Kura missile test site
The Kura missile test site ( Russian Ракетный полигон Кура́ ) is a facility of the Russian armed forces on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East .
The more than 13,000 km² area extends in an unpopulated area on the Osjornaya River in the northeast of the peninsula. Its center is a good 500 km north-northeast of the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and 125 km from Klyuchi , north of the Schiwelutsch volcano . Kura was established as a target area for ICBMs from 1955 and commissioned in 1957. By 2011 more than 5,500 hits had been hit.
Most of the associated military units are stationed in a garrison on the southern edge of Klyuchi (code names Klyuchi-1 and Klyuchi-20 ). There are several measuring stations with associated smaller units in the target area itself. From the US side the target area since the 1970s, mainly from the Cobra Dane - radar system in today's Eareckson Air Force Base monitored, which refers to the nearly 1000 km away Aleutian -Insel Shemya is.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 161 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E