Vainode Soviet IRBM (Intermediate range ballistic missile) R-14U (SS-5 Mod 2 Skean) deployment base.
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World / Latvia / Kurzeme
military, abandoned / shut down, closed / former military, strategic rocket forces, missile silo
"Chusovaya" type silo complex. 3 underground launch silos.
This scheme from martin.trolle's photos, link for this and more photo's: www.flickr.com/photos/martintrolle/sets/721576028152543...
Abandoned USSR army military bases (although Vainode): www.diggers.lv
raketnie-bazi-sssr.narod.ru/embute_sever_nikrace.html
This scheme from martin.trolle's photos, link for this and more photo's: www.flickr.com/photos/martintrolle/sets/721576028152543...
Abandoned USSR army military bases (although Vainode): www.diggers.lv
raketnie-bazi-sssr.narod.ru/embute_sever_nikrace.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-14_Chusovaya
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 56°28'12"N 21°50'32"E
- Vainode Air Base 6.2 km
- Nigrande Soviet IRBM (Intermediate range ballistic missile) R-14 (SS-5 Mod 1 Skean) Base. 13 km
- Former soviet S-200 43 km
- Former USSR naval warehouses 52 km
- Former Šateikiai nuclear missile base 54 km
- Former soviet S-200 (SA-5 GAMMON) medium to high- altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) system site (abandoned) 94 km
- Abandoned Soviet Army goods store 101 km
- Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre 121 km
- Highway landing strip 246 km
- Visby Airport 252 km
- Embūte parish 4.8 km
- Viesdauga pond 5.9 km
- Briņķu Lake 6 km
- Vaiņode parish 7 km
- Rūkaiši HPP water reservoir 8 km
- Forest 8.7 km
- Nikrace civil parish 12 km
- Nīgrande parish 14 km
- Kalvene parish 18 km
- Skrunda parish 28 km
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