ACADEMY-LEVEL REAR SERVICES FIELD-TRAINING COMPLEX AT KRASNOYE SELO, USSR

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Academy-Level Rear Services
Field-Training Complex at
Krasnoye Selo, USSR (S)
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ACADEMY-LEVEL REAR SERVICES FIELD-TRAINING COMPLEX
AT KRASNOYE SELO, USSR (S)
INTRODUCTION
1. This report describes Leningrad Army Barracks and Training Area South-Southwest 2
a large rear services field-training complex at Krasnoye Selo, USSR (approximately 15 nautical
miles south-southwest of the center of Leningrad). This complex consists of four separate installations and
is the field-training center for two military academies, both headquartered in Leningrad. These academies
-the Order of Lenin Military Academy of the Rear and Transport and the S. M. Kirov Military-Medical
Academy-provide an advanced military education to Warsaw Pact rear services officers and, in addition,
serve the Defense Ministry as research centers on problems of rear support.1-3 (S/WN/NOFORN)
2. The size of the physical plant and facilities at Leningrad Army Barracks and Training Area South-
Southwest 2 suggests the importance attached to higher military educational institutions by the USSR
Ministry of Defense. Analysis of the training facilities at this complex can provide insights into the
organizational structure of the Soviet Armed Forces because each of the training areas at the complex is
uniquely associated with a separate academy faculty which, in turn, is individually associated with the
various central directorates of the Defense Ministry. In addition, since both of these academies are
responsible for developing and assessing new eauinment. tartirc and nnPratinnal rnnrnntc tkn on~l.,c~c
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3. This report contains two photographs showing the headquarters compounds of both academies
in central Leningrad, 11 photographs showing the field-training complex at Krasnoye Selo, and two
location maps. (S/WN)
DISCUSSION
4. Leningrad Army Barracks and Training
Area South-Southwest 2 is at Krasnoye Selo and
consists of four separate installations (Figures 1 and
2). This field-training complex has recently been
identified as the training center for the Order of
Lenin Military Academy of the Rear and Transport
and the S. M. Kirov Military-Medical Academy,
both head tered in Leningrad (Figure 1).1-3
Specifically,uar associ-
ated the central installation in the complex with
the Military-Medical Academy3 and the southern
installation with the Military Academy of the Rear
and Transport.) Rear services training facilities and
activities observed on imagery include road/
bridge construction, fuel supply services, medical
support, motor vehicle maintenance, railroad con-
struction, food supply, and rear services command
and control. Specific activities observed in the
training complex and background information on
the academies highlighting the significance of
the training complex are described below.
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The Military Academy of the Rear and
Transport
5. The Order of Lenin Military Academy of
the Rear and Transport is a higher-level military
FIGURE 3. LOCATIONS OF INSTALLATIONS OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY OF THE REAR AND TRANSPORT AND
THE MILITARY-MEDICAL ACADEMY IN CENTRAL LENINGRAD
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educational institution of the Soviet Armed Forces
whose twofold mission is to provide an advanced
professional education to rear services command
and engineer-technical officers and to conduct
scientific research on problems of rear services
support.5 The academy occupies several installa-
tions in central Leningrad (Figure 3); the head-
quarters building of the academy is at No. 8 Na-
berezhnaya Makarova (Figure 4). The instructional
program for Soviet officers includes a two-year
curriculum leading to the Candidate of Military
Science degree and a four-year curriculum leading
to the Doctor of Military Science degree. Both
curricula are open to rear services officers from all
service branches of the Soviet Army and Navy and
to officers of the MVD Internal Troops and KGB
Border Guards. In addition, the academy offers a
special curriculum for student officers from other
Warsaw Pact countries and various Third World
countries such as Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and
Angola.2.6 (S/WN)
6. The academy is subordinate to the Chief
of the Rear of the Soviet Armed Forces, a Deputy
Minister of Defense.6 The commandant of the
academy is a colonel general; heads of academy
faculties are usually major generals. Theacademy
organization reportedly includes an instructional
staff and a research staff.5,6 According to the Soviet
Military Encyclopedia, all basic disciplines or speci-
alties of the Rear Services of the Armed Forces are
represented in the faculties and academic courses
of the academy.5 Instructional faculties and chairs
which have been reported to exist within the
academy include:
? Rear services command and control;
? Fuels and lubricating materials, including
missile propellants (storage, transport, and
chemical analysis);
? Wheeled and tracked vehicle mainte-
nance/repair;
? Motor roads and highway bridge construc-
tion;
? Railroad construction;
? Naval rear support;
? Finance and military economics;
? Materiel supply (uniforms, footwear, and
tents); and
? Food supply.2,6
According to articles by the commandant of the
academy published in the military press, the acad-
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emy staff works closely with the rear services staffs
of the military districts, groups of forces, fleets,
and with the Rear Services Staff and central direc-
torates of the Defense Ministry. The academy staff
frequently participates in developing and conduct-
ing rear services troop exercises carried out in the
districts, groups of forces, and fleets.? (C/WN)
7. The academy curricula stress the com-
mand-staff integration of rear support specialties
using the latest means of automated communica-
tions and data processing. Successful completion
of the curricula for all students may be contingent
on satisfactory work in this subject area, under the
faculty for rear services command and control
instruction. In addition, command-staff training at
the academy apparently includes rear services
management at all command levels, including
operational and possibly strategic levels.2 For
example, according to the military press, as of
1974, construction work was being completed on
an academy command-staff training complex,
equipped with mobile and stationary rear services
control points, for naval base and fleet rear
support operations.7 Automated data systems
taught at the academy reportedly include the
MIR-1 and MIR-2 computers used by rear staffs at
army-level and higher headquarters and a mobile
data system known as "Alfa."6 C/WN)
8. Field training reportedly occupies an
important role in the curricula and, according to
the academy commandant, is carried out at a
special field-training center of the academy.7-9
Since the late 1970s, student command-staff
exercises reportedly have been staged under field
conditions at the training center using field
control points equipped with automated control
and communications equipment.8 Other academy
training center instructional facilities identified in
the military press are a vehicle-testing and driver-
training course; a motor vehicle pool and vehicle
repair facility; and "training-research" facilities for
officers of the road troops and road commandant
service (highway/bridge construction and traffic
control), the railroad troops, the fuel supply
service, the food supply service, and the clothing
and equipment supply service.7.9 (U)
9. Training facilities and activities observed
on imagery of Leningrad Army Barracks and
Training Area South-Southwest 2 generally corre-
spond to the organizational structure of the
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academy faculties and are consistent with descrip-
tions of the training center published in the
military press. Training facilities for the following
types of rear services troops are present.
? Road troops and road commandant service:
a road troops installation, military road
construction, temporary bridge construc-
tion, and sectional highway bridge
(MARM/SARM) static displays (Figures 5
and 6).
? Fuel supply service: a POL motor transport
installation and a fuels storage and tactical
pipeline equipment static display (Figures 7
and 8).
? Motor transport troops and engineer-tech-
nical service: a vehicle-testing and driver-
training course, a motor pool, and a vehicle
maintenance and repair facility (Figures 9
and 10).
? Railroad troops: rail line and bridge con-
struction static displays (Figure 6).
? Food supply service: farming activity (Figure
In addition, a separately secured area on the
southern edge of the complex is apparently used
to stage command-staff field exercises (Figure 12).
This area contains a large command post bunker, a
HOOK helicopter, a railcar, numerous vehicle
revetments, and segmented field-maintenance
tents. A topographic survey tower just outside this
area may be used to site and orient line of sight
mobile communications. A microwave communi-
cations facility in the northern part of the training
complex (Figure 5) probably provides a data link to
the academy's other installations, located in
central Leningrad. (S/WN)
The Military-Medical Academy
10. The S. M. Kirov Military-Medical Acade-
my is a higher-level military educational institution
which has a dual responsibility of training military
physicians for the Armed Forces and also of
serving as a clinical and theoretical research center
on questions of military medicine.10 The Kirov
Academy occupies several installations in central
Leningrad (Figure 3)' The academy's headquarters
are at No. 6 Akademiya Lebedeva, immediately
north of the Liteynyy Bridge (Figure 13). Many
Kirov Academy clinics are in Leningrad's civilian
hospitals.11-13 (S/WN/NOFORN)
11. The Military-Medical Academy is subor-
dinate to the Chief of the Medical Service of the
Armed Forces and the Central Military-Medical
Directorate of the Defense Ministry.3,11,12 The
commandant of the academy is a major general.
According to the Soviet Military Encyclopedia, the
academy works closely with the Central Military-
Medical Directorate and with the military-medical
services of the military districts, groups of forces,
and fleets in developing and disseminating
improved methods of military medicine.10
(C/WN/NOFORN)
12. The primary curriculum of the academy
is a six-year program which prepares medical
officers for service in military district and garrison
hospitals and in the medical units organic to all
service branches of the Armed Forces. The first
two years of the curriculum are devoted to
classroom instruction in general biology, chemis-
try, and anatomy and to basic military training.
Practical military medical training (military psy-
chology, therapy, surgery, urology, neurology,
parasitology, traumatology, epidemiology, etc.) is
administered in the third through fifth years. The
sixth year of the curriculum is devoted to
successive internships in a series of specialized
clinics. In addition to the basic curriculum, the
academy staff also administers advanced specialty
courses of two months to two years duration for
practicing military physicians.11-13 (C/WN/NO-
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13. The Kirov Academy contains faculties,
departments, clinics, and laboratories which are
organized along both military service branch lines
and medical specialty lines. Instructional depart-
ments within the academy reportedly include:
? Department Number 1 which provides a
two-year advanced course in command-staff
and medical specialties training to active-
duty military physicians.
? Department Number 2 which conducts a
six-year curriculum that trains medical
officers for the Ground Forces and Strategic
Rocket Forces.
? Department Number 3 which conducts a
six-year curriculum that trains flight sur-
geons for the Air Forces.
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? Department Number 4 which conducts a
six-year curriculum that trains medical
officers for the Navy.13
Medical specialties, for which separate depart-
ments or clinics may have been established,
include thermal burns, space medicine, neurology,
neurosurgery, pathology, therapy, anesthesiology,
thoracic (chest) surgery, urology, endocrinology,
traumatology, and medical cybernetics.10-13
(C/WN/NOFORN)
14. The Kirov Academy curriculum includes a
military-medical field-training program
During April through September ot eac
year, academy students were continually cycled
through short (two- to five-day) exercises in an
area immediately north of the medical battalion's
housing and equipment storage area. Each June, a
large field-training exercise that lasted two weeks
and involved not only academy students but also
various Ground Forces and Air Force units was
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held. Field hospitals reportedly established during
these exercises included sorting (diagnostic) hospi-
tals, surgical hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and
burn treatment hospitals. Other activity included
the establishment of radiation dosage checkpoints
and decontamination points.' (C/NOFORN)
15. Imagery of the Kirov Academy's training
center at Krasnoye Selo confirms an extensive
field-training program (Figure 14). The presence of
a HARE/HOPLITE helicopter static display and
helicopter pads indicates that exercises include
helicopter evacuation of casualties. Ponds in the
medical training area are probably used for
chemical-biological-radiological decontamination.
A complex of permanent bunkers and revetments,
which are apparently used to establish sheltered
medical points and field hospitals during exercises,
is on the western side of the medical training area.
Medical field-training exercises have been ob-
served on several occasions (Figure 15).
an exercise involving a possible independent
medical detachment (OMO) or a mobile field
hospital (PPG) was observed in the Kirov Acade-
my's field-training area. (S/WN)
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1. DoD. IIR 2 201 6047 78, Railroad Training Regiment V/CH 12673, (U), 17 Apr 78 (CONFIDENTIAL/Not
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3. DoD. IIR 2 240 0308 81, Medical Capability, u/i Medical Training Support Battalion, Krasnoye e lo,
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USSR/MOD. "Voyennaya Akademiya Tyla i Transporta," Sovyetskaya Voyennaya ntsi ope tya,
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7.
US Army/FSTC. Technical Translation FSTC-HT-23-524-75, Abramov, Col Gen K., "Principa Attention- o
the Quality of the Training Process," Rear Services and Supply of the Soviet Armed Forces, Issue No 8, 1974
(UNCLASSIFIED/Distribution Limited to US Government Agencies Only)
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REFERENCES (Continued)
8. US Army/FSTC. Technical Translation FSTC-HT-23-368-78, Abramov, Col Gen K., "Plus Practical Skills," Rear
and Supply of the Soviet Armed Forces, Issue No 11, 1977 (UNCLASSIFIED/Distribution Limited to US
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Training," Rear and Supply of the Soviet Armed Forces, Issue No 8, 1979 (UNCLASSIFIED/Distribution
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10. USSR/MOD. "Voyenno-Meditsinskaya Akademiya imeni S. M. Kirova," Sovyetskaya Voyennaya Entsiklope-
diya, Voyenizdat, Moscow, Vol 2, 1976, pp 225-226 (UNCLASSIFIED)
12. CORUSAOPSGP Ft Meade MD. IIR 2 240 0225 81, Leningrad Military District Medical Facilities (U), 15 Sep 81
(CONFIDENTIAL/WNINTEL/NOFORN)
14. DCI/ICS. U.S. Foreign Intelligence Requirements Categories
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*Extracted information is classified CONFIDENTIAL/WNINTEI.
RELATED DOCUMENT
NPIC. Z-12020-83, IAR-0110/82, Soviet Military Medical System (5), Apr 83 (SECRET/WNINTEL/NOFORN)
REQUIREMENT
This report is in response to the following national intelligence topics: 3.5.1, general purpose forces-ground
forces;" 3.6.1, support capabilities and military environment-service forces;14 8.d.(6), conventional war
readiness-logistics training/exercises;15 and 8.e.(1), conventional forces sustainability-logistical performance.15
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