MUKACHEVO PROPELLANT HANDLING AND STORAGE FACILITY DEPLOYED STRATEGIC SSM FACILITIES USSR NOVEMBER 1968

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• Publication Date: August 6, 1999
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MUKACHEVO PROPELLANT HANDLING
AND STORAGE FACILITY
DEPLOYED STRATEGIC SSM FACILITIES
USSR
NOVEMBER 1968
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STALLATION OR ACTIVITY NAME
sukachevo Propellant Handling and Storage Facility
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
The Mukachevo Propellant Handling and
3 Storage nautical mile s(Figure
nm) southwest of
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Mukachevo, USSR, and 1.5 nm west of Mukachevo Airfield
Approximately 6 nm southwest of the facility is the Mukachevo
Complex, consisting of two launch sites.
The handling and storage facility probably served as a propellant handling
and storage area for early MRBM systems deployed in the area. There are indica-
tions that the major structure in the facility may have been used as an air lique-
faction plant for the support of the SS-3 SHYSTER MRBM system previously
deployed at the two nearby Mukachevo MRBM launch sites. During tetime that
trans-
the SS-3 system was actively deployed at the Mukachevo sites, propellant
porters were seen at the handling and storage facility, to which the launch sites
are connected by an improved road network. The sites are now inactive. Because
of the recent presence of probable cryogen tank cars and the continuous presence
that the facility may supply
of standard tank cars at the facility, i itt is area.
fuel and cryogens to other installations
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BASIC DESCRIPTION
The secured facility is served by a rail spur from the Mukachevo-Chop rail
line. The spur is approximately 5,200 feet in length, and within the facility it
subdivides into at least seven dead-end sidings or passing loops. Adjacent to the
rail sidings are two loop roads which can be used for transloading. Two improved
access roads serve the installation, one extending east toward the Mukachevo main
road, which serves the MRBM complex, and one extending north.
The major structure in the facility is a step-roofed building (item 3, Figure 1),
positioned in Transloading Area A (see Figure 1). It has an associated cylindrical
storage tank (item 4) and an associated support building (item 5). This main build-
ing with an associated tank exhibits similarities to the air liquefaction plant at the
Kapustin Yar/Vladimirovka Missile Test Center and may have been used for air
liquefaction. Four overhead conduits extending from the step-roofed building
service six of the rail sidings and an adjacent loop road. The loop road encircles
a small vehicle shed (item 1).
Road- and rail-served, earth-mounded probable storage tanks (item 7) are
northeast of the main building, in Transloading Area B. Southwest of the main
building is an area, designated Transloading Area C, which contains a rail siding
normally occupied by tank cars and served by a circular loop road. The storage
and handling facility also contains five areas of open storage, usually obscured by
foliage. At least 27 probable storage tanks (item 16) have been observed in two
of these areas. Ten possible crates (item 15) and a large number of unidentified
objects also have been observed in open storage. Numerous buildings are contained
within an administration and -,,.,.,-
the loop road that serves the main structu ei Unidentified vehicles and possible
propellant transporters were also observed at this location on earlier coverage. The
absence of these vehicles on the loop road on later coverage coincides with the
absence of missile-related equipment at the two Mukachevo MRBM launch sites,
which are now inactive.
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FIGURE 1. MUKACHEVO PROPELLANT HANDLING AND STORAGE FACILITY, USSR.
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VEHICLE SHED
2 STANDARD SINGLE-DOME TANK CARS
STEP-ROOFED BLDG
CYLINDRICAL STORAGE TANK
SUPPORT BLDG
4 PROB CRYOGEN TANK CARS
EARTH-MOUNDED PROB STORAGE
TANKS
5 STANDARD SINGLE-DOME TANK
CARS
2-STORY PROB HEADQUARTERS-TYPE
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POSS BARRACKS BLDG
POSS OPERATIONS BLDG
VEHICLE SHED OR MAINTENANCE BLDG
VEHICLE SHED OR MAINTENANCE BLDG
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS IN OPEN
STORAGE
10 POSS CRATES
27 PROB STORAGE TANKS
4 POSS CRYOGEN TANK CARS
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