BARANOVICHI BARRACKS AND MANEUVER AREA LESNAYA BARANOVICHI, USSR BELORUSSIAN MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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 MANEUVER AREA , LE MAYA
BARANOVICHI, USSR
BELORUSSIAN MD
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This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground Force and logistic
i tallations being prepared for' 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 iPic (DIA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the NPIC Photraphic Analysis Group.
In the interest 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 Ad
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
emplacements (batteries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train is
ing area or courses, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
facilities or tracking activity.
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BARANOVICHI BARRACKS AND MANEUVER AREA LESNAYA
(53-03N 025-45E)
BARANOVICHI, BRESTSKAYA OBLAST, USSR
BELORUSSIAN MD
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Railroad, double track
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Road
FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF BARANOVICHI BARRACKS AND MANEUVER AREA LESNAYA.
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Baranovichl Barracks and Maneuver Area
l..esnaya (TA-1) is located 10 kilometers (km)
southwest of Baranovichi (53-08N 026-01E)
and immediately west of the Baranovichi-Slonim
highway, which forms the eastern boundary
(Figure 1). A rail siding at Lesnaya is acces-
sible by road. Other military installations in
the Baranovichi area include Army Barracks
East (AL-2) 10 km northeast and Army Barracks
SW (AL-1), also 10 km northeast.
This area (Figure 2) covers approximately
15,500 acres, extending west from the Baranovi-
chi-Slonim highway for approximately 20 km
with an average width of about 5 km. Traini g
facilities are situated it clearings dispers~d
thi