Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Karaganda Region

Balqaş Radar Station

Balkhash Radar Station is the site of two generations of Soviet and early warning radars. It is located on the west coast of near test site in .
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  • Type: Military installation
  • Description: Soviet then Russian enclosed military city with complex of early warning radar stations on Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Balkhash radar station”, “Balkhash Radar Station”, “Balkhash-9”, “Balqaş radïolokacïyalıq stancïyası”, and “Sary Shagan radar node”

Balqaş Radar Station

Latitude
46.61636° or 46° 36′ 59″ north
Longitude
74.49447° or 74° 29′ 40″ east
Open location code
8JRPJF8V+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 720313435
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Wiki­data ID
Q4077004
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Russian—“Balqaş Radar Station” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “巴尔喀什雷达站”
  • French: “Balkhash-9”
  • French: “Station radar de Balkhash”
  • Japanese: “バルハシュレーダー基地”
  • Russian: “Балхаш-9”
  • Russian: “Балхашская радиолокационная станция”

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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 “Balqaş Radar Station”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.