PROBABLE RADIO BEACON 14 NM NNE OF KUYBYSHEV, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300080030-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 23, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-NAVY-CIA
(Published and Disseminated by CIA/PIC)
SUBJECT :
Probable Radio Beacon
NO : PIC/JB-11.0/60
DATE: 23 June 1960
LOCATION:
14 rim NNE of Kuybyshev,
LAT : 53?239N
USSR
LONG: 50920 ?E
MAP DATA:
ACIC. US Air Target Chart, Series 1.00, Sheet 0165-9998-100A,
2d ed, Sep 53, scale 1:100,000 (S)
AMS, Series N 501, Sheet NN 39-8, 3d ed, Oct 57, scale
1:250,000 (U)
REMARKS-
A probable radio beacon is located at the northwest edge of Novo-
semeykirso, USSR, 14 nautical miles north-northeast of Kuybyshev,
at 53?2.3?'1 /50?2O1E. The station contains 3 large buildings probably
housing transmitters, 4 cooling ponds, several smaller buildings, four
615-foot self-supporting towers positioned to foam a 275-foot square
(tower group A, on the accompanying illustration), four 350-foot self-
supporting towers positioned to form a 190-foot square (tower group B)
2 probable self-supporting towers, numerous stick masts, and Z double
rhombic antennas (items I and 2) o A possible dissipation line within each
of the rhombics indicates a transmitting capability. Data on, the rhombics
are given in the following table (numbers are keyed to the illustration)
Declass Review by
NIMA/DOD
Ad03 NOTE IVIIA
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Major Minor End-Pole Length End-Pole
Axis Axis Separation of Side Height
No (ft) (ft) (ft) (ft) Approx (ft)
1 630 280 90 345 90
2 700 320 95 385 100
Although this station is called, by the Air Target Chart cited, a
very high frequency broadcasting station, it is probably the medium -
frequency radio bea.con reported to exist in the Kuybyshev area (see
This report is supported by the
presence of equipment normally associated with medium-frequency
transmission, namely, rings at the top of each self-supporting tower,
probable top-loading capacitors, and a ground screen at the base of
each tower.
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KUYBVSHEV 14 NM
SELF SUPPORTING TOWERS
? A
STICK MASTS-_..**
PROBABLE RADIO BEACON AT NOVO SEMEY installation is 14 nautical miles north-
north east of Kuybyshev. (Date of photography,
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