SLONIM ARMY TRAINING AREA SOUTHEAST SLONIM, USSR BELORUSSIAN MD

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: August 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
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SLONIM ARMY TRAINING P REA SOUTHEAST
SLONIM, USSR
BELORUSSIAN MI
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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 Photograp hlnalysis Group,
the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division (NPIC), and the Production
Center iPlc (DIA). The photographic analysis for t'frfs particular re-
port was performed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group.
In the interest of uniformity, the titles and letter designators for
the facilities observed at these installations are ide tical with those
appearing in the project requirement. When a s , ific facility is not
observed bq0th its title and letter designator are omitted in the report.
Titles and letter designators for the various acilities are as
follows: (A) railroad service, (B) road service, O 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
emplacements (batteries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train-
ing area or courses, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
facilities orb tracking activity.
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SLONIM ARMY TRAINING AREA SOUTHEAST
(53-02N 025-25E)
SLONIM, GRODNENSKAYA OBLAST, UISR
BELORUSSIAN MD
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FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF SLONIM ARMY TRAINING AREA SOUTHEAST, SLONIM.
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The Slonim Army Training Area Southeast
(TA-1) is located (Figure 1) 7 kilometers (km)
southeast of Slonim (53-05N 025-19E). Slonim
Army Barracks and Ordnance Depot (AL-2)
is 8 km northwest of the training area. The
Slonim-Baranovichi highway is adjacent to the
north edge of the area. The Slonim-Barano-
vichi railroad is 2 km north of the area, but
no transloading points were observed.
The training. area (Figure 2) covers ap-
proximately. 3,100 acres and is located on
fairly level, open ground. The area contains
a wheeled-vehicle driver-training course, a
tracked-vehicle driver-training area, two tank/
assault-gun firing ranges, a possible flat-tra-
jectory range near one of the tank/assault-
gun firing ranges, and an infantry field-train-
ing area.
This. , area was covered by _ TALENT
photogra and - KEYHOLE missions be-
tween Compara-
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the following significant
changetbetwee (a) de-
activation of t iring lanes and three moving
target runs, addition of one moving target run,
lengthening of the two firing lanes at tank/as-
sault-gun firing range Ni;, (b) addition of two
firing lanes, lengthening of two firing lanes,
deactiviation o ree moving target runs and
addition of on moving target run at tank/
sault-gun. firing range N2; and (c) addition of
four possible firing points and two possible
moving target n at the flat-trajectory range.
The level o activity increased between -
and remained constant with
medium usage between
Only the wheeled-vehicle driver-crew
trainir3)area N ) and one tank/assault-gun
firing, ra ge (NI were active on snow-.covered
photo ra0hy of - when both facilities
had lighrfactivity.
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