POL STORAGE AREA LIDA, USSR BELORUSSIAN MD

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: May 1, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
POL STORAGE AREA
LIDA, USSR
BELORUSSIAN MD
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
NPIC/R-316/64
May 1964
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This report is one in a series on Soviet Ground Force and logistic
installations being prepared for a DIA/CIA Panel. The series is being
coordinated, published and disseminated by NPIC. The photographic
analysis is being performed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group,
the CIA Photographic Intelligence Division (NPIC), and the Production
Center 1Plc (DIA). The photographic analysis for this particular re-
port was performed by the NPIC Photographic Analysis Group.
In the interest of uniformity, the titles and letter designators for
the facilities observed at these installations are identical with those
appearing in the project requirement. When a specific facility is not
observed both its title and letter designator are omitted in the report.
Titles and letter designators for the various facilities are as
follows: (A) railroad service, (B) road service, (C) landing strips,
(D) administrative and troop housing areas, (E) storage areas, (F) am-
munition storage areas, (G) POL storage areas, (11) other buildings and
facilities, (J) equipment storage/maintenance areas, (K) athletic fields,
(L) small arms firing ranges, (M) driver training areas, (N) tank/
assault gun firing ranges, (P) flat trajectory firingranges, (Q) artillery
emplacements (batteries), (R) infantry or combined arms field train-
ing area or courses, (S) special training facilities, (T) unidentified
facilities or tracking activity.
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POL STORAGE AREA
(53-52N O25-19E)
LIDA, GRODNENSKAYA OBLAST, USSR
BELORUSSIAN MD
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Railroad, doubi-3 track
Railroad. single track
Road
KILOMETERS
FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF POL STORAGE AREA, LIDA.
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A secured POL storage area is located on
the southeast edge of Lida, just north of a rail
spur which extends to the Lida Airfield (Fig-
ure 1). The installation is served by a branch
spur from the Lida-Baranovichi rail line. All-
weather road connections provide access to the
Molodechno-Volkovysk and Lida-Slonim high-
ways. The installation covers approximately
11 acres and contains 15 vertical POL storage
tanks and four small associated buildings.
The Lida Army Barracks (AL-1) is located 4
kilometers (km) northwest (Figures 2 and 3).
The area was covered by
photography and 1missions be-
tween Com-
parative analysis reveals that nine tanks and
four buildings have been added sinceE=ow-
ever, the size of the over-all area has remained
approximately the same.
A single track rail spur from the
Molodechno-Volkovysk rail line serves the in-
stallation.
All-weather roads provide access to the
Molodechno-Volkovysk and Lida-Slonim high-
ways.
Ind six 20-foot diameter verti-
cal POL storage tanks and four support buildings
are located at this facility (Area G, Figure 3).
and two 20-foot tanks and the
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