CHELYABINSK AIR DEFENSE ZONE HEADQUARTERS AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: August 1, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION
REPORT
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
CHELYABINSK AIR DEFENSE ZONE
HEADQUARTERS AND ASSOCIATED
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
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Chelyabinsk Air D
efense Zone Headquarters and Associated Communications Facilities
CATEGORY
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BE NO.
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DMA. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0156-8, scale 1:200,000
Geographic
Coordinates
Chelyabinsk ADZ 54-59-40N
Command Bunker 061-20-50E
Chelyabinsk Tropo Sta 54-59-30N
061-20-50E
Chelyabinsk ADZ 54-59-40N
Radcom Xmtr Sta 061-20-30E
Chelyabinsk ADZ 54-52-30N
Radcom Rcvr Sta 061-30-40E
Paletayevo Radcom 55-02-30N
Xmtr Sta 061-05-20E
COMIREX NO.
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NIETB NO.
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1. This report describes the recently identified Chelyabinsk Air Defense Zone (ADZ)
Headquarters and associated communications facilities. This is the first identification from
photographic analysis of an ADZ headquarters and associated communications facilities in the
Sverdlovsk Air Defense District (ADD).
2. The identification of these facilities may help in identification of other ADZ headquarters
facilities and their communications facilities.
NPIC P-8510
ADD Boundary
ADD Headquarters
------ ADZ Boundary
ADZ Headquarters
FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF CHEL YABINSKADZ HEAD QUARTERSAND ASSOCIA TED COMMUNICATIONS
FACILITIES
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3. A location map, four annotated photographs, antenna tables, and a basic description of
each facility are included. The report is based on all available photography of suitable interpretability
4. Chelyabinsk ADZ Headquarters is 11 nautical miles (nm) south of Chelyabinsk (Figure 1).
The Chelyabinsk ADZ Headquarters is representative of the ADZ headquarters in the Sverdlovsk ADD.
The types of communications associated with this facility are similar to those at ADZ headquarters
throughout the Soviet Union. The ADZ headquarters consists of an ADZ bunker and associated
communications facilities: Chelyabinsk Troposcatter Station, Chelyabinsk Radio Communications
Transmitter Station, Chelyabinsk Radio Communications Receiver Station, and Paletayevo Radio
Communications Transmitter Station.
5. Photography of the ADZ headquarters command and control communications facilities at
Chelyabinsk shows the following: there are high frequency (HF) transmitting and receiving antennas
Table 1. Chelyabinsk ADZ Command Bunker and Troposcatter Station
(Keyed to Figure 2)
1 Troposcatter
2 Troposcatter
3 Troposcatter
4 Troposcatter
5 R-400 microwave
antennas (2)
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Troitsk
Sverdlovsk
Sverdlovsk
Chelyabinsk Radcom
Xmtr Sta and
Chelyabinsk Radcom
Rcvr Sta
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oriented toward Moscow, toward bordering ADZ headquarters, and with Sverdlovsk ADD Headquarters
the troposcatter antennas are part of the troposcatter relay communications network
within the ADD; the FORK REST antennas are oriented toward certain air-warning radar sites in
the ADZ; and R-400 microwave antennas are present at the Chelyabinsk ADZ communications facilities
which provide intrafacility communications. A PVO Stranyy obstacle course, which has been observed
only at facilities subordinate to PVO Stranyy, has been identified in the Chelyabinsk ADZ Radio
Communications Transmitter Station.
Chelyabinsk ADZ Command Bunker
6. This recently identified facility is 11 nm south of Chelyabinsk and is wall secured (Figure
2 and Table 1). It consists of three areas: a bunkered control area, an air-warning radar area, and
a support area. The arch-roofed bunker is subsurface and within the wall-secured area. The two
air-warning radar mounds are outside and along the east and west walls of the support area. A cable
scar extends from the bunker to the control building of Chelyabinsk ADZ Radio Communications
Transmitter Station.
7. The support area contains an administration building, three barracks, four support buildings,
a maintenance building, and a vehicle shed.
Chelyabinsk Troposcatter Station
8. The collocated troposcatter station is 1,000 feet south of the ADZ command bunker (Figure
2). It was newly identified in January 1974. It contains an aboveground bunker with two pairs of
TWIN DISH troposcatter antennas and an R-400 microwave antenna mounted on top.
Chelyabinsk ADZ Radio Communications Transmitter Station
9. This newly identified facility is 2,000 feet west of the Chelyabinsk ADZ Command Bunker
and consists of an antenna field and a support area (Figure 3 and Table 2).
10. The antenna field contains four transmitting rhombic antennas, one probable rhombic
antenna, five horizontal dipole antennas, four quadrant antennas, three FORK REST antennas, two
R-400 microwave antennas, and three unidentified masts. A cable scar extends between the transmitter
control building and ADZ command bunker.
11. The support area contains an operations building, a two-story barracks, a messhall, two
support buildings, two vehicle sheds, and a PVO Stranyy obstacle course.
Chelyabinsk ADZ Radio Communications Receiver Station
12. The receiver station is 6 nm east of the Chelyabinsk ADZ Command Bunker and consists
of an antenna field and a support area (Figure 4 and Table 3). The antenna field contains seven
fishbone antennas, four horizontal dipole antennas, two quadrant antennas, two R-400 microwave
antennas, several unidentified masts, a control building, and a bunker.
13. The troposcatter antennas present in April 1973 were removed by January 1974.
14. The support area consists of a barracks, an operations building, two support buildings, and
a security shed.
Paletayevo Radio Communications Transmitter Station
15. This facility is on the northwest edge of Paletayevo and 9 nm north-northwest of the
Chelyabinsk ADZ Command Bunker. It consists of an antenna field and support area (Figure 5 and
Table 4).
16. The antenna field contains three double rhombic antennas, two R-400 microwave antennas,
three horizontal dipole antennas, one probable horizontal dipole antenna, and a control building.
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17. The support area contains an administration building, two support buildings, and a security
18. Paletayevo Radio Relay Station
of the antenna field.
is collocated. It is in the southeast corner
Table 2. Chelyabinsk ADZ Radio Communications Transmitter Station
(Keyed to Figure 3)
No Ant
enna Type
Soviet
Designator
Frequency
(MHz)
1 Horizo
ntal dipole
VGD 25 d
1.91-6.0
Kuy
bysh
ev/Omsk
16
2 Horizo
ntal dipole
VGD 20d
3.75-9.38
Kuy
bysh
ev/Omsk
22
3 Horizo
ntal dipole
VGD 20 d
3.75-9.38
Bak
u/Kra
snovodsk
12
4 Horizo
ntal dipole
VGD 25 d
1.91-6.0
Kra
snovo
dsk
18
5 Horizo
6 Single
ntal dipole
rhombic
VGD undet
undet
RGD 65 1
Undet
8.0-16.7
Und
Nov
et
osibir
sk
4
7 Single
rhombic
RGD 65 1
13.7-28.6
Nov
osibir
sk
4
8 Single
rhombic
RGD 65 1
8.0-16.7
Tas
hkent
4
9 Single
rhombic
RGD 65 6
4.8-12.0
Mos
cow
28
10 Single
11 Quadr
rhombic
ant
RGD undet
UGD 15 d
Undet
5.0-12.5
Bak
u
16
12 Quadra
nt
UGD 32 d
3.51-5.97
13
13 Quadra
nt
UGD 20 d
5.62-9.55
23
14 Quadra
nt
UGD 15d
5.0-12.5
15 FORK
16 FORK
17 FORK
18 R-400
REST
REST
REST
microwave
Chel
yabin
sk Radcom
anten
na
Rc
vr Sta
19 R-400
microwave
Pale
tayev
o Radcom
anten
na
Xm
tr St
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Table 3. Chelyabinsk ADZ Radio Communications Receiver Station
(Keyed to Figure 4)
No Antenna Type Soviet Frequency
Designator (MHz)
1 Horizontal dipole
2 Horizontal dipole
3 Horizontal dipole
4 Horizontal dipole
5 Quadrant
6 Quadrant
7 Fishbone
8 Fishbone
9 Fishbone
10 Fishbone
11 Fishbone
12 Fishbone
13 Fishbone
VGD 30 d 2.5-6.25
22
VGD 30d 2.5-6.25
22
VGD 15 d 5.0-12.5
16
VGD 15 d 5.0-12.5
16
UGD 20 5.62-9.55
16
UGD 32 3.51-5.97
22
BS2 21 200 17 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
BS2 21 20017 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
BS2 2120017 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
BS2 21.20017 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
BS2 21 200 17 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
BS2 21 200 17 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
BS2 21 200 17 3.0-24.0
8 4.5
14 R-400 microwave
antenna
15 R-400 microwave
antenna
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Omsk/Kuybyshev
Krasnovodsk
Omsk/Kuybyshev
Krasnovodsk
Moscow
Tashkent
Tashkent
Krasnovodsk
Moscow
Krasnovodsk
Moscow
Chelyabinsk Radcom
Xmtr Sta
Paletayevo Radcom
Xmtr Sta
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Table 4. Pa/etayevo Radio Communications Transmitter Station
(Keyed to Figure 5)
No Ante
nna Type Soviet Frequency
Designator (MHz)
1 Double
rhombic
4
2 Double
rhombic
117
3 Double
4 Horizo
rhombic
ntal dipole
undet
22
5 Horizo
ntal dipole
22
6 Horizo
ntal dipole
16
7 Probab
dipole
le horizontal
undet
8 R-400
microwave
Chelya
binsk Radcom
anten
nas, 2
Xmtr
Sta
Chelya
Rcvr
binsk Radcom
Sta
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