Balkhash Radar Station

Balkhash Radar Station
Балхаш РЛС
Sary Shagan, Kazakhstan
An image of the site from landsat. The Dnepr radar is a V bottom right and the Daryal radar bottom left.
Dnestr radars 1 and 2 taken by US spy satellite KH-7 in 1967. The town of Balkhash-9 is in the foreground.
Balkhash Radar Station
Coordinates	46°36′11″N 74°31′52″E / 46.603076°N 74.530985°E / 46.603076; 74.530985
Type	Radar Station
Code	OS-2
Site information
Owner	Russian Aerospace Forces
Controlled by	Russian Space Forces
Open to the public	no
Condition	out of service
Site history
Built	1964 (1964)-[1]
Built by	Soviet Union
Garrison information
Garrison	46th Independent Radio-Technical Unit [1]

Balkhash Radar Station (also described as Sary Shagan radar node and Balkhash-9) is the site of two generations of Soviet and Russian early warning radars. It is located on the west coast of Lake Balkhash near Sary Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. Although it was used for monitoring satellites in low Earth orbit it was mainly a key part of the Russian system of warning against missile attack. It provided coverage of western and central China, India, Pakistan and submarine missile launches in the Bay of Bengal.^[2] There have been six radars at this site, the last one was removed from service on 1 June 2020, and it was run by the Russian Space Forces.

The military town for the station is called Balkhash-9 (Russian: Балхаш-9). The station is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the village of Gulshat in Karagandy Province and 90 kilometres (56 mi) north east of Priozersk, the main town for Sary Shagan.