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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Title;
MARSHAL SHAP0SHNIK0V ON ISSUES OF
COLLECTIVE JEEURIT?
Primary Source:
Kazakhstanskaya pravda.
June 27,
1992,
No.
147-148
(21072-21073).
p.
4,
cols.
2-6
Extract:
Marshal
of Aviation Yevgeniy Sha-
poshnikov,
Commander-in-Chief of the Com-
monwealth's Joint Armed
Forces,
answers
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda' s questions.
"How do you assess
the present
and
future of the CIS Joint Armed Forces
"I
think the future of the CIS Joint
Armed Forces
is good.
The Tashkent Collec-
tive Security Treaty,
signed by six states
so
far,
but open
in nature,
essentially
opens
up the prospect for transformation of
the collective security system into
a mili-
tary-political
alliance.
"And
it's not
a question of someone's
desire or non-desire to decide defense
is-
sues jointly,
although today this does
sometimes have the strongest
influence now.
The need to integrate defense efforts,
like
economic,
political,
scientific-technical
and others,
is objective.
Suffice
it to
point out NATO,
for example.
"The advantages of such
integration
are obvious.
They are especially great for
the CIS states.
Here,
like nowhere else
in
the world,
an effective system of military-
economic,
military-strategic relations
and
a unique unified military infrastructure
have been created over many decades.
And
not
to use
it would be ungovernmental
,
un-
wise.
This
is
a base for
a reliable system
of collective security.
And the function
of such
a system
is
in
the radical,
vital
interests of the peoples of the Common-
wealth.
"Also
important
is the fact that the
efforts of the CIS states
to create and
strengthen the collective security system
reinforces
internal
and
international
sta-
bility,
and creates guarantees
in the en-
tire world's
eyes of the Commonwealth's
fulfillment of
its obligations
in
the area
of arms reduction
and disarmament,
and most
of
all
the preservation of a unified com-
mand structure and unified monitoring of
nuclear weapons."
"You spoke of
a unified command struc-
ture and unified monitoring of nuclear
weapons.
Are these functions
of the OVS
main command?"
"Yes,
this
is one of
its most
impor-
tant functions.
As you
know,
the opera-
tional
subordinates of the OVS main command
include the strategic forces,
including
strategic missile troops,
naval
and air-
borne strategic nuclear forces,
antimissile
and space defense troops,
nuclear technical
units,
space assets and strategic
recon-
naissance,
and their supporting troops.
They perform missions
in the interests
of
all
the Commonwealth
states."
(A photograph of Ye.
Shaposhnikov
is
given.)
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Muxnor .
raiichev,
0.,
Colonel,
correspon-
dent
Title:
CIS DEFENSE MINISTERS DISCUSS MILI-
MBI ISSUES;
UKRAINE'S NUCLEAR POLIC Y CRlT-
TcnEd
'
Primary Source:
Krasnaya zvezda,
July 4
1992,
No.
148-149
(20835-20836),
p.
1,
'
cols.
1-2
Entire Text:
As planned,
a conference of
the Council
of Ministers of Defense of the
Commonwealth of
Independent States began
in
the Main Headguarters
of the CIS Joint
Armed
Forces
(OVS)
at
a.m.
[on July 4].
The opening speaker was Marshal
of Aviation
Ye.
Shaposhnikov,
Commander-in-Chief of the
CIS OVS.
The conference agenda included the
following
items:
The Air Defense System;
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/Equipment of Missile Attack Warning
and
Space Monitoring Systems;
Refining the Com-
position of the Strategic
Forces;
the Col-
lectiye Security Council;
Organization of
the Activity of the Commander-in-Chief of
the CIS OVS;
Foundations of CIS Military
Policy and Nuclear Strategy;
Results of the
Work of Heads
of Personnel
Agencies;
and
others.
General-Colonel
Boris
Pyankov,
Deputy
Commander- in-Chief of the CIS OVS,
told
journalists
at the end of the conference of
the Council
of Ministers
of Defense of the
us that
all
documents scheduled for review
were approved today with minor corrections.
The only point of disagreement was
the sta-
tus
and form of control
of the strategic
forces deployed
on Ukrainian territory.
Boris
Pyankov sharply criticized the
Ukrainian position
on the matter.
"We have
proposed today,"
he said,
"to remove the
nuclear warheads from the strategic mis-
siles deployed there or to remove the maps
of their mission assignments
from their
onboard computers.
This would turn the
missiles
into
fuel
canisters.
And the
question of Ukraine as
a nuclear power
would
no longer come
up.
But the Ukrai-
nians
reject the possibility of such steps
90n^ 1r1ue to maneuver.
Ukraine's
un-
willingness
to transfer the Strategic
Nu-
cl ear Forces
to the
full
control
of Russia
and the OVS Main Command
is provoking ob-
jections
on
the part of Kazakhstan
and Be-
?
s W
n ^
had already undertaken
that step."
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Author.-
Lukamn,
M.,
Captain 2nd Rank
Title:
PROBLEMS OF ACCURATE MAPPING OF
EARTjVS SURFACE FROM SPACE
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Primary Source:
Krasnaya zvezda,
July 4
1992,
No.
148-149
(20835-20836),
p.
4,
'
cols.
1-4
1°
hands
I
hold the recently
published Atlas of Venus,
which can well
be
termed
a major achievement of domestic car-
tography,
and
I
admit
a strange feeling.
Will
we soon see an Atlas of the CIS,
and
if
so,
what
is our Commonwealth from the
standpoint of political
geography?
How
will
it
look on maps?
It was just
such
initial
questions
that
I
took to Nikolay Makarenko,
director
of the Central
Scientific Research
Insti-
tute of Geodesy,
Aerial
Photography and
Cartography
imeni
Krasovskiy.
.it
^
" Yo^fsk whafs simpler,"
he answered.
Today,
it
s easier to give
a scientific
description
of other planets than of the
former one-sixth of the Earth's
land
area.
Right
now,
due to the division of the
for-
mer USSR,
even republications of old polit-
ical
maps of the world have been halted
"Active surveillance from space
is’a
reality,
one of the most effective means of
gathering
information
about
inaccessible
territories.
However,
even
satellites'
capabilities
are not
limitless.
From or-
bit,
it's
very difficult to display relief
corresponding
to these scales.
And without
relief data,
for example,
it's
impossible
to program
a cruise missile's mission
"
"I've heard that
the Space Flight
Con-
trol
Center has some kind of completely
unique globe."
J
i
•
j T*'
they do have
a
rare one-of-a-
kind globe,
which
took nearly
a year to
make.
It displays the Earth's
relief
in
three dimensions."
"And do you often have occasion
to
produce,
shall
we
say,
special
editions?"
ah
u
dePends wha* you mean by that.
All
the apparatus that we develop
is
unique
in
its
own way.
It
is designed for preci-
sion
linear measurements,
determination of
the force of gravity
at various points
on
the Earth,
strains
in the Earth's crust
sea-bottom research,
and
so forth.
That
for example,
is
a fact.
Mass
industrial
aerial
photography
is done
in our country
using only domestic equipment.
In optics
we are competitive on the most demanding
world market,
we have the greatest authori-
ties
here,
of whom the greatest
is
Profes-
sor M.
M.
Rusinov,
research director of our
optics
laboratory
in
Saint Petersburg."
(A photograph of
N.
L. Makarenko
is
given.)
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Author:
Trubitsyn,
Aleksey,
Major,
cor-
respondent
(interviewer)
Title:
DIRECTOR OF UKRAINIAN ENGINEERING
TROOPS DISCUSSES TASKS .
ORGANIIaTION
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Primary Source:
Narodnaya armiya,
July
2.
1992,
No.
119
(172),
p.
1,
cols.
6-8;
p.
2,
cols.
1-4
Extract:
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Bezrodnyy
is director of the Engineering Troops
Di-
rectorate of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces'
Main Headquarters.
V.
D.
Bezrodnyy worked
for several
years
as senior officer of the
operational
intelligence department of
En-
gineering Troop Headquarters of the USSR
Ministry of Defense.
From that
post,
he
entered the Military Academy of the USSR
Armed Forces General
Staff.
After graduat-
ing from the academy,
he was chief of staff
and first deputy director of engineering
troops
for the Caspian Military District.
From
1983 to
1986,
he worked
as
a military
adviser
in Vietnam under the commander of
engineering troops for the People's Army.
After that,
he headed engineering troops
in
the Transbaykal
Military District.
His
last post was first deputy director of en-
gineering troops of the USSR Ministry of
"Vladimir Dmitriyevich,
tell
us about
the strategy and tactics of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces engineering troops
and the
concept of their use
in connection with our
state's defense policy."
"We provide the Armed
Forces with
all
military engineering equipment,
engineering
munitions,
and electrical
equipment,
and
perform power management.
All
this
is
in
addition to battle training,
instruction
and service.
"The defensive nature of our military
policy assigns the engineering troops
the
task of engineering support for cover of
the national
borders under combat condi-
tions
(laying mine fields,
erecting forti-
fication equipment,
etc.,
as well
as
sup-
porting the troops'
movement to their des-
ignated areas of operation).
The main
thing here
is
for engineering troops to
have the needed numbers
and quantity of
equipment
in peacetime to accomplish their
assigned tasks.
"This creates
a great problem of re-
viewing the present structure of the en-
gineering troops based
on their assigned
purpose.
I
favor giving each engineering
unit the needed forces
and means
for quali-
ty accomplishment of the tasks
facing
it.
And that's why
I think
it's
abnormal
when,
say,
three battalions
in
an engineering
brigade have nearly
full
complements,
while
two are depleted.
Deploying the
latter
will
take both time and people,
who are
taken from fully staffed
units,
weakeninq
their battle readiness.
"In other words,
the engineering
troops should have two types
of units:
mobile,
fully staffed,
capable
as
is
of
performing their assignment for engineering
cover of the national
borders,
participat-
ing
in accident cleanup
and disaster re-
lief,
and supporting the viability of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces,
and
[on the other
hand]
centers where mobile resources can
be
deployed
in case of war within specified
periods.
"One other important task we face
is
clearing
land of explosive objects.
Today
we have about
140 groups working
in
Ukraine,
who have disarmed nearly
13,000
live rounds
in
the
last
six months."
(A photograph of
V.
D.
Bezrodnvv
is
given.)
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Autnor:
Felgengauer,
Pavel
Title:
POPULATION
INSUWTES AND
'PROD-
UCTS' OrRUSSWS CLOSED NUCLEAR ClTTES~
Primary Source:
Nezavisimaya gazeta,
June
30,
1992,
No.
122
(293),
p.
5,
cols.
1-8
Extract:
Russia has only ten closed nucle-
ar cities,
and they are
all
subordinate
to
the Atomic Energy Ministry
(formerly Medium
Machine Building).
The total
number of
residents,
in the opinion of current Minis-
ter of Atomic
Energy Viktor Mikhaylov,
is
about
700,000;
in the opinion of the chair-
man of the Arzamas-16 City Council,
it's
about 900,000,
The unofficial
capital
of
the nuclear archipelago
is Arzamas-16.
Arzamas-16
is
a pure department city.
Appropriately,
the most
important man
in
the city
is
the director of All-Union
Sci-
entific Research
Institute of Experimental
Physics
(VNIIEF)
(currently Vladimir Belu-
gin).
Of 81,000 residents,
about 24,000
work
at VNIIEF,
which was just recently
renamed the
"Russian Nuclear Center."
But
no more than
a third of the employees are
actually engaged
in scientific or R&D work.
The remainder either have absolutely no
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