity is
served by a new rail spur and possible siding
(item 5). The probable removal or relocation
of a guard tower and the extension of the
security fence in this area can be attributed
to this construction activity.
The construction activity at the northern
end of the site (item 6), which comprises an
area 500 by 350 feet, appears to be new tankage.
This tankage is served by a rectangular road
pattern which has a contiguous circular road
pattern on the south. Within the rectangular
road pattern are five probable vertical tanks
with a diameter of 75 feet. A possibility
exists that a sixth tank may have been installed,
making two rows of three tanks each within
the rectangular area. A parking apron is on
the north side of the circular road, which is
230 feet in diameter.
of unidentified ground scarring, possibly indi-
cating additional construction. A trench noted
on photography (item 9), possibly
a pipeline under construction from the pumping
station, ended in the area now containing the
probable buildings. Only one of the buildings
constructed is of significant size
(item 10). This structure appears to be a ware-
house or storage-type building approximately
360 by 65 feet and is located in the vicinity
of the three large warehouses that were present
The new construction in the northern sector
of the POL site bears similarities to several
probable POL storage sites that are not asso-
ciated with large storage areas. Four examples
of these are located near Astrakhan at 46-23-20N
47-57-50E, near Poltava at 49-35-20N 34-
29-OOE, near Stryy at 49-13-ION 23-45-20E,
and near Tartu at 58-27-OON 26-41-30E (Fig-
ure 2). A feature common to all these in-
stallations is a rectangular road pattern with
a contiguous loop road. All the installations
are secured and are served by both road and
rail. All the loop roads, with the possible
exception of that at Astrakhan, have from one
to three parking aprons. Small buildings are
also visible at two of these installations.
Four vertical tanks are clearly visible with-
in the rectangular road pattern at Astrakhan
and appear to be for POL storage. One of
the tanks, which is uncovered, is 75 feet in
diameter. Another of the tanks, which is covered
but not mounded, is 65 feet in diameter. The
remaining two tanks are. mounded and are 80
feet in diameter.
The area within the rectangular road pattern
of the facilities at Poltava, Stryy, and Tartu
is not clearly defined, but the visible outlines
suggest mounded tanks.
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Approximately 1,000 feet south-southeast of
this area is a loop road (item 7) with a diameter
of 230 feet. This may be a pull-off area for
trucks or the beginning of construction activity
for additional storage facilities. Two thousand
feet southwest of the rectangular road pattern
is another loop road (item 8) extending west
from the main road serving the storage site.
Two probable buildings are situated on the west
side of the base of the loop. Across the road
from these probable buildings is a small area
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FIGURE 2. SELECTED PROBABLE POL STORAGE SITES. Note the similarity to the new construction in the northern sector of
the Ippolitovka POL site.
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northern sector of the site is located within
a large POL storage facility supports the as-
sumption that it provides additional storage and
handling facilities for POL products, although
it has been compared with facilities not as-
sociated with large storage sites. In general,
The 15 mounded POL tanks the Ippolitovka site appears to be a regional
added since M appear to be for conventional POL installation serving the many nearby air-
POL storage. The fact that the activity in the fields.
Ippolitovka
ACIC. US Target Complex Chart, Series 25, Sheet 0282-9945-0-25A, 1st ed, Oct 55, scale 1:25,000 (CONFIDENTIAL)
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Astrakhan
SAC. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0248-14A, 1st ed, Aug 59, scale 1:200,000 (SECRET)
Poltava
SAC. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0234-11A, 2d ed, Jun 60, scale 1:200,000 (SECRET)
Stryy
SAC. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0232-20A, 1st ed, Aug 57, scale 1:200,000 (SECRET)
Tartu
SAC. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0153-8A, 3d ed, Oct 59, scale 1:200,000 (SECRET)
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5. Air, Moscow. 0 5 Sep 59 (SECRET)
6. Air, Moscow. 15 Dec 60 (SECRET)
7. Air, Moscow. 27 Jul 61 (SECRET)
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