Eastern Europe
Ukraine
Kyiv Oblast

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 defense. It operated from July 1976 to December 1989.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Address: Új Köztemető, Kyiv Oblast

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Korogod and Kopachi.

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; and thus has been abandoned since 1986. is situated 6 km northeast of Woodpecker - Duga-3.

Locality
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is a locality, which is situated 7 km northwest 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
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In Other Languages

From Czech to Ukrainian—“Woodpecker - Duga-3” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Anténní pole”
  • Hungarian: “Duga ‘Harkály’ Radar vevő”
  • Italian: “Duga-3”
  • Russian: “Антенное поле”
  • Ukrainian: “Антенне поле”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Woodpecker - Duga-3”. Photo: Ingmar Runge, CC BY 3.0.