SOVIET CIVIL DEFENSE ALTERNATE HEADQUARTERS/COMMAND FACILITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 1, 1979
• Content Type: REPORT

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Imagery analysis report
Soviet Civil Defense Alternate
Headquarters/Command Facilities (S)
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SOVIET CIVIL DEFENSE
ALTERNATE HEADQUARTERS/COMMAND FACILITIES (S)
1. ~ On the basis of imagery-derived
and collateral information, 13 Soviet civil defense
alternate command posts have been identified in the
USSR (Figure 1 and Table 1). These facilities re-
portedly provide hardened recovery control centers
for civil defense operations, as well as protection for
some elements of the government leadership in the
event of nuclear hostilities.' Two alternate national-
level centers have been identified in the Moscow
area, and alternate republic-level centers have been
identified in the Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Ar-
menian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Kazakh,
Turkmen, Moldavian, and Tadzhik Soviet Socialist
Republics (SSRs). Alternate command posts have
not yet been identified in three SSRs: Kirgiz, Azer-
baijan, and Georgian. The alternate command post
for the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
(RSFSR) is probably collocated with one of the two
national-level facilities in the Moscow area.
2. (TSR) While the function and general loca-
tions of these installations were initially determined
using collateral information, analysis of the imagery
has resulted in the identification of some physical
characteristics that can aid in identifying similar facili-
ties. In general, these facilities are situated in rural
areas along a major arterial road, often near a body of
water, and within 10 to 25 nautical miles (nm) of a
major government/administrative center. Because of
3. Two separate installations,
supporting the Soviet national civil defense staff,2,1
have been identified in the vicinity of Moscow. Both
installations differ from those at the republic level in
that these national-level facilities are larger, include
more support facilities, and contain hardened anten-
nas. Solnechnogorsk RSFSR Civil Defense Headquar-
ters Complex (Figure 2), approximately 34 nm north-
west of Moscow, is the largest of the alternate civil
defense headquarters. The extensive housing and sup-
port facilities and the additional personnel shelter at
this facility strongly suggest that it is probably both the
crisis relocation site for the national civil defense staff
subordinate to the Ministry of Defense and the
primary alternate center for the RSFSR. The other
national-level center, Ustye National Civil Defense
Receiver Complex/Hardened (Figure 3), is approxi-
Republic-Level Facilities
5. (TSR) The 11 republic-level alternate civil
defense command posts identified to date are smaller
than the national-level installations and have less ex-
tensive support facilities. Six of these facilities have
been associated with civil defense activity by the pres-
ence of a military civil defense unit in the vicinity. At
two other installations a single-lane civil defense obsta-
cle course has been identified. For the remaining three
installations, only collateral sources are available to
support a civil defense association.', 5,6.1
6. (S/WNINTEL) The Latvian SSR alternate
civil defense headquarters` is in a wooded area just
north of Sigulda and approximately 25 nm northeast
of Riga (Figure 4). The installation contains an opera-
tions bunker, a headquarters/administration building,
a vehicle storage building, and two support buildings.
7. (S/WNINTEL) The Lithuanian SSR alter-
nate civil defense headquarters' is in a wooded area,
11.5 nm northeast of Vilnius and 0.8 nm southeast of
Nemencine (Figure 5). The installation contains an
operations bunker, a headquarters building, and two
barracks/support buildings. A new multistory bar-
racks has been under construction since mid-1978. A
single-lane civil defense troop obstacle course (not
illustrated) is in a cleared area approximately 0.5 nm
from the command post area.
8. (S/WNINTEL) The Estonian SSR alternate
civil defense headquarters' is approximately 20 nm
southeast of Tallinn and 1.5 nm south of the town of
Kose (Figure 6). The facility consists of two areas-a
civil defense operations area in the south and a civil
leadership relocation area in the north. The civil de-
fense area contains an operations bunker, three bar-
racks, a headquarters building, a garage, and a stor-
age/support shed. The relocation area contains an
operations bunker, two administration buildings, a
barracks, two vehicle storage buildings, four support
buildings, and two multistory apartment buildings
(one under construction).
9. The Armenian
SSR alternate civil defense headquarters9 10 is 12 nm
north of Yerevan, just east of the main highway to
Razdan and Sevan, near the village of Nor Gekhi
(Figure 7). The facility is a separately secured area, 0.5
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mately 45 nm west-southwest of Moscow and 35.5 nm
southwest of Solnechnogorsk.
nm south of Yerevan Civil Defense Installation (BE
with a command post dug into the cliff
above the Razdan River. An additional underground
bunker has been built above the original command
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Table 1.
Soviet Civil Defense Alternate Command Posts
(Keyed to Figure 1)
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Republic Name
RSFSR Solnechnogorsk RSFSR CD Hq Cplx
RSFSR Ustye Nat CD Rcvr Cplx/Hd
Latvian Sigulda Alte CD Hq Latvian SSR Bnk
Lithuanian Nemencine/Lithuanian CD Hq Cplx
Estonian Kose/Estonian Relo Cplx
Armenian Nor Gekhi Armenian CD Hq Cplx
Belorussian Minsk/Belorussian CD Hq Cplx
Ukrainian Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy CD
Comm Cnt
Uzbek Toy Tepa/Uzbek CD Hq and Rcvr Cplx
Kazakh Fabrichnyy/Kazakh Relo Cplx 2
Turkmen Geok Tepe/Turkmen CD Hq and Rcvr
Cplx Bnk
Moldavian Dubossary/Moldavian Relo Bnk
Tadzhik Karatag/Tadzhik Relo Cplx I
post. The installation also contains a headquarters
building, two barracks/administration buildings, two
storage buildings, two vehicle storage buildings, a
heating plant, and five support buildings.
(Figure 8). The station contains an operations bunker,
a barracks/administration building, a vehicle storage
building, and five support buildings.
10. (S/WNINTEL) The Belorussian SSR alter-
nate civil defense headquarters1 ,'' (Figure 9) is in a
densely wooded area, 13 nm northeast of Minsk and
2.1 nm east of Minsk Civil Defense Installation (BE
. The facility contains an operations
bunker, a barracks/administration building, a storage
building, and several small support buildings. A mul-
tistory apartment-type building is being constructed
immediately south of the command post area.
11. (S/WNINTEL) The Ukrainian SSR alter-
nate civil defense headquarters6'7 is 1.6 nm east of
Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy and approximately 42 nm
southeast of Kiev (Figure 10). The command post area
is the western half of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy
The command post
area is separately secured from the school area and
contains a headquarters building, an administration
building, two barracks/administration buildings, three
Geographic
Coordinates
56-07-32N
036-51-51E
55-37-55N
036-18-OOE
57-10-06N
024-51-30E
54-50-20N
025-27-01 E
59-10-11 N
025-13-IOE
40-21-59N
044-36-1OE
54-02-34N
027-50-55E
50-04-28N
031-27-36E
41-02-OON
069-19-50E
43-11-30N
076-23-30E
38-08-48N
056-55-51 E
47-17-32N
0290-05-17E
38-35-56N
068-19-50E
multifamily and two single-family houses, four sup-
port/storage buildings, and a motor pool area with a
large vehicle storage building. A large bunker (approx-
imately 55 by 42 meters) has been under construction 25X1
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12. (S/WNINTEL) Another reported civil
defense-associated facility,12 Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy
Possible Civil Defense Headquarters Complex (BE
, is in a wooded area approximately 3 nm25X1
south of the communications center (Figure 11).
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The installation appears to be
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secured and contains a probable administration build-
ing, a vehicle storage building, and at least one support25X1
building. Immediately north of the woods is a fenced
area that has been excluded from cultivation and
contains what appear to be several positions for mobile
communications equipment. The dense foliage pre-
cludes the identification of a bunker at this site.
However, the remote location, the general appearance
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struction of a new bunker at the communications25X1
center suggests that the older facility, Pereyaslav-25)(1
Khmelnitskiy Possible Civil Defense Headquarters
Complex, was no longer adequate and newer, larger25X1
facilities were needed to support the leadership of the
Ukrainian SSR.
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