Mishelevka Radar Station

Mishelevka Radar Station
Мишелёвка РЛС
Mishelyovka Usolye-Sibirskoye, Irkutsk, Siberia
An image of the site from landsat. The 4 Dnestr radar and 1 Dnepr radars are upper right and the Daryal radar lower left.
Mishelevka Radar Station
Coordinates	52°51′20″N 103°13′54″E / 52.8555°N 103.2317°E / 52.8555; 103.2317
Type	Radar Station
Code	OS-1
Site information
Owner	Russian Aerospace Forces
Controlled by	Russian Space Forces
Open to the public	no
Condition	operational
Site history
Built	1964 (1964)–2014[1]
Built by	Soviet Union/Russia
Garrison information
Garrison	46th Independent Radio-Technical Unit [1]

Mishelevka Radar Station is the site of three generations of Soviet and Russian early warning radars. It is located in Irkutsk in Siberia and provides coverage of China and missile launches from submarines in the Pacific Ocean. There have been seven radars at this site and it is run by the Russian Space Forces. In 2012 a new Voronezh-M radar is being built at the site.

Mishelyovka is a village in southern Siberia and the station is 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of the village and 28 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of the town of Usolye-Sibirskoye. The military town for the station is called Usolye-Sibirskoye-7 (Russian: Усо́лье-Сиби́рское-7).