Woodpecker - Duga-3

Duga was an over-the-horizon radar system used in the Soviet Union as part of its early-warning radar network for missile defence. It operated from July 1976 to December 1989.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: over the horizon early warning radar
  • Also known as: “Chernobyl-2”, “Duga radar”, “Dyatel”, “MRP-48P Dyatel”, “MRP48P”, “Russian Woodpecker”, “Steel Yard”, and “Woodpecker”
  • Address: Új Köztemető, Kyiv Oblast

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chornobyl-2 and Korogod.

Locality
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is a locality.

Locality
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is a locality, which is situated 5 km southwest of Woodpecker - Duga-3.

Locality
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is a former village near , , just south-west of the Pripyat River Basin. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the village was contaminated by fallout and subsequently evacuated and is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; thus it has been abandoned since 1986. is situated 6 km northeast of Woodpecker - Duga-3.

Woodpecker - Duga-3

Latitude
51.30586° or 51° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
30.06683° or 30° 4′ 1″ east
Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)
Inception
July 1976
Height
150 metres (492 feet)
Open location code
9G3G8348+8P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 432924904
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­industrial
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­communications_tower
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q902605
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Woodpecker - Duga-3” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دوغا”
  • Arabic: “رادار دوغا”
  • Belarusian: “Дуга”
  • Bulgarian: “Радиолокационна станция ‘Дъга’”
  • Bulgarian: “Радиолокационна станция „Дъга“”
  • Bulgarian: “Радиолокационна станция Дъга”
  • Bulgarian: “РЛС ‘Дъга’”
  • Catalan: “Picot Rus”
  • Chinese: “Duga远程警戒雷达”
  • Chinese: “俄罗斯啄木鸟”
  • Chinese: “俄羅斯啄木鳥”
  • Czech: “Anténní pole”
  • Czech: “Duga”
  • Danish: “Duga 3”
  • Danish: “Duga”
  • Dutch: “Doega”
  • Estonian: “Duga radar”
  • Finnish: “Venäläinen tikka”
  • French: “Duga”
  • French: “Moulinette à caviar”
  • French: “Pic-vert russe”
  • French: “Pic-Vert soviétique”
  • German: “Duga”
  • German: “Woodpecker”
  • Greek: “Ρώσικος Τρυποκάρυδος”
  • Hungarian: “Duga ‘Harkály’ Radar vevő”
  • Hungarian: “Orosz fakopáncs”
  • Indonesian: “Duga-3”
  • Indonesian: “Duga”
  • Italian: “Duga-3”
  • Italian: “Duga”
  • Italian: “Woodpecker”
  • Korean: “두가 레이더”
  • Korean: “두가”
  • Lithuanian: “Duga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Duga-radaren”
  • Norwegian: “Duga-radaren”
  • Persian: “رادار دوگا”
  • Polish: “Czarnobyl 2”
  • Polish: “Czernobyl 2”
  • Polish: “Duga”
  • Polish: “Oko Moskwy”
  • Polish: “Radar pozahoryzontalny Duga”
  • Portuguese: “Duga-3”
  • Portuguese: “Duga”
  • Russian: “Антенное поле”
  • Russian: “Дуга”
  • Russian: “Загоризонтная РЛС «Дуга»”
  • Russian: “Загоризонтная РЛС Дуга-1”
  • Russian: “Загоризонтная РЛС Дуга”
  • Russian: “РЛС Дуга”
  • Russian: “Русский дятел”
  • Russian: “Чернобыль 2”
  • Russian: “Чернобыль-2”
  • Slovenian: “radar Duga”
  • Slovenian: “žolna”
  • Spanish: “Pajaro Carpintero Ruso”
  • Spanish: “Pájaro Carpintero Ruso”
  • Spanish: “Ruido de Pajaro Carpintero”
  • Spanish: “Ruido de Pájaro Carpintero”
  • Spanish: “Steel Yard”
  • Swedish: “Duga”
  • Swedish: “Ryska Hackspetten”
  • Turkish: “Duga”
  • Ukrainian: “Антенне поле”
  • Ukrainian: “Дуга ЗГРЛС”
  • Ukrainian: “Загоризонтна радіолокаційна станція ‘Дуга’”
  • Ukrainian: “Загоризонтна радіолокаційна станція «Дуга»”
  • Ukrainian: “ЗГРЛС”

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