PERM ROCKET TEST FACILITY, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000200340055-6
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: June 1, 1963
• Content Type: BRIEF

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION BRIEF
Declassification. review by NIMA/DoD
'NPIC/R-118/63
June. 1963
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Perm Rocket Test Facility, USSR
Geo Coords:
58-O1N 56-34E
NPIC Target No-
0156-16C
SAC 200. Sheet 0156- 11AL, 2d ed, Nov 59, scale 1:200,000 (S)
NPIC Project No J-84/63 (partial answer)
The Perm Rocket Test Facility is located
in a wooded area 10.5 nm east of Perm at 58-01N
56-34E. It is served., bv both road and rail and
has two security fences, the inner fence enclosing
approximately 120 acres. The facility has one
road-served vertical test stand measuring ap-
proximately 60 by 55 feet and 170 feet high, a
drive-through checkout building about 185 by
100 feet and 55 feet high, ano 40 miscellaneous
storage and administration buildings. Within
the facility are four rail spurs, one of which
Publication No:
NPIC/R-118/63
Date:
June 1963
terminates approximately 1,8.00 feet ENE of
the test stand at a possible fuel-storage area
(reported in OAK-Part II, page
14, as a possible test site).
The facility was first seen on
Poor-'- uality photography from
permitted identi-
fication only. Good-quality photography from
provides more detail
than previously observed at this facility.
TOP SECRET CHESS RUFF