Pavlovskoye
42°50'00"N 132°53'00"E
The primary Pacific Fleet operating bases are from Pavlovskoye [Pavlovsk] near Vladivostok and Rybachiy near Petropavlovsk. The exact location of the Pavlovskoye Naval Base is uncertain, but it is presumably at the port of Nakhodka, on Pavlovsk Bay [Bukhta Pavlovskogo, 42°52'11"N 132°31'15"E], which is just to the east of Pavlovsk Cape [Mys Pavlovskogo, 42°45'41"N 132°53'42"E], both features being rather to the east of Vladivostok.
In a 29 July 1991 exchange of letters, the US stated that construction of any additional underground structures adjacent to waters in which ballistic missile submarines operate and comparable in size and configuration to the ones located in the immediate vicinity of the Ara inlet (Kola peninsula), the Yagelnaya submarine base (Kola peninsula), and the Pavlovskoye submarine base (Primorskiy kray), would raise concerns regarding compliance with the obligations of the START I agreement. In order to settle the issue of these underground structures once and for all, the Soviet side stated that these underground structures had no adits that make them accessible to waterborne craft of any displacement from adjacent waters and that the Soviet Union had no plans to construct and will not construct such adits as long as the Treaty remained in force.
Pavlovskoye is an inspectable submarine facility under the START-1 agreement. The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on 31 July 1991. When START entered into force on 05 December 1994, the signatories began to implement the Treaty's complex set of intrusive inspection and verification measures. As part of START's verification provisions, each signatory was required to declare all facilities related to ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and heavy bombers. The former Soviet Union (FSU) has declared over five dozen START-inspectable sites in all categories, including five SLBM facilities and six submarine facilities.
Two processing facilities have been constructed to processe the liquid wastes stored in old tankers in Pavlovsk Bay. As of 1997 the fleet was waiting for the Ministry for Nuclear Power to build a storage site for solid radioactive waste, prior to which the solid waste is stored in temporary sites. In December 1985, the reactor of the nuclear submarine K-431 (Project 675 - Echo-II class) overheated while the vessel was returning to base outside Vladivostok. It is now laid up at the naval base in Pavlovsk.
Primorye's ports play a key role in the krai's sea transport industry. The principal ice-free ports in the territory are Vladivostok, Nakhodka and Vostochnyi. Along with its commercial and fishing ports, Nakhodka also features a port specially designed to handle petroleum products. The commercial port emphasizes shipments to Magadan and the Arctic and import-export services involving transfer of lumber, grain and other commodities. Nakhodka's petroleum port handles oil products being shipped to destinations in the Russian Far East and points overseas. The port's annual turnover ranges from 4.5 to 5 million metric tons. Nakhodka's fishing port has annual turnover of about half a million tons.
Vostochnyi Port, which is located across the bay from Nakhodka, specializes in handling coal, industrial wood chips, containers and various types of general cargo and is one of the major ports in the Russian Far East. Vostochnyi leads Primorye's ports in annual cargo turnover (7.8 million tons, 88.5% of which is import-export freight) followed by Vladivostok (3.7 mln.tns., 72.8%) and Nakhodka (3.1 mln.tns., 96.5%).
Some 80% of all sea transport services along the Russian Far Eastern coast are provided by ships based in Primorskii Krai. Sea transport accounts for about half the combined revenue derived by all forms of transport in the krai. More than 43,000 people work in Primorye's portals and aboard krai-based vessels. The assets held by sea' transport companies account for 70% of all basic asset value in the transportation industry and 10% of all asset value in the krai.
Primorskii Krai is home to two major shipping com panics Vladivostok's Far Eastern Shipping company (FESCO) and the Primorskii Shipping Company of Nakhodka. Some 21.3% of FESCO's shipments are to foreign ports. Freight transport to settlements along the Arctic coast and northern areas of the Russian Far East account for another 33% of the company's annual volume. The Primorskii Shipping Company specializes in delivering petroleum products to domestic and foreign ports. The krai's shipping companies employ a varied assortment of dry-cargo freighters, container ships, bulk carriers, cargo barges, icebreakers, passenger liners and tankers, many of which are chartered for use on international lines.
| SUBMARINE BASE: | PAVLOVSKOYE | ||
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SLBM TYPE | ||
| SS-N-6 | SS-N-8 | SS-N-18 | |
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DEPLOYED SLBMS |
0 | 60 | 0 |
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DEPLOYED LAUNCHERS OF SLBMS |
0 | 60 | 0 |
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NON-DEPLOYED SLBMS |
55 | 14 | 16 |
| BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINES BASED AT THIS SUBMARINE BASE: | |||
| NUMBER OF SUBMARINES/AGGREGATE NUMBER OF LAUNCHERS BY SLBM TYPE: | |||
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SUBMARINE TYPE: |
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DELTA I |
5/60 | ||
| NUMBER | |||
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STORAGE CRANES |
0 | ||
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MISSILE TENDERS |
0 | ||
References
- ANNEX B. SLBMS AND SLBM LAUNCHERS Russian Federation START MOU dated: 1 July 1998
