CHELYABINSK AMMUNITION DEPOT KOPEYSK, CHELYABINSK, USSR, URAL MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400010097-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: July 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTER -RETAT1ON *fPORT
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YABINSK , AMMUNITION DEPOT KOPEYSK
''URAL MD
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Declass Review by
.NIMA/DOD
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
CHELYABINSK. USSR
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This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground Force and Logistic
installations being prepared for a DIA/CIA Panel. The series is being
coordinated, published and disseminated by NPIC. The photographic
analysis is being performed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group,
the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division (NPIC), and the Production
Center 1P1c (DIA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division.
In the int?rest of uniformity, the titles and letter designators for
the facilities observed at these installations are identical with those
appearing in the project requirement. When a specific facility is not
observed both its title and letter designator are omitted in the report.
Titles and letter designators for the various facilities are as
follows: (A) railroad service, (B) road service, (C) landing strips,
(D) administrative and troop housing areas, (E) storage areas, (F) am-
munition storage areas, (G) POL storage areas, (H) other buildings.and
facilities, (J) equipment storage/maintenance areas, (K) athletic fields,
(L) small arms firing ranges, (M) driver training areas, (N) tank/
assault gun firing ranges, (P) flat trajectory firing ranges, (Q) artillery
emplacemants (batteries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train-
ing areas or courses, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
facilities or tracking activity.
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Chelyabinsk Ammunition Depot Kopeysk
(Figure 1) is located 4.5 kilometers (km) north-
northwest of Kopeysk (55-06N 061-37E), and 10
km east-southeast of Chelyabinsk (55-09N 061-
26E). The installation is connected to the
Kopeysk Shell Loading Plant (55-07N 061-34E),
2 km south by a spur line and a probable hard-
surface road.
The installation (Figures 2 and 3) is walled
and fenced and covers approximately 275 acres.
It contains a total of 41 buildings, of which there
are 26 revetted ammunition storage buildings
and 15 support buildings. There are no billeting
or equipment storage facilities directly con-
nected with this installation.
The most recent coverage)
eveals that seven new revetted ammuni-
tion s orage buildings have been constructed in
the southeast s 'n allation since the
initial coverage nd that other
probable storage buildings are under construc-
tion in the southeast and northeast-sectors of
the installation.
DESCRIPTION OF INSTALLATION
Railroad Service
A single spur serves the installation from
the shell loading plant.
Rood Service
A probable hard-surface, all-weather road
connects the installation with the shell loading
plant and main routes from Chelyabinsk.
Administrative and Troop Housing Area
The administrative and billeting facilities
for this installation are probably located in the
support area of the shell loading plant.
Ammunition Storage Area
Area F (Figure 3) contains seven 125- b}
40-foot ammunition storage buildings, eleven 60-
bv 40-foot ammunition storage buildings, eight
ammunition storage buildings of undetermined
size, five support buildings inside the compound,
and 10 support buildings outside the compound.
The area is rail served and probably fenced and
walled. Probable construction activity was ob-
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served within the compound areal
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Railroad, single track
Road
Fence
-w- Wall
C Revetment
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100 O 100 200 3_ O~ O
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FIGURE 3. CHELYABINSK AMMUNITION DEPOT KOPEYSK. Sketch compiled
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MAPS OR CHARTS
["S Air Target Chart, Series P00, Sheet 0164-FA, ?d ed, Jun 60 (SECRET)
DOCUMENT
DIA / 000 " 0-1-63, Combined Soviet Ground and Security Forces Order of Battle. 1 Jul 63 (TOP SECRET
REQUIREMENT
C-RR4-61,110 (partial answer)
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