Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre
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military, astronomy, village, radio telescope, interesting place
VIRAC, Ventspils Starptautiskais Radioastronomijas Centrs or the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre is an ex-Soviet installation 30 km north ( 57°33′29″N, 21°51′28″E) of Ventspils, Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. VIRAC was taken over by the Latvian Academy of Sciences after the withdrawal of the Soviet Army in 1994 after Latvia regained independence.
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Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 57°33'12"N 21°51'25"E
- Abandoned Soviet Army goods store 31 km
- Former soviet S-200 (SA-5 GAMMON) medium to high- altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) system site (abandoned) 38 km
- Nigrande Soviet IRBM (Intermediate range ballistic missile) R-14 (SS-5 Mod 1 Skean) Base. 115 km
- Former soviet S-200 117 km
- Vainode Soviet IRBM (Intermediate range ballistic missile) R-14U (SS-5 Mod 2 Skean) deployment base. 120 km
- Former USSR naval warehouses 121 km
- Vainode Air Base 127 km
- Former Šateikiai nuclear missile base 173 km
- Highway landing strip 204 km
- Visby Airport 211 km
- Irbene radioastronomy centre with abandoned military village 1.3 km
- Makšķerezers lake 4.3 km
- Garais lake 6.2 km
- Tārgale parish 9 km
- Ance parish 10 km
- Skarbezers lake 13 km
- Lielais bog 15 km
- Livonian Coast (Līvõd Rānda) 25 km
- Dundaga parish 29 km
- Irbe Strait 34 km