SOVIET BORDER SECURITY FORCES INSTALLATIONS-PACIFIC OCEAN BORDER DISTRICT

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 1, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION
REPORT
SOVIET BORDER SECURITY FORCE
INSTALLATIONS-PACIFIC OCEAN
BORDER DISTRICT
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AND DECLASSIFICATION
JUNE 1970
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1. This report is the first in a series planned to cover each of the five
Soviet Border Security Force districts that border on China; the others are
the Far East, Transbaikal, Eastern, and Central Asia border districts. The
sector of the boundary treated in this report, the Pacific Ocean Border
District, extends 400 nautical miles (nm) from a point on the North Korea
border just inland from the Sea of Japan and includes Damanskiy Island in the
Ussuri River where Soviet and Chinese forces have clashed.
2. Sixty-two border security posts and ten related installations of the
Soviet Border Security Force along the USSR-China boundary have been identified
in this section on KEYHOLE photography (Figure 1). The district headquarters
of the Border Security Force at Vladivostok has been identified from collateral
sources but has not been verified from photography. This study does not
include the coastal installations of the Border Security Force on the Sea of
Japan.
number (FPN) as associated with these installations
3. The basis for the identification of border security posts was a Soviet
ground photograph of "a frontier guard post near the Ussuri River" (inset,
Figure 1). This guard post was located on KH-4 KEYHOLE photography near
Zarubino, at a point approximately 7 nm north of Damanskiy Island and just
inside the Far East Border District. A review of photography revealed numerous
similar installations on or near the border. The identification of related
detachment and line command installations is based on the four-dizi field post
4. The Border Security Force is a force under the control of the Soviet
Committee on State Security (KGB) with a mission to secure both the land and
sea frontiers of the USSR.2 This mission includes repelling small-scale armed
incursions and holding large-scale penetrations until relieved by the Soviet
armed forces.
5. The Border Security Force is organized into districts, detachments
(otryady), command posts (komendatura), and outposts (zastavy). Each border
district may contain from three to seven detachments, this figure varying with
the tactical situation and the area of responsibility of the detachment. Each
detachment contains from three to five line commands in addition to a reserve
or maneuver group. Each line command contains from three to seven outposts as
well as a reserve force and a support force.3
6. A typical border outpost (Figure 2) is loated within 1 nm of the
border and is manned by 30 to 50 officers and men. Usually it consists of one
barracks, one support building, and from three to six other storage or utility
buildings. An outpost is accessible by roads, has localized security, and has
an observation tower or other observation point nearby. A typical command
barracks (Figure 3) is also road served and is located near the border but to
the rear of its outpost. A line command barracks is very similar in appearance
to a small ground forces barracks area and contains from two to four barracks,
an administration building, one or more family apartment buildings, three to
six storage or support buildings, one to three vehicle storage and maintenance
buildings, a messhall, a heating plant, several small utility buildings, and
P local training facilities. The vehicles most generally observed at command
barracks are the BTR-60PB armored personnel carrier and the GAZ-66 cargo truck.
7. The installations observed in the Pacific Ocean Border District are
listed in Table 1 in geographical order, from north to south.
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Table 1. Border Security Installations in the Pacific Ocean Border District
(Keyed to Figure 1)
Installations known to be border security posts are designated by item
number, and installations that are related or possibly related to border
security posts are given letter designators.
1 Nizhne-Mikhaylovskiy Border
Security Post
2 Chernorechenskiy Border Security
Post
3 Guberovo Border Security Post
4 Guberovo Border Security Post SW
5 Sukhanovka Border Security Post
6 Iman Border Security Post North
A Iman Army Barracks North AL 8
7 Iman KGB Base
B Iman Army Barracks South AL 9
8 Krasnoyarskoye Border Security
Post
9 Ilinskiy Border Security Post
10 Nevskoye Border Security Post
West
11 Verkhnyaya Mikhaylovka Border
Security Post
12 Prokhasko Border Security Post
13 Markovo Border Security Post
14 Lesozavodsk Border Security
Post NW
C Lesozavodsk Military Installation
15 Rybalka Border Security Post
No 1
16 Rybalka Border Security Post
No 2
17 Avdeyevka Border Security Post
18 Komarovka Border Security Post
19 Novomikhaylovka Border Security
Post
20 Turiy Rog Probable Border
Security Post
21 Turiy Rog NW Border Security
Post
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46-26-20N 133-54-40E
46-20-3oN 133-55-OOE
46-12-20N 133-53-40E
46-09-l0N 133-43-20E
46_o4-5oN 133-44-30E
45-59-20N 133-43-00E
45-59-05N 133-43-42E
45-56-18N 133-43-10E
45-53-18N 133-43-29E
45-52-05N 133-35-50E
45-51-20N 133-31-10E
45-45-10N 133-29-OOE
45-4o-4oN 133-29-30E
45-36-50N 133-28-30E
45-33-10N 133-20-50E
45-30-20N 133-15-20E
45-26-55N 133-24-36E
45-23-30N 133-10-OOE
45-18-30N 133-o9-40E
45-10-4oN 133-11-1OE
45-05-20N 133-07-10E
45-03-10N 132-51-20E
45-14-4oN 131-58-40E
45-18-30N 131-52-40E
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Item Installation Name
22 Stepanenke NW Border Security
Post
23 Chervonyy Pogranichnik Border
Security Post
24 Pervomayskoye NW Border Security
Post
25 Vinokurka Border Security Post
26 Komissarovo NW Border Security
Post
D Komissarovo Military Barracks
27 Dvoryanka North Border Security
Post
28 Dvoryanka Northwest Border
Security Post
29 Shakheza Border Security Post
30 Kraveva Border Security Post
31 Siyankhe Border Security Post
32 Reshetnikovo West Border Security
Post
33 Reshetnikovo Southwest Border
Security Post
34 Dukhovskaya Northwest Border
Security Post
35 Dukhovskaya West Border Security
Post
36 Klochegovskiy Border Security
Post
37 Pogranichnyy Border Security
Post
E Pogranichnyy Border Guards
Barracks
38 Sofiye-Alekseyevskoye West Border
Security Post
39 Sofiye-Alekseyevskoye Southwest
Border Security Post
40 Zolotoy Border Security Post
41 Karantiniya Border Security Post
42 Poltavka Border Security Post
43 Konstantinovskiy Border Security
Post
44 Pervomaya Border Security Post
F Korfovka Probable Komendatura
Barracks
G Ussuriysk Border Guards Barracks
45 Bolshoy Khutor Border Security
Post
46 Vershiny Border Security Post
47 Tigrovaya Border Security Post
48 Ayandeki Border Security Post
49 Mramornaya Vtoraya Border
Security Post
H Petrovka Probable Komendatura
Barracks
50 Krasnyy Utes Military Installation
I* Headquarters, Pacific Ocean
Border District, Vladivostok
51 Verkhniy Sedimi Border Security
Post
52 Bitskokuri Border Security Post
53 Sredne-Ryazanovka Border Security
Post
54 Tizenkhe Border Security Post
55 Verkhne-Yanchikhe Border
Security Post
56 Nizhne-Yanchikhe Border Security
Post
45-14-10N 131-50-OOE
45-11-10N 131-47-40E
45-10-10N 131-41-10E
45-o6-20N 131-44-40E
45-01-20N 131-39-10E
44-59-OON 131-47-10E
44-56-20N 131-33-40E
44-56-ooN 131-25-40E
44-56-40N 131-20-20E
44-52-50N 131-11-OOE
44-52-5oN 131-05-10E
44-45-30N 131-11-4OE
44-42-50N 131-08-10E
44-38-50N 131-09-OOE
44-35-40N 131-11-40E
44-29-50N 131-11-30E
44-23-20N 131-14-55E
44-25-20N 131-22-30E
44-18-2oN 131-17-OOE
44-16-30N 131-16-10E
44-o8-4oN 131-17-30E
44-04-30N 131-21-10E
44-o1-40N 131-15-30E
43-57-10N 131-17-10E
43-53-40N 131-15-40E
43-53-20N 131-19-30E
43-49-39N 131-54-50E
43-47-30N 131-14-20E
43-38-40N 131-14-10E
43-36-OON 131-17-50E
43-29-3oN 131-19-30E
43-20-OON 131-26-OOE
43-14-30N 131-18-30E
43-14-ooN 131-25-4OE
43-08-OON 131-54-OOE
43-03-50N 131-21-30E
42-59-20N 131-09-30E
42-50-20N 131-08-OOE
42-47-OON 130-57-OOE
42-48-20N 130-50-20E
42-46-40N 130-45-50E
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Sredne Fatashi
Post
Border Security 42-47-50N 13
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4o
-10E
58
Novaya Derevnya
Post
Border Security 42-43-30N 13
0-
35
-OOE
59
Sabenda Border
Security Post 42-45-50N 13
0-
28
-10E
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Posyet Army Bar
racks AL 1 42-39-05N 13
0-
47
-40E
60
Khansi Border S
ecurity Post 42-37-40N 13
0-
37
-50E
61
Zarechye Border Security Post 42-33-20N 13
0-
39
-OOE
62
Khasan Border Security Post 42-25-4oN 13
0-
38
-30E
*The installation has not been identified from photography.
2. RAC. RAC/SSD/R-84-70. Soviet State Organizations External to the
Ministry of Defense Which Augument Military Capability (U).
Jan 70 (SECRET)
3. DIA. Report SSO/AP-220-2-1A-69-INT. Combined Soviet Ground and
Security Forces Order of Battle (C), 1 Jul 69 (TOP SECRET)
4. DOD. Intelligence Information Report 2227001670, 16 Mar 70
(CONFIDENTIAL)
NPIC Project 111108NS
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