YELSK MRBM COMPLEX, USSR FIXED FIELD SITE

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
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YELSK MRBM COMPLEX, USSR
FIXED FIELD SITE
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YELSK MRBM COMPLEX, USSR
FIXED FIELD SITE 25X1 D
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Launch Area No I (TDI name: Yelsk Launch Site 1) -- Typo I 51-42 129-121E
Launch Area No 2 (TDI name: Yelsk Launch Site 2) -- Type I 51-47ON 29-t8UE
Yelsk Fixed Field Site (TDI name: Yelsk SSM Fixed Field Position) 51-50-1N 29-05-ME
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FIGURE 7. YELSK MRBM COMPLEX.
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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SSR. 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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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
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snow cover precluded any identification or in-
interpretation of the site. The first goodphoto-
graphic coverage and the only coverage since
The fixed field site can be negated it
and was first covered in
at which time
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PROBABLE
MISSILE?R EADY;
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possible vehiclQs :.
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Probabte borrow plt ,
Missile transporter and. erector
Probable vehicles
Unidentified object
Revetment
? Probable erector.
3 Van's and unidentified objects
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_ at which time the site was identified.
At that time the two MRBM launch areas were
complete; they had been complete since -
The southern clearing contains a missile trans-
porter with a missile on it and an erector.
These clearings are separated into
of two clearings and are offset.
clearing containing the missile transporter and
erector is a line of approximately 20 possible
vehicles or unidentified objects. In the center of
the site are two revetments, each containing
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clearings.
two pairs
The access road enters the site (Figure
2) from the northeast. It then branches into a
series of large loops which contain four padlike
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
2-
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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 MR13M launch areas.
rectangular road pattern, arc an undetermined 't'here is no security fence discernible around
number of tents and several small buildings. the site.
The pairs of clearings have azimuths of 35 and
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