Komsomolsk-na-Amure
An over-the-horizon radar was built at Komsomolsk-na-Amure [certainly not Nikolayevsk-na-Amur as reported by some sources -- the NIMA GeoNet NameServer is unaware of the "Nikolayevsk-na-Amur" placename]. Along with the facility at Kiev, the other Steel Yard located at Komsomolsk-na-Amur provided complementary coverage of the United States. According to some reports, the Komsomolsk-na-Amure installation was taken off combat alert duty in November 1989, and some of its equipment was subsequently scrapped.
In early 1991 the Soviet Union annouced plans to build a new radar at Komsomolsk-na-Amur during a session of the Standing Consultative Commission, the bilateral forum that meets regularly on ABM Treaty compliance issues. The new radar station in the Far East was to be a replacement for the adar station near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. The US believed the Soviets would use components from the dismantled radar near Krasnoyarsk. The new radar was expected to be located within 200 miles of the Pacific coast and oriented in a northeast direction, closing the gap in the missile detection and tracking radar network.
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