PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF RE SLANTSY SHALE DISTILLATION PLANT, SLANTSY, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04753A000100010021-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 12, 1956
• Content Type: BRIEF

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:ENSTALLATIQN: Slantsy Shale Distillation Plant
LOCATION: Slants USSR
25X1A B.S. FAIM: NiN
VAC NO: 1 3
MW NO.= B21-56
DATE: 12 September 1956
LAT.: 59?0 07' N
LONG.: 28 11' E
PTO DATA:
NCES:
Target Monde: None
Map: Estonia 1:50,000 Slantsy Edition 1-ANS sheet 4336 III Series N753
Other: Soviet Shale-Oil Industry ONI 24-4 1 May 1951 Secret
ENCLOSURES: None
REUM:
The Slantsy Shale Distillation Plant is located in Leningradskaya Oblast', near the
Estonian border. It is part of a larger complex of closely-associated oil shale activity.
Other parts of the complex are treated in B-19-20-22.
Principal plant operation include two oil shale gas producing units, power plant and
underground mining. Associated features are two gasometers, gas pipeline, liquid fuel
storage, two shale ash dumps and sludge pond. Main rail and highway transportation routes
service plant operations. Two additional underground mining areas SSW and SE of the plant
also supply oil shale for retorting at this facility. One newly constructed modern-
appearing housing area overall 1.3 statute miles (sm) by 0.9 sm includes single- and multi-
story apartment type dwellings.
Total volume of the two cone-shaped shale ash piles is estimated to be between
635,270,000 cubic feet and 872,100,000 cubic feet. A power plant and brick plant are
operating 3.2 sm west across the Plyussa River.
It is probable that gas produced by this facility is fed directly into the main
Tallin-Leningrad pipeline.
A detailed report of the plant will be issued at a later date.
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