SOVIET MILITARY ORDER OF BATTLE VOLGA MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000500200073-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 73
• Publication Date: July 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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PREFACE
This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground Force and Logistic
installations being repared for a DIA/CIA Panel. The series is being
coordinated, published. and disseminated by NPIC. The photographic
analysis is being p rformed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group,
the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division (NPIC), and the Production
Center 1Pla (DIA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the Production Center lP la..
In the interest of uniformity, the titles and letter designators for
the facilities .obserjved at these installations are identical with those
appearing in the p,joject requirement. When a specific facility is not
observed both its t
Titles and lett
follows: (A) railr
(D) administrative
munition storage ar
facilities, (J) equipr
(L) small arms fi
assault gun firing r~
emplacements (batt
ing areas or court
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itle and letter designator are omitted in the report.
er designators for the various facilities are as
oad service, (B) road service, (C) landing strips,
ind troop housing areas, (E) storage areas, (F) am-
:as, (G) POL storage areas, (H) other buildings and ?
Went storage /maintenance areas, (K) athletic fields,
ring ranges, (M) driver training areas, (N) tank/
inges, (P) flat trajectory firing ranges, (Q) artillery
aries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train-.
;es, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
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TCS-80789/65
TOTSKOYE ARMY BARRACKS NORTHWEST
(52-32N 052-50E)
TOTSkOYE, CHKALOVSKAYA OBLAST, USSR
VOLGA MD
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STATUTE MILE5
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52' 54' 56' 58' 60'
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SUMMARY' 25X1 D
Totskoye Ar y Barracks Northwest is situ-
ated halfway bets een Totskoye and Kirsanovka,
along the north ank of the Samara River (Fig-
ure l). This is t e headquarters, troop housing,
and support are for the extensive maneuver
area and traini g facilities which extend 14
The installa ion covers approximately 900
acres and cons sts of 8 administration and
troop housing ar as, 2 general storage-areas,
a PQL facility, 7 motor pools, 3 athletic. fields,
2 small-arms firing ranges, and miscellaneous
support-facilities (Figur!.es'2 -and 3).
There are r it facilities 2 kilometers (km)?
Orenburg rail lin
the installation. I A good, hard-surface 'road
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Kirsanovka high,.-.{ay.
Aircraft Landing Strip 25X1A
Totskoye j\?rfield
sod strip apparently not used extensively, is
located 2 kni sou h of the-installation.
Area D1 contains approximately 600 tent
bases and 10 per ianent support buildings. The
area is partially obscured by trees.
Area D2 contains 3 U-shaped, multistory
administration buildings, 1 T-shaped, sin,le-
story administration building, 9 single-story
barracks, and 1 single-story support building.
Area D3 contains 64 small housing units
and 18 small support buildings.
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between The level
of activity appears to be generally high, with
some increase during the summer months.
Changes were minor and consisted mainly of
the addition'of a few permanent-type buildings
and growth of the dependents housing area along
the river..- This installation appears to have
been a tent cantonment area for summer train-
ing, and has gradually evolved into a permanent,
all-season training facility. Many of the old
bases no longer appear to be in use.
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Area D4 contains 3 U-shaped, multistory
bar-racks/administration buildings, 1 T-shaped,
multistory administration building, 5 multistory
barracks, 1 heating/powerplant with a tall
smokestack, 57 single-story. housing units, and
4 single-story support buildings.
Area D5 contains 4 barracks/administration
buildings, 4 support buildings, and 1 security
building.
Area D6 contains 57 single-story housing
units (probably dependents housing), 3 single-
story administration buildings/barracks, 3 sin-
gle-story storage buildings, and 1 multistory
administration building which is fenced and has
the appearance of a school. The entire area
appears non-military.
Area D7 . contains approximately 200 tent
bases. I The area is partially obscured by
trees. Permanent support buildings normally
associated with a tent cantonment area are not
present.
Area D8 contains 3 single-story barracks,
1 T-shaped, single-story administration build-
ing, and -4 single-story support buildings (2
fenced).
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Area El contains 8, warehouses and 4 small
storage /support buildings secured by a fence.
Outside the fence there are 2 warehouses, 2
barracks/ administration buildings, and 2 sup-
port/security buildings.
Area E2 is fenced and contains 5 small
storage buildings. Miscellaneous unidentified
material_is visible in open storage.
Area G is fenced and contains 5 revetments
for POL drum (50-100 gal) storage, 2 mounded
probable buried tanks, and 1 support building.
There is also a small POL tank farm along
the railroad between Totskoye and Kiroanovka.
Area U12 is fenced and contains a heating/
owerplant with a smokestack.
Area H1 contains 1 barracks/administration
building. The area is fenced and is a possible
stockade.
Area H3 contains 3 .support buildings and a
probable water.-Itbwer. -
Equipmen_ Storage/Maintenance Areas
Area J1 is secured and contains a 2,000-
by 1,200-foot motor' pool, 10 vehicle storage
buildings (one 500 by 50 feet, five 250 " by 50
feet, and four 180 by 35 feet), four 100- by 35-
foot vehicle maintenance buildings, and 3 sup-
port buildings. Approximately 200 vehicles and
50 artillery pieces were observed parked in
the open o photography.
Area J2 contains a 1,000- by 450-foot
motor pool, 4 vehicle storage buildings (one
250 by 50 feet and three 150 by 50 feet), one
75- by 50-foot vehicle maintenance building,
and 3 support buildings.
Area J3 contains four 100- by 35-foot
vehicle maintenance buildings and ,1 single-
story administration building.
Area J4 contains a 900- by 750-foot motor
pool (fenced with a separate corridor along the
east side), 5 vehicle storage buildings (two 200
by 50 feet and three 150 by 50 feet), and 6
support buildings. Tanks, towed artillery, and
100-125 vehicles were observed on
-photography.
Area J5 contains a 4,500= by 900-foot vehicle
parking area and an H-shaped administration
building. There are no vehicle storage/main-
tenance facilities in the area.
Area J6 contains a 1,000- by 450-foot motor -
pool, six 150- by 50-foot-vehicle storage build-
ings, and a 100- by 35-foot vehicle maintenance.
building.
Area J7 is walled and contains a 900- by
450-foot motor pool, three 150- by `50-foot
vehicle storage buildings, seven 100- by 50-
foot vehicle maintenance buildings, and 3 support
buildings. Probable towed artillery was ob-
Athletic Fields
Area K1 is a playing field.
Area K2 is a playing field with an exercise
track and 2 open playing courts.
Area K3 is a playing field.
Areas L1 and L2 are 400'- by 100-foot
small-arms firing ranges revetted on the sides
and back.
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 MAPS OR CHARTS
US Air Target Chart, Series 300, Sheet 0165-25A, 1st ed, Sep 59 (SECRET)
US Air Target Chart, Series 50, Sheet 0165-23 "7A, 1st ed, Nov 59 (SECRET)
DOCUMENT
Army. PIB-TK-35-62, Slilitary Installation, Totskoye, USSR, Jun 63 (TOP SECRET RUFF)
REQUIREMENT
DIAAP-1-15-64 (partial answer)
NPIC PROJECT
11906./64
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