Balkhash Radar Station
Balkhash Radar Station KH-7 in 1967. The town of Balkhash-9 is in the foreground. | |
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Coordinates | 46°36′11″N 74°31′52″E / 46.603076°N 74.530985°E |
Type | Radar Station |
Code | OS-2 |
Site information | |
Owner | Russian Aerospace Forces |
Controlled by | Russian Space Forces |
Open to the public | no |
Condition | out of service |
Site history | |
Built | 1964[1] | -
Built by | Soviet Union |
Garrison information | |
Garrison | 46th Independent Radio-Technical Unit [1] |
Balkhash Radar Station (also described as Sary Shagan radar node and Balkhash-9) is the site of two generations of
The military town for the station is called Balkhash-9 (Russian: Балхаш-9). The station is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the village of Gulshat in
Space surveillance
Balkhash was founded as OS-2, a space surveillance site with four
In 1967-8 a
The Dnepr radar was the last functioning radar on the site.[2][6][7][8]
Radar | Coordinates | Azimuth [5] | Type | Built | Details |
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Radar 1 | 46°36′27″N 74°31′24″E / 46.60741°N 74.523304°E | 270 | Dnestr | 1964-1970 | Modernised to Dnestr-M. Operation 1970. Decommissioned September 1995. Derelict.[2][5] |
Radar 2 | 46°36′52″N 74°31′23″E / 46.614574°N 74.523132°E | 270 | Dnestr | 1964-1968 | Operational 1968. Decommissioned January 1984. Derelict.[1][2] |
Radar 3 | 46°37′31″N 74°31′02″E / 46.625333°N 74.51721°E | 60 | Dnestr | 1964-1968 | Operational 1968. Decommissioned January 1984. Derelict.[1][2] |
Radar 4 | 46°37′53″N 74°30′45″E / 46.631463°N 74.512618°E | 60 | Dnestr | 1964-1968 | Operational 1968. Decommissioned September 1988. Derelict.[1][2] |
Radar 5 | 46°36′11″N 74°31′52″E / 46.603076°N 74.530985°E | 180, 124 | Dnepr | 1968-1972 | Operational 1972. Modernised to Dnepr. Operational from 1974.[1][2][6] Removed from combat alert in June 2020.[9] |
Second generation Daryal radar
Balkhash had a
Originally, at least seven Daryal facilities were planned, however, only the first two facilities completed, Pechora and Gabala, were ever operational.[5] Two Daryal-U type were to be built at Balkhash and Mishelevka, Irkutsk, neither were completed before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Coordinates | Azimuth [5] | Type | Built |
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46°35′19.48″N 74°27′59.19″E / 46.5887444°N 74.4664417°E transmitter 46°36′2.70″N 74°29′51.67″E / 46.6007500°N 74.4976861°E receiver |
152° (estimated) | Daryal-U | 1982-1994 |
The Balkhash Daryal started in 1982. Some testing started in 1991 and then stopped in 1994. In 2002 the never operational radar transferred to Kazakhstan who were left with the responsibility to demolish it. The radar was heavily looted and the receiver building ("building no. 2") burnt down in September 2004.[11] It further collapsed whilst being looted in January 2010, killing one.[12]
The Daryal contained organic pollutant
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- ^ Safiullin, Rakhim (2005-09-08). Пожар на сооружении №2, 17 сентября 2004 года [Fire in building number 2, September 17, 2004] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-12-22.
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