RAIL FACILITIES KOUNRADSKIY, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300090022-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: December 16, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to ai> unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-CIA
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SUBJECT : Rail Facilities NO : PIC/JB-1022/60
LOCATION: Kounradskiy, USSR DATE: l6 December 1960 25X1 D
COORD : 46-58N 75-OOE
ACIC. US Air Target. Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0245-10A,L, 2d ed,
Jun 60, scale 1:200, 000 (S)
Kounradskiy .(46-58N 75-OOE) is 9 miles north of Balkhash at the
terminus of a.double-tracked electrified rail line. The Kounradskiy mines,
reportedly the largest copper mines in the USSR, supply ore to the copper
smelters in Balkhash.
As shown on the accompanying drawing, the rail facilities include the
following: two holding yards, one 2, 000 feet long and eight tracks wide, and
the other, 1, 200 feet long and four tracks wide; four-stall car repair shop,
120 by 120 feet, through tracks, with connecting shop 70 by 55 feet; one-stall
locomotive repair. shop, 210 by 90 feet; and turning wye, effective length,
350 feet,.
Declass Review by
NIMA/DOD
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NOFORN
 LOCOMOTIVE
REPAIR SHOP
CAR REPAIR
SHOPS
1000 0 3000
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FEET