PROBABLE AGRICULTURAL STORAGE AREA NEAR PESKI, USSR

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PROBABLE AGRICULTURAL STORAGE AREA NEAR PESKI, USSR
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General Description
This area, covered by photography of Mission
is located at 53-12N 66-48E, 6 nauticalmiles (nrr~) southwest of Peski and
;:.250 nm southwest of Omsk. It was referred to in~PIC/JMCI-7./60 as a
possible future industrial mite. 1/ .Further analysis indicates that it is a
probable ,,agricultural storage area. ' '
~" The ;area includes the following facilities (item numbers are keyed
to Figure 1) .
1. Probable storage~site.containing tanks~r_~small structures,
served by a rail spur.
2_ Storage site containing eight large warehouses and two possible
warehouses under cor~stlruction, served by a rail spur.
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FIGURE 1. PROBABLE AGRICULTURAL STORAGE AREA NEAR PESKI, USSR.
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3. Long rail spur whi h passes parallel to the warehouses of item
2, continues northeastward, and then turns east and terminat-es in a
crow's-foot of short spurs near the Ishim River. No con:truction is
.apparent at the end~of this spur.
4. Turning wye with severab short spurs (not shown an Figure 1~.
5 .. Two open storage sites ..
6. .One large and three small housing sites containing approximately:
15.0 single-family dwellings. `
The area lies in an extensively cultivated, low, level plain, charac-
terized by numero4is small lakes and very few trees .
-The major part of the area appears complete, although. a few small
areas of earth scarring indicate possible future construction. ~
Water is available from the nearby Ishim River. No pipelines,
steam lines, or power lines are?discernible. The presence of an inter-
nal or external-power source could not be determined.
Transport
The area is adjacent to ahighway-railway junction. The ~a.il line
extends west from Kok.chetav to Kustanay, passing just south of Peski,
(see Figure 2}. It is visible, on-photography, from Kok:chEtav to
approximately 40 nm west of Peski, for a total. of 135 nm; clouds ob-
scure the remainder. This rail line, reported as new in JMCI-7/60 2
is shown in NLS 26, Section 31 (January 1959?. 3/
The extent of physical security could not be determined; however, ?
no fence lines. were discernible.
Omsk Southwest Airfield is 250 nm to the no.rthes.st. This field ha.s
a .concrete runway 8,500 by 270 feet and two minor concrete runways,
3,450 by 270 feet and 2,600 by 270 feet.
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FIGURE 2. MAP SHOWING.L,OCATION OF P.ROBABL E AGRlCUL TURAL STORAGE AREA NEAR PESK/ AND
SIX SPUR-SERVED STORAGE AREAS.
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Collateral ~"ormation
Pravda y~po.-tad in 1956 that, as a result. of an expec?ed bumper
crop, work was being started on the construction of a large grain
elevator ak PesYci, whir_h at that time was the terminus of the rail line. 4/
Other-Spur-Served Sfo:-age Ar~.~.s in Region
.West and north-nor}hwest of es}c? a're six probable agrieul?ural
storage areas served by -ail spurs f se~=Figure 21. .Each a_?ea contains
l~"long warehouse buildings similar~to these at the area near Peski.and from
20 to 70 single-family dwellings. The rail spurs vary in length from ap-
' proximately 2,000 feet to 4,000 feet. No security provisions are discern-
. ible at any of these areas. -Figure 3 is a cl;awingtiof one of the a_?eas.
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An intensive search along -the rail lines in this general agricultural
region of the USSR disclosed numerous similar storage areas, each con-
taining anumber of long warehouse/storage-type buildings 'served by a
'~ short rail spur. Most of these are in.city'or town complexes. ThasE
outside urban areas aT~ ser_ve3 by a small ~liousing area composed of.
single-family dwellings . One stora .e area, in Tata.rsk, appears on
25X1 D TALENT photography of an~ is also covered by g-roun3
photography. It contains several long war~hcuse/storage-type buildings
and a: grain elevator. The TALENT photography shows that the long
buildings are sepa.ra.te:d by wY~at appea- to be grain dryers.
FIGURE 3: SPUR-SERVED STORAGE AREA ABQUT 70 NM WEST OF PROBABLE STORAGE AREA.
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Several of the rail lines in this general region run though agricul-
tural areas between trunk Lines and apparently were constructed solely to
provide transportation for agricultural pioduct~. The manner of locating
storage areas along these rail lines closely resembles the way grain
elevators are located in the US~ and Canadian wheat belts -- in small
towns spaced 10-20 miles apart along trunk rail lines.
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GROUND PHOTOGRAPHY
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CAA No 26623 & 26624 (C)
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RE_ FERENCES
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Pass/Camera 'Frames Classif.
ACIC. WAC 163, 3d ed, Feb 55; scale 1:1,000,000 (U)
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